Marie Tharp pioneered mapping the bottom of the ocean 6 decades ago – scientists are still learning about Earth’s last frontier
Despite all the deep-sea expeditions and samples taken from the seabed over the past 100 years, humans still know very little ...
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Explore oceans
That great ocean out there is called the Atlantic. It stretches all the way from Europe and Africa, right across to the Americas, and it is up to eight kilometres deep in places! It’s one of the ...
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See the Staggering Impact Humans Have Had on the World's Oceans
From climate change and melting ice caps to islands of floating garbage, we are increasingly fouling what was once the perfectly, chemically, thermally balanced womb of all earthly life.
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After five years of work, new seafloor map of the Southern Ocean covering 48 million sq Km
The digital bathymetric model of IBCSO Version 2 has a 500m x 500m resolution based on a polar stereographic projection (EPSG: 9354) for the area south of 50°S. I A new map of the seafloor of the ...