For decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking new ...

More accurate maps based on data from the SWOT mission can improve underwater navigation and result in greater knowledge of how heat and life move around the world’s ocean.

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It's a sailboat that will map the ocean-floor in our area over the ... Connon said the sonar paints a picture of everything on the sea floor. "Looking for habitats, even new corals we don't ...

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