View Of Ocean Floor

An international scientific team recently published a new map of the ocean floor based on earth s gravity field and it is a particularly useful tool.

View of ocean floor.

The video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of the ocean floor. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The problem with that approach is that our oceans are vast and ships are small meaning only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor between 5 15 percent nasa estimates was mapped. Our mission is to map and video the entire ocean floor so you can be the first to interactively walk and explore every aspect of.

The field of view is approximately 4 1 x 3 4. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet. Just south of puerto rico on the ocean floor is what looks like a manmade excavation cut into the ocean floor. The national oceanic and atmospheric administration is live streaming footage of the ocean floor as the ship okeanos explorer probes little known watery regions near american samoa.

Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. The ocean floor about the project about you the ocean floor project wants to turn the dream of walking and exploring the ocean floor into a reality. Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have.

Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting. The cut runs east to west.