In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, ...

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 ... Cloaked in ocean, the seafloor has resisted human exploration for centuries.

Ocean explorers have long tried to chart the contours of the seafloor, but today's maps still pale in comparison to those of distant planets.

To do it, you need special ships to crisscross the ocean and bounce sound waves off the seafloor, which can get expensive. “The cost estimate was somewhere between $3 billion and $5 billion ...

Global ocean map could increase safety, give early tsunami alerts : Short Wave Scientists have mapped less than 25% of the world's seafloor. Experts say that getting that number up to 100% would ...

Maps of the seafloor are constantly expanding, especially with the support of the Seabed 2030 initiative (which Ferrini is part of) that aims to have a complete map of the ocean's floor by 2030.

There are a number of startups racing to map the ocean in greater detail, but the latest to snag fresh funding is Bedrock Ocean, which recently closed a $25 million Series A-2 round led by Primary ...

NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, aka SWOT, has provided one of the most detailed maps of the seafloor ever created.

Scientists work on new ways to map the ocean floor — Earth's final frontier Play 07:17 Close ×. Copy ... Researchers have found new methods to make detailed maps of the sea floor.

Many maps of the ocean floor are decades old. The race is on to properly chart them by 2030 – and crowdsourcing could be part of the answer.

Well, it turns out, for most of the planet’s surface — the ocean floor, that is — we don’t have very good maps. Researchers announced Friday that they’ve completed a map for just over ...