View Of Ocean Floor

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.

View of ocean floor.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. 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 cut runs east to west. 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.

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. Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis. Just south of puerto rico on the ocean floor is what looks like a manmade excavation cut into the ocean floor. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting.

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. A previous version of this article stated that the globe was made using google earth. 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. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. The video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of the ocean floor. In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be.