Bing Maps just got a large update that brings ... gives users a clearer view of what the relief of the ocean floor looks like. The topography of the ocean floor, Microsoft writes, “is ...

Bing Maps just released an update that includes “bathymetric imagery,” which provides a better look at ocean floor topography ... stratovolcano on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

BEN was lowered into the water near the tiny island Nikumaroro in the South Pacific ... BEN will collect data to create 3D topographic maps of the ocean floor. Scientists think better knowledge ...

The Pacific Ocean is by far the world's largest ocean, more than five times wider than our moon. But why is the Pacific so ...

Scientists have created the highest resolution map yet ... measure the topography of the ocean surface within a fraction of an inch. Large mountains and volcanoes on the ocean floor affect the ...

In a stunning breakthrough, experts using NASA’s SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography ... map underwater terrain, but this method was slow and expensive. With just 25% of the ocean floor ...

Making a map of them ... of the Earth’s ocean is mapped. Zoom in on the middle of the Pacific in Google Earth, for example, and you’ll find a representation of the ocean floor based on ...

The XPRIZE Foundation has announced the winners of an ambitious three-year program to develop safer, faster, and more affordable ways of mapping the ocean floor. The hope is to eventually map out ...

Exploring the abyss An ancient sea floor rift and an extinct mid-ocean ... of previously unknown tectonic plates in the Pacific Ocean. The new map has also revealed an extinct mid-ocean ridge ...

The map highlights in yellow the ... For millions of years, the Pacific Plate — which constitutes most of the floor of the ocean — has drifted westward to plunge down into Earth’s mantle ...