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.

View of ocean floor.

In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be. 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. Just south of puerto rico on the ocean floor is what looks like a manmade excavation cut into the ocean floor. 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.

Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting. 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.

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. The cut runs east to west. 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.

Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis. The video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of 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. The field of view is approximately 4 1 x 3 4.