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.

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. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas. The field of view is approximately 4 1 x 3 4.

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. 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. 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.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. The cut runs east to west.

In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be. 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. A previous version of this article stated that the globe was made using google earth. 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.