View Of Ocean Floor

The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.

View of 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 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. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas. 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.

Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting. The cut runs east to west. A previous version of this article stated that the globe was made using google earth. 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 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 video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of the ocean floor. Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis.

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. In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. 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.