View Of Ocean Floor

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

View of ocean floor.

The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. 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. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. 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 google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting. In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be. The cut runs east to west.

A previous version of this article stated that the globe was made using google earth. 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 field of view is approximately 4 1 x 3 4.

Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis. 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 following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of the ocean floor.