SWOT satellite data has been used to map the seafloor, revealing 100,000 seamounts, more than double the number previously ...

This is Indian Ocean topography showing the location of Mauritius as part of a chain of progressively older volcanoes extending from the presently active hot-spot of Réunion toward the 65-million ...

We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using tiny changes in sea surface height to reveal underwater features, ...

It is often said that humanity has explored outer space more extensively than the depths of the oceans—but a team funded by ...

The researchers also achieved the first space-based measurement of the amplitude of an internal wave field near the Mascarene Plateau in the Indian Ocean (Fig. 1). Previous efforts using synthetic ...

In a revolutionary advancement in oceanography, scientists have created one of the most detailed maps of ... about 25% of the ...

F or decades, scientists have had better maps of the Moon and Mars than of Earth’s own ocean floor. But thanks to NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a groundbreaking ...