In May, a retrofitted expedition armed with ocean scientists and the National Geographic logo, loosed its moorings and slid quietly into the Pacific Ocean. For the next five years, the crew of the ...

How crowded are the oceans? New maps show what flew under the radar until now. Advances in AI and satellite imagery allowed researchers to create the clearest picture yet of human activity at sea ...

The Pacific Ocean is the largest ocean in the world. It covers approximately 165.25 million square kilometres (63.8 million square miles), which is about 30% of the Earth's total surface area and ...

To map the whole ocean floor by the end of this decade. This goal is extremely ambitious. There are technical challenges, financial challenges, and political challenges.

See the Launch of a New NASA Satellite to Map the World's Oceans, Lakes and Rivers Nicknamed SWOT — short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography — the satellite is needed more than ever as ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...

See the Launch of a New NASA Satellite to Map the World's Oceans, Lakes and Rivers Nicknamed SWOT — short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography — the satellite is needed more than ever as ...

A U.S.-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in ...