Images related to New Seafloor Map Helps Scientists Find New Features

Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field
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Seafloor Features Are Revealed by the Gravity Field

Scientists read the bumps on the ocean surface to understand the shape of the seafloor below.

Published Dec 29, 2015

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Earth’s Gravity Field
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Earth’s Gravity Field

The Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) has released its first science product: the most accurate map yet of Earth’s gravity field.

Published Jul 30, 2003

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New View of the Deepest Trench
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New View of the Deepest Trench

Oceanographers make new maps of the Mariana Trench that are 20 times better than anything before.

Published Apr 14, 2012

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Tectonic Maps of the Poles
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Tectonic Maps of the Poles

Published Nov 14, 2000

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Studying Earth’s Gravity Field
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Studying Earth’s Gravity Field

The first image released from the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE), a joint NASA-German Aerospace Center mission, graphically illustrates the sensitivity of the mission’s twin spacecraft to changes in Earth’s gravity

Published Dec 11, 2002

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Water Flow in the Amazon
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Water Flow in the Amazon

Published Sep 10, 2004

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Correcting Ocean Cooling
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Correcting Ocean Cooling

When scientists corrected errors in ocean temperature data, a mysterious cooling trend that appeared to occur between 2003 and 2005 disappeared.

Published Nov 6, 2008

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