In the mid-20th century, when people looked at a map of the world, they saw the familiar continents surrounded by vast, featureless oceans. Beneath the waves, the ocean floor was largely unknown ...

Tropical cyclones typically drop large amounts of rain along and near the storm's path. The slower and more significant the ...

A map of the Atlantic Ocean floor. NASA Earth Observatory map by Joshua Stevens, using data from Sandwell, D. et al. (2014). 2023-08-25T03:08:03Z ...

Deep Gravity. To map the seafloor, the satellites detect ripples and dips in the ocean's surface. Ridges and seamounts, or undersea mountains, are massive enough to exert a gravitational pull that ...

Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies Cumbre Vieja on La Palma - A shot of the molten lava meeting sea waters and the toxic fumes created as a result. Satellite image ©2021 Maxar Technologies ...

This enhanced satellite image provided by NOAA shows Hurricane Florence, third from right, in the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday, Sept. 9, 2018. At right is Tropical Storm Helene, ...

BERLIN -- This time it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean -- but what about next time? The European Space Agency says one of its research satellites re-entered the Earth's atmosphere early Monday ...

Satellite images captured its brief swirl over the open Atlantic. Why It Matters Though short-lived, Andrea became the first named system of the Atlantic hurricane season when it formed on Tuesday.