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Skyler Ware

Satellites reveal stunningly detailed maps of Earth's seafloors

A map of the ocean seafloor.

A new satellite has mapped Earth's ocean floors in unprecedented detail, a new study reveals. .

The first year of measurements from NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite mission, launched in December 2022 and developed by NASA and France’s Centre National D’Etudes Spatiales, enabled researchers to study the boundaries between continents and identify underwater hills and volcanoes that are too small to be detected by earlier satellites.

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