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NASA’s Satellite Just Uncovered 100,000 Hidden Mountains Beneath the Ocean
We've mapped the Moon more thoroughly than our own ocean floor, but a leap forward has come with NASA's SWOT satellite. Using ...
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Giant, near-perfect cloud ring appears in the middle of the Pacific Ocean — Earth from space
A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the ...
NASA’s SWOT Satellite Just Revealed Thousands of Hidden Mountains Beneath the Ocean
We know more about the Moon’s surface than Earth’s ocean floor — but that’s changing fast. A NASA-supported team used a ...
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Much of what lies on the seafloor remains a mystery. NASA is fixing that.
Taken from the International Space Station by an astronaut, this is a view of Lake Van off ... The SWOT satellite, short for Surface Water and Ocean Topography, is a collaboration between NASA ...
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Next-generation water satellite maps seafloor from space
To produce a global picture of the seafloor, researchers have relied on satellite data. More accurate maps of the ocean floor are ... The improved view from SWOT also gives researchers more ...