View Of Ocean Floor

The cut runs east to west.

View of ocean floor.

Just south of puerto rico on the ocean floor is what looks like a manmade excavation cut into the ocean floor. Underwater microscope provides new views of ocean floor sea creatures in their natural setting. The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. The ocean floor about the project about you the ocean floor project wants to turn the dream of walking and exploring the ocean floor into a reality.

The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Fluorescent image of the coral pocillopora damicornis. The field of view is approximately 4 1 x 3 4. The national oceanic and atmospheric administration is live streaming footage of the ocean floor as the ship okeanos explorer probes little known watery regions near american samoa.

This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. The video below explains the gravitational mapping technique in more detail and shows a tour of the ocean floor. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.

In the underwater view the sides of the cut appear to be. A previous version of this article stated that the globe was made using google earth. Such seafloor maps can aid submariners and ship captains with navigation particularly in previously uncharted areas. The problem with that approach is that our oceans are vast and ships are small meaning only a tiny percentage of the ocean floor between 5 15 percent nasa estimates was mapped.