The Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission will explore how the ocean absorbs atmospheric heat and carbon, moderating global temperatures and climate change. Though climate change is driving sea ...

As the Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission begins its survey of the Earth’s surface this month, the satellite will get power from solar cells built by Spectrolab, Inc., a wholly owned ...

Bing Maps just got a large update that brings a more detailed map of the ocean floor to Microsoft’s mapping service. This new bathymetry data is based on the data compiled by the Scripps Institute of ...

Circling above Earth at a speed of seven kilometers (four miles) per second, the SWOT satellite altimeter only needs three weeks to image the entire surface of the planet. Its focus, however, is on ...

Bing Maps just released an update that includes “bathymetric imagery,” which provides a better look at ocean floor topography, as well as 13 million square kilometers of new satellite imagery. The ...

An Antarctic glacier retreated faster than any other in modern history, reveals new research. Half of the glacier - five miles of ice - disintegrated in just two months, say scientists.

NASA has signed an agreement with other U.S. and international agencies to launch the Ocean Surface Topography Mission in 2008. The satellite, named Jason-2, will increase our understanding of ocean ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say the ...

As you leave the beach and head out into the ocean, there are a few regions you'll go through before reaching the 'deep' ocean. Nearest the shore is a relatively flat region known as the continental ...

NASA SWOT’s solar panels unfold as part of a test in January at a Thales Alenia Space facility in Cannes, France, where the satellite is being assembled. SWOT will measure elevations of Earth’s ocean ...