This allows for the creation of very realistic and interesting maps simultaneously. One of them, showing the world without oceans, can be seen in the animation below: As explained by NASA ...

The world's largest public map of Earth's oceans grows just ... by American universities which constantly circle the globe studying the deep ocean. Other contributors include the National Oceanic ...

to compile all data into a freely-available World Ocean Map. The movement is getting literary, too. On World Oceans Day, June 8, XPRIZE will publish a science fiction anthology featuring 19 ...

Our maps have been lying ... degree of distortion that a world map experienced. Called Tissot’s indicatrix, the equation takes the form of circles placed at regular intervals across a map. By ...

More than 80 percent of the world’s oceans are currently unmapped, but a $7 million prize pool to explore the deep sea hopes to change that. The Ocean Discovery XPrize was today awarded to ...

is part of a team that tackled these questions and struck upon what is now the most accurate flat map of the world: a double-sided circle that features the Northern Hemisphere on one side and the ...

The ability to imagine the contours of the ocean floor led cartographer Marie Tharp to forever change our understanding of the forces shaping the planet. REVEALED TO THE world in 1977, this is the ...

The data used to build this map comes from a 2014 paper called “Plastic Pollution in the World’s Oceans,“ by oceanographer Marcus Eriksen. Over a period of six years (2007 to 2013), Eriksen ...

TheBlu has ambitious plans to map out the world’s oceans using its Unity-based 3D platform, but there are currently only a few habitats. TheBlu’s interface is pretty simple and easy to use ...