Ocean explorers have long tried to survey the contours of the seafloor, but today's charts still pale in comparison to those of distant planets.
By revealing the major topographical features of the seafloor, some for the first time, like the Rift Valley of the mid-oceanic ridge, the map seemed to affirm, which had been dismissed when it was first proposed in 1912.
“When we see smaller features,” says Shannon Hoy, Expedition Coordinator at NOAA OER, “we start to get more knowledge of the underlying geologic and oceanographic processes that are affecting our world.” For example, Hoy, who works with autonomous underwater vehicles , points to the, first mapped in the 2010s, that runs along the Atlantic seaboard from South Carolina to Florida.
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