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During world war ii advances in sonar and electronics led to improved systems that provided precisely timed measurements of the sea floor in great water depths. An ancient sea floor rift and an extinct mid ocean ridge hot spot have been discovered using new satellite technology to create a detailed map of the sea floor. Newly formed mineral grains on the ocean floor are magnetized according to the new orientation of the magnetic field. The maps were created through computer analysis and modeling of new satellite altimetry data from the european space agency s cryosat 2 and from the nasa cnes jason 1 as well as older data from missions flown in the 1980s and 90s.

Log in sign up. Data collected by satellites and remote sensing instruments were used to created a model at least twice as. About 15 000 seamounts ocean floor volcanoes too short to breach the sea surface have been revealed in a new topographic map of the earth s oceans. Detailed mapping of the ocean floors revealed.

Detailed mapping of the ocean floors revealed. Both a and b. Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have. The team of a.

Log in sign up. The map was created by measuring the shape and gravity field of earth using. This map showed that the canyons off the u s. The most accurate ocean floor map ever made.

Cryosat 2 was designed to collect data over earth s polar regions but it also collected measurements over the oceans. Both a and b. Smith produced one of the first detailed maps of the ocean floor. Newly formed mineral grains on the ocean floor are magnetized according to the new orientation of the magnetic field.