3/2/2024 0 Comments Fishing planet topo maps![]() ![]() At the time of the project’s launch, less than 6% of the ocean’s floor had been mapped to an acceptable modern resolution, and whilst this has expanded year-on-year-reaching 23% in June 2022-the equivalent of twice the surface area of Mars still remains to be charted.īathymetric (depth) measurements can be taken in a variety of ways. The Seabed 2030 project, launched in 2017 by two non-profits-the Nippon Foundation, and the General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO)-aims to achieve this ambitious goal by the end of the decade, and make this data freely available to all. But scientists worldwide are fighting to change this, and a global effort is currently underway to map the entirety of the seafloor. ![]() We know more about the surface of most of the planets in our solar system than we do about the largest habitat on Earth: the ocean. ![]()
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