Deep Gravity. To map the seafloor, the satellites detect ripples and dips in the ocean's surface. Ridges and seamounts, or undersea mountains, are massive enough to exert a gravitational pull that ...

This scientist is on a mission to map the world’s oceans. We’ve imaged more of Mars than of our own planet’s seafloor. Ved Chirayath wants to change that.

Inside the daring plan to map every coral reef from space To build the groundbreaking monitoring system, researchers had to endure a great deal—including the deaths of two of the project's founders.

Building on the first comprehensive human footprint analysis published by the Wildlife Conservation Society in 2002, Venter and his colleagues used various kinds of satellite data to analyze eight ...

Population density maps for each country and satellite imagery of the Earth’s electric lights at night show where human concentrations lie, and thus, where industrial water usage follows.

Dalila was a post-tropical cyclone in the North Pacific Ocean Sunday evening Mexico Central Time, the National Hurricane ...