Less mapped than the Moon: quest to reveal the seabed It covers nearly three-quarters of our planet but the ocean floor is less mapped than the Moon, an astonishing fact driving a global push to build ...

Plans to map the entire ocean floor by 2030 are going ahead despite the challenges of the coronavirus crisis, officials leading the project said, with almost a fifth covered so far. Scientists say ...

This vast expanse is poorly known and understood, but the global initiative Seabed 2030, from the Nippon Foundation-GEBCO, has set out to remedy this. Its goal? To map the whole ocean floor by the ...

When Seabed 2030 launched in 2017 ... and that's really what we want to map the ocean with." But the availability of multibeam sonar did not translate into a central clearing house for data ...