Ocean Floor Terrain Data

The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.

Ocean floor terrain data. Researchers today published the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced. For example this mars terrain map uses data from mola. In fact scientists used mola to map out ancient streams on mars. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.

The following features are shown at example depths to scale though each feature has a considerable range at which it may occur. Click on image to enlarge another place you ll notice an improvement in the ocean terrain data is the mediterranean sea particularly south of cyprus where the boundary between the eurasian and arabian plates is now more clearly defined. All 1 250 000 and 1 1000 000 maps are overprinted with the minerals management service s ocs protraction diagram data. Usgs found elevations above the areoid from a martian.

Where can you download the mola dem of mars. Surface dominated by two large gyres broad circular systems of currents one in the northern pacific and another in the southern pacific. The ocean floor is colored to reflect the terrain features of the sub sea surface. In the southern pacific sea ice from antarctica reaches its northernmost extent in october.

The usgs astrogeology science center is the dem data hub for mars. Topographic maps of the sea floor produced at a 1 100 000 scale that contain loran c rates bottom sediment types and known bottom obstructions. In the northern pacific sea ice forms in the bering sea and sea of okhotsk in winter. Continental shelf 300 feet continental slope 300 10 000 feet abyssal plain 10 000 feet abyssal hill 3 000 feet up from the abyssal plain seamount 6 000 feet.

The ocean floors contain dramatic landscapes volcanic ridges lofty peaks wide plains and deep valleys. The ocean floor in the eastern pacific is dominated by the east. If this doesn t excite you i don t know what would. Thanks to a new synthesis of seafloor topography released through google earth.

The new rendering is a bit higher resolution much higher in places and is presumably more accurate than the. A touched up and generalized version of srtm30 plus global combined sea floor and land elevation data. This graphic shows several ocean floor features on a scale from 0 35 000 feet below sea level.