Discovering Deepwater Jarvis
The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument was founded in 2009. The Monument was expanded in…
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Animation of Multibeam Echosounder
Okeanos Explorer, “America’s Ship for Ocean Exploration”, is equipped with the latest in technology systems, including…
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Mapping the seafloor can reveal features, such as seamounts, that we didn’t even know existed before….
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Many volcanoes occur at spreading centers where tectonic plates move apart from each other, or subduction…
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Several sonar technologies are used to map and locate objects on the seafloor. Multibeam sonars create…
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SONAR, short for SOund NAvigation and Ranging, is a tool that uses sound waves to explore…
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