Started by Nikolai Volkov (@nvolkov) ·
We've mapped Mars better than our own ocean floor
Only roughly a quarter of the seafloor has been mapped at high resolution. Most of what you see on Google Earth is estimated from satellite measurements of the sea surface.
5 sources · 31 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “how much of the ocean floor is mapped”
- Ended at
- Marie Tharp
The Trail
- “how much of the ocean floor is mapped” (google.com)
- Bathymetry (en.wikipedia.org)
- General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (en.wikipedia.org)
- Multibeam echosounder (en.wikipedia.org)
- Marie Tharp (en.wikipedia.org)
mapped the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and was initially dismissed for it
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