The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite, a collaboration between NASA and the French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Études Spatiales), has captured a marine heat wave off ...

As for ocean basins, the Pacific Ocean is the world's largest, covering 63 million square miles, with deep depths averaging 13,000 feet. Drainage, structural and ocean are the major types of basins.

An artist’s concept shows the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite, or SWOT, which launched in December 2022 from Vandenberg Space Force Base and recently noted warmer waters off the ...

Small things matter, at least when it comes to ocean features like waves and eddies. A recent NASA-led analysis using data from the SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) satellite found that ...

Located in the Pacific Ocean 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, the seamount is 1.9 miles (3,109 meters) tall and part of an underwater mountain range that is home to sponge ...

Located in the Pacific Ocean 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) off the coast of Chile, the seamount is 1.9 miles (3,109 meters) tall and part of an underwater mountain range that is home to sponge ...