WE HAD finally mapped the world by the end of the 19th century, but by the end of this decade, we may have mapped the ocean floor. Scientists for The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO and its Seabed 2030 project aim to build a detailed seafloor map within the next nine years to...
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WE HAD finally mapped the world by the end of the 19th century, but by the end of this decade, we may have mapped the ocean floor.
Scientists for The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO and its Seabed 2030 project aim to build a detailed seafloor map within the next nine years to reveal some of the ocean’s unknowns.
Only about 20% of the seafloor has been directly mapped so far, and before the 2017 launch of Seabed 2030, only about 6% of the ocean floor had been adequately mapped.
In just five years, that number has more than tripled.
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