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Satellites Map Earth's Ocean Floors in Unprecedented Detail

Skyler Ware
27 January 2025
6 min
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The revolutionary satellite tracks ocean currents, coastal nutrient transport and tectonic plate movement direction changes enhancing biodiversity data. Global freshwater availability and currents are mapped and underwater hills, volcanoes, and tectonic features detected.
READ: Satellites Map Earth's Ocean Floors in Unprecedented Detail

References

  • Space.com: High factual reporting
  • COLLECTIONS/The Runway (airforce.gov.au)
  • RAAF RUNWAY: RATIONALE GUIDELINES LEARNING OUTCOMES ETC)
 

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