Close to the summit of an underwater mountain west of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a jagged landscape of towers rises from the gloom.

ROV Deep Discoverer images an outcrop during the second of three expeditions to the mid-Atlantic Ridge that comprised Voyage to the Ridge 2022. Credit: NOAA Ocean Exploration, Voyage to the Ridge ...

The image below shows a bathymetric map of the ocean floor, where pink denotes the shallowest water (continental shelves and oceanic plateaus), compared with the yellow-green of mid-ocean ridges ...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Prediction Center has just released its outlook for the winter of 2024-25.A“slowly-developing” La Niña is expected to shape weather ...

Funding was provided by the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management through Interagency Agreements M14PG00005, M10PG00075, and M19PG00007 with the United States ...

When you study volcanoes at mid-ocean ridges, doing fieldwork means becoming an aquanaut – diving thousands of feet to the ocean floor in the submersible Alvin, trading tight quarters for ...

Mid-ocean ridges represent regions of the planet where volcanic activity is generating fresh oceanic crust and submarine mountain chains -- known as axial volcanic ridges -- as two tectonic plates ...

The majority of the Earth is covered by water, and those waters contain all kinds of fascinating information, like these ocean facts.

A mid-ocean ridge or mid-oceanic ridge is an underwater mountain range, formed by plate tectonics. This uplifting of the ocean floor occurs when convection currents rise in the mantle beneath the ...

A high-temperature hydrothermal vent field discovered on Puy des Folles Seamount on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge at approximately 6,562 feet in depth. Schmidt Ocean Institute Thousands of feet beneath ...

San Juan, Puerto Rico – Scientists have discovered three new hydrothermal vent fields over a 434-mile-long stretch of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge during the first scientific expedition aboard Schmidt ...