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Há 2 dias · World map of the five-ocean model with approximate boundaries. The entire ocean, containing 97% of Earth's water, spans 70.8% of Earth's surface, making it Earth's global ocean or world ocean.
Há 4 dias · The new MyOcean viewer powered by the Copernicus Marine service is an opportunity for everyone to be able to display maps of the ocean in 4 dimensions (longitude, latitude, depth, and across time). This fast, intuitive, detailed, and accurate ocean viewer can be used by all communities across various sectors, from citizens to students, from ...
Há 1 dia · Atlantic Ocean, body of salt water covering about one-fifth of Earth’s surface and separating the continents of Europe and Africa to the east from those of North and South America to the west. Its name, derived from Greek mythology, means the ‘Sea of Atlas.’
- Covering approximately one-fifth of Earth’s surface, the area of the Atlantic Ocean without its dependent seas is approximately 31,568,000 square m...
- The Atlantic Ocean has an average depth (with its seas) of 11,962 feet (3,646 meters) and a maximum depth of 27,493 feet (8,380 meters) in the Puer...
- The outstanding feature of the floor of the Atlantic Ocean is the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, an immense median mountain range extending throughout the len...
- The surface waters of the North Atlantic have a higher salinity than those of any other ocean, reaching values exceeding 37 parts per thousand in l...
- The Atlantic Ocean provides millions of tons of fish and other seafood annually for human consumption, including lobster, haddock, cod, mackerel, h...
Há 2 dias · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest of Earth's five oceanic divisions. It extends from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Southern Ocean (or, depending on definition, to Antarctica) in the south, and is bounded by the continents of Asia and Australia in the west and the Americas in the east.
Há 4 dias · Oceania, collective name for the islands scattered throughout most of the Pacific Ocean. The term, in the widest sense, embraces the entire insular region between Asia and the Americas. A more common definition excludes the Ryukyu, Kuril, and Aleutian islands and the Japanese archipelago.
Há 1 dia · Explore the ocean with Dr. Robert Ballard and the Corps of Exploration. Ocean Exploration Trust and the Nautilus Exploration Program seek out new discoveries in geology, biology, and archaeology while conducting scientific exploration of the seafloor. Current expedition. Mapping the Gaps Southbound. June 29 – July 8, 2024.