In the remainder of its planned three-year science mission, SWOT will continue to collect data on ocean currents, map the ocean floor and assess global freshwater availability throughout the year.

Yu, a physical geographer at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, used the data to create a hyper-detailed, high-resolution map of the ocean floor. In fact, it's twice the resolution of previous ...

More finely detailed maps of the surface of Mars may exist than of the remotest parts of the ocean floor. Scientists don’t often explore their slopes firsthand—or even their shallower summits ...