Throughout the month of June, we're sharing multimedia-rich features about our largely unexplored ocean. The challenges of exploring the deep ocean range from intense pressures and extreme cold temperatures to total darkness and corrosive saltwater.

Ocean Exploration: Learning Runs Deep: How Robots are Uncovering the Mysteries of the Deep

Throughout the month of June, we're sharing multimedia-rich features about our largely unexplored ocean. The challenges of exploring the deep ocean range from intense pressures and extreme cold temperatures to total darkness and corrosive saltwater.

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In honor of World Ocean Day, rising leaders of the next generation of ocean stewards and explorers sat down to answer some questions and share some of their motivations, thoughts, and hopes for the ocean’s future.
Celebrating World Ocean Day 2023
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Throughout the month of June, we're sharing multimedia-rich features about our largely unexplored ocean. Mapping the seafloor is the first step in exploring the unknown depths of our global ocean.
Ocean Exploration: Learning Runs Deep: Seafloor Mapping
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A point cloud of the seamount mapped during the Seascape Alaska 1: Aleutians Deepwater Mapping expedition, generated from acoustic data collected via multibeam echosounder. The hot colors (red, orange, and yellow) represent the newly mapped peak of the seamount at a depth of 895 meters (2,936 feet), while the cold colors (purple, teal, blue) represent the base of the seamount at a depth of around 4,000 meters (13,123 feet).
Seascape Alaska 2: Aleutians Deepwater Mapping
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About NOAA Ocean Exploration

About NOAA Ocean Exploration

Learn about NOAA Ocean Exploration, the nation's only federal organization dedicated to exploring the global ocean.

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Screenshot of the 2022 NOAA Ocean Exploration annual report video

NOAA Ocean Exploration 2022 Annual Report: A Year in Review

This annual report provides a look back at some of our stories from 2022.

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NOAA Ocean Exploration 2023 Expeditions

NOAA Ocean Exploration 2023 Expeditions

NOAA Ocean Exploration works with partners to explore previously unknown areas of our ocean, making discoveries of scientific, economic, and cultural value and supporting innovations in exploration tools and capabilities.

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Deep Ocean Education Project

Deep Ocean Education Project

The Deep Ocean Education Project website makes learning about the deep-sea accessible to all.

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Featured Expeditions

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Featured Videos

The Foundation for Exploration

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Unknown Blue Organism

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Mysterious Holes on the Seafloor

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The Lost Whaler

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