An interesting seamount that the ship passed over today. The location was 88.6690 W 5.5568 N. Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Galápagos Rift Expedition 2011. Download larger version (jpg, 174 KB).
An interesting seamount that the ship passed over today. The location was 88.6690 W 5.5568 N. Image courtesy of NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research, Galápagos Rift Expedition 2011. Download larger version (jpg, 174 KB).
It’s hard to imagine that up to 100,000 undersea mountains on Earth have never been seen by human eyes, let alone explored. The ship’s mapping system reveals hidden seamounts and many other interesting geological features during almost every survey and mapping transit. Unfortunately, we are in a hurry to get to the Paramount Seamounts and can’t stop to take a look at some of the ones that we passed over today.
