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1 day ago · 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.
4 days ago · Pacific Ocean, body of salt water extending from the 60° S parallel in the south to the Arctic in the north and lying between the continents of Asia and Australia on the west and North and South America on the east. Its area, excluding adjacent seas, encompasses about 62.5 million square miles.
4 days ago · There is a pronounced difference in temperature and salinity between the surface and deep zones of the Pacific. The deep zone, which contains about 80 percent of the ocean’s volume, has relatively stable temperature and salinity patterns; its average temperature is 38.3 °F (3.5 °C).
1 day ago · An international group of scientists aboard a recent Schmidt Ocean Institute expedition believe they have discovered more than 100 new species living on seamounts off the coast of Chile, including deep-sea corals, glass sponges, sea urchins, amphipods, and squat lobsters. Image courtesy of ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
1 day ago · Scientists have now identified a strange slice of Earth deep below the Pacific that may explain why this region is currently creating the world's fastest spreading ocean ridge – the East Pacific Rise.
3 days ago · The Pacific Ocean is the largest and deepest ocean in the world. It stretches for over 60 million square miles (155 million square kilometers) and covers more than 30 percent of the Earth’s surface.
5 days ago · This study identifies a Pacific Climate Change Pattern, hypothesized to be radiatively-forced, that has been emerging in the tropical Pacific Ocean since the mid-1950s and is distinct from...
