So that's kind of what it looks like, that's
the detail that we get from the satellites when
we stay zoomed in. Not much to look at, not
much to explore. It looks like just a
smoothed out minor bump, and when you actually
get down to brass tacks and get the high
resolution data, just fascinating topography.
And that's just simply one of the most fun
things about doing the mapping of these
seamounts is you have no clue what the surface is
going to look like until you map it, and then
once you map it, you're imagination just goes
crazy. It's like being a little child again. Last
year the Okeanos Explorer mapped a little
over twenty percent of the monument and mapped
three seamounts that had never been mapped
before. Just last night we came upon a seamount
that we did not know existed, and these are
enormous features. Some of these seamounts that
we just recently discovered are over ten
thousand feet in height. For those in Hawaii,
that's kinda like finding Haleakala that
we didn't know existed.