The ocean are a mysterious and extreme part of the world , with many areas still undiscovered . To help with this , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency ( NOAA ) is presently run a mapping campaign off the coast of the Southeastern United States with the shipOkeanos Explorer .

The researchers have entrance some incredible opinion of the continental security deposit so far , but another part of the missionary post has capture people ’s tending . NOAA caused a bit of excitement on Twitter by announcing that it was send a remotely operate on vehicle , called Deep Discoverer , to investigate a sonar anomaly . The investigation was broadcasted live on NOAA channels .

“ Today # Okeanos is diving on a sonar anomaly that could potentially be a shipwreck . Tune in to help us discover what this sonar anomaly is   –   be it an archaeology site , a geologic formation , or otherwise ! ” the agency state ina tweeton June 27 .

A sonar anomaly is always something deserving investigating . Sonar influence by sending sound waves outwards and registering the wave that come back after they ’ve   bounce off object . A sonar anomaly is usually something unexpected of a certain size and shape , so it   could be either natural or artificial in origin . The team had hoped   for a shipwreck , which would n’t have been too out of the ordinary seeing as Okeanos has happen upon shipwrecks before .

In this case , though , no sunken ship or treasure was found . The anomaly turns out to be geological in root . But even though it may be a bit of a disappointment for archaeologist , it is instead very exciting for biologists . The careen establishment is an ideal habitat for many species that live on in these piddle .

Okeanos Explorer is the only federally fund US ship that is consistently read the many unknown area of the sea . Theentire seafloor has been mappedat a resolution of roughly 5 kilometers ( 3 miles ) , too rough-cut to see small structures such as this anomaly . Roughly 5   percent of the ocean has been explore in detail so far , and we know regions of other planets better than we know our own oceans . There is clearly a mountain still left to explore .

The ocean covers 70 percent of our satellite and is important to the climate , our means of animation , and lifetime itself .