Ocean gyres are vast systems of circulating ocean currents, driven primarily by wind patterns, Earth's rotation, and differences in water density. These oceanic currents are essential to the Earth ...

These are known as the five gyres. For the past 35 years, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists have released buoys into the sea to track ocean current. In this visualization ...

They flow in circular loops or gyres. Gyres are spiral oceanic surface currents and are found in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. The map below shows the pattern of currents across the ...

In one of the planet's five great oceanic gyres, human made marine debris becomes trapped in a circular ocean current that stretches from the east coasts of North America to the west coasts of ...

Photograph by David Doubilet The Sargasso Sea, part of the vast whirlpool known as the North Atlantic gyre, often has been described as an oceanic desert—and it would appear to be, if it weren ...