Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

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Google earth ocean floor lines.

Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Google earth released a new feature on june 8 2011 world oceans day that shows five percent of the ocean s floors with a resolution of about 100 meters 109 yards. Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a.

This week google updated. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake. The only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges. With legions of people around the world now exploring the seafloor many are noticing locations along the ocean bottom marked by mysterious formations of grid like artifacts.

There s some odd sightings on the ocean floor thanks to the much improved ocean surface depth images that were added to google earth and maps last week. With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry.

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