Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

Weirdness on the ocean floor.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

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. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake. With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before. Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a.

Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. 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. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Learn how to create your own.

Adding placemarks and lines to google earth. The only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges. 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. Adding a photo to a place.

This week google updated. Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a. In fact google ocean an extension of map program google earth was merely displaying a data artifact from the sonar method that oceanographers use to map the seafloor. This map was created by a user.