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.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project. 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. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry. Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull.

Weirdness on the ocean floor. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. Learn how to create your own. With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before.

Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake. This map was created by a user. Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a.

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. Adding placemarks and lines to google earth. Adding a photo to a place. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left.