Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. 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. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry. 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.

Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. 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. Learn how to create your own.

This week google updated. Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project. Weirdness on the ocean floor. All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake.

Adding a photo to a place. This map was created by a user. Adding placemarks and lines to google earth. Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a.