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.

Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with a. With the advent of online mapping tools such as google earth exploring our planet is easier than ever before. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Learn how to create your own.

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. This week google updated. 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 map was created by a user. 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 only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges. Weirdness on the ocean floor.

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. Adding a photo to a place. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry. Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project.