Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

All those straight lines with identical patterns that you see crisscrossing the ocean floor in google maps or google earth are fake.

Google earth ocean floor lines.

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 map was created by a user. Adding placemarks and lines to google earth.

Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. This week google updated. 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.

Viewing your story as a presentation and sharing it with 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. Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project. Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a.

The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. Adding a photo to a place. The only true things are the huge general shapes of the continental shelves and the giant undersea mountain ranges. 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.