Google Earth Ocean Floor Lines

Explore the ocean seafloor with columbia university s lamont doherty earth observatory global multi resolution topography gmrt synthesis covering half of a.

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

Wednesday 28th january 2009 by james turnbull. 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. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. This map was created by a user.

Adding street view and a 3d view to a google earth project. The google earth data right is clearly higher resolution than that version of the scripps map left. Recently many of these tools have been updated to provide detailed seafloor mapping data or bathymetry. This week google updated.

Learn how to create your own. Weirdness on the ocean floor. 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. 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.