Ocean Floor Map Google Earth
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.
Ocean floor map google earth. Published today this is the most detailed map of the ocean floor ever produced using satellite imagery to show ridges and trenches of the earth s underwater surface even for areas which have. Unfortunately the new ocean floor in google earth is not 3d. Make use of google earth s detailed globe by tilting the map to save a perfect 3d view or diving into street view for a 360 experience. The lines you have pointed out are actually mapping anomalies.
You may need to update your browser or use a different browser. Only a small fraction of the seafloor has ever been mapped at high resolution. Google earth isn t supported on your browser. Share your story with the world.
You may remember a sun article reporting the discovery of a street grid where it s believed the lost city of atlantis would have been located off the west coast of africa. Your instinct was right. The scripps sea floor map has also been used to discover a new microplate in the indian ocean. With this update to ocean terrain data in google earth 15 percent of the seafloor is now available at 1 km resolution.
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