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The World is Still Full of Mystery

Google Earth didn’t discover Atlantis after all — it was simply noisy data:

“For the patch of ocean that drew so much attention last week, there was a discrepancy in the readings collected from satellites and the higher-resolution echosounding data collected by boats at water level. That caused exaggerated traces to show up on the map. Typically, when data collected by satellites and sonar surveys are blended, the result is much smoother, [Steve] Miller [product manager for Ocean in Google Earth] said. But here, the ‘batches of imagery didn’t overlap properly.’”

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).