A clearer view of the seafloor in Google Earth

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Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 12:00 PM

More than two-thirds of Earth is covered by oceans. If you drained all of that water away, you'd see huge basins that have never been explored, an undiscovered planet in our own backyard.

Today is the three year anniversary of an explorable ocean seafloor in Google Earth. We just released a major update to our global underwater terrain dataset, called bathymetry, from the... http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2012/02/clearer-view-of-seafloor-in-google.html

The Mediterranean Sea: before (left) and after (right) 

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