A motion in Google ocean

Did you ever look at Google’s digital Earth model and notice something missing? Like 70% of Earth’s topography, for instance? Google’s “ocean” is a blended product of Landsat imagery and state-of-the-art satellite-derived bathymetry model that is, well, sooo last century. The seafloor is shown in a kind of “shadow topography”. Fortunately, everything with a digital elevation less than zero is about to get some new emotion.

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