[OT]: What is this on Google Maps?

[Peter P.]

Lennart Sorensen <lsorense at ...> writes:

> 
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 11:59:15AM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> > The recent thread on "Crap in Google Earth" (GE is interesting, but
> > bloated and not particularly useful AFAICT) got me thinking about an
> > "artifact" I discovered a few weeks ago in Google Maps while
> > researching an article on Global Warming.
> > 
> > I'm really not sure what it is, but I have a couple theories:
> > 
> > - It's the largest "Golden Ticket" produced by Willy Wonka
> > - It's the remnants of a _huge_ construction project from some ancient
> > society in Greenland.
> > 
> > Lol.  At first I thought it might just be some imaging artifact - part
> > of the satellite itself perhaps.  Considering the scales involved
> > though, I'm not so sure.  Whatever it is, it _appears_ very large
> > (approx. 40km long by 15km wide) and "emerging" from the ice.  Looks
> > kinda like an Construction-Orange I-beam.
> > 
> > To check it out plug this into Google Maps:
> >   70.546862, -40.067139
> 
> Looks like land mostly obscured by clouds.  Of course some satelite
> pictures have odd colour maps, so who knows what it really looks like.

More exactly:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&
q=70.546862,+-40.067139&ie=UTF8&ll=70.547234,-40.067139&
spn=1.672355,7.36084&t=k&z=7&om=1

How did you find this ?! ;-) Anyway the top-right side of the object is a clip
between juxtaposed frames. The bottom seems to be normal yellowish orange 
ground clipped by a hole in the clouds. Maybe the ground color is not the 
normal one due to colorization.

Peter P.




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