Allegedly sunken planes that everyone can find in the Google Earth application are popular on the Internet. We checked the reliability of these publications.
Information about the sinking aircraft captured with the help of a satellite near Scotland was Published The British newspaper The Mirror in 2018 - the service user Robert Morton spoke about his abnormal find to the publication. The news quickly gained popularity, Russian publications also wrote about it, for example, “Komsomolskaya Truth" And Russia Today. In September 2022, on the popular Reddit website, user discovered Another “underwater” plane, only next to the Bahamas islands. Some, including the author of notes on the site "Moscow Komsomol", Suggested that near the archipelago lies the Malaysian Boeing flight 370, which disappeared in 2014. Others began to ask about whether the satellite really took off such shocking shots or is it a kind of failure. Dedicated to this discovery Video In Tiktok, published on September 20, 2022, he scored almost 13 million views.
To begin with, these screenshots of maps and videos are not fakes and have no traces of intra -gas installation. This is easy to make sure if you independently go through the coordinates of Edinburgh (55.957469, -3.088825) or Bahamas (22.6783072, -73.8283369) a ship. However, this does not mean that we really have images of sunken planes. In the Herogle Earth indicatedthat images can be collected from pictures obtained for several days or even months. Images are superimposed on each other, and what the user sees is a layer -in -aimed imposition of several pictures.
The Bahamas and Edinburgh liners are not the only planes that drowned in the layers. The media wrote about the same finds in Lake Barlow In Michigan, Lake Harriet in Minneapolis and in Atlantic Ocean Not far from New York.
Consider why this happens, on the example of an airplane that allegedly sank next to the New York (40.563114, –73.833850).
The plane is clearly visible on the map, but you can’t find out from which pictures the result was obtained from the web version of Google Earth. But in the application you can see each of the variations of the photo indicating the month and year. In the picture of November 2017, the surface of the water is not visible at all, the photo of 2018 was taken at night, but in the image of June 2019, we can see a flying plane and track its movement. That is, the aircraft did not lie under water at all, but moved above its surface exactly at the moment when the satellite flew over it, and then safely reached its arrival.
At the same time, the modern web version of Google of the Edinburgh lighter does not. The satellite reached this area in 2018, during the shooting, not a single plane flew over the specified place. The function of viewing the same area in different years allows you to see that in 2016 there is no aircraft at the bottom, in 2017 it arises, and in the picture of 2018, we are again in front of us, clean water space.
As can be seen from this example, the Google Earth technology really combines several satellite shots to make a constituent image. And it seems to users unfamiliar with the principle of operation of the system. However, they did not crash, but only flew over the surface.
Image on the cover: New York Post
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