Why is almost the entire surface of Antarctica obfuscated on GoogleMaps
29 2017-11-29 by CybergothiChe
So, I went to GoogleMaps to look at Antarctica using the orthographic [photographic] layer (full disclosure, to look for Titan Dome, the alleged site of one of the entrance to the interior of the hollow earth), but when I got there, all I found was this sort of greyish-white nothingness.
When I went to the South Pole, I found I found I could not centre the map on the pole.
note: this is NOT because the map is just a strip, with the poles being a single point stretched out to infinity, like a flat paper map, the ortho/photo projection is a sphere.
Amundsen-Scott Base , South Pole, Antactica, as depicted on GoogleMaps
and a photo of Amundsen-Scott Base, from space, proving that a HD satellite photo of the South Pole can be taken.
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Then, I went north, to the Queen Maud Mountains (between which and the South Pole Titan Dome is said to be located), and found them very low resolution, and then, when I zoomed in, at the lowest level, got the same greyish-white nothingness.
Queen Maud Mountains , Antarctica, as depicted on GoogleMaps
and a photo of a US Air Force aircraft flying over the Queen Maud Mountains, proving that an aircraft could fly over and take aerial photographs (the previous point shows that satellite photos could also be taken)
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and, for comparison, McMurdo Base , Ross Island, Antarctica, as depicted on GoogleMaps
What are they hiding in the cold?
(note : all screenshots in imgur galleries taken on 30/11/17)
EDIT : I would also like to point out that the search for Amundsen-Scott Base, and for the Queen Maud Mountains did not put a little googlemaps tag pointer thing on the map, unlike McMurdo.
12 comments
1 ab_ovo_usque_ad_mala 2017-11-29
Errrm, what are you expecting?
1 CybergothiChe 2017-11-29
I am expecting to find, perhaps, a HD satellite photo of the South Pole base, I mean, that's something that people would want to see right? If for no other reason than to see where their tax dollars go.
Also, they can photoimage other parts of Antarctica fine.
1 iHOPEimNOTanNPC 2017-11-29
I’m sure a lot of shit is hidden in Antarctica. If you refresh the new post page on this Reddit, you’ll see a few articles below yours there is one stating that they apparently found some pyramids in Antarctica.
1 TheRadChad 2017-11-29
Look up the ones on mars.
1 HBombthrow 2017-11-29
It's not, most of the continent is in high resolution. The only fuzzy part is right over the pole. That's because polar satellites that map the Antarctic don't fly directly over the pole, they orbit tilted at about 10 degrees. They do this because mapping satellites are more useful when they fly over the same point at the same time each day so you can do direct comparisons over time. To achieve this, the satellite's orbit has to continually precede on its axis as the earth orbits the sun. When the orbit is slightly off axis, the equatorial bulge creates a slight tug that slowly rotates the satellites orbit, and NASA places the satellites at the exact inclination where that tug leads the satellites orbit to precede all the way around in exactly a year.
Pretty neat.
1 CybergothiChe 2017-11-29
no, but the northern most reaches of the Queen Maud Mountains are very low res too, and they are quite far from the pole.
Also, circumpolar orbits are a thing.
Wait, wait wait, no, that makes so little sense, not attacking you personally, but think about it :
1 - put a satellite in circumpolar orbit, going pole to pole, at the axis of rotation of the planet
2 - as it orbits the earth, the earth will turn beneath it
3 - eventually, as the earth turns, it will image the entire planet
as visualized in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4k3kEA3pmo
furthermore, the DigitalGlobe satellites, in the Worldview constellation, are on an orbital plane of around 98 degrees , or, as you say, tilted around 10 degrees off plane.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DigitalGlobe
most current DG satellite https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WorldView-3
also, here is a thread, where they explain that they can image the poles https://www.metabunk.org/why-do-some-satellites-show-a-hole-at-the-poles-hollow-earth-inclined-orbit.t8109/
So, whilst, yes, there may be a small spot of unimagable area, it is far less than shown on this map.
Especially pointing out the Queen Maud Mountains, they should be quite within the area imaged.
1 Rockran 2017-11-29
Most of the planet is of lower quality images.
Go over the sea, middle of nowhere etc and the quality is shit. It's only points of interest that have the ultra quality images.
1 RPmatrix 2017-11-29
idk about that .. check out the Australian outback, you can zoom down to streetview levels in the middle of nowhere hundreds of kilometers from anywhere! It's quite amazing, idk how the fuck they do it
shit in some places on the coast you can go INTO the freakin water! at Streetview level and see like fucking fish! It's crazy!
1 CybergothiChe 2017-11-29
Is the South Pole not a place of interest?
1 Rockran 2017-11-29
Not the entire thing.
1 CybergothiChe 2017-11-29
You know that Antarctica and the South Pole are two different places?
Antarctica is the continent, the South Pole is the axis of the earths rotation, and there is a big ol science base there.
I would contest that the South Pole, all of it, is a point of interest, as is the immediate area around it, where the base is located.
1 InfectedBananas 2017-11-29
Probably because the ocean and seas have nothing fucking in them. What would the point of having high resolution images of.... Waves?
1 456com 2017-11-29
Deep State Google + Deep State NOAA = Map of Lies