KARR 4.0 !'s List: Google Related News , Articles etc

• near real-time imagery of Earth is available in Google Earth! "What?! After all that you are saying it is available?" you ask. Sure, first there's the new Clouds layer. Found under the Weather layer folder. The clouds are actually taken from weather satellites and are a global picture of the clouds as recent as 3 hours old. Ok, so that's not the kind of imagery you meant.
• NASA has a layer they call DailyPlanet which shows the entire Earth at a medium resolution (about 250 meter resolution per pixel). You can view DailyPlanet in Google Earth . The imagery is taken by the MODIS Terra satellite and is processed as quickly as possible and shows the entire Earth between 6 - 12 hours old. The imagery is continuously updating.
• Right now, this layer from NASA is the most recent, highest resolution imagery of the Earth continuously updating available to the general public.

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• For centuries the story of Atlantis has captured the imagination  -  a fabled city of great beauty, culture and wealth that was suddenly swallowed up by the ocean.
  

  Its location  -  or at least the source of the legend  -  remained a tantalising mystery. Was it really in the Mediterranean and not in the Atlantic at all?

  Some claim its ruins lie beneath the waves off the coast of Cornwall. Others say they've been found in the Black Sea.

• But for a few hours this week, experts hoped the riddle may finally have been solved.

  More than six hundred miles off West Africa and more than three miles down lay a mysterious grid of lines that resembled the streets of a city.
• Was this where the ocean's might overwhelmed Altantis, drowning its people and sweeping away a civilisation?
• everytime a major discovery is uncovered we get told oops we made a mistake its nothing really, for example the missing 11 minutes of the moon landing where the astronauts were discribing buildings on the moons landscape, it was heard by millions then subsequently deleted, or the many ancient underwater cities lying off cuba , japan, and another 6000ft below sea level near florida.

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