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Google Ocean
February 2, 2009—A layer of the new ocean-centric upgrade to Google Earth shows a toxic nudibranch in its habitat of Lembah, Indonesia.Ocean in Google Earth, which launched February 2, will build on the popular 3-D mapping tool Google Earth by allowing users to navigate underwater in unprecedented clarity. (Read the full story.)
New “layers” in the satellite-based software include topographic maps of the seafloor, locations of shipwrecks and algal blooms, and even maps of tiny phytoplankton that provide the bulk of the ocean’s food chain.



