Why is Antarctica so badly mapped? No photos of those areas. (aliens, light)
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Why is the South Pole and Antarctica so badly mapped and no detailed photos exist in the public domain?
On the internet the Google map is mainly blurred out, particularly in the middle. There are some photos of the edge pieces though. All this could be because there are fewer satellites which pass over that area of the Earth, however, there are more than enough satellites passing over Earth to get decent images of all areas of the Earth. I guess if we were mounting a polar exploration, we could get maps, and photographs of dangerous ice areas so why not get images in Google?
Personally, the evidence I have seen leads me to firmly believe that aliens are here in our solar system and in fact everywhere out there in space. I also believe they are here on Earth too but mainly in places where humans cannot go due to our relatively frail biology, such as the South Pole. With different biology different environments are possible as habitational places and that is one of their strengths I believe. It also makes it possible to survive in freezing cold space environments much easier than we could ever do.
Of course, a lot of this is total speculation and conjecture, but in my mind it IS strange how we have maps and images of every other areas of Earth but almost total blanks of the poles.
OK, so ice and snow is not sexy like cities and fields but there are still features such as mountains, solitary polar bears, research stations, penguin and seal colonies, and even warm water lakes (in the summer) at the poles which are of interest to some people. In this day and age, there are satellites which are on polar orbits yet we are denied decent photographs of these regions.
Maybe there is no economic justification to send expensive satellites into polar orbits to obtain those photo's. Not too many people living in those regions.
haha - plenty of spy satellites up there. What would be the economic justification of photographing the many square miles and miles of desert, but I bet there are images you can zoom in on a camel or a wadi. Show me a satellite image of a penguin colony, that would be interesting.
That's true but the satellites that photograph the deserts also pass over other more interesting regions. But those deserts you mention also happen to be in hot spots and would otherwise be great places for some groups to hide out in and do stuff that others might be interested in. I don't know, I just threw out an idea. I'm waiting for someone with more knowledge to come in.
There has been a great deal of research on Antartica in recent years including mapping. For example, we now know that there is one large land mass under part of the ice as well as an archipelago under the remainder. I have appended a link to the US Antarctic website. Searches will provide a vast amount of additional information.
A lot of it is simply the limits of the Google Earth Program itself. The poles just render crappy. Another problem is the nature of ice itself... ice reflects light and it's difficult for satellites to get really clear photos. A third reason is because it's mostly just empty flat ice... not a lot to see so why spend resources to take lots of basically blank white glare-tainted satellite pics?
Why is the South Pole and Antarctica so badly mapped and no detailed photos exist in the public domain?
On the internet the Google map is mainly blurred out, particularly in the middle. There are some photos of the edge pieces though. All this could be because there are fewer satellites which pass over that area of the Earth, however, there are more than enough satellites passing over Earth to get decent images of all areas of the Earth. I guess if we were mounting a polar exploration, we could get maps, and photographs of dangerous ice areas so why not get images in Google?
Personally, the evidence I have seen leads me to firmly believe that aliens are here in our solar system and in fact everywhere out there in space. I also believe they are here on Earth too but mainly in places where humans cannot go due to our relatively frail biology, such as the South Pole. With different biology different environments are possible as habitational places and that is one of their strengths I believe. It also makes it possible to survive in freezing cold space environments much easier than we could ever do.
Of course, a lot of this is total speculation and conjecture, but in my mind it IS strange how we have maps and images of every other areas of Earth but almost total blanks of the poles.
OK, so ice and snow is not sexy like cities and fields but there are still features such as mountains, solitary polar bears, research stations, penguin and seal colonies, and even warm water lakes (in the summer) at the poles which are of interest to some people. In this day and age, there are satellites which are on polar orbits yet we are denied decent photographs of these regions.
I disagree that the South Pole and Antarctica badly mapped. There are incredible maps and very detailed photos in the public domain. Google map is not the best mapping source, its just the most popular. If its not there, just move to a different source. It seems you are upset that maps are not in google which you seem to favor. That would be like saying there are no books on George Washington becaus eyour local library has none in stock, but the next library ove rmay have hundreds. Just look elsewhere. There are fewer satellites which pass over the poles, because there is very little money to be made from private photos. The public images are extensive though. You just have to know where to look. Sometimes it takes hours to look, not a quick google search. There are plenty of photos and maps of the poles, good luck with your search. all the best.
There has been a great deal of research on Antartica in recent years including mapping. For example, we now know that there is one large land mass under part of the ice as well as an archipelago under the remainder. I have appended a link to the US Antarctic website. Searches will provide a vast amount of additional information.
Althought the link is interesting, it still does not give us any high quality images which show what is really there.
In fact, it is rather a red herring.
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