[SunkenCiv]

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The GGG Digest -- Gods, Graves, Glyphs (alpha order)

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Probably wouldn't expose underwater seamounts though!

[JerseyHighlander]

Over the past year, data collected by the European Space Agency ERS-1 altimeter along with recently declassified data from the US Navy Geosat altimeter have provided detailed measurements of sea surface height over the oceans. These data provide the first view of the ocean floor structures in many remote areas of the Earth.

When the US Navy Geosat altimeter satellite's civilian counterpart was first launched, it was an unclassified satellite, and for several weeks, the images were freely available on the 'net.

It was realized that this satellite picked up and recorded every baffle and wake made by every ship and submarine in the entire world sans the poles which were outside it's mission. The images were classified, though not immediately, it took several days, and some were posted on FR amongst other 'net message boards. The satellite and all info are now classified material, and the scientific organizations that had lobbied for funding of the satellite are no longer in control of it, and receive only scrubbed images from it. For the life of me I haven't been able to find any images from the pre-classified image sets, but if anyone here does have some, we'd all be interested in seeing them again.