55°32'38.0"S 69°15'57.5"W

[on_strike_usaexpat]

55°32'38.0"S 69°15'57.5"W · -55.543889, -69.265972

www.google.com

 

[John Michael James]

Pretty neat. Reminded me of the condition of man.

 

[axj]

That is very weird indeed. Looks like somebody at Google or whoever provides these satellite images stitched together mirrored landscapes at the bottom of a glacier in Tierra del Fuego to make it look like demon faces:

 

[Vajra91]

... Cthulhu fhtagn...?

......... Forgive me, it was just too tempting

 

[Nienna]

55°32'38.0"S 69°15'57.5"W · -55.543889, -69.265972

www.google.com

@on_strike_usaexpat please in the future give a bit of description of what your post is about. That way people will be given an idea of what your post is about and may generate more interest.

 

[on_strike_usaexpat]

@on_strike_usaexpat please in the future give a bit of description of what your post is about.

Will do. Hope Google comes clean on this if it was a joke. A very isolated to get to location. The last census said only 6 residents on that entire huge frozen and barren island which is further south than even Puerto Williams which is furthest southern settlement of the South American continent.

 

[ivanb]

The coordinates 55°32'38.0"S 69°15'57.5"W lie in the Drake Passage, a deep body of water between Cape Horn at the southern tip of South America and the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica. When Google Earth combines high- and low-resolution ocean data, it can generate visual artifacts. Symmetrical or repeated sonar tracks from ships may appear mirrored, especially when the software fills data gaps by interpolating or duplicating information. This can produce unusual zoomorphic images resembling animals or faces due to pareidolia, the human tendency to perceive familiar patterns in ambiguous visuals. These images can appear startling, almost as if they were deliberate!

 

[Ricardo]

55°32'38.0"S 69°15'57.5"W · -55.543889, -69.265972

www.google.com

This seems like a somewhat botched job at censoring google maps , possible an ai failure at doing so ? (fwiw )

 

[on_strike_usaexpat]

Symmetrical or repeated sonar tracks from ships may appear mirrored, especially when the software fills data gaps by interpolating or duplicating information.

Perhaps you meant radar tracks from space?

 

[axj]

Symmetrical or repeated sonar tracks from ships may appear mirrored, especially when the software fills data gaps by interpolating or duplicating information.

Where is this information from?

You are talking about ocean bottom images based on sonar tracks from ships, but these are satellite images. There seems to be no reason to mirror satellite images and neither should there be 'data gaps to fill in' in high-resolution satellite photos (unlike maybe gaps in sonar data of the ocean floor).

 

[ivanb]

"No source was provided other than coordinates. Based on the imagery, I can assume it depicts either the ocean surface or the ocean floor. In the first case, sonar is typically used, often augmented with satellite telemetry to produce clearer data. For surface and shallow subsurface measurements, satellite-based LiDAR, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), multispectral/hyperspectral imaging, and thermal/infrared imaging are employed. These images have clearly been processed through software to enhance them via symmetric transformation. It would be a significant leap to assume that structural anomalies have been discovered." On a lighter note, It's so easy to fall for click bate, just look at the images. LOL

 

[Nević Nenad]

Nice and fun find. But for those that did something with Photoshop or some other image editing program, or some texturing in some 3D program, this is well known. It usually looks like that when you are trying to stretch, flip, stick together one image to cover empty space. I wonder, who could have enough free time to search for stuff like this on Google

 

[ivanb]

Assuming the source of the images. Google Earth captures land and ocean imagery using high-tech gear. For land, it relies on commercial satellites like WorldView-3 (30 cm resolution) and GeoEye-1, equipped with pushbroom sensors and advanced optics for sharp, wide-ranging shots. Planes with high-resolution cameras, plus occasional drones or balloons, capture detailed urban and remote images, while LiDAR and GIS data enhance 3D terrain and map precision. Over oceans, Sentinel-3’s OLCI (300 m resolution) and radar-equipped satellites tackle low light and clouds, mapping coastal zones and sea surfaces. Google’s AI, like AlphaEarth Foundations, blends these datasets for consistent, detailed views, though clouds and polar artifacts can pose challenges. If sourced elsewhere, imagery could also include subsurface or ocean terrain data, which Google Earth is not properly equipped for and could only provide low resolution imagery.

 

[on_strike_usaexpat]

Based on the imagery, I can assume it depicts either the ocean surface or the ocean floor.

Why assume when you can go to Google earth and clearly see it is an island and not the ocean bottom?

 

[on_strike_usaexpat]

Nice and fun find. But for those that did something with Photoshop or some other image editing program, or some texturing in some 3D program, this is well known. It usually looks like that when you are trying to stretch, flip, stick together one image to cover empty space. I wonder, who could have enough free time to search for stuff like this on Google

This broke just last week from I believe a non-Chilean, native English language source and still has not really been publicized within social media addicted Chile. So yes, the origins of who started pointing this out, how they found it and why (innocent artifact of processing, intentional or real?) are good questions.