In Search for Flight M370, New Seafloor Map Is 'Better Than **thing'

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In Search for Flight M370, New Seafloor Map Is 'Better Than **thing'
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Using advanced satellite techniques, scientists released a new map (http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/2014EO210001/asset/eost2014EO210001.pdf?v=1&t=hvpb0j4t&115e0bcc) on Tuesday of the underwater terrain within part of the search area for missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, which was lost on March 8 during a flight from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to Beijing, China. The search is taking place across a large area of the Indian Ocean to the west of Australia, and it has been hampered by a lack of data about the undersea terrain in the area

Writing in the journal EOS (http://news.agu.org/press-release/seafloor-experts-publish-new-view-of-zone-where-malaysia-airlines-flight-370-might-lie/), two seafloor mapping experts from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (**AA) produced a new illustration of the seafloor area where the acoustic signals from the airplane's black boxes were heard by surface ships in late March and early April Read more... (http://mashable.com/2014/05/27/malaysia-airlines-flight-370-seafloor-map/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=rss)

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