Completely OT : "Foreign object"

[mrcheerful]

> (I ask here because all the experts are here ;-) ).

there are about half a dozen similar things, I would assume they are reservoirs covered in algae or grass

[Andy Hall]

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Here's a much larger one on the north side, nearer to a larger population centre.

does suggest reservoirs.

[Yuki]

It's a water reservoir, listed in the maps of Tenerife´s Water Authority:

this part of the island many reservoirs are filled from artificial springs done by excavating mine-style horizontal galleries in the mountain. Most probably the canal you see in the lower left brings the water from the mine.

BTW, as Tenerife is a volcanic island you can save a lot of work in pond building using a spare volcano:

[The Natural Philosopher]

It will be an irrigation reservoir. Or feeding troughs for cattle. Its not good to have that little water in a body for drinking by humans..

[Matt]

A "flat" view and terrrain view from Google Earth who don't quite get it as a completely flat bit of water.

to see it yourself the kml file for google earth - cut and paste the bits between the ### into a file named anything_you_like.kml and open wth google earth

###

Mystery Object - Tenerife -16.47601825252015 28.27300649886895 606.1924816058431 87.58551304753351 -19.28523158709533

root://styleMaps#default+nicon=0x307+hicon=0x317 -16.47711086469302,28.27144465789419,0

###

[Yuki]

to corrupt Google's terrain database for it to appear slanted and misguide investigators.

Our Black Helicopter base is really inside a hollowed out volcano, protected by a Kriptonite Dimensional Portal disguised as water (Kriptonite's green colour is hard to hide but we cleverly blame algae).

[manatbandq]

MBQ

[zaax]

Using the earth goggle program. It is on a slope below some observatories so it could be radar

[Matt]

Do keep up. We've already ascertained that its a water reservoir and Google Earth shows it as such.

[Andy Hall]

Although it also shows it as sloping from side to side and corner to corner by about 7m.

[ARWadsworth]

Hi Phil

I have just clicked on the links and done what you said. Actually I have to use the 2nd closest zoom to fit on my screen as the monitor was not big enough. Using the 200ft and 50m scale. They are of a very similar size and at the same angle which is quite spooky.

the size of Buckingham Palace as

"In measurements, the building is 108 metres long across the front, 120 metres deep (including the central quadrangle) and 24 metres high."

I cannot be too far out for the green bit being 100 by 75.

Adam

[Zoinks]

I can't believe that people are still using google maps. I use

instead, it has access to google, microsoft, yahoo, ask.com, openlayers and NASA maps. If one doesn't have it you can just flip to one of the others.

Z.

[Bob Martin]

>>> (I ask here because all the experts are here ;-) ).

FlashEarth requires Flash Player 7 which isn't available for my OS ...

[Aidan]

Rain water collector? Underground storage, evaporation would be excessive. There was/is something similar in Gibraltar, I believe.

I don't know if it's been suggested before, can't be bothered to read all of it.