[GIS] this “brown spot” in Google maps

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I was in Google maps today and noticed near Baltimore, US where the river is, there's a huge brown spot. Is this due to all of the waste? If so, will this keep going all the way into the ocean?

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Best Answer

Could be a cloud.

Google try to filter these out, but not too well in this case.

Have not found any links to back this up, but I do remember reading about it on a post that was looking at the possibility of rendering a 3D real-time cloud layer.