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This Is What the Bottom of the Indian Ocean Looks Like

The Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion's captain, Wing Cmdr. Rob Shearer, watches out of the window of his aircraft while searching for the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, Monday, March 31, 2014.
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December 10, 2014, 3:32 PM

 -- Australian search teams who are actively hunting for any sign of the missing Malaysian Airlines flight have not found any evidence of the plane yet.

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That said, the Australian Transport Safety Board has been providing regular updates on the search and have now released a visualization of what the seafloor looks like.

Data collected by the Australian Transport Safety Board was used to create this image of the seafloor based on sonar acoustics.

The picture is actually a synthetic aperture sonar acoustic image of the seafloor, and it gives viewers a hint at how difficult the search is because of the odd shapes and slightly varying gradation levels.

All told, the team has searched more than 9,000 square kilometers of the seafloor in the Indian Ocean and are continuing along an estimated route that the plane may have taken.