PERSIAN GULF stays PERSIAN GULF forever

UPDATE - 9/4/2011 at 6pm GMT As of now, the Earth Observatory website is online again and you may check the maps here.

UPDATE - 9/4/2011 at 3:20am GMT Today while I was going to check the NASA's Earth Observatory website, I realized that the website was down until very recently. So, the links to their website in this post were not working due to the United States government shutdown. Here is what they had put there in their website moments before going offline: 

"Due to the potential U.S. government shutdown, the Earth Observatory will have no new imagery after April 10 and will not be updated until the end of the shutdown."

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GREAT NEWS: I DID IT, YES, I DID IT.

I CONVINCED THEM, THE MAP WAS CHANGED, THEY CHANGED THE MAP, NASA CHANGED ITS MAP.

• Here is the most recent email I just received from Michael:

Kian -

Thanks for your patience and for being a loyal reader. In the short term, I have asked staff to use Persian Gulf, not Arabian. We are also reconsidering which reference we rely upon.

Mike Carlowicz Editor - NASA Earth Observatory - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov

774-413-5168 (home office) and 508-566-2620 (cell)

michael.j.carlowicz@nasa.gov

>>> Read the story and the previous correspondences here.

Images showing what became what by writing a few emails asking them to reconsider their terming approach, and they proved to be rational people deserving to be there in the most authentic space science organization of the world.

I really appreciate it NASA and you did a great job for us Michael. I am really grateful for what you did Michael.

I don’t know what to say, I could have never imagined in the first place that I would be succeeded. I did something a petition signed by hundreds of thousands of people has not fulfilled yet. Maybe it’s now Google’s turn to reconsider its terming approach regarding the water body known globally as Persian Gulf in Google Earth. Hummm, I should send them an email asking them to do so.

For now, I congratulate my fellow countrymen for such a great achievement.

OLD MAP TERMED WITH PERSIAN GULF ALONG WITH ARABIAN IN THE PARENTHESES

NEW MAP TERMED WITH PERSIAN GULF ONLY