The submerged car discovered by Google Earth. Image credit: The Guardian

Google satellite images helped to detect the location of Florida man after he went missing 22 years ago.

The man identified as William Moldt went missing in 1997 at the age of 40.

After 22 years when someone zoomed in on his former Florida neighbourhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake.

“A previous resident of the Grand Isles neighbourhood in Wellington, Florida, was checking the neighbourhood on Google Earth when he zoomed into the lake and saw what looked like a car,” The Guardian reported.

“The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who used a drone to confirm it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house,” the report further added.

The police and authorities were then called in and when they got the car out, they found the skeletal remains inside.