Uncovering Ancient Civilizations From Space |
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Uncovering Ancient Civilizations From Space |
 Feb 16 2006, 03:13 PM
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EARTH OBSERVATION
- NASA, UNH Scientists Uncover Lost Maya Ruins – From Space http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_UNH...From_Space.html Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 15, 2006 - Remains of the ancient Maya culture, mysteriously destroyed at the height of its reign in the ninth century, have been hidden in the rainforests of Central America for more than 1,000 years. Now, NASA and University of New Hampshire scientists are using space- and aircraft-based "remote-sensing" technology to uncover those ruins, using the chemical signature of the civilization's ancient building materials. - NASA Satellite Technology Helps Fight Invasive Plant Species http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/NASA_Sat...nt_Species.html -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 16 2006, 03:29 PM
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Anyone who has read the excellent 'Beyond the Limits' by Ranulph Fiennes will have read about them searching for a lost city in the desert, and found it totally by accident by just digging randomly when local authorities began to suspect they were spies - but a NASA researcher made it to the press first, and claimed they'd found it using NASA imagery - which they hadnt
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Feb 16 2006, 03:30 PM
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The satellite maps are somewhat of a nightmare to the archeologists trying to preserve sites in the US southwest. It is fairly easy to pick up ancient trails from the satellite photos - and the pot hunters have followed them everywhere and anywhere.
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Feb 16 2006, 03:38 PM
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QUOTE (djellison @ Feb 16 2006, 10:29 AM)  Anyone who has read the excellent 'Beyond the Limits' by Ranulph Fiennes will have read about them searching for a lost city in the desert, and found it totally by accident by just digging randomly when local authorities began to suspect they were spies - but a NASA researcher made it to the press first, and claimed they'd found it using NASA imagery - which they hadnt Doug The guy's last name wasn't Deutsch by any chance, was it? 
-------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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Feb 22 2006, 04:24 PM
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Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430 |
Maya Ruins
To quote: "On December 15, 2002, IKONOS captured this image of a bajo in Guatemala. Bajos are lowland areas where rainwater accumulates, and archaeologists suspect that the ancient Maya used these areas for irrigation of their crops. This area also includes remains of Maya structures. In a natural-color (photo-like) image, the changes caused by the ruins would be hard to distinguish from the natural variation in the green forest canopy. The best way to find them is to look at the visible and near-infrared spectra, shown in the false-color image. In this type of image, the forest covering the ruin sites appears yellowish, as opposed to the red color of surrounding forest. The more sparsely vegetated bajos appear blue-green." Full article and images here: http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/...p3?img_id=17188 -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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