Uncovering Ancient Civilizations From Space

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Uncovering Ancient Civilizations From Space

ljk4-1 View Member Profile	Feb 16 2006, 03:13 PM Post #1
Senior Member Group: Members Posts: 2454 Joined: 8-July 05 From: NGC 5907 Member No.: 430	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