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::: Ancient Peru Pyramid Spotted by Satellite

2008-11-16T12:16:08-05:00

A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.

Nicola Masini and Rosa Lasaponara of Italy's National Research Council (CNR) discovered the pyramid by analyzing images from the satellite Quickbird, which they used to penetrate the Peruvian soil.

The researchers investigated a test area along the river Nazca. Covered by plants and grass, it was about a mile away from Cahuachi's archaeological site, which contains the remains of what is believed to be the world's biggest mud city.

Via Quickbird, Masini and colleagues collected hi-resolution infrared and multispectral images. After the researchers optimized the images with special algorithms, the result was a detailed visualization of a pyramid extending over a 9,000-square-meter area.

The discovery doesn't come as a surprise to archaeologists, since some 40 mounds at Cahuachi are believed to contain the remains of important structures.

"We know that many buildings are still buried under Cahuachi's sands, but until now, it was almost impossible to exactly locate them and detect their shape from an aerial view," Masini told Discovery News. "The biggest problem was the very low contrast between adobe, which is sun-dried earth, and the background subsoil."

Cahuachi is the best-known site of the Nazca civilization, which flourished in Peru between the first century B.C. and the fifth century A.D. and slid into oblivion by the time the Inca Empire rose to dominate the Andes.

Famous for carving in the Peruvian desert hundreds of geometric lines and images of animals and birds that are best viewed from the air, the Nazca people built Cahuachi as a ceremonial center, molding pyramids, temples and plazas from the desert itself.

There, priests led ceremonies including human sacrifices, drawing people from across the region.

Between 300 and 350 A.D., two natural disasters -- a powerful flood and a devastating earthquake -- hit Cahuachi. The site lost its sacred power to the Nazca, who then abandoned the area.

But before leaving, they sealed all monuments and buried them under the desert sand.

"Up to now, we have completely unearthed and restored a huge asymmetrical pyramid, known as the Grand Pyramid. A terraced temple and a smaller pyramid are in an advanced state of excavation," Giuseppe Orefici, an archaeologist who has spent decades excavating Cahuachi and has also worked with the CNR researchers, wrote in the conference paper.

Featuring a 300-by-328-foot base, the newly discovered pyramid consists of at least "four degrading terraces which suggest a truncated pyramid similar to the Grand Pyramid." With seven levels, this imposing monument was sculpted from the landscape and enhanced by large adobe walls.

"This is an interesting finding. As with the Grand Pyramid, it is likely that also this pyramid contains the remains of human sacrifices," Andrea Drusini, an anthropologist at Padova University, told Discovery News.

In previous excavations at Cahuachi, Drusini found some 20 severed "offering heads" at various locations inside the Grand Pyramid.

"They have circular holes cut into the forehead and were perfectly prepared from an anatomical point of view," Drusini said.

The researchers are now investigating other buried structures next to the newly discovered pyramid.

"This innovative technology opens up new perspectives for the detection of buried adobe monuments in Cahuachi and elsewhere," said Masini. "Once we have more information about the size and shape of the structures, we might turn to virtual archaeology to bring the pyramid and its nearby structures back to life."

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::: Satellite Images Reveal More Ice Melt at two of Greenland's Largest Glaciers

2008-08-23T21:51:39-04:00

"Ohio State University (OSU) researchers monitoring daily satellite images of Greenland’s glaciers have discovered break-ups at the Petermann and Jakobshavn glaciers’s—two of the country’s largest—in the last month. They expect that part of what is the Northern hemisphere’s longest floating glacier will continue to disintegrate within the next year.

Petermann has a floating section of ice 10 miles (16 kilometers) wide and 50 miles (80.4 kilometers) long which covers 500 square miles (1,295 square kilometers). An 11 mi2 (29 km2) piece of the Petermann Glacier in northern Greenland broke away between 10 to 24 July. The loss to that glacier is equal to half the size of Manhattan Island. The last major ice loss to Petermann occurred when the glacier lost 33 square miles (86 square kilometers) of floating ice between 2000 and 2001.

Jason Box, an associate professor of geography at Ohio State, and his colleagues, graduate students Russell Benson and David Decker, all with the Byrd Polar Research Center, also identified what appears to be a massive crack further back from the margin of the Petermann Glacier. That crack may signal an imminent and much larger breakup.

“If the Petermann glacier breaks up back to the upstream rift, the loss would be as much as 60 square miles (160 square kilometers),” Box said, representing a loss of one-third of the Petermann tongue."

::: Wilkins Ice Shelf Hanging On to Land by a Thread

2008-07-18T15:56:50-04:00

According to news from the European Space Agency, the Wilkins Ice Shelf is “hanging by its last thread” to the Antarctic Peninsula The researchers are studying satellite images that show continuing disintegration of the shelf and a fracture in the ice bridge connecting the shelf to land. The bridge helps stabilize the ice shelf, and its collapse could hasten the break-up of the shelf.

Surprising to scientists at the European agency and other research centers is the fact that the break-up is occurring in the Antarctic winter. One news headline read: “Even the Antarctic Winter Cannot Protect Wilkins Ice.” In addition, these first-ever recorded winter break-ups are different from earlier events this year. Ted Scambos of the National Snow and Ice Data Center noted that the pieces are moving out as large bergs and not as a divided mixture of ice.

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::: Scientists Surprised by Midwinter Collapse of Massive Ice Shelf

From July 12, 2008:

Even the depths of winter are proving unable to halt the climate change-induced collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf.

When the Wilkins shelf began a runaway disintegration at the end of last summer, scientists thought it unlikely the collapse would continue through the pole's coldest months.

But satellite images show losses growing in recent days, so that at last sight, only a thin and fractured ice bridge held the bulk of the giant shelf in place. Its loss would put the rest of the 14,500- square-kilometre ice shelf at risk, the European Space Agency said.

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::: New Satellite to Shed Light on Earth's Warming

2008-07-08T15:28:45-04:00

"BELTSVILLE, Md. — NASA plans to launch a new satellite next year that will help scientists fill in a gap in their understanding of global warming: the role of clouds and airborne particles.

The satellite Glory, targeted for launch next June, will give scientists a much better tool to measure particles than any satellite so far. The particles, known as aerosols, are bits of things such as dust and smog.

"Undoubtedly, greenhouse gases cause the biggest climatic effect. But the uncertainty in the aerosol effect is the biggest uncertainty in climate at the present," said Michael Mishchenko, the Glory project scientist at the Goddard Institute for Space Studies."

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::: The Ultimate Google Earth Anomalies Tour Video 1

2008-07-06T00:41:46-04:00

See the new Google Earth Anomalies video tour that contains 28 placemarks of Mima Mound sites in Wyoming, Oregon, Washington, Africa, and Florida; circular features in the Bahamas, Geoglyphs in Oregon, a Mound site in Egypt (perhaps a pyramid/mastaba?), circular features in Peru at a site that also contains odd linear features connecting the circular features, and a site over 280 miles from Nazca that contains linear features. I suggest you watch the video in high quality, maximized to full screen.

Download the .kmz file and take the Google Earth Tour.
Watch the video: The Ultimate Google Earth Anomaly Tour-Video 1

Placemarks include:

Unexplained Features: Egypt:

Circular Features: Peru:

Mima Mounds: Wyoming, near Little Bighorn

Linear Features: Peru:

::: Google Earth Anomalies, The Ultimate Anomaly Collection

2008-05-26T01:32:19-04:00

I have created a new site to document all the Google Earth Anomalies I've found over the years. The Google Earth place marks number over 5,000 and the purpose of the site is to compile all the place marks into a website for presentation to aid in arriving at conclusions based on the view from above.

www.googleearthanomalies.com
The Ultimate Anomaly Collection

One of the main goals of the site will be to document all the Mysterious, Mima Mound sites that are known to science and a few that are most likely unknown to the academic community. After viewing many Mima Mound sites all over the world and documenting them with Google Earth, I've come to the conclusion that the majority of these sites were some type of agricultural attempt by ancient man. However, the Mima Mounds are most likely polygenetic in origin, meaning they have more than one explanation for their formation.

The Mima Mounds are found all over the world, Peru, Australia, the US South West and many more places of interest that will be documented at the website. They literally can be found by the millions. One of the most interesting sites can be found in Africa in the Western Sahara Desert. This particular site stretches for miles and miles along the African coast with the mounds being aligned in a grid like fashion moreso than any documented site I have visited.

Mima Mound Image Study Examples:

Mima Mounds: Oregon, USA- Area 1

Mima Mounds: Africa- Area 1

More Mima Mound Sites

Subscribe to the Google Earth Anomalies Mima Mound, RSS Feed.
Subscribe to the Google Earth Anomalies 25 Most Recent Posts, RSS Feed.

Check out the Circular Features for more interesting circles found in Peru and a large spiral in Oregon.

::: Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapses

2008-04-12T12:07:08-04:00

A chunk of Antarctic ice about seven times the size of Manhattan suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, scientists said Tuesday.

Satellite images show the runaway disintegration of a 160-square-mile chunk in western Antarctica, which started February 28.

It was the edge of the Wilkins Ice Shelf and has been there for hundreds, maybe 1,500 years.

This is the result of global warming, said British Antarctic Survey scientist David Vaughan.

Because scientists noticed satellite images within hours, they diverted satellite cameras and even flew an airplane over the ongoing collapse for rare pictures and video.

"It's an event we don't get to see very often," said Ted Scambos, lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado.

"The cracks fill with water and slice off and topple. … That gets to be a runaway situation."

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::: Satellite image reveals new crater in Australia

2008-03-17T20:38:21-04:00

"Next time you’re virtually roaming Google Earth, make sure you take a close look at any unusual landforms.

Geologist Arthur Hickman did just that, and is now the proud parent of the Hickman Crater, a meteorite crater in the Hamersley Ranges.

Dr Hickman, from the Geological Survey of Western Australia, was using Google Earth to look for iron ore when he noticed an unusually circular structure.

He sent a Google Earth picture of the structure to his colleague Dr Andrew Glickson at the Australian National University, who later visited the area and confirmed that Dr Hickman had found a particularly well preserved meteorite crater.

“Our best estimate at the moment is that the crater is 10,000 to 100,000 years old,” said Dr Hickman. "

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::: Maya May Have Caused Civilization-Ending Climate Change

2008-03-03T14:43:46-05:00

"Self-induced drought and climate change may have caused the destruction of the Maya civilization, say scientists working with new satellite technology that monitors Central America's environment.

Researchers from the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, launched the satellite program, known as SERVIR, in early 2005 to help combat wildfires, improve land use, and assist with natural disaster responses.

The researchers occasionally refer to the project as environmental diplomacy.

But the program also found traces of the Maya's hidden, possibly disastrous agricultural past—and is now using those lessons to help ensure that today's civilizations fare better in the face of modern-day climate change.

SERVIR stands to warn leaders in Central and South America where climate change might deliver the hardest hits to their ecosystems and biodiversity, say developers Tom Sever and Daniel Irwin.

If the governments heed the warnings, the data may truly save lives, the experts add.

Secret Farms

More than a hundred reasons have been proposed for the downfall of the Maya, among them hurricanes, overpopulation, disease, warfare, and peasant revolt. (Read "Maya Rise and Fall" in National Geographic magazine (August 2007).

But Sever, NASA's only archaeologist, adds to evidence for another explanation.

"Our recent research shows that another factor may have been climate change," he said during a meeting of the American Association of the Advancement of Science in Boston, Massachusetts, earlier this month.

One conventional theory has it that the Maya relied on slash-and-burn agriculture. But Sever and his colleagues say such methods couldn't have sustained a population that reached 60,000 at its peak.

The researchers think the Maya also exploited seasonal wetlands called bajos, which make up more than 40 percent of the Petén landscape that the ancient empire called home. "

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::: Gigantic Concentric Circles Found in Italy

2008-01-26T16:08:36-05:00

Last July 2007 an excavation for a new hospital Sant'Anna near Como Italy uncovered a "double concentric circle of ancient stones". It may date back to 3000 BCE and "the site is a "highly articulated prehistoric structure that could be either an ancient astronomical observatory or a sacred space," according to Stefania Iorio, Archaeological Superintendent of the region." The diameter of the circles is around 229 feet and they are divided by a pathway of paved stones.

The site is a rare site with no similar examples in Northern Italy. Giancarlo Frigerio, chairman of the Società Archeologica Comense theorizes that it may be an ancient tumulus. What makes this tumulus so unusual is size since it covers an area of approximately 13,000 feet, over 2 miles, while other tumuluses found in the same region average a diameter of 13-16 feet. Tumulus is Latin for mound or small hill that was typically a man-made, mound formation erected over a grave site.

There are now plans to protect the area and create a park where visitors can access the site.

News Source: Archaeo News

::: Radical New Lab Fights Disease using Satellites

2008-01-21T20:17:46-05:00

"Jan. 16, 2008: A group of atmospheric research scientists at NASA's National Space Science and Technology Center felt a little like they were in a foreign country when they first met with University of Alabama at Birmingham's School of Public Health representatives to discuss an unusual partnership.

"When we first got together, it was as if we were speaking entirely different languages," says NASA's Dale Quattrochi.

But very soon both parties began to realize how NASA satellite data could translate into vital public health information.

"We started seeing how it was really a great fit. It was wonderful. The lights clicked on!" Quattrochi said.

In the past 50 years, satellites have revolutionized weather forecasting and communications, so why not human health?

The scientists from UAB and NASA realized that rocket science could be focused down to the level of microbiology and public health and yield huge advances in both. That "ah-ha" moment sparked idea after idea about ways to combat public health problems with satellite data.

One of their best ideas was to teach public health students, the researchers and medical personnel of the future, to harness the power of satellite imagery to study and fight modern-day disease. This idea led UAB to create a remote sensing lab – in fact the first U.S. dedicated remote sensing lab for medical and public health use – to do just that.

Students at the lab take "cross-training" courses with NASA/NSSTC scientists such as Dr. Dale Quattrochi, Dr. Jeff Luvall, Dr. Douglas Rickman, Dr. Mohammad Al-Hamdan, Dr. William Crosson, and Mr. Maurice Estes as guest lecturers and invited experts. Many of the NASA/NSSTC scientists have been appointed as adjunct professors at the UAB School of Public Health. And the innovative research performed from the lab is cutting edge.

"This lab and the studies it supports will help both our own generation and future generations," says NSSTC's Jeff Luvall. "This is a turning point in public health. Who knows where it will lead?"

Studies sponsored by the lab have already led to critical research in fighting malaria. Infrared imagery from satellites is helping scientists locate warm standing water – fertile breeding ground for mosquitoes. Then the problem areas can be treated effectively and precisely, stopping the spread of malaria. Other researchers at the lab are using satellite imagery to correlate cases of West Nile virus with nearness to tire dumps -- another favorite breeding ground for the virus-carrying mosquito.

Remote sensing has even proven valuable in tracking environmental influences on childhood asthma. Satellite data are revealing pollution levels and other environmental factors where the children live to find out whether these factors might be triggering asthma attacks. Children can then be given asthma therapy to protect them from the effects.

Another study is seeking links between the environment and cardiovascular diseases, including stroke. UAB has been working on a large study called REGARDS, short for Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke. The study, funded by the National Institute of Health, sampled over 30,000 people across the U.S. with in-home surveys which included taking their blood pressure and blood samples and administering a detailed health questionnaire. The survey focused mostly on African-Americans because that group has been shown to have a higher risk of contracting the conditions the study examined – cardiovascular disease, hypertension, and stroke – to name a few.

"Both UAB and NASA want to understand, using NASA satellite data on air quality, heat indexes, temperature, humidity, and other environmental elements, how the environment is influencing the diseases and conditions targeted by REGARDS," explains Quattrochi. "This study's findings could help health officials with environmental exposure and health recommendations."

Many other studies are planned or in progress, including investigations about how water affects dental health and about the correlations between lead, mercury, and pesticides with health problems in mothers and babies overseas.

Just imagine how thrilled a designer of one of the first satellites from 50 years ago would be to learn that satellites in space are now combating health problems and saving lives.

That's good news in any language."

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::: Satellite Images Reveal Huge Cracks in Beaufort Sea Caused by Ice Melting

2008-01-19T21:19:42-05:00

Giant fractures have been spotted via satellite imagery of an area West of the Beaufort sea. The Canadian Ice Service monitors glaciers for any signs of environmental damage or change. The fractures have occurred between December of '07 and January of '08 have caused concern among scientists. The fractures are very large and can be viewed in satellite image animations available at the Environment Canada website.

Animation Link

The fractures are more than 100 kilometers across and have occurred in a matter of weeks. "This melting phenomenon may be tied to the loss of the Arctic ice last summer that "stunned" scientists as the ice retreated 40 percent below normal to the lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979."

According to David Berber, a climate specialist at the University of Manitoba, the ice isn't the only thing that's changing in the Arctic, the storm tracks are also changing as as weather systems are drawn in over the open water. If this ice melt trend continues, scientists predict the Arctic could be ice free in the summer months by 2020, plus or minus 10 years. "That means Arctic summer ice, which has capped the planet for more than a million years, might be gone by 2010, says Barber."

"The implications extend far beyond the Arctic, and the possibility of shipping routes opening in the North. Weather across the Northern Hemisphere is impacted by what happens in the Arctic and the northern ice plays a critical role in controlling Earth's thermostat. Arctic ice reflects close to the 95 per cent of solar radiation that hits it. Once the ice melts away, seawater absorbs the heat instead, later releasing it back to the atmosphere, a process that will speed global warming."

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::: Mysterious stone circle found on Miami River bank

2008-01-12T14:04:29-05:00

This stone circle reminds me of the numerous formations seen in Florida from satellite imagery and the possibility that many of these circular features could have been artificial in origin seems to have been overlooked by archaeologists. Perhaps the more circles they uncover, the more curious they will be concerning the numerous circular formations seen from space in Florida in the Everglades, in the Florida Keys, in the Bahamas and the famous North Carolina bays. Although meteorites have been theorized to have caused these types of formations in the South East US and the Bahamas, no meteoric evidence has yet been found near any of the circles or large NC bay features.

Miami Circle Web Site

From CNN:

Archeologists divided over origin

MIAMI (Reuters) -- In the shadows of this modern city's gleaming towers, under the remains of a blighted apartment block, archeologists digging through the rubble of centuries have uncovered a mysterious circle in stone.

The circle, formed of dozens of holes bored into the limestone bedrock with rudimentary tools and located just a few steps from the mouth of the Miami River, is a startling window into Florida's pre-Columbian history in the heart of a bustling metropolis, archeologists say.

A cache of artifacts including shells, beads and pottery shards has persuaded some experts that the circle is likely the foundation of a Tequesta Indian building at the site of one of Miami's first trading posts founded by northern settlers.

But another, more intriguing theory has been advanced: that the circle is a celestial calendar, perhaps made by a breakaway band of Mayas, the sophisticated Central American Indians who lived in the Yucatan, Belize and northern Guatemala.

"It looks like Stonehenge in negative. Instead of stones, holes," T.L. Riggs, a surveyor who has studied Mayan culture, said.

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:::Satellite Images of Arctic Summer Ice Anomaly Shocks Scientists; 'Unlike Anything Observed'

2008-01-10T12:02:11-05:00

Interesting story from 2006:

Paris, France (Sep 20, 2006 19:12 EST) Satellite images acquired from 23 to 25 August 2006 have shown for the first time dramatic openings – over a geographic extent larger than the size of the British Isles – in the Arctic's perennial sea ice pack north of Svalbard, and extending into the Russian Arctic all the way to the North Pole.

Observing data from Envisat's Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) instrument and the AMSR-E instrument aboard the EOS Aqua satellite, scientists were able to determine that around 5-10 percent of the Arctic's perennial sea ice, which had survived the summer melt season, has been fragmented by late summer storms. The area between Spitzbergen, the North Pole and Severnaya Zemlya is confirmed by AMSR-E to have had much lower ice concentrations than witnessed during earlier years.

Mark Drinkwater of ESA's Oceans/Ice Unit said: "This situation is unlike anything observed in previous record low ice seasons. It is highly imaginable that a ship could have passed from Spitzbergen or Northern Siberia through what is normally pack ice to reach the North Pole without difficulty.

"If this anomaly trend continues, the North-East Passage or 'Northern Sea Route' between Europe and Asia will be open over longer intervals of time, and it is conceivable we might see attempts at sailing around the world directly across the summer Arctic Ocean within the next 10-20 years."

During the last 25 years, satellites have been observing the Arctic and have witnessed reductions in the minimum ice extent – the lowest amount of ice recorded in the area annually – at the end of summer from around 8 million km² in the early 1980s to the historic minimum of less than 5.5 million km² in 2005, changes widely viewed as a consequence of greenhouse warming.

Satellite observations in the past couple of years have also shown that the extent of perennial ice is rapidly declining, but this strange condition in late August marks the first time the perennial ice pack appears to exhibit thinner and more mobile conditions in the European sector of the Central Arctic than in earlier years.

Both sets of images were taken by two different satellite instruments – ASAR on the left and AMSR-E on the right. In the coloured AMSR-E images, ice cover, or the concentration of ice, is represented by the colour. Pink represents pack ice and the colour blue open water. Intermediate colours orange, yellow, and green indicate lower ice concentrations of 70%, 50% and 30%, respectively. In the ASAR images, ice cover is represented by the uniform grey area which extends radially-outwards from the North Pole, represented by the central black hole.

The set of images on the top were both acquired on 24 August 2005, while the bottom left ASAR image was acquired on 23 August 2006 and the AMSR-E on 24 August 2006. In 2005, the uniform grey area in the ASAR image and the pink colour in the AMSR-E image are both consistent all the way around the pole (black hole), indicating pack ice with 100% ice concentration.

However in 2006 there is a significant extent of leads – fractures and openings in the sea-ice cover – just below the pole in both the ASAR image, seen as splashes of dark grey and black, and the AMSR-E image (with British Isles shown for scale), seen by the high concentration of yellow, orange and green colours, signifying low ice concentrations.

In the last weeks, what was open water has begun to freeze, as the autumn air temperatures over the Arctic begin to fall. Although a considerable fraction of darker leads can still be seen in the area using ASAR, the AMSR-E sensor no longer shows openings.

ASAR is an active microwave instrument which sends periodic radar pulses toward the Earth and measures the signals return. AMSR-E is a passive microwave instrument which does not send radar pulses down but receives radiation naturally emitted from the Earth. Passive microwave data contain a certain amount of ambiguity in interpretation of ice types, particularly in mid summer during melting. However, this ambiguity is removed in high resolution active microwave data.

Though the reason for the considerable change in the ice pack configuration is still unknown, it is likely due to the stormy weather conditions in August that characterised the month.

The effect stormy conditions have on ice is illustrated in this ASAR image, taken on 25 August 2006, as the ice in the red circle is divergent as a consequence of a low pressure system centred on the North Pole.

"As autumn freeze-up begins, the current pattern will undoubtedly precondition the ice situation in the Central Arctic for the subsequent ice season," Drinkwater said.

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::: NASA Images to Be Archived Online

2007-09-04T18:23:38-04:00

NASA Images to Be Archived Online

NASA and Internet Archive of San Francisco are partnering to scan, archive and manage the agency's vast collection of photographs, historic film and video. The imagery will be available through the Internet and free to the public, historians, scholars, students, and researchers.

Currently, NASA has more than 20 major imagery collections online. With this partnership, those collections will be made available through a single, searchable "one-stop-shop" archive of NASA imagery.

"Making NASA's important scientific and space exploration imagery available and easily accessible online to all is a service of tremendous value to America, and we're pleased to partner with the experts at Internet Archive to accomplish this effort," said Robert Hopkins, chief of strategic communications at NASA Headquarters, Washington.

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::: New Additions, Cuba and Bimini, Topographic Anomalies

2007-08-06T12:21:46-04:00

Two new additions to the newly titled 'Topographic Anomalies' section have been added to the SD site. A series of mound like features have been documented off the coast of Puerto Rico and can be seen here: Puerto Rico Parallel Topographic Mound Features

The features can be seen in parallel line formations that are spaced equally all around the island of Puerto Rico. The topographic images were taken from the NGDC 3 Arc-Second Coastal Relief Model available online. Features like these are not abundant within the coastal relief data and it's uncertain if the features are data glitches or actual anomalous landforms.

Another image found here shows the mound anomalies disappearing then reappearing suggesting the anomalies are actually on the sea floor. The red arrows in the image are spaced equally and the equal distant spacing seems to be very precise.

Similar features exist within the image data around the island of Bimini and are viewable in the image study: Bimini Topographic Mound Features

The 'blip' features are approximately 600-800 feet in diameter and exist to the North, SE, and South of the island of Bimini. The Southernmost image available here reveals the 'blip' features existing in 3 parallel rows. The 'blip' features also make up a larger grid feature between Florida and the Bahama Bank seen here and marked by the red arrows to the left of the topographic image. The whole area appears to be ordered and contains the 'blip' features arranged in a grid formation.

Many comments have been made concerning the area between Bimini and Florida containing anything from underwater domes cited from pilots, to lost pyramids and underwater lost cities. If the topographic data is accurate there is a possibility the 'blip' features may have been created by ancient man. The explanations for the 'blips' include oil survey explosions, military bomb sites, ancient pyramids, ancient agricultural signs and data noise.

::: SD Update: Circles, Lines and Patterns, Cuba

2007-07-29T22:56:59-04:00

A lost city has been reported and documented off the Northern Coast of Pinar del Rio by Charles Berlitz. The placemarks in the following image study reveal areas with patterning, circular features and more linear features just like those seen in the Bahamas near Proctor's Road and the Bimini Wall.

'An expanse of stone ruins, several acres in area and apparently white, as if they were marble, was reported off the northern coast of Cuba by the late Leicester Hemingway former resident of Cuba and brother of the famous novelest...' referring to Ernest Hemingway. This was documented by Charles Berlitz.

North of Pinar del Rio:
The circular features are 20-40 feet in diameter.

View the 2 image studies here:
Cuba Circular Features
Circles in Linear Formations and Underwater Patterning, Cuba

Download a Google Earth Placemark Tour Here. Contains 26 placemarks.

Linear Features can also be found North of Pinar del Rio similar to those seen on the Great Bahama Bank and near the Bimini Wall in the Bahamas at an area referred to as Proctor's Road. Proctor's Road is a straight line of stones placed at regular intervals under the water.