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Lost pyramids spotted from space

  • 25-05-2011 07:45AM
    #1
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭


    #BBCNews "Lost pyramids spotted from space" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13522957

    Can't post the text from my phone. Looks interesting though.


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  • #2
    ednwireland
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,796 ✭✭✭✭ednwireland


    saw the trailer for this, there's a street map of tanis (wonder if they found the arc of the covenant yet :p )
    amazing stuff
    IR image of buried pyramid
    _52945733_satellite-image-of-pyramid_highlight.jpg

    tanis
    _52955733_satellite_image_closer_640.jpg

    My weather

    https://www.ecowitt.net/home/share?authorize=96CT1F



  • #3
    ch2008
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 427 ✭✭ch2008


    wonder if this could be used in the Boyne Valley?


  • #4
    Sea Sharp
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    Truly amazing.
    I wonder could similar techniques be used underwater, seeing as how there's probably a hell of a lot of sites under water, particularly in the Mediterranean sea.


  • #5
    Coriolanus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,879 ✭✭✭Coriolanus


    ch2008 wrote: »
    wonder if this could be used in the Boyne Valley?
    Sea Sharp wrote: »
    Truly amazing.
    I wonder could similar techniques be used underwater, seeing as how there's probably a hell of a lot of sites under water, particularly in the Mediterranean sea.
    I don't see why not. I'd imagine it's a matter of funding. Egypt is pretty sexy in terms of funding.


  • #6
    RollYerOwn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 154 ✭✭RollYerOwn


    I think the idea is that IR images are created by viewing only the light waves at a particular part of the spectrum (a part that we can't see with our eyes). All images formed by light are reflections of light back to the receiver (an eye, a camera, a sensor).

    Vegetation absorbs and reflects differing parts of the spectrum and slight changes in vegetation can show up better with infrared (manipulated so we can see it). Infrared photography has been used in Ireland in aerial photography and perhaps will be of benefit in the future.

    Don't think this would work for underwater sites though as the surface of the water reflects back the light first.

    I think.

    Pretty spectacular results!


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  • #7
    boneless
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,487 ✭✭✭boneless


    ch2008 wrote: »
    wonder if this could be used in the Boyne Valley?

    Not near enough to Libya :D!! Lots of satellites over the middle east at the moment!


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