This is the best thing I’ve read all day. Of course, my brain went first to Daniel Jackson of Stargate SG-1, but he’d be the first to say that this is a fantastic use of satellite technology.
Go forth and save our history, intrepid space archaeologists!
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Learn a little about space archaeology.
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Discussion Ideas
- GlobalXplorer° is a citizen science/space archaeology platform that uses the “power of the crowd to analyze the incredible wealth of satellite images currently available to archaeologists.” What is citizen science?
- What is “space archaeology”?
- “Space archaeologists don’t actually work in space. Instead, they use satellite imagery, taken by spacecraft whizzing 400 miles above Earth’s surface, to find things buried within the planet’s crust.”
- Satellite imagery allows viewers to assess the “subtle differences on Earth’s surface that indicate what’s underground … [Parcak] can zoom in on specific chunks of land
- “Space archaeologists don’t actually work in space. Instead, they use satellite imagery, taken by spacecraft whizzing 400 miles above Earth’s surface, to find things buried within the planet’s crust.”
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