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Secrets Beneath the Sand

Instruments such as imaging radar helped usher in a new era in archaeology.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story Secrets Beneath the Sand.

NASA Earth Observatory images and illustration by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey, and SAR imagery courtesy of NASA JPL. Story by Pola Lem.

Published August 29, 2017
Data acquired April 13 - May 27, 1994

Sources:: Landsat 5 > TM; Photograph; Space Shuttle > SIR-C/X-SAR