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Archaeologists Are Using Incredible Photographs From This Cold War-Era Spy Satellite to Unlock Secrets of World History
Some of the earliest satellite photography has been declassified, and is proving a boon to all different kinds of research.
January 8, 2021
A Corona satellite launch at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Photo courtesy of the National Reconnaissance Office.
Satellite imagery from the Corona project, a Cold War spy program that acquired military intelligence about the Soviet Union for the US, is proving useful in ways its creators could have never imagined including for archaeologists.
“Corona is like a time machine for us,” Jason Ur, a Harvard University archaeologist who works with Corona images, told the