From Orbit to Antiquity: NASA Satellite Tech Is Unlocking Lost History

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An image-processing algorithm born from NASA's satellite program is now helping archaeologists and historians uncover ancient secrets hidden in plain sight. Here's how space-age tech is rewriting the past.

NASA builds tools to see things humans can't — craters on Mars, weather systems churning over oceans, wildfires racing across continents. But one of its most powerful imaging algorithms has found an unexpected second career: peering into antiquity and revealing ancient images that have been invisible for centuries.

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