If you ’re bummed that SETI@home has n’t quite succeed in pinpointing our friendly extraterrestrial neighbor , National Geographic is offer up another ambitious task you may get involved in at home : surveying the Mongolian regionthat oblige Genghis Khan ’s tomb .
NatGeo’sValley of the Khans projectallows armchair archaeologists to sift through satellite mental imagery of the neighborhood — multispectral shot provide by the GeoEye-1 and Ikonos sattelites — and score what they believe could be ancient roads , river , or other anomaly . And that ’s only one facial expression of this mellow - tech effort .
At the University of California in San Diego , researchers are employing a HIPerSpace ( Highly Interactive Parallelized Display Space ) wall — seen above — to project immense expanses of the Mongolian region , scale into the billion of pixels .
And then there ’s theStarCAVE , an Earthquake - proof , 3D visualisation room which surrounds researchers with figure in better - than - HD solvent — it ’s a few satisfying feets ’ worth of Northern Mongol vista , perfectly reproduced thousands of sea mile away in California .
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you’re able to find out more and link the Field Expedition team for the Valley of the Khans project over onNational Geographic ’s situation . And if hump over your laptop was n’t exactly how you envisioned your swaggering archeological adventure , you may always congratulate your pajamas with an Indiana Jones fedora . [ National Geographic ’s Valley of the Khans Project ]
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