The mystery of the Antarctic pyramid
It is one of the corners of the planet that still hide many secrets. Research on the white continent continues to reveal unknowns about its geological, glacial and climatic history, but what about the enigmatic pyramid What appears between the ice? Known as the ‘Egyptian pyramid’, from time to time it leaves part of its structure exposed and its resemblance to the Giza Pyramids fuels the most colorful theories, from those that claim that it was built by an ancient civilization to those that give credit to the aliens. However, for now, science suggests that it is an unusual natural construction.
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© Getty ImagesHuge trees in the middle of the desert or just a curious optical illusion?
On the Tibetan plateau there are some aerial images that wake up a great curiosity: what look like two immense, almost twin trees in a desert area next to the road. It is not an edited photograph or folded in front of a mirror and it has nothing to do with a tree either. The truth behind this photo is that what you see from the air are the marks that the water left as it passed through the area, drawing with all luxury of detail what looks like a strong trunk and its branches. A kind of work of art that nature, which never ceases to surprise and always attracts us with its beauty.
© CONTACTAn amazing discovery in Nazca thanks to artificial intelligence: more than 300 geoglyphs
A team of researchers has managed to identify 303 new geoglyphs in the Peruvian pampas of Nazca, which doubles the number known until now of these mysterious figures, discovered by archaeologist Maria Reiche in the 1940s. Artificial intelligence has played a very important role in this discovery, since the Researchers from the Nazca Institute of Yamagata University in Japan and IBM Research who have carried out the work have used it to map the distribution of these drawings. To do this, a large amount of data from geospatial images taken from airplanes was analyzed to identify areas where they could be hidden. One of the curiosities is that the ones they have found depict humanoids, decapitated heads and domestic animals, unlike those that already existed, which usually represented wild animals. This is another important step to decipher the enigmas of these drawings, which, according to what they point out, are more than 2,000 years old and archaeologists have been studying it for decades.
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