5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

It is true, this service is incredible.Google Earth, with ten years completed, demonstrates its usefulness not only for spying James Bond style, but for much more important things for humanity, such as these that we tell you in this post , worthy of a supercurioso like you.

The program has been downloaded more than 2,000 million times, if, as you hear it, which has allowed millions of users to locate locations.Another even more important function is that allowed us to see the world in a different way, with another "look", which has revealed facts and mysteries that would otherwise have continued in the dark.

5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

1.Prison camps in North Korea

For example, a group of human rights and freedom activists in this country discovered thanks to this tool the existence of prison camps, the so-called gulags Koreans (in clear reference to the labor camps forced casualties of the dead Soviet Union).

The blogger Joshua Stanton , leader of the activists, identified images of doors and guard houses, coal mines and even burial sites , corroborated everything later with experts and defectors from Korea.

Stanton says:“ The greatest of the fields, if you don't know what to look for, looks like a town, and I suspect they are designed in that way to fit in the landscape.”

As you probably know, North Koreans live practically isolated from the rest of the world, they don't have free internet access and unofficial information could be said to not exist.Their inhabitants live on an island in the time.

North Korea has dozens of these work camps, mostly in remote and hard-to-reach places.But not for Google Earth.

2.A fragment of the Wall China

This is really incredible.In 2012 a piece of this architectural marvel was discovered that reached beyond the borders of China, in the Gobi desert and in the border area in southern Mongolia., about 100km long, is part of the Great Wall of China, which was built by successive dynasties to repel the Mongol invasions of the north.

5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

William Lindsay, leader of an international expedition to investigate and document this finding, comments that section found "belongs to a sequence of remnant walls in Mongolia, known as the Wall of Genghis Khan", and suggests that the wall was not made by this emperor, but represents a long-lost segment of the Chinese Wall.In fact, this segment appeared for the last time in a 12th century atlas, next to the s battles of Genghis Khan .

3.A cemetery of planes

A user located in Tucson, United States, an impressive cemetery of planes .Disused airplanes are stored and in reserve of all US military branches.Around it there are also several junk aviation companies, and the Museo Pina del Aire y el Espacio .

5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

This place was chosen due to its average temperatures and very dry weather.Once the airplanes are there, they are processed for long-term storage.Sensitive instruments and valuable objects are removed for care, as well as all liquids (such as hydraulic oils) The windows, doors and openings are sealed with protective material, although the lower openings are left open to prevent condensation.

4.New yacim Archaeological winds

In the area of Saudi Arabia, in 2000 2,000 new places , a true banquet for archaeologists, were located.

5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

With the help of the program and the image system in 3D from Google Earth, the maps of the area were meticulously reviewed, and so David Kennedy, Australian archaeologist, I request help from native colleagues to corroborate in the field the sites marked by Google Earth.

5.A star of David at Teheran airport

Incredible but true.Traditional rivalries between Israel and Iran, or among their peoples, will know that this discovery is even ironic.Thanks to an image obtained with Google Earth, in 2010 it was revealed that on the Teheran city airport building there was an immense star of David! The star of David is the symbol of Judaism.

5 amazing discoveries of Google Earth

In the past Israel and Iran were not enemies, and thanks to these cordial relations Israel made some constructions in Iran, such as Teheran airport.The most curious thing is that nobody seemed to know the existence of that symbol on the roof of the building.

After the Islamic Revolution of 1979 , the relations between the two ended, and remain unresolved until today.

Obviously, Iranian officials asked for the star to be immediately withdrawn.And the Iranian people were very upset about this discovery of Google Earth.

Which of these discoveries did you find most curious or interesting? Share it with us, and do not forget that you can also review our article on the Mendoza Code, one of the rarest in the world.

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