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Satellite Imagery Used to Trace Lewis & Clark Route

Posted by timothy on from the visit-the-st-louis-museum-too dept.

Woogiemonger writes "To commemorate the 200 year anniversary of the Lewis & Clark expedition, NASA and other researchers are using satellite and aircraft remote-sensing technology to accurately reconstruct the path of the Lewis & Clark expedition, down to the precise location of each encampment. Considering many parts of the landscape along the path may have changed dramatically, this is no easy task. The final result will be a 3D interactive map publicly available on the WWW."

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  1. They stayed in Metropolis most of the time by Sanity · · Score: 5, Funny
    Didn't Clark and Lewis actually fly around - and as far as I can tell, they pretty-much stayed in Metropolis the whole time.

    I really think that NASA should have better things to do than tracing the wanderings of superheros and their girlfriends.

  2. satellites? use the command line by product+byproduct · · Score: 5, Funny

    traceroute lewisandclark.com

  3. Re:Lewis and Clark IMAX movie... by TheAntiCrust · · Score: 5, Funny

    I went to Boston once... almost ended up living there we got lost so much. Maybe this technology could trace me a route out of boston...