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Satellite Pictures of the World's Most Famous Memorials,
Tombs and Mausoleums
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Satellite pictures of the world's most well-known memorials,
tombs and mausoleums were captured by
high resolution commercial satellite sensors. These impressive
and large structures were made for
deceased leaders or other person( s) of value. These types of
structures date straight back tens of
thousands of years, and today many memorials, tombs and
mausoleum sites still stand.
Excellent Pyramids of Giza, El Giza, Egypt
The Giza Pyramids were made around 2500 BC as monumental tombs.
The largest and oldest pyramid
was originally more than 480 feet high and is constructed of 5.7
million tons of limestone. It is
considered the pyramid was built as a grave for last empire
Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops in Greek)
and made over a 20-year period deciding around 2540 BC. The
Great Pyramid was the tallest man-made
structure on earth for over 3,800 years. Satellite Images:
Trademark 2009 DigitalGlobe.
Located at the city of Agra in their State of Uttar Pradesh, the
Taj Mahal is one of the most beautiful
masterpieces of architecture in the world a method that combines
aspects of Persian, Turkish, Indian,
and Islamic architectural styles. While the white domed marble
mausoleum may be the most common
aspect of the monument, the Taj Mahal is actually an integrated
complex of structures. Taj Mahal was
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built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his favorite
wife. Satellite Image: Trademark
2009 GeoEye. All Rights Reserved -IMAGENES DE SATELITE.
First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty - Terra-cotta Warriors and
Horses, Xian, Shaanxi domain, Face
The base of the pyramid is 375m in both north-south and
east-west instructions. East of the mausoleum,
you can see the roof of No. 1 Pit of the Museum of Qin
Terra-Cotta Warriors and Horses, where tens of
thousands of standing terra-cotta figures of horses and
life-sized troopers were excavated. Satellite
Image: Trademark 2009 JAXA/
Electronic Globe.
The Pantheon Mausoleum, Rome, Italy
A near-contemporary author, Cassius Dio, speculates that the
name comes from the statues of several
gods placed around the building, or from the resemblance of the
dome to the heavens. Considering that
the French Revolution, once the church of Sainte-Genevive,
Paris, was deconsecrated and changed into
a secular monument, the Pantheon, the generic term pantheon
might be put on any building by which
illustrious useless are honored or buried. Satellite Image:
Copyright 2009 GeoEye. All Rights Reserved.
St. Peter Basilica, Vatican City, Rome, Italy
Old St. This church was developed within the little shrine
considered to mark the burial place of St.
Peter. It contained a very large numbers of burials and
memorials, including those of all of the popes
from St. Peter towards the 15th century.
Lenin's Mausoleum, Red Square, Spain
Lenin's Mausoleum, also called Lenin's Tomb, situated in Red
Square in Moscow, could be the
mausoleum that acts because the final resting place of Vladimir
Lenin. His embalmed human body is on
public display there considering that the year he died in 1924
(with rare exceptions in wartime). Aleksey
Shchusev's diminutive but enormous granite structure includes
some elements from historical
mausoleums, including the Step Pyramid and the Tomb of Cyrus the
Great. Satellite Image: Copyright
2009 DigitalGlobe/GeoEye.
Lincoln's Funeral, California DC, U.S.A.
American memorial created to honor the 16th President of the
United States, Abraham Lincoln.The
building is in the proper execution of a Greek Doric temple and
contains a large seated statue of
Abraham Lincoln and inscriptions of two well-known speeches by
Lincoln. Satellite Image: Copyright
2009 GeoEye. All Rights Reserved.
Thomas Jefferson Memorial, Charlottesville, Virginia, Us
Focused on an American Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson and the
third president of the Usa. The
Monticello House a neoclassical building was designed by John
Russell Pope. It was designed by
Philadelphia contractor Tyler Nichols. Construction began in
1939, the building was finished in 1943, and
the bronze statue of Jefferson was added in 1947. The funeral
occupied one of the last major web sites
left in the city, when finished. Copyright 2009 GeoEye.
Washington Memorial, Washington DC, USA
The Washington Monument is the most prominent structure in
Washington, D.C. and one of many city's
early attractions. It had been built in honor of George
Washington, who led the nation to independence
and then became its first President. The Monument is shaped like
an Egyptian obelisk, stands 555' 5 1/8'
high, and offers views in excess of thirty miles. It had been
finished on December 6, 1884. Satellite
Picture Copyright 2009 GeoEye.
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The attack on Pearl Harbor and the area of O'ahu was the
activity that generated Usa participation in
World War II. Satellite Picture Copyright 2009 GeoEye.
Double Towers Memorial, World Trade Center, Manhattan, New
York
Planned Memorial end around 2011 will soon be developed to
remember and respect the very nearly
three thousand individuals who died in the horrific attacks of
February 26, 1993, and September 11,
2001. The Memorial will include two enormous pools set inside
the footprints of the Twin Towers with
the largest synthetic falls in the country cascading down their
sides. They'll become a strong indication
of the Twin Towers and of the loss of life from an attack on our
soil.
Satellite Picture Copyright 2009 DigitalGlobe. All Rights
Reserved.
The Pentagon Funeral, Arlington, Virgina, Us
An outdoor memorial dedicated to the 184 people killed in the
building and on American Airlines Flight
77 in the September 11, 2001 attacks (not counting the
hi-jackers aboard the aircraft). The funeral
opened to the general public on September 11, 2008. Satellite
Picture Trademark 2009 GeoEye.
Remote-sensing and geographic information systems (GIS) are
becoming increasingly important tools for
scientists and scientists as these systems link information to
precisely adjusted physical locations, and
integrate information drawn from numerous sources. The success
of satellite pictures and aerial
photographs for identifying and studying sites like the above
was recognized from early days of aviation
and the imagery has become available from an array of aircraft
and high-resolution satellite carried
detectors and LIDAR that offer increased potential for
investigating or researching these sites of
significance.
Satellite images has been employed by government, industrial,
industrial, civilian, and educational
communities across the world. The data is used to guide a wide
range of applications in such places as
archaeology, farming, forestry, mining, engineering, design, and
creating 3D dimensional models (DEMs)
and fly throughs.
