Peru Geoglyphs Astronaut
New technologies and drones allow the vast and desolate desert to be surveyed and this means that more designs are coming to light.
Peru geoglyphs astronaut. The individual figurative geoglyph designs measure between 04 and 11 km across. Republic of peru commission for the promotion of peruvian exports and tourism promperu. Russian cosmonaut ivan vagner caught a glimpse of the nazca lines from the international space station iss sparking some debate about their origin.
The nazca lines in peru have baffled mankind for quite a long timeand now the mystery is even more intriguing. Declared a world heritage site by unesco these geoglyphs traced onto the surface of the desert measure up to 300 meters in length and their messages remain undeciphered. A large number of geoglyphs have been found in recent years including hundreds that have been identified by a team from japans yamagata university.
The nazca astronaut known to archaeologists as the owl man is an etched geoglyph in human form approximately 100 feet 30 meters high situated between two etched parallel lines on a hill near the nazca plateau such that it could be seen from the coast. Paul williamsflickr the condor one of the 70 plant and animal geoglyphs or ground drawings that make up perus nazca lines. Most lines run straight across the landscape but there are also figurative designs of animals and plants.
And the 10th century ad. Aerial view of the nazca lines owlman astronaut peru. The cosmonaut shared his photos on twitter.
Across 170 square miles of flat earth the hard red soil is broken only by a series of strange furrows. They are a series of enormous geoglyphs etched into a roughly 200 square mile stretch of the desert created by pre inca people somewhere between the 4th century bc. The nazca lines naezk are a group of very large geoglyphs made in the soil of the nazca desert in southern peru.