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Article: Here's Looking at You.
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- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- August 1, 2001
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The space shuttle maps mysteries of the Andes.
IN AN AGE WHEN SPY SATELLITES CAN read the number off your car's license plate, one would think that scientists had long ago mapped every nook and cranny of the Earth's surface. In truth, many areas of the world are as much a mystery today as when the early explorers first ventured across trackless oceans half a millennium ago.
Excluding the United States, Europe and Australia, most of the world just isn't well-mapped. Among the bigger blind spots: one of Latin America's largest and best-known features, the Andes mountain range.
Cornell University professor Bryan Isacks is part of a team of ...