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BIG ART: Belfast artwork named as one of the top five satellite images of the year The 11 acre work of art, named ‘Wish’, was part of the Belfast Festival last October. ‘Wish’, is a portrait of a young girl, designed to look to the future, by the artist Jorge Rodriguez- Gerada. Digital Globe put ‘Wish’ in their top twenty images of the year, with public votes taking it into the top five. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kza7g98Q9KE The Nazca Lines The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas and lizards. The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish/grayish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more than seventy are zoomorphic designs of animals such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguar, monkey, or human figures. Other designs include phytomorphic shapes such as trees and flowers. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general they ascribe religious significance to them.
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BIG ART: Belfast artwork named as one of the top five satellite images of the year The 11 acre work of art, named ‘Wish’, was part of the Belfast Festival last October. ‘Wish’, is a portrait of a young girl, designed to look to the future, by the artist Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada. Digital Globe put ‘Wish’ in their top twenty images of the year, with public votes taking it into the top five. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kza7g98Q9KE
The Nazca Lines
The Nazca Lines are a series of ancient geoglyphs located in the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. Scholars believe the Nazca Lines were created by the Nazca culture between 400 and 650 AD. The hundreds of individual figures range in complexity from simple lines to stylized hummingbirds, spiders, monkeys, fish, sharks, orcas and lizards.
The lines are shallow designs made in the ground by removing the reddish pebbles and uncovering the whitish/grayish ground beneath. Hundreds are simple lines or geometric shapes; more than seventy are zoomorphic designs of animals such as birds, fish, llamas, jaguar, monkey, or human figures. Other designs include phytomorphic shapes such as trees and flowers. The largest figures are over 200 metres (660 ft) across. Scholars differ in interpreting the purpose of the designs, but in general they ascribe religious significance to them.
Crop Circles
A crop circle is a sizable pattern created by the flattening of a crop such as wheat, barley, rye, maize, or rapeseed. Crop circles are also referred to as crop formations because they are not always circular in shape. The documented cases have substantially increased from the 1970s to current times. In 1991, two hoaxers claimed authorship of many circles throughout England. The scientific consensus is that most or all crop circles are man-made, with a few possible exceptions due to meteorological or other natural phenomena.
