Satellite imagery from Corona, a Cold War program founded by the US to spy on the Soviet Union, is proving useful to archaeologists.

The Corona Project was a highly classified satellite reconnaissance program, developed and tested under an existing Air Force Weapon System 117L -- the Discoverer program.

Dartmouth University professor Jesse Casana shared his anthropological usage of the CORONA satellite imagery system during a lecture entitled “Lost Landscapes: Research Applications of Declassified ...

A Corona program satellite being recovered in mid-air, from the film, “A Point in Time: The Corona Story,” co-produced by the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Reconnaissance Office.

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

Code-named "Corona," the satellite initiative took shape in the late 1950s, helmed by experts with the U.S. Air Force and the CIA, according to a CIA archive.

Mobile Users: To view a Corona spy satellite interactive timeline click here. The evolution of the top-secret Corona spy satellite program. Summer 1957: U.S. military officials, concerned that the ...

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

The Corona Project was a highly classified satellite reconnaissance program, developed and tested under an existing Air Force Weapon System 117L -- the Discoverer program.