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IMAGE CAPTION                      P-49593bc
                                   February 12, 1998
                                   Sman Teng Temple/AIRSAR

This pair of images show a newly discovered temple found 
approximately 30 kilometers (18 miles) to the northwest of the 
main temple complex at Angkor in Cambodia. The images were 
created with data from NASA's Airborne Synthetic Aperture Radar 
(AIRSAR). The image on the left is a false-color radar image, 
while the image on the right shows topography data made while 
AIRSAR was being flown in its interferometric mode.  The forest 
appears in yellow tones on the left image; cleared areas around 
the temple appear blue. To the right is a blue rectangle, a tank 
or reservoir. Two pink spots between the temple and the tank are 
'libraries,' a layout also seen at Angkor Wat. On the topography 
image (right), the cleared areas are lower than the forested 
areas and also lower than the temple.  The temple appears bright 
pink and yellow on this image, and is 15 meters (45 feet) high.  
Due to the presence of Khmer Rouge troops, ground verification 
and dating of this temple have not yet been completed. However, 
the headman in a nearby village confirmed its existence and name, 
Sman Teng, which refers to one of the 200 types of rice in 
Cambodia. The area shown in each image is 1.25 kilometers square 
(0.7 miles square). These data were collected on December 6, 1996 
as part of AIRSAR's mission to the Pacific Rim.  The AIRSAR 
instrument flies onboard a NASA DC-8 aircraft.

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