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THE MALTESE CROSS<br />

73<br />

THE MALTESE CROSS OF THE AEGEAN SEA<br />

PSATHOURA LESBOS ANTANDROS<br />

)ELPHES<br />

SARDES<br />

HERMIONE<br />

DIDYME<br />

^lATAPAN<br />

CAMIROS<br />

ARADEN<br />

A beautiful Maltese cross centered on the island of Delos and 540 kilometers<br />

wide, can be obtained by tracing lines between thirteen famous<br />

Greek temples around the Aegean Sea, but ancient Greeks did<br />

not know it. Was that cross traced by astronauts from outer space<br />

several thousand years ago?<br />

up in the air this Maltese cross would not be visible. To measure<br />

and mark all the salient points, two very modern tools of mapping<br />

are an absolute necessity. First, a fixed-position space satellite<br />

that turns synchronously at the Delos latitude of 37° 23'<br />

with a ground velocity of 1,328 km ph. Then, to keep the capsule<br />

stationary over Delos, one of our newest devices that was perfected<br />

only a short time ago—a navigation and distance-measur-

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