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Inomata and his colleagues first found clues of Aguada Fénix in 2017 using lidar, or light detection and ranging, which uses lasers from an airplane flown overhead to scan through jungle and forest to create 3D maps of humanmade structures. 

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Takeshi Inomata/University of Arizona

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