Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

NASA photo captures strange bright light coming out of Mars
http://www.sfgate.com/news/strange-weird/article/NASA-photo-captures-strange-bright-light-coming-538 ^ | 4/8/2014 | http://www.sfgate.com

Posted on 04/08/2014 11:25:47 AM PDT by dragnet2

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last
To: dragnet2
Someone must have activated the Terbinium Reactor...


41 posted on 04/08/2014 11:48:41 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afghanistan and Iraq))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2
Methane?

5.56mm

42 posted on 04/08/2014 11:51:32 AM PDT by M Kehoe
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 39 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2

Cosmic ray strike. I see them all the time on my CCD camera, even with the cover on (to shoot dark frames for calibration). Incidentally, it’s the exact same type of CCD as one of the CCDs used on the Curiosity rover.


43 posted on 04/08/2014 11:54:15 AM PDT by messierhunter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: piroque

Nah, I’m going with one of the posters on the article. It’s a Smart car flipped on it’s rear, with the headlights on.


44 posted on 04/08/2014 11:54:36 AM PDT by roadcat
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: M Kehoe

I believe methane is nearly colorless.


45 posted on 04/08/2014 11:54:48 AM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2

Looks like the sun shining off of a black obelisk.
Nothing to see here, move along.

Oh, anyone that thinks these are the best pics of it
I’m selling tickets to mars cheap.


46 posted on 04/08/2014 11:56:31 AM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]

To: piroque

The search for the Malaysian airliner just got bigger...


47 posted on 04/08/2014 11:58:51 AM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2
A more serious source of this light, said blogger Phil Plait, is that, "a subatomic particle smacked into the camera, leaving behind its trail of energy."

I think that makes sense. Similar things have happened before with other scientific photos.

48 posted on 04/08/2014 12:00:09 PM PDT by grundle
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2
Odd that a camera artifact (light leak) and a *glimmer rock* should stay in the same position and apparent brightness as the rover moved a decent distance.

Seems like sun angles and such should have changed things some................Just saying :)

49 posted on 04/08/2014 12:00:57 PM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 27 | View Replies]

To: M Kehoe

It appeared to be emitting light vertically...

50 posted on 04/08/2014 12:01:59 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 42 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2


51 posted on 04/08/2014 12:02:22 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: The Cajun

Yep...


52 posted on 04/08/2014 12:02:33 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 49 | View Replies]

To: grundle

Could be a camera artifact.


53 posted on 04/08/2014 12:03:20 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 48 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2

Today earth is in inferior conjunction for an observor on Mars, but I doubt he/she/it would see the earth transit the disk of the sun. Anyway the photo was taken last week. So not a light bouncing off a Martian astronomer’s telescope.


54 posted on 04/08/2014 12:03:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bubba Ho-Tep

I don’t get it. I’ve been listening to Chase and Sanborn on NBC Red, and there’s not a peep about this ...


55 posted on 04/08/2014 12:08:49 PM PDT by tanknetter
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: tet68

“I’m selling tickets to mars cheap.”

Economy or 1st Class?


56 posted on 04/08/2014 12:09:01 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 46 | View Replies]

To: lonevoice

“E.T. phone home.”


57 posted on 04/08/2014 12:09:22 PM PDT by Pride in the USA
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2
Could be a camera artifact.

Don't see how it could be a camera artifact, holds position on the topography as the camera angle and rover position changes.
A camera artifact would change position on the topography as the rover and camera moved.

Can probably say the same for the sun hitting a *glimmering rock*.
You don't have to move too far watching a mirror reflecting sunlight in the distance for the bright image to change or disappear all together.

Just weird enough for NASA not to investigate further..........Again :)

58 posted on 04/08/2014 12:24:43 PM PDT by The Cajun (tea party!!!, Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Louie Gohmert......Nuff said.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 53 | View Replies]

To: dragnet2

I have seen this episode - clearly it is someone beaming up from Star Trek transporter...


59 posted on 04/08/2014 12:37:55 PM PDT by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Bubba Ho-Tep

Thank you for keeping us up to date on the Grovers Mills affair. There are way too many non-believers out there.


60 posted on 04/08/2014 12:41:28 PM PDT by certrtwngnut (')
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-8081-98 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson