Posted on 10/15/2011 10:53:07 PM PDT by djf
Ok. At first, I thought the same as many. Some kind of mishap, translation error, power fluctuation, etc.
But we got to give the “photographic anomaly” BS a break. I think cameras are good enough now, and data transmissions and protocols and error correction, that once in a while, what ya see is what ya get!
well gee whiz... I did not mean to kill the thread, was trying to be funny actually! :D
I’m going to go with the photo anomaly “BS”. lol
It’s not BS. You didn’t understand what I was saying, apparently. These aerial views are composites of thousands of pics taken from orbit under different lighting conditions and even different altitudes. They’re also taken at different angles because a polar type orbit is used in order to cover the maximum amount of surface.
Then these pics are matched up based on the overlaps, with a lot of zooming in or out to make them match up properly.
That zipper line is one such overlap. That’s why it ends abruptly at on the yellowish part of the image, which is one of at least three orbital pics we’re seeing there.
There are two other possibilities:
As someone noted above, a stone from a landslide (or for that matter, an impact from space) will roll in a nice straight line downhill.
The last possibility is fakery by the moonbat with that website. The earlier “Face on Mars” nonsense was based on “processing” the image. The original “Head” image (just the “face” part of the whole pic from orbit) was 32 pixels, total. Those 32 pixels were the basis for a decades-long fabrication of a civilization which never existed.
Russell Johnson played the Professor on Gilliigan’s Island, and barely ever worked again. ;’)
There is a blow-up of the so called vehicle on the tracks, and it looks identical to the crater directly north-east, aside from a minor difference in brightness./bingo
Arthur C. Clarke stated that he saw banyan-like trees on Mars orbital pics; the reality check on this is, the atmospheric pressure at the surface of Mars is the same as Earth’s at 40 MILES altitude. That’s more than five times higher than Everest, and only ten miles from the statutory boundary of space.
The rover paths aren’t that straight, they wander around, and move slowly. On NASA’s website, there’s some nice little movies simulating the paths followed by the rovers, using 3-D versions of the orbital images.
Happy Face on Mars
diferent [sic] obfuscation [sic] layer
How can that BE!!??
A 3D perspective view of the Face on Mars landform produced by Jim Garvin (NASA) and Jim Frawley (Herring Bay Geophysics) from the latest MOC image (April 8, 2001) and all of the available laser altimeter elevation measurements by MOLA. There is no vertical exaggeration in this ray-traced image. Garvin and Frawley express special thanks to Mike Malin and MOLA science team. [Unmasking the Face on Mars]
“Look at “the object traveling on the track system”...One would assume it sticks up above the track, right? If so why is its shadow on the same side as the shadow of the craters? If it was above ground the shadow should be on the other side. The “object” is a crater.”
- DING DING DING ... we have a winner! Nice observation aquila48. The object is indeed a crater and if you look closely, the ‘tracks’ are really the edge where 2 pictures were spliced together to make a larger panorama.
Bravo!
It looks like that’s where the pictures overlapped.
It’s fuzzy to the right of the ‘tracks’.
It runs right to the Face on Mars, right?
Great set of photos and explanations. Mysteries explained. I had no idea you knew so much about space.
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