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Ceres Bright Spots Keep Their Secret Even From 2,700 miles Up
universetoday.com ^
| on June 10, 2015
| Bob King
Posted on 06/10/2015 8:10:52 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:10:52 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
A giant ball of Aluminum foil.
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:19:05 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: SunkenCiv; null and void
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:21:31 PM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:34:26 PM PDT
by
Fry Panny
To: BenLurkin
could some kind of glass have formed their through a collision?
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:58:08 PM PDT
by
GeronL
To: Army Air Corps
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posted on
06/10/2015 8:59:41 PM PDT
by
Nuc 1.1
(Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
To: BenLurkin
Nice photo, very impressive. Lets get up there close enough to lick it.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:10:55 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(Call the local GOP and ask how you can support CRUZ for POTUS,)
To: BenLurkin
If it’s salt or ice it’s a little odd that those are the only spots on Ceres’ surface.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:13:32 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
To: TigersEye
If its salt or ice its a little odd that those are the only spots on Ceres surface. Are you implying that it wouldn't be odd - if it were something other than salt or ice? What, for example?
Regards,
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:17:49 PM PDT
by
alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: alexander_busek
No, no implications at all. Just a straightforward statement.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:22:18 PM PDT
by
TigersEye
(If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
To: Army Air Corps
A giant ball of Aluminum foil.
A galactic pigeon?
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:26:03 PM PDT
by
PA Engineer
(Liberate America from the Occupation Media. #2ndAmendmentMatters)
To: TigersEye
If its salt or ice its a little odd that those are the only spots on Ceres surface. No, no implications at all. Just a straightforward statement.
Then I ask you: Would it be less odd if it were something other than salt or ice? If not, then why not simply say: "It's a little odd that those are the only spots on Ceres's surface" - and not restrict it by mentioning salt or ice?
Regards,
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:29:55 PM PDT
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alexander_busek
(Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
To: BenLurkin
I’d like to see the raw unprocessed images. The spots seem extremely bright to me. Nearly too bright to be salt or ice. In fact the objects are so bright, it appears they’ve been enhanced, altered or manipulated.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:30:52 PM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: BenLurkin
But I am not claiming that’s what happened here. It’s just how my eyes see it. Looks processed.
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posted on
06/10/2015 9:33:34 PM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: alexander_busek
If not, then why not simply say: "It's a little odd that those are the only spots on Ceres's surface" - and not restrict it by mentioning salt or ice?Because the scientists only mentioned salt and ice as their guesses.
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06/10/2015 9:42:25 PM PDT
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TigersEye
(If You Are Ignorant, Don't Vote!)
To: BenLurkin
Any infrared or UV pics? Any pics adjusted for the brightness of the spots, rather than the rest of Ceres? Any raw photo data available for the public?
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posted on
06/10/2015 11:08:38 PM PDT
by
Talisker
(One who commands, must obey.)
To: dragnet2
I’m no expert, but I’ve read that the majority of the surface is dark like as asphalt. They bumped up the exposure to bring out detail in the dark surface, but that blows out anything that’s brighter than the dark surface. So the bright spots may be barely white, or gray.
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posted on
06/10/2015 11:36:46 PM PDT
by
catbertz
To: catbertz
That makes sense. Yep totally blown out.
You’d think they would have been more focused on these bright areas since they knew these features existed when the spacecraft imaged Ceres on approach long ago. I am surprised they didn’t shoot the target using several different exposures/filters etc. I think one of the cameras has 7 different filters, infrared mapping spectrometers etc.
Even at a distance of 45k kilometers back in February, these bright spots seemed extremely bright. Or were possibly captured using longer exposures back then as well.
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06/11/2015 12:27:16 AM PDT
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dragnet2
(Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
To: alexander_busek
Dude! Lay off the coffee!
To: Army Air Corps
It’s obviously the priests of the temple of Ceres.
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posted on
06/11/2015 2:16:05 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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