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Posted on 08/27/2025 6:36:02 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Both the James Webb Space Telescope and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory observatory SPHEREx snapped new images of 3I/ATLAS this week, almost two months after it was first spotted in the skies above Chile.
3I/ATLAS glows red in the new images with a seemingly threatening aura, though most scientists believe the object to be merely a 12-mile-wide interstellar comet.
The snaps showed that 3I/ATLAS is “outgassing” as it approaches the Sun, which was expected. However, the object is dumping out a conspicuous amount of carbon dioxide and a surprisingly small amount of water and carbon monoxide, according to experts, including Harvard astrophysicist Avie Loeb.
“The H2O mass loss rate is only 5% of the CO2 output. This is 16 times more extreme than expected for a typical comet at the same distance from the Sun,” Loeb wrote in a Medium post Tuesday.
The object is shrouded in a layer of CO2, preventing deeper observation of what it is constitutionally composed of, according to Loeb.
The amount of the gas lost off the object as it travels is just a minuscule fraction of its overall massive size — possibly indicating that the design could be intentional.
“The CO2 mass loss amounts to the ablation of a millimeter thick layer from the surface of a 46-kilometer object over a period of a few years.”
“In other words, a relatively thin outer layer is sufficient to maintain the observed cloud of CO2 gas around 3I/ATLAS. What lies under this outer skin remains unknown,”
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“”It “glows” red because the Webb Space Telescope is an infrared telescope!
C’mon, Man!””
Oh, give em a break. They gotta justify their phony baloney jobs and fat paychecks somehow, don’t they???
What NASA does is more along the lines of hiding information, than deliberate lying. They are likely hiding way more that we could guess.
Example 1:
One oft he early Mars Rovers had a grinding wheel to study rock compositions, plus a live camera so we could watch. The arm picked up a rock and made a grinding pass. The newly exposed surface had a fossil of a sea plant. But once that was exposed the quickly ground it off.
Example 2:
In the press room when the first Rover’s color TV camera was turned on, it showed a blue sky and green lichen on the surface - there was no red to be seen. Before the camera came on, techs in the press room had spent a good deal of time getting the high-end monitor’s color correct. But as soon as the first images appeared, the manager rushed to the monitor and turned the red gain all the way up.
They are often guilty of trying to fit square pegs into triangular holes, then backtracking with contradictory conclusions.
Best way to find out anything from them is to look a the raw data, which may take science and math degrees to understand, instead of just reading their conclusions.
They gotta justify their phony baloney jobs and fat paychecks somehow, don’t they???
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Love your open mind! New stuff does not phase you in the slightest. Why with that mind set, we’d still be in the Middle Ages!
Sondid you read my original post? I KNOW IT HASN’T CHANGED DIRECTIONS.
Maybe you should sit back and read my WHOLE original post……
“”Love your open mind! New stuff does not phase you in the slightest. Why with that mind set, we’d still be in the Middle Ages!””
New stuff ....like scientific hypothesis and theories about an object in space? No. It really doesn’t. Nor does all of the scientific “findings” about global warming. I’m funny that way.
As for my comment.. it’s called snark, sarcasm and sometimes even .... humor. You might want to at least attempt to ‘get used to it’ if you intend to stick around. JS...
I have a business background—and used to evaluate businesses.
Businesses will often lie about all sorts of things—particularly when the following are required to falsify their claims:
—Specialized technical knowledge
—Access to raw data
—Desire to obtain funding/financing
What they have in common with NASA is that they are human beings.
It is very difficult for humans to avoid taking advantage of those situations.
No. As I noted before as it approaches Mars Earth is rotating behind the sun. Look again . Since a half meter telescope is in orbit around Mars that telescope can record the close encounter.
Don’t know what point you are trying to make but it started from the retard who wrote the article:
“possibly indicating that the design could be intentional.”
FYI >> AI;
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) images aren’t all red because the telescope detects infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, and these wavelengths are “colorized” or mapped to visible colors. While the light is often redshifted into the infrared, scientists assign different infrared wavelengths to visible colors (like red, green, and blue) to reveal specific details about elements and molecules, creating a full-color composite rather than simply “unshifting” the redshifted light.
Data-driven color assignment:
Scientists use color to represent specific information. They assign different infrared wavelengths to different colors (like red, green, and blue) to distinguish between various elements, molecules, and physical processes.
“Colorizing” vs. “unshifting”:
Simply unshifting the redshifted light wouldn’t be scientifically useful, as it would lose the ability to highlight details present in the infrared spectrum. Instead, the infrared data is mapped to visible colors to help us see and understand what’s happening in space, creating a “false-color” composite image.
Since a half meter telescope is in orbit around Mars that telescope can record the close encounter.
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NASA has given no indication of rotating Mars Observer to look at it, nor of diverting the Juno Probe [ which is EOL ] to move toward it.
Maybe speculation and satire are not you long suit?
Have fun….knock yourself out..
I asked Grok about the possibility of using that Telescope on Mars for this 3i/Atlas task
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is indeed a candidate for observing the interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, particularly during its close approach to Mars in early October 2025. The comet will pass within approximately 29 million kilometers (18 million miles) of Mars on October 3, 2025, and reach its perihelion (closest approach to the Sun) on October 29, 2025, at 1.36 AU, just inside Mars’ orbit. During this period, 3I/ATLAS will be unobservable from Earth due to solar conjunction (appearing behind the Sun), but its proximity to Mars makes it feasible for Mars orbiters like MRO to capture images or data.The MRO’s High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera is particularly well-suited for this task. It’s capable of imaging small, distant objects, as demonstrated by its observations of Comet Siding Spring in 2014, when it captured high-resolution images from 138,000 kilometers away. For 3I/ATLAS, estimates suggest HiRISE could achieve a pixel resolution of about 30 kilometers per pixel at the comet’s closest approach to Mars, sufficient to resolve its nucleus (estimated to be 0.32–5.6 km in diameter, likely less than 1 km) and coma.
A July 2025 study by Atsuhiro Yaginuma and colleagues indicates that Mars orbiters, including MRO, could be used to observe 3I/ATLAS during this close encounter, especially as it may reach an apparent magnitude of 11 as seen from Mars, making it a viable target. The study also notes that redirecting MRO for a flyby is unlikely due to fuel constraints, but imaging from its current orbit is feasible.
NASA has not yet confirmed specific plans to task MRO with observing 3I/ATLAS, but scientists like Marshall Eubanks have been communicating with mission teams to explore this possibility, given the comet’s scientific value as only the third known interstellar object. The MRO’s history of imaging comets and its operational status (extended beyond the mid-2020s) support its potential use for this purpose.
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