Alien Anomalies

ICEMAN · Senior Member

RE: Is this an alien rover? Can anyone extract more detail?

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

It does look like it has a shadow on the filter 7 one though, doesn't it?

Humanoid · Veteran Member

Hi doney, good questions..
Unfortunately I don't know the answers, so I can only speculate here. I don't think there's anything wrong with the camera's image sensors or filter 7 even though these defects appear only when they used that filter. More likely errors occured in transceiving or post processing/formatting of filter 7 images from this particular sol.

doney wrote:
What's really odd is that JPL took several photos of this same area with different filters. I wonder what they were looking for?

I guess they use different filters so planetary geologists can distinguish between various surface features and rocks. Most of the time they seem to take photos of one spot with several filters before moving on.

doney · Member

Thanks Humanoid! Can you please explain the dead pixels? Are there dead pixels in the camera? Or, has someone created dead pixels in the photos? (Which would explain the variations in other photos) I would think that if there are dead pixels in the camera's ccd, we would see dead pixels in all the photos, in the same place. (Similar to dead pixels in a computer monitor, or even your digital camera) I find it odd that there would be so many dead pixels in one spot. Wouldn't be eaiser for JPL to "fill in" these areas so we wouldn't speculate? Maybe that's what JPL wants us to do! Speculate and pass it around? What's really odd is that JPL took several photos of this same area with different filters. I wonder what they were looking for?

Humanoid · Veteran Member

Most probably dead pixels. The whole image is full of them and the "object" has slightly different appearance in another image taken prior to the one in question, but using same camera filter- L7. Good find doney

qmantoo · Teaching the truth

over on the right edge there looks like stuff too. Like 1/2 way- 2/3 way down from the top.

Do you think that the more compressed a photograph is, the more NASA want to hide something that we should not see?

fruitnut · Member

CRACKED IT! confuse

thewatcher · Veteran Member

Compression artifact s zone but there is structure

Edited to insert image in text

-- Edited by Chandre on Thursday 20th of May 2010 12:26:46 PM

fruitnut · Member

Strange Rover.jpg

doney · Member

This object looks like a rock in several photos. This photo shows something totally different, with an apparent structure. Would anyone like to take a guess? Don't be shy, give some feedback!

http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/672/1P187849271EFF64KCP2425L7M1.JPG

-- Edited by Humanoid on Saturday 27th of March 2010 01:20:38 PM