Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 11:23:18 GMT -6
|
|
|
Post by lois on Apr 8, 2014 14:50:32 GMT -6
Interesting Jo. I tried to zoom in on it but it is so far away could not even come closer to where you could see it. It is cylinder of some kind. Hard telling what will be found up there.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 16:51:10 GMT -6
I agree Lois..I just hope we get the truth of what they find
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Apr 8, 2014 19:42:27 GMT -6
Did you see the update to it?
Update: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Justin Maki explained what NASA thinks is behind the mysterious light. "We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock," he said in an emailed statement to The Wire. Maki was the lead for the engineering on Curiosity's cameras. Here's his full explanation:
Bright spots appear in single images taken by the Navigation Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3. Each is in an image taken by this stereo camera's right-eye camera, but not in images taken within a second of each of those by the left-eye camera.
In the two right-eye images, the spot is in different locations of the image frame and, in both cases, at the ground surface level in front of a crater rim on the horizon. One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun. When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky. The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be sunlight reaching the camera's CCD directly through a vent hole in the camera housing, which has happened previously on other cameras on Curiosity and other Mars rovers when the geometry of the incoming sunlight relative to the camera is precisely aligned. We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock.
My question...why don't they go over there and find out what it is? We've already seen some pretty weird stuff from up there. I don't want to hear them guessing about what it might be. I wanna know for certain what it is! They need to put that little robot in gear and go!!
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 8, 2014 19:56:23 GMT -6
Yeah the 'rebuttal' came on about an hour after I posted the first one. Ya know...even if it was a herd of aliens jumping up and down with cameras taking pictures of ole rover...they wouldn't admit it LOL...we'd have to see the pics on facebook.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 1:03:02 GMT -6
great. Our first real H 2 G_d photo of a ghost, and only a "machine" in its sights. Sigh.
No wonder it didn't wave. or wail. or make a scary face
|
|
|
Post by skywalker on Apr 9, 2014 10:58:53 GMT -6
I imagine that when the light thingy goes to tell all the other light thingies that it saw a weird looking robot driving around taking pictures nobody will believe it either.
|
|
|
Post by lois on Apr 9, 2014 12:21:42 GMT -6
Did you see the update to it? Update: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Justin Maki explained what NASA thinks is behind the mysterious light. "We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock," he said in an emailed statement to The Wire. Maki was the lead for the engineering on Curiosity's cameras. Here's his full explanation:
Bright spots appear in single images taken by the Navigation Camera on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on April 2 and April 3. Each is in an image taken by this stereo camera's right-eye camera, but not in images taken within a second of each of those by the left-eye camera.
In the two right-eye images, the spot is in different locations of the image frame and, in both cases, at the ground surface level in front of a crater rim on the horizon. One possibility is that the light is the glint from a rock surface reflecting the sun. When these images were taken each day, the sun was in the same direction as the bright spot, west-northwest from the rover, and relatively low in the sky. The rover science team is also looking at the possibility that the bright spots could be sunlight reaching the camera's CCD directly through a vent hole in the camera housing, which has happened previously on other cameras on Curiosity and other Mars rovers when the geometry of the incoming sunlight relative to the camera is precisely aligned. We think it's either a vent-hole light leak or a glinty rock.
My question...why don't they go over there and find out what it is? We've already seen some pretty weird stuff from up there. I don't want to hear them guessing about what it might be. I wanna know for certain what it is! They need to put that little robot in gear and go!! Exactly sky.. Sometimes cases sound so dumb to me. I mean those mafia lights. Why do they watch them from afar? Go sit on that mountain if it takes years to have one zap you right in the head.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 14:00:33 GMT -6
You make me laugh Sky...that's a gift
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Apr 9, 2014 23:30:02 GMT -6
I read somewhere else a guy questioned it being a hot pixel. That was my first guess too but I guess it could be a cosmic ray,,, or,,,, They found the Illudium Q-36 space modulator.
|
|
|
Post by auntym on Apr 10, 2014 10:43:43 GMT -6
Unidentified Light Source on Mars
Description: ' Mars Unidentified Light.'
|
|