Comments on: Very Strange Mars Hole http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/ Science, astronomy, politics, movies, and various minutiae. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:16:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: JC http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-50895 JC Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:06:01 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-50895 Exploring Mars has taught us a lot (including that we most certainly did not come from there). The study of other planets is actually teaching us a lot about how to better take care of our own planet, and for far less money than we are spending on things that are actively destroying the planet. Exploring Mars has taught us a lot (including that we most certainly did not come from there). The study of other planets is actually teaching us a lot about how to better take care of our own planet, and for far less money than we are spending on things that are actively destroying the planet.

]]> By: Daniel http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-50240 Daniel Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:38:53 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-50240 im very interested in space and astronamy. but we should at this point in time focus all and every resourse we have on fixing our planet. after all we have already been to mars, we come from there.fix your planet and recognize how to live better, then explore all you want im very interested in space and astronamy. but we should at this point in time focus all and every resourse we have on fixing our planet. after all we have already been to mars, we come from there.fix your planet and recognize how to live better, then explore all you want

]]> By: JC http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-40890 JC Sat, 17 Nov 2007 15:15:27 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-40890 Adrian, I think (except for the cloaking device part) that you are saying the same thing that Mike Mellon explained: the output is a result of a compression algorithm that zeroed out all low-count level pixels resulting in a sudden apparent transition to pure dark. The orbiter has obtained other images of this hole with better illumination. Stay tuned for when those are released. Adrian, I think (except for the cloaking device part) that you are saying the same thing that Mike Mellon explained: the output is a result of a compression algorithm that zeroed out all low-count level pixels resulting in a sudden apparent transition to pure dark. The orbiter has obtained other images of this hole with better illumination. Stay tuned for when those are released.

]]> By: adrian http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-40873 adrian Sat, 17 Nov 2007 12:33:19 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-40873 You have to understand this this is not just a black-n-white picture that you would obtain from a camera with film in it. It is the OUTPUT from an image sensing devise which has a program that speeds up the image processing based upon the previous image that was processed. So it\'s actually trying to guess what it\'s going to see next. Now under some very special circumstance this program produces a mistake (EXAMPLE all of those invisible objects video\'s on utube are just formed by video cameras misinterpretation. It wouldn\'t work with a cine-camera) It\'s all to do with mathematics. My point is that this is probably a mistake due to the program. This however raises the posibility that a cloacking device is causing this anomaly. You have to understand this this is not just a black-n-white picture that you would obtain from a camera with film in it. It is the OUTPUT from an image sensing devise which has a program that speeds up the image processing based upon the previous image that was processed. So it\’s actually trying to guess what it\’s going to see next. Now under some very special circumstance this program produces a mistake (EXAMPLE all of those invisible objects video\’s on utube are just formed by video cameras misinterpretation. It wouldn\’t work with a cine-camera)
It\’s all to do with mathematics.
My point is that this is probably a mistake due to the program.
This however raises the posibility that a cloacking device is causing this anomaly.

]]> By: JC http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-17421 JC Tue, 05 Jun 2007 05:58:14 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-17421 This is on Arsia Mons, one of the four large volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge. Olympus Mons is the largest. Speaking of Olympus, I'm in Athens this week, so posts on the blog may be sporadic. We'll get a much better idea of what this hole is like when images are taken with different viewing angles and without the data compression mentioned above that give it that solid black appearance. This is on Arsia Mons, one of the four large volcanoes on the Tharsis bulge. Olympus Mons is the largest. Speaking of Olympus, I’m in Athens this week, so posts on the blog may be sporadic.

We’ll get a much better idea of what this hole is like when images are taken with different viewing angles and without the data compression mentioned above that give it that solid black appearance.

]]> By: pieter http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-16054 pieter Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:12:49 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-16054 which part of Mars....? which part of Mars….?

]]> By: pieter http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/index.php/2007/very-strange-mars-hole/comment-page-1/#comment-16052 pieter Fri, 01 Jun 2007 12:11:47 +0000 http://joshuacolwell.com/blog/?p=186#comment-16052 It looks like a hole in Antarctica. Is this snow - pwermafrost-what? Could the \ It looks like a hole in Antarctica. Is this snow - pwermafrost-what? Could the \

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