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a NASA orbiter which was supposed to take a closer look at it and which lost contact with control just before it's final entry turn
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: amazing
Here's another view. Weird, huh?
Click here
The subject is in the lower left corner of the full image.
originally posted by: Phage
I think Armap has some higher res images.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
Perfect comment, if this was in Egypt, perhaps the Gobi Desert, the western deserts of south america or indeed almost any local on earth someone would have dug the site or at least thought about it to see what it really was, to my mind it is a nice square regardless of whether it is formed of depressions in the terrain like a moat or indeed wall's of some kind now buried with martian dust leaving a depression by them as it blew dust over them.
They were sent electronically even in the days of the voyager but those older system's were analogue electronic, also the computers of the day were rather huge if you remember as I do and not even as powerful as the device you have in your pocket for telephony so please don't try to poo poo this one.
The Climate Orbiter was in 1998. Unless you can refresh your own (questionable) memory and tell me which failed mission used a radioisotope power supply, I'm afraid I can't help you.
originally posted by: amazing
My question is where would an actual archeaologist draw the line, if he were looking for a lost city in the desert of the Sahara.
originally posted by: LABTECH767
Remember this about later images, it is far easier now to obfuscate evidence using simply digital algorithm's than it ever was in the day's of the old air brush monkey's as they were called whom TOUCHED up NASA images in the pre-digital imaging age and this mean's newer images are not always more accurate images for our purposes.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: LABTECH767
I remember it from the News, there were protesters with placards
Not for any failed Mars mission. Pretty sure.
I think that the MSL (Curiosity) is the only mission to use an RTG. You can look it up if you want. You might find out that they don't carry enough material for a chain reaction though.
You might have to abandon that particular belief.