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Originally posted by davesidious
Yay! More compression artefacts and standard geological features interpreted by people who seem to lack understanding of compression artefacts and standard geological features.
Why you guys think you know more about the solar system than the folks who made and launched the imagers you get your highly-compressed jpegs from is beyond me.
This image of Eros, taken from the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft on May 1, 2000, is among the first to be returned from "low orbit." Between May and August, the spacecraft will orbit at altitudes near 50 kilometers (31 miles) or less. This will be the prime period of activity for some of the spacecraft's science instruments. The X-ray / gamma-ray spectrometer will build up maps of chemical abundances, while the laser rangefinder measures the shape of Eros to within meters (a few feet). At the same time the magnetometer will watch for indications of Eros' magnetic field and the near-infrared spectrometer will map rock types.
The imager will take pictures of the entire surface of Eros that capture features as small as 4 meters (13 feet) across. This particular image, taken from an orbital altitude of 53 kilometers (33 miles), shows a scene about 1.8 kilometers (1.1 miles) across. Numerous craters and boulders as small as 8 meters (26 feet) across dot the landscape.The large, rectangular boulder at the upper right is 45 meters (148 feet) across.
Originally posted by davesidious
reply to post by Exuberant1
Sure, it's a strange thing, but that's where the speculation must end,
Then why does that image you posted say:
Originally posted by Exuberant1
The good people at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland are the ones who identified the large rectangular object in the Eros image:
Compare this tructure in a Lunar Orbiter 5 image (above) to the one found on Eros (at right) by amateur selenographer Mike Singh
Originally posted by ArMaP
I though that meant that it was Mike the one who found it.