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Subsequent analysis during image reprocessing has revealed that during the missions foreign debris are present in the optical path of the camera system and can be seen in the seen in the photographic exposures. Selected examples of blemish features of this type are shown in Figure 2. A movie showing blemish movement can be seen here. While the image processing steps undertaken as part of this effort might remove some of these blemish features, users should be aware that blemish features exist and take appropriate precautions.
Originally posted by Fryaga
reply to post by Phage
Huh. Well thank you for that, Phage - I expected there would be a quick, silent shot in the night on the research.
I guess the Google people didn't bother filtering out dirty images, since clean images are apparently available.
Originally posted by Fryaga
I was going to leave this for dead, but I wanted to raise one question before letting it lie...
Did you notice the distances between each object? While the dirt on the images sounds reasonable, why would the dirt be so regularly spaced out and not more sporadic...as in, not in a very neat line and instead spread out over the entire area. Case in point, from example 13 to 12, there is a distance of 72.12 miles (give or take a few .01s), and the dirt keeps the same general appearance/shape.
I mean, this stuff here I can look at and see for certain that it is dirt:
And I have found other examples of different redundancies over the series of images from this particular fly over, but none matching the illusion of structure like the examples I based my research on. If you haven't already, I would suggest loading up Google Earth and examining this stuff as well - even if it is dirt, it is fascinating dirt.
Originally posted by Fryaga
The other redundancies are covered in the link provided by Phage, just odd that the one they didn't cover would be the one that looks so intriguing.
I'll say that artifact blemishes do in fact appear to be what has caused these, since I have no way of showing otherwise. Thanks again, Phage.
- Fry