NASA caught manipulating photos

reply to post by freelance_zenarchist


The image had actually been removed when I looked up the address.

Maybe Big Brother is watching and they put it back up to avoid controversy.

reply to post by weedwhacker


If you had actually read my previous posts, I didn't say I agreed with the conspiracy hypothesis, but thanks for pre-judging.

Another of my previous posts also pointed out that it is impossible to read through every thread on ATS before discussing a topic.

Another of my previous posts also pointed out that I thought it might be of some interest to ATS'ers that this issue had made the mainstream media.

You also say that NASA did not alter the image, but it was included on one of their domains. The implication of this is that NASA can claim no responsibility for anything they place on any of their websites. Thanks for pointing that out.

OK so who airbrushed the photo then?It is from NASA Official photo of the day from what I read.

The image is from NASA website.So the question is who put it there?That is where it originaly is from.

reply to post by Jobeycool


The nasa one is really cool. I just PASTED it into photoshop and immediately could see those brush strokes, which seemed a bit odd... i mean what does photoshop do to images that are just pasted into a blank new-image that made these marks super obvious?

And then i proceeded to: Adjustments > Exposure, slid the exposure slider all the way to the right, and noticed that not only is their evidence of erasure to the right of the moon, but weird shaped cutouts around the circumference of the image. My first guess was perhaps some image compression was responsible for the weird corner cuts, but obviously it was Photoshop being used on the area to the right of the moon.

Originally posted by Krusty the Klown
reply to post by weedwhacker

 

If you had actually read my previous posts, I didn't say I agreed with the conspiracy hypothesis, but thanks for pre-judging.

Another of my previous posts also pointed out that it is impossible to read through every thread on ATS before discussing a topic.

Another of my previous posts also pointed out that I thought it might be of some interest to ATS'ers that this issue had made the mainstream media.

You also say that NASA did not alter the image, but it was included on one of their domains. The implication of this is that NASA can claim no responsibility for anything they place on any of their websites. Thanks for pointing that out.

Instead of whining and fighting how about evidence who altered the Photo?

reply to post by Krusty the Klown


So what???

You also say that NASA did not alter the image, but it was included on one of their domains.

That is a fact, and the consensus of those who've looked into the "story"...all this flaming started because ONE YouTuber with some image manipulation skills in computer programs decided to play around with a photo, one that happened to be attractive, and posted by some NASA website updater (??)...who even knows if the person who does that is a scientist, or not...or just a computer techie??

Saw what someone else had done to make some of the raw Cassini photos prettier, and put it up.

SOMEONE else composited and used image manipulation tools....to make it look more "photogenic".

It really isn't much different from what People Magazine (or many others) do to pictures of movie stars and supermodels.....it is such NOT a "NASA Did It!!" event!! :shk:

Fact is we cannot prove who altered or used photoshop on the photo.
Fact is the photo is on the official NASA website.So people are gonna be confused by it.

I'm becoming more skeptical about everything I've ever known.. thank you.

reply to post by Jobeycool


We already know who did the alteration.

The person in question was in the news article.

reply to post by weedwhacker


LOL, you still haven't read my previous posts have you?

In one of them I actually said the explanation given by the image alterer seemed plausible. I never once said there was any evil intent.

It is actually possible to simply discuss a topic without taking sides.

But why let facts get in the way of a good rant eh?

The interesting thing about NASA is that sometimes the real pictures and eyewitness testimony about UFOs leaks out of there despite all the usual coverup efforts. The fact is that UFOs have been seen and photographed all over the planet, including around the sun, moon, Saturn, Venus, Mars and Mercury, and that they have taken a strong interest in everything our space programs have been doing since teh 1950s and 1960s. That's all old news, as is the coverup.

Even so, word leaks out from time to time that UFOs (aliens) really are all over the place and even seem to be based all over the solar system and are using resources from the sun, moons and all the planets that someday we should be using for oursleves.

Or have we already started to do that?

In any case, I think we should get out there faster than we have been and stake our claims, which would also stimulate the economy and create jobs here on earth. Our leaders just seem to lack that "vision thing" for some reason.

Originally posted by Krusty the Klown
It is actually possible to simply discuss a topic without taking sides.

I totally agree. It seems there can be no topic that doesnt have hostile arguments any more.

Anyway, I wonder what could be giving off the ambient illuminations around the blocked out area. It would have to be very massive.

One word...AGAIN!

This happens all the time. They take photo's today but we won't see them until years later. Then you have to piece them together like some kind of interstellar jigsaw puzzle.

I would just like to let NASA know, that camera's that take perfectly good color shots with just 1 shot have been around since the 70's and before, that you can go into any walmart and buy a camera from cheap to expensive that does not need to use 3 red/blue/green shots to make a color photo

that being said, who the hell is building these satelites the flintsones?

Here's another issue I have. If NASA is going to host photo's on their servers then they need to include a disclaimer if the photo was altered. I know they do it for false coloring but this is ridiculous if you ask me. Will they just put up anything now?

I have hundreds of photo's of nibiru. I bet they won't put those up.

OK, let me start out by saying that I didn't read all the comments already made. I was getting bored after 3 pages. So, this might have already been said.

Technically, yes they manipulated/photoshopped the picture. But not as part of a cover-up (no pun intended).

As someone else posted the quote showing that the pictures are made by taking three separate colors at different times. Then, color correction merges them back together. Once they're merged, the original single color images are covered up. Right above the brush marks, you can see the very tips of the green and red layers above and below the paintbrush marks done by photoshop.

Here is an example of a picture before the color correction happens:
pre-color correction

I would photoshop and example of what the non-correct picture looks like, but I'm feeling too lazy.

reply to post by hisshadow


I've oftened wondered why we can't get video also. How hard is it to stream video back to earth? Or send video back to Earth using somekind of auto return rover type of set up. Put two or three auto return rovers on a satellite, fill them up with video, then send them back to earth one at a time.

It would be really cool to see Sarturn and it's moons up close in real time video instead of pieced together photos turned into animation.

reply to post by cuthbert



"So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels."
--Emily Lakdawalla

So why is there no airbrushing behind Titan then? She claims she altered both moons here. She cut out Dione....fixed up Titan...then put Dione back in there. I would think there would need to be airbrushing all around Dione in that instance.

Is it possible she cut Dione out and placed it over something?

Anyways, how did she even know someone was questioning her picture to begin with? How did she find out this person was claiming a NASA photo was shopped?

reply to post by Come Clean



Is easier than that, you simply string a series of booster satelites along the planets as a comm relay system.

why this hasnt been done yet, i dont know... i simply dont know...