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23 Jan 2008 05:44:28 PM |
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NASA caught faking Mars missions |
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article715837.ece
Not surprising, as they faked the Apollo Moon Missions too. The
funniest thing is that you idiots keep falling for it everytime
hahaha.
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
26 Jan 2008 08:44:07 AM |
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On Jan 24, 1:47 am, Ken Quirici <ken.quir...@excite.com> wrote:
On Jan 23, 7:11 pm, wrote:
On Jan 24, 9:44 am, wrote:
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article715837.ece
Not surprising, as they faked the Apollo Moon Missions too. The
funniest thing is that you idiots keep falling for it everytime
hahaha.
NOTE: To verify this is indeed a NASA picture, spot the martian in:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/207495main_Spirit.jpg
hint: bottom left corner
Are you smart enough to figure out that these pictures are of the
Australian desert?
The image at the address you supplied, when I typed it in manually,
just in case you screwed around with the URL, was obviously faked,
and poorly. I suggest everybody go look at it. Look at the truncated
vertical object in the middle-right. Obviously pasted on.
You are looking at a "panorama", meaning a few pictures pasted
together to produce a wider picture. There are at least four separate
pictures here and the jointing lines are visible where they made this,
of course objects in the foreground won't fit together right, but the
not-perfect match disappears as you get to the background.
I see no reason to doubt that these pictures were taken by the Spirit
rover in Gusev crater.
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| User: "bjlapen" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
27 Jan 2008 07:56:18 PM |
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wrote:
[snip]
Are you smart enough to figure out that these pictures are of the
Australian desert?
[extra snip]
You are looking at a "panorama", meaning a few pictures pasted
together to produce a wider picture. There are at least four separate
pictures here and the jointing lines are visible where they made this,
of course objects in the foreground won't fit together right, but the
not-perfect match disappears as you get to the background.
I see no reason to doubt that these pictures were taken by the Spirit
rover in Gusev crater.
That's Ayers Rock in the background, to the right, clearly visible.
Google "Ayers Rock" 250,000 hits.
Sure enough, it's in Australia
The Yeti, I am not so sure about. Bigfoot is native to
North America, Yeti to the Himalayas.
Looks to me the figure could be that vile little
creature, Yoda, on the loose again. This time
in the Outback.
<sigh>
Truth is stranger than fiction
Tony.
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| User: "Ken Quirici" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
27 Jan 2008 09:20:21 PM |
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On Jan 27, 8:56 pm, bjlapen <bjla...@hotmail.com> wrote:
s...@space.unibe.ch wrote:
[snip]
Are you smart enough to figure out that these pictures are of the
Australian desert?
[extra snip]
You are looking at a "panorama", meaning a few pictures pasted
together to produce a wider picture. There are at least four separate
pictures here and the jointing lines are visible where they made this,
of course objects in the foreground won't fit together right, but the
not-perfect match disappears as you get to the background.
I see no reason to doubt that these pictures were taken by the Spirit
rover in Gusev crater.
That's Ayers Rock in the background, to the right, clearly visible.
Google "Ayers Rock" 250,000 hits.
Sure enough, it's in Australia
I googled for Ayer Rock and found something totally different
from the mound in the background, to the right. Ayer rock (I
didn't google for Ayers) has much steeper sides and is somewhat
table-shaped. Much more distinctive looking.
The mound you're talking about in the photo is just a
shallow-sloped mound - looks nothing like Ayer Rock.
The Yeti, I am not so sure about. Bigfoot is native to
North America, Yeti to the Himalayas.
Looks to me the figure could be that vile little
creature, Yoda, on the loose again. This time
in the Outback.
<sigh>
Truth is stranger than fiction
Tony.
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| User: "Ken Quirici" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
27 Jan 2008 09:16:27 PM |
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On Jan 26, 9:44 am, wrote:
On Jan 24, 1:47 am, Ken Quirici <ken.quir...@excite.com> wrote:
On Jan 23, 7:11 pm, wrote:
On Jan 24, 9:44 am, wrote:
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article715837.ece
Not surprising, as they faked the Apollo Moon Missions too. The
funniest thing is that you idiots keep falling for it everytime
hahaha.
NOTE: To verify this is indeed a NASA picture, spot the martian in:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/207495main_Spirit.jpg
hint: bottom left corner
Are you smart enough to figure out that these pictures are of the
Australian desert?
The image at the address you supplied, when I typed it in manually,
just in case you screwed around with the URL, was obviously faked,
and poorly. I suggest everybody go look at it. Look at the truncated
vertical object in the middle-right. Obviously pasted on.
You are looking at a "panorama", meaning a few pictures pasted
together to produce a wider picture. There are at least four separate
pictures here and the jointing lines are visible where they made this,
of course objects in the foreground won't fit together right, but the
not-perfect match disappears as you get to the background.
I see no reason to doubt that these pictures were taken by the Spirit
rover in Gusev crater.
OK, I'll buy it.
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| User: "Ivar Rosquist" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
23 Jan 2008 06:41:43 PM |
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On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:44:28 -0800, schoenfeld.one wrote:
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article715837.ece
Not surprising, as they faked the Apollo Moon Missions too. The funniest
thing is that you idiots keep falling for it everytime hahaha.
The only thing not surprising is what a moron you are. Not only
don't you seem to know anything about physics and technology (how else
could you sustain such ridiculously ignorant views?) but, in addition,
you also seem to ignore that quoting the UK's Sun as a source of
information gives you the same credibility as if you were quoting the US
supermarket tabloids that constantly warn that the day of judgment is
nigh, and similar laughable notions.
Again, you, sir, are a moron.
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| User: "David R Tribble" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
25 Jan 2008 07:09:25 PM |
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schoenfeld.one wrote:
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article715837.ece
Ivar Rosquist wrote:
you also seem to ignore that quoting the UK's Sun as a source of
information gives you the same credibility as if you were quoting the US
supermarket tabloids that constantly warn that the day of judgment is
nigh, and similar laughable notions.
Shhhh! We all know that the Men In Black not only read the
tabloids to keep up with extraterrestrial and cryptozoological
activities, but they also scan the technical Usenet newsgroups
to keep tabs on people who might get too close to the real truth.
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| User: "Sam Wormley" |
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| Title: Re: NASA caught faking Mars missions |
23 Jan 2008 10:03:27 PM |
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troll wrote some garbage:
NASA caught faking the Mars missions:
Here is something more interesting to think about.
Guy Webster 818-354-6278
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
guy.webster@jpl.nasa.gov
Lori Stiles 520-626-4402
University of Arizona, Tucson
lstiles@u.arizona.edu
NEWS RELEASE: 2008-111 Jan. 23, 2008
Orbiting Camera Details Dramatic Wind Action on Mars
Mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere with less than one-percent
the surface pressure of Earth, which challenges scientists to explain
complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented detail in
images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
One of the main questions has been if winds on present-day Mars are
strong enough to form and change geological features, or if
wind-constructed formations were made in the past, perhaps when winds
speeds and atmospheric pressures were higher.
The eye-opening new views of wind-driven Mars geology come from the
University of Arizona's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment
camera (HiRISE). As the orbiter flies at about 3,400 meters per
second (7,500 mph) between 250 and 315 kilometers (155 to 196 miles)
above the Martian surface, this camera can see features as small as
half a meter (20 inches).
"We're seeing what look like smaller sand bedforms on the tops of
larger dunes, and, when we zoom in more, a third set of bedforms
topping those," said HiRISE co-investigator Nathan Bridges of NASA's
Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "On Earth, small
bedforms can form and change on time scales as short as a day."
There are two kinds of "bedforms," or wind-deposited landforms. They
can be sand dunes, which are typically larger and have distinct
shapes. Or they can be ripples, in which sand is mixed with coarser
particles. Ripples are typically smaller and more linear.
HiRISE also shows detail in sediments deposited by winds on the
downwind side of rocks. Such "windtails" show which way the most
current winds have blown, Bridges said. They have been seen before,
but only by rovers and landers, never by an orbiter. Researchers can
now use HiRISE images to infer wind directions over the entire
planet.
Scientists discovered miles-long, wind-scoured ridges called
"yardangs" with the first Mars orbiter, Mariner 9, in the early
1970s. New HiRISE images reveal surface texture and fine-scale
features that are giving scientists insight into how yardangs form.
"HiRISE is showing us just how interesting layers in yardangs are,"
Bridges said. "For example, we see one layer that appears to have
rocks in it. You can actually see rocks in the layer, and if you look
downslope, you can see rocks that we think have eroded out from that
rocky layer above."
New images show that some layers in the yardangs are made of softer
materials that have been modified by wind, he added. The soft
material could be volcanic ash deposits, or the dried-up remnants of
what once were mixtures of ice and dust, or something else. "The fact
that we see layers that appear to be rocky and layers that are
obviously soft says that the process that formed yardangs is no
simple process but a complicated sequence of processes," Bridges
said.
"HiRISE keeps showing interesting things about terrains that I
expected to be uninteresting," said Alfred McEwen of the University
of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, HiRISE principal
investigator. "I was surprised by the diversity of morphology of the
thick dust mantles. Instead of a uniform blanket of smooth dust,
there are often intricate patterns due to the action of the wind and
perhaps light cementation from atmospheric volatiles."
Paul Geissler of the U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Ariz., has
discovered from HiRISE images that dark streaks coming from Victoria
Crater probably consist of streaks of dark sand blown out from the
crater onto the surface. Scientists had wondered if wind might have
blown away lighter-colored surface material, exposing a darker
underlying surface. Geissler is comparing HiRISE images to images
taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity rover at Victoria
Crater.
Bridges is lead author and McEwen is a co-author on the paper titled
"Windy Mars: A dynamic planet as seen by the HiRISE camera" in
Geophysical Research Letters in December.
Information about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft is
online at http://www.nasa.gov/mro . The mission is managed by JPL, a
division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, for the
NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. Lockheed Martin
Space Systems, Denver, is the prime contractor and built the
spacecraft. Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp., Boulder, Colo.,
built the HiRISE camera operated by The University of Arizona,
Tucson.
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