Did Mars Curiosity Rover Snap Images Of A UFO?
I thought maybe this was shown sometime ago, but the article says it took place last month....Please delete if its already been posted somewhere....
If a picture is worth 1,000 words, how much are two pictures worth, especially if they show an odd-looking, allegedly descending light heading to the surface of Mars?
These are real pictures, taken by the Curiosity rover -- some reports say it took place on June 23, but according to information on the raw Jet Propulsion Laboratory images, it was June 20.
In the first JPL full resolution image, a bright light appears above some mountains (taken by the rover's Navcam Right camera). Thirty-one seconds later, the rover's Navcam Left camera snapped an image of the light seemingly closer to the Martian surface.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/mars-curiosity-rover-ufo-pictures_n_5538801.html
I love the "hot pixel" explanation. It's a clump of "hot pixels" all creating the illusion of a light in the sky...that happens to "descend" towards the planet in a subsequent image.
Rrrrriiiiiight.
Quote from: Amaterasu on July 07, 2014, 12:00:54 AM
I love the "hot pixel" explanation. It's a clump of "hot pixels" all creating the illusion of a light in the sky...that happens to "descend" towards the planet in a subsequent image.
On the first photo it's not a clump of hot pixels, it's just one pixel, as you can see.
(http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00665/opgs/edr/ncam/NRB_456540999EDR_F0361146NCAM00268M_.JPG)
The left camera, that takes photos at the same time (both images have the same time-stamp, which means that, at most, there was less than a second between the two photos), didn't catch any thing on that place at the time the right camera took that photo.
(http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00665/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_456540999EDR_F0361146NCAM00268M_.JPG)
The second image (http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00665/opgs/edr/ncam/NLB_456541031EDR_F0361146NCAM00268M_.JPG) on that article (the photo taken 31 seconds later), from the left camera, shows something may be a hot pixel, but it doesn't look exactly like one. Once more, the photo taken by the other camera at the same time didn't show anything like that.
(http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl-raw-images/proj/msl/redops/ods/surface/sol/00665/opgs/edr/ncam/NRB_456541031EDR_F0361146NCAM00268M_.JPG)