Neat
NASA Tricks #2
The Case of The Paintshop Pro
URL: http://www.GuluFuture.com/future/Neat_NASA_Tricks02.htm
SPOTTED BY: WHIZADREE
by
Fintan Dunne, Editor
http://www.GuluFuture.com
1st March 2003 19:00 GMT
The second in a series.
Anomalies in NASA NEATv1 images
Download this file if you wish
to confirm the anomaly:
http://sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov/data/realtime/javagif/gifs_tiny/20030218_0954_c3.gif
In the early
hours of Thursday 20th February, around 6:30am a comet discussion
board inexplicably went offline --about thirty minutes after participants
discovered that NASA had been faking webimages of the comet's
passage past the sun on the morning of the 18th February.
A
webimage posted
by NASA [our
copy] from a sequence of 7 missing hourly photos of the comet
near the sun, had a telltale partial white comet image below the
observed comet location. [ snapshot
] The photo thus shows two positions for the comet. This partial
was in the exact position of the comet in later NASA images
from the SOHO satellite. That image is in the official NASA record
to this day !
Which is real? This, or
the above or neither?
A
poster to the comet board placed
a link to an animated composite [our
copy] showing that NASA's earlier
and later
images were duplicates and suggesting that a photo editing error
had caused the revelaing glitch. Both the discussion board and
website went offline around thrity minutes later.
This later image explains
why the white mark appeared where it did --some Paintshop Pro
was anything but professional.
A few days later,
an edited animated gif was published which OMITS the portion
of the web image with the embarassing error.
[View
Animation]
NASA
-having publicly made the mistake --can't very well remove it,
and so are stuck with it for all time in their own images and
animations. But the new amination came from the University Corporation
for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), at the University of Michigan.
Any ideas who is
the main sponsor of the UCAR "Windows
to the Universe" project which published this new flattering
graphic? Go on have a guess. Think four letters. Yes, it's NASA.
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