by Fintan Dunne,
Editor
from
GuluFuture.com Website
Spotted by: WHIZADREE
1st March 2003 19:00 GMT
The second in a series
Anomalies in NASA NEATv1 images
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 web
images of
the comet's passage past the sun on the morning of the 18th
February
(click image right).
A
web image
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
- click right image] showing that
NASA's
earlier and
later images were
duplicates and suggesting that a photo editing error had caused the
revealing glitch.
Both the discussion board and website went offline
around thirty 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 embarrassing error.
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(click image to
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 animation 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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