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Lunar Mystery

HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
edited 2013-07-24 11:04 in General Discussion
The Patch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rPULliJ9HM

Trouble on the Moon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwPL_-Hv-w

This is not surprising. When working on a NASA Hubble Space Telescope project, I was using the data from the HST catalog of objects used for celestial navigation which was in complete numerical format. I decided to convert the file data into graphic images to rest my eyes upon the actual area of vast star fields - over one million celestial objects. At one section of space, there was an irregular shaped black void that exactly fit the shape of someone's pen. Apparently when scanning deep star fields, someone left their pen on the scanner. We joked about this being the Dark Pen Nebula. The findings were released, however I don't actually know if the anomaly was ever corrected as I moved on to other projects with NASA. Perhaps, someone, somewhere, sometime may once again rediscover this anomalous void in space.

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  • Dr_AculaDr_Acula Posts: 5,484
    edited 2013-07-22 01:29
    Dr Evil's Moon Base?
  • Heater.Heater. Posts: 21,230
    edited 2013-07-22 01:55
    I saw a face in the clouds once. I blinked and it was gone.
  • BeanBean Posts: 8,129
    edited 2013-07-22 04:42
    Sorry that was me...When I was working on a moonbase project for NASA, I left my pen on the scanner. My bad...

    Bean
  • rjo__rjo__ Posts: 2,114
    edited 2013-07-22 13:52
    During the first Mars mission, NASA asked my research company to do a stereo-analysis and make a lenticular print of a panorama, composited from multiple views.
    There were several artifacts of this type in the original data:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbwPL_-Hv-w

    Most of this video appears shows compositing artifacts that arise from mis-registration of the original data.

    The second video appears to show what looks like an interpolation artifact, which resulted from missing data.

    Rich
  • HumanoidoHumanoido Posts: 5,770
    edited 2013-07-24 09:17
    Bean wrote: »
    Sorry that was me...When I was working on a moonbase project for NASA, I left my pen on the scanner. My bad...Bean
    No, it's not all bad. Don't feel guilty. You actually did human-kind a good service. NASA later deployed many people with pens, so as to disguise the map of our celestial location. Just in case the aliens were hungry and humans were on their menu.
    heater wrote:
    I saw a face in the clouds once. I blinked and it was gone.
    Have you thought about using faster Google Face Recognition Software on the cloud? or perhaps you shouldn't blink.
  • skylightskylight Posts: 1,915
    edited 2013-07-24 11:04
    That can't be Tranquility Base can it? No that would be lunar-sea!
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