Strange Line Formation

Hiy

I was looking for one of mikesinghs anomalies and i was lucky enough to find it.

mikesingh image

location is marked in the above image, www.uahirise.org...

Anyway on the same image i found this line.



Is that line formation strange ?

What do you think?

Asteroid streak? Some other artifact? Anything travelling in a straight line across the surface should stop the minute it hits a valley.

I bet the line is exactly parallel to the edge of the map-projected image. Which means it's exactly parallel to the path of the spacecraft. If so, that means it's an imaging error, where a pixel or two on the sensor got stuck.

I looked at the non-map projected view, and the line is indeed exactly vertical (it appears in several places in the image, in the exact same horizontal location across the image). So it's definitely a pixel error.

You know what`s fun to do? rotate images and look at them again, it gives you a whole new perspective.

Maybe the image is suppose to be turned this way:



or perhaps it`s suppose to be turned this way:



notice the numbers or letters, or whatever they are, that seem to be carved into the rock on the left side of the picture just past where the line ends and a bit above it?




It sure gives a whole different perspective simply by turning the picture doesn`t it?,amazing what you can find in the picture simply by turning it.

Lol its a bridge?

Finding a higher resolution of the same area will usually clear up any misundertandings or misinterpretations.

originally posted by: nataylor
I bet the line is exactly parallel to the edge of the map-projected image. Which means it's exactly parallel to the path of the spacecraft. If so, that means it's an imaging error, where a pixel or two on the sensor got stuck.

Look again at how the topography cut's through the line, it is no imaging error and is a ground feature.

originally posted by: Blue Shift
Finding a higher resolution of the same area will usually clear up any misundertandings or misinterpretations.

Not if it has already been processed before it is released.

a reply to: LABTECH767

Go look at the non-map projected view. Heck of a coincidence this feature is exactly, perfectly vertical, which means the line exactly follows the same pixel(s) on the camera sensor over the entire exposure.

They provide a free software to view the original-scale images: HiView

Here's the first formation at 1:1 scale (with resolution of about 1.6 m/pixel), from the non-map RGB image:


Here it is again at 1:1 scale, from the map-projected image:


And at enlarged x4:


Pareidolia and imagination can read a lot of things into images like that, but all we're essentially looking at here is the natural terrain, with various geological formations such as cliffs, shales, fault lines, etc. Nature can produce straight lines and right angles no problem!

As for the big straight line through the image, I agree with others that it's an image artifact, seeing how it lines up perfectly with the CCD sensor orientation. It's also translucent, and you can see the real terrain features through it.

[Edit] I found an even better resolution image for the first formation, at about 0.5 m/pixel, and at lower sun angle:

It looks even more natural and non-suspicious.