Any idea where the original of this is? I've checked this one out in Photo Paint, and what's really interesting (my first impression was pixelisation) is that the lines actually follow the landscape (up down, angles, etc) which appears to eliminate pixelisation. Of course, it would be good to the original photo in hi-res.

I seriously have no idea what this is. I mean there are perfect squares there. Even if it's blurry and low resolution there are... perfect squares, which doesn't come off as natural to me at all. I'd like to hear an explanation for it.

I'm not sure what NASA or anyone else puts on the net publicly but I think it may be over somewhere on the NASA official pictures section. I'll probably have a field day with looking for it in a bit here.

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i cant see a thing... it looks like a normal, bad visual picture of ridges and landmass.

what exactly is it you are saying is here??

maybe if you drew some coloured arrows in pointing to the blurry shadowy thing you think is actually something?

i swear, the more of these i see the less i feel confident in siding with teh idea that something is out there. sure there is enough real evidence without this kind of jibberish..

i used to be a believer but the more hoaxes, cgi and just straight up crazy nonsense i see is convincing me that the whole field is worth abandoning wholesale.

seriously people, look at what you think your seeing, take a step back and think, what will someone else see. if teh answer is "crazy" dont post it. your not doing any favours. just degrading real debate.

*sigh* can i have my 5 minutes of life back that this post stole?

Originally posted by krull11
I seriously have no idea what this is. I mean there are perfect squares there. Even if it's blurry and low resolution there are... perfect squares, which doesn't come off as natural to me at all. I'd like to hear an explanation for it.

I'm not sure what NASA or anyone else puts on the net publicly but I think it may be over somewhere on the NASA official pictures section. I'll probably have a field day with looking for it in a bit here.

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skype does this to pictures of my son while we are talking.. its a digital conversion artifact. the number of times i speak to my wife in boxy pixellation is not countable on one hand! use your brain!

yes... in a nutshell..

thats exactly what it is.

Thanks, that's what I was looking for.

now normally, i would disagree with phage, but to be honest, the more i se ehim post the more i agree.

he does know his stuff.. and applying science and reason to a subject is always welcome..

pixellation. plain and simple. seriously digital cameras are crap. they have no choice but to grid an image them save it. when it gets decoded often the grid stays.

serioulsy i see it everyday talking to family on skype. or are you saying my wife and son have blurry boxes all over thier faces?

This is a common situation where compression of a picture causes artifacts within the conversion process. The reason why there are compressed images is because file sizes of uncompressed pictures can be very high and take several minutes to download. An example of an uncompressed image is called a RAW file. RAW files will be void of compression artifacts. In the compression process, the computer finds patterns in the image and converts the patterns into smaller patterns. The final result is an image with the same dimensions, just different ways of displaying the image to make the size smaller. These artifacts are leftover because sometimes the compression goes a little too far. The patterns you see is the compression program finding patterns and converting them to simpler patterns that did not turn out so well.

Hope this helps.

I think the OP is reffering to the random, grid like stamps on the surface. NOT THE LAND MASS ITSELF.

Im not an expert but iv never seen Nasa photos with this stamp on them, and if the source is genuine, they would be all over the image, not just 'picking' selected bits out.

They certainly are strange, as pixelation wouldnt form like that, as someone has already stated, they actually follow the land mass. It is possible however, but ALOT of time would have to be spent on it.

The perfect squares arnt of interest to me, but this symbol like stuff on the whole of the bottom right hand screen is unbelievable.

If the source is genuine.... as in from NASA there is no natural explanation i can think of for those patterns.

Thank you phage, that proberly clears it up to be honest.

I would guess its that rather than compression artifacts. If it was compression that caused the anomalies it would appear across the whole image, or at least on every similar bit of data (colour with most compression) As theres massive sections of the image without the shapes of a identical colour.

Thanks Phage, the idea that the pixelation was following the landscape bothered me a bit; as you say, not the normal pixelation you're used to seeing. This clears it up.