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Originally posted by BuzzCory
How could NASA have missed this? I was taking another look at the photo of Mercury, when my eye was caught by the area highlighted below in red:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/f6cd6edb5e47.gif[/atsimg]
I enlarged the area, & enhanced it a bit, to show the rear propulsion jet of an alien space ship, sticking up from the surface after the force of its crash-landing left it partially buried!
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/07d59e4edb7f.gif[/atsimg]...
Originally posted by heineken
is this the first picture of mercury?
wasnt mercury mapped before..not all of it..but a big part??
Originally posted by BuzzCory
reply to post by Katerna
You know, after I posted my "big discovery", I was wondering if anyone would miss the fact that it just had to be a joke. I thought if I left out the required 12 exclamation points, everyone would get it.edit on 3/30/11 by BuzzCory because: Better joke, IMO as always...edit on 3/30/11 by BuzzCory because: grammar this time..
Originally posted by BuzzCory
reply to post by Katerna
No problem, I kinda got a kick out of it. And I love it that someone gave you a star for debunking my claim!
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by fatboyinternational
No the one you just posted is in color, but the original one posted is in black and white. Look closely, you'll see what I'm talking about
Originally posted by MountainPhoenix
reply to post by Aquarius1
I think it really speaks to the advancement of the space program to be able to send a functioning camera that close to the Sun. The photos are not what I would have expected though, I would have thought the surface of the planet would have been molten being that close to the sun.
Originally posted by franspeakfree
reply to post by Deebo
Agreed, we have already seen that a bunch of amateurs can get just as good or even better photos from our earths atmosphere with a budget of less than a $100, yet NASA a muti billion dollar agency can only give us crappy black and white images (I wonder why) ? unless of course they have something to hide - There I said it!
Granted mercury is further away but ........you know where I am coming from.
Originally posted by Deebo
Is it really that expensive to attach a color camera to this billion dollar orbiter? I have a few old camera phones I could give them for the next one they build. Either way good post s + f
Deebo
I wasn't expecting that much color on the moon either but the color pictures of the moon even show more color than the color photos of mercury. And yes, one of the messenger cameras can take color pictures but the other ones can't.
Originally posted by LikeDuhObviously
Exactly what colours are you expecting on Mercury ?
It is a rock with pretty much zero atmosphere.