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Originally posted by anon72
Secret Space Base Found on Google Mars Debunked
www.foxnews.com
(visit the link for the full news article)
A self-described "armchair astronaut" claims to have identified a human (or alien) base on Mars. David Martines noticed a mysterious rectangular structure that appears to be on the Red Planet's surface while trolling the planetary surface using Google Mars, a map program created from compiled satellite images of the planet.
"This is a video of something I discovered on Google Mars quite by accident," said Martines, the armchair astronaut, in a now-viral YouTube video. "I call it Bio Station Alpha, because I'm just assuming that something lives in it or has lived in it."
He zooms
I Updated this to show that ATS Member Phage provided the case solving info on page 16 of the original thread that broke the story (Thanks Phage for the Heads Up): Link to Phage's post: www.abovetopsecret.com...
Originally posted by Phage
The source image which Google used is from ESA's Mars Express orbiter, using the high resolution stereo camera. The image ID: H5620_0000_ND2
You can find it here:
HRSC viewer
If you want to download the full image you can get it here:
psa.esac.esa.int...
It is large, 355 MB. You will need a viewer to decode the image. You can get that here:
pds.nasa.gov...
This is what it looks like at full native resolution:
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/d4a0268cb01e.gif[/atsimg]
This is what it looks like zoomed 300%
[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/5d7510372308.png[/atsimg]
It is obviously an image artifact in the source image. Note the one pixel spacing. Note that the pixels are in a horizontal line across the image.
Originally posted by xavi1000
reply to post by Dalke07
To embed the pics for any case
Originally posted by spacevisitor
This my enlargement from that “artifact” in the picture in the link posted by Phage.
files.abovetopsecret.com...
So it is not debunked yet in my opinion.
Originally posted by spacedoubt
There are two source images of this region.
Both taken by Mars Express.
One image is H1597_0000_ND3
The other is
H1564_0000_ND3
You can download the source from here
hrscview.fu-berlin.de...
and here
hrscview.fu-berlin.de...
The software tools for viewing these is located here.
hrscview.fu-berlin.de...
It's kind of a pain to deal with the Planetary Data System formats, but it does give you access to more original data. I'm going to try and get some of the tools working on my Mac here. I haven't fooled with PDS images in a while. Maybe some of you have more experience?
edit on 2-6-2011 by spacedoubt because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by DuceizBack
Why do computer chair idiots on this site think they have the intelligence to debate actual scientist?
You're a conspiracy theory, these guys have spent decades learning about science.
Just give up nut job.
I've corresponded with the authour and she has added information provided by Phage to the article as well
Part 2: Google Mars Update with Planetary Scientist James Bell
© 2011 by Linda Moulton Howe
“It would have been incredibly exciting and interesting and perhaps even historic if this were a real feature, but it appears to have just been some sort of mapping or mosaic mistake in the low-resolution data.”
- James Bell, Ph.D., Astronomer and Planetary Scientist, ASU
Originally posted by Phage
It is obviously an image artifact in the source image. Note the one pixel spacing. Note that the pixels are in a horizontal line across the image.