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Originally posted by nepatitan
tiff files are right here
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov...
Originally posted by HIWATT
Originally posted by nepatitan
if you look at how much he zooms in, there is NO way you can see texture with a 2mp photo when looking at the crater wall 13 miles away!
You're right.
I've been whining about this for a week now.
$2.5 BILLION DOLLAR SPACE CRAFT.... $20 cameras...... in a day and age when we have cameras that can CAPTURE THE SPEED OF LIGHT
IMHO all the "Curiosity" threads should be dumped into the HOAX bin. NASA is a joke... and it's on us.edit on 13-8-2012 by HIWATT because: add
Originally posted by nepatitan
Just watched the video..... and I have to be completely honest.
First, running my own photography business I do quite a lot of retouching and editing with Photoshop, probably about 15 hours a week of Photoshop. Now for me, after watching the video the first thing I thought was "What type of monitor is he using in the video" was it calibrated? was it an lcd? Anyone in photography knows consumer brand lcd's are notoriously bad for editing photos and they do show blue much more (due to fluorescent backlight) than a crt or high end lcd specific for photo editing.
I went up to my office and looked at the photo she showed in the video and it looked completely different than what he was showing. My bet is that A. his monitor is not calibrated or B. he doesn't really understand how to use image editing programs, using levels will not magically bring out colors.
Originally posted by impaired
Originally posted by nepatitan
tiff files are right here
photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov...
I took those .TIFFS and made a pano - and it's good.
Look at the GigaPan and tell me if you guys still want the 457MB TIFF of the whole thing - uncompressed.
gigapan.com...
The one NASA has up now is screwed up until they fix it.edit on 8/13/2012 by impaired because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by RealSpoke
The original NASA photo has unsaturated green tones within it. As you can see here;
Of course when you adjust the levels, it will bring more of the green tones out.
But this is probably just due to the camera, not because Mars has grass.
edit on 13-8-2012 by RealSpoke because: (no reason given)
Originally posted by rbmgang
The guy is clearly saying NASA is just taking pics in deserts and retouching them.Then presenting these touched photos as mars.Will you people just watch the video and stop asking what this means etc....I personally believe no rover is on mars cause we are not allowed to leave this atmosphere.Whos stopping us is the question.IDK we can't make a cellphone operational just with a signal nationwide but we can control a signal to a machine on mars flawlessly?This is just propaganda and nothing more.Nothing of scientific achievement has be accomplished.We all know but wont believe it us humans just aint this intelligent.Were doing things that require 250+ I.Qs just think how is this possible when the average in science for humans is 120-160.
Originally posted by Sly1one
he makes several other observations that I find pretty interesting as well most notably the distinct dividing line from clear resolution to a foggy haze, it appears to just pop up out of nowhere...
What I'm most curious about though is why when only adjusting the levels from a NASA original photo does the color green even show up...unless, it wasn't originally there even tho very faint due to the "haze"??
If the landscape was as devoid of color as proclaimed (most notably green) one would expect a levels adjustment to only reveal darker reds, oranges, and browns...
Anyone else have some thoughts on this?
Originally posted by Sly1one
All the algorithm is doing is adjusting brightness and contrast, it isn't addressing RBG at all...its not creating colors where there weren't any already present.
Originally posted by blackmetalmist
Originally posted by rbmgang
The guy is clearly saying NASA is just taking pics in deserts and retouching them.Then presenting these touched photos as mars.Will you people just watch the video and stop asking what this means etc....I personally believe no rover is on mars cause we are not allowed to leave this atmosphere.Whos stopping us is the question.IDK we can't make a cellphone operational just with a signal nationwide but we can control a signal to a machine on mars flawlessly?This is just propaganda and nothing more.Nothing of scientific achievement has be accomplished.We all know but wont believe it us humans just aint this intelligent.Were doing things that require 250+ I.Qs just think how is this possible when the average in science for humans is 120-160.
We get what we pay for. That piece of machinery cost 20 billion to make, of course, its gonna get top of the line technology. If youre paying $40 bucks a month for Boost mobile, dont expect to have clear signal everywhere you go
Originally posted by HIWATT
Originally posted by AkumaStreak
I don't really get what's being implied. That there is grass on the hills? Lighting conditions are obviously not going to be identical as to what we would see on Earth. different planet after all.
Is it?
These "extra terrestrial photos" could easily be 1,000 different places right here on Earth.