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originally posted by: FreeFalling
That’s pretty amazing videos. Thanks for Sharing.
originally posted by: TheMadTitan
a reply to: peacefulpete
First one looks like space junk constantly spinning in zero g, the pattern of 'flashing lights' is nothing more than the sun reflecting of the brighter parts of the junk as it is spinning at a constant rate. The second one I have to say is the Moon, the shadow cast by the Sun matches up with Starman's shadow as the car rotates through space. The same rotation also creates the false effect of it's trajectory changing path.
originally posted by: TheMadTitan
a reply to: peacefulpete
Ultimately the quality of the footage isn't too great. For example, the one I think is the Moon.. If it is the Moon and you had a camera of similar quality recording from a similar distance away you would get the same effect when zoomed in, you're not making the image any clearer or closer when you zoom in, you are zooming in on the individual pixels, and pixels coalesce with different colours to form an image, it certainly doesn't look brown, to me anyway! At first I thought the narrator was going to mention the particles floating by, but nothing is mentioned about them at all.
originally posted by: peacefulpete
…. If we can believe NASA enough, then there is always a constant activity of rocks and small ice chunks floating by, all the time.
originally posted by: peacefulpete
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The moon is known to be 1/4th the size of Earth, so if the moon is captured by the car's cameras, then we'd expect it to look about one-fourth the size of the Earth, as it appears.
originally posted by: JimOberg
originally posted by: peacefulpete
…. If we can believe NASA enough, then there is always a constant activity of rocks and small ice chunks floating by, all the time.
I must have missed where NASA said that, can you direct me to a NASA link that makes such claims, please?
originally posted by: JimOberg
originally posted by: peacefulpete
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The moon is known to be 1/4th the size of Earth, so if the moon is captured by the car's cameras, then we'd expect it to look about one-fourth the size of the Earth, as it appears.
Please think about this again.