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There aren't "PDS Websites", there are websites hosting images in PDS format - an internationally agreed standard for posting images taken by satellites and space probes. Had you been prepared to listen to the information you were given, you would have acquired some understanding about them and how to open them. You weren't. The PDS format was relevant, because it relatesd to a discussion about what other images China had made available.
relatesd to a discussion about what other images China had made available.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
-- Despite the endless posts of other people's false statements, and despite ArMaP's wrong assumptions the other day, the fact is that I've been correct that there are ONLY THREE IMAGES PUBLISHED SO FAR, of the Mystery Hut.
Assumptions were not real, assuming my web searching was somehow too limited, nope. There have actually been only 3 images published... duh.
It's possible for Google not to have indexed those pages either because they do not want to or because the site itself has an indication for search engines to ignore it.
So while I appreciate the actual positive input, your previous post was wrong assumptions about someone else's searching, and wrong assumptions about published images. Which you could have just checked, before jumping in with wrong assumptions about everything, but OK we've thankfully cleared this up now. Nobody's perfect, and all that, and what matters is the bigger picture of clearing everything up.
-- Similarly, we've established that NO NEW IMAGES HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED anywhere, from the same rover mission with the Mystery Hut object... even despite Monkey offering a link to a Twitter feed. His link was garbage, its image is so low-res that I honestly never imagined that he was referring to THAT chunk of pixels as being "new mages," it does NOT count as "new images" in my eyes.
If people think that's debatable, well that's your choice how you consider such low-res crayon drawings, as "images" or not.
I don't, and I think it's most objectively true that little tiny meme-style pics really are not acceptable to be considered as "published images."
-- Along those lines, when Monkey gave the link, he SAID TO LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND, which is solid black.
If he had said to look AT THE IMAGE, then THAT would have been the focus, but he presented the link and said to look at its "background" which would normally be interpreted as... the background at his link, i.e. solid black.
Do I think Monkey etc. are willfully dishonest, and willfully spreading wrong information & creating confusion, on purpose? Yes, I do think so. (And it's obviously NOT a context for anyone to learn anything, from such poisonous people.)
The guy who embedded a screenshot in the thread, he even wrongly called them "thumbnails," which they're not. And he was basically promoting the site, even he misunderstood the "placeholder thumbnails."
Along the lines of constructive criticism of the site, well, really, THREE different registration processes... with the first one broken, and then two separate working registrations... It's a mess to even write it in a sentence.
And I don't want to belabor things, already mentioned, but whatever browser problem I had, still reflects badly on the site too, come on lol.
So I haven't been wrong about the awful impressions that I got from the site, admittedly as a noob, regardless, my bad impressions came from objectively broken aspects of the website.
And in the bigger picture, we've established that the website was irrelevant to the topic, and presented wrongly for the topic, in all the ways mentioned: It does not have more images of the rover mission in question, its software is incompatible with Mac, etc.
I think what it all boils down to is... let's clear up misinformation in threads earlier, if possible, so we're not stuck in the toxic sludge like this, wallowing in the filth of several people's dishonesty, false statements, lies, trolling, obnoxiousness, etc.
There are limits / thresholds and if enough people are dumping toxic sludge into a thread, then it's going to end up just a waste-pit of poison, no matter my best intentions...
originally posted by: JamesChessman
The TOPIC was images of the Mystery Hut. Thousands of images of THAT have not been published. All claims & implications of THAT are false.
originally posted by: Ophiuchus1
After many pages of debate….I make an attempt here to show what seems as an impossibility based on the title of this thread.
Below, a conceptualized gif using the OP’s own manipulation picture and my superimposing impossibility.
Imo I just don’t see this ever happening….that is to say we are being blocked by the Chinese or whomever else, from seeing actual blocks of structures, buildings, on the surface of the moon.
The OP wants to believe there are structures such as buildings of some design, and that’s his prerogative…..a view not shared by all including myself.
It’s ok for the OP to believe what he believes.
Forums and threads are like T.V. Channels …. if you don’t like what you read or see… change the channel.
The OP requires like minded members, who will agree that the OP pictures are hiding some sort of truth. So far as it has been written and shown in these pages, the OP lacks like minded members, including myself, to support his assertions. And that to is ok, we all have our opinions. That’s ATS.
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originally posted by: JamesChessman
This is the ORIGINAL image, and it's ONLY been brightened:
originally posted by: JamesChessman
-- Despite the endless posts of other people's false statements, and despite ArMaP's wrong assumptions the other day, the fact is that I've been correct that there are ONLY THREE IMAGES PUBLISHED SO FAR, of the Mystery Hut.
Assumptions were not real, assuming my web searching was somehow too limited, nope. There have actually been only 3 images published... duh.
They were not assumptions, they were possibilities based on the way Google (and other search engines) work.
What I wrote was:
It's possible for Google not to have indexed those pages either because they do not want to or because the site itself has an indication for search engines to ignore it.
So while I appreciate the actual positive input, your previous post was wrong assumptions about someone else's searching, and wrong assumptions about published images. Which you could have just checked, before jumping in with wrong assumptions about everything, but OK we've thankfully cleared this up now. Nobody's perfect, and all that, and what matters is the bigger picture of clearing everything up.
So jumping to assumptions, as I said above.
And as my time is limited and I have more things to do I was presenting one possible explanation for Google only finding 3 photos, also as a reaction to the way you appeared to consider Google as some kind of perfect search engine.
We haven't. The fact we cannot find them doesn't mean they weren't published.
The only way of knowing how may were published is to ask directly the Chinese space agency or that site.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
Well but isn't it already established that the Chinese site doesn't have imagery from the same rover mission as the Mystery Hut object.
Hasn't this been verified already in the thread, didn't MissVocalcord acknowledge that?
You interpretation of what images are or not is terribly flawed.
If I'm not mistaken, he said "It's in the background here in their twitter feed", and that rock really is on the background (the things at the back of the scene) on the top image.
originally posted by: MissVocalcord
Here are two posts about the Mystery moon hut, which was renamed to "Jade Rabbit", with some pictures also shown in the twitter post:
Jade Rabbit 1
Jade Rabbit 2
All in Chinese but easily translated with google.
It is funny to see how they start giving every single rock and crater a name there....
originally posted by: JamesChessman
So what is this though, an online journal from the Chinese space agency, correct?
a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
...Also while the images are better than the previous Twitter thing, we have to be honest that even these new higher-res images are still overall pretty low-res.
If I could see these same images in hi-res, now THAT would be something exciting.
The first image, which I made the thread about, which has the background imagery, IIRC it's the highest-res image, and the resolution has decreased in published images since then.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
Your earlier input certainly seemed to be assuming that there was a problem with someone else' searching, and assuming that there were more results existing, that weren't found yet.
And if you're saying that I was "jumping to conclusions," please, I hate when people just re-use the same word or phrase, as an argument against the initial statement.
Maybe that's ultimately the real value of the thread, that it puts this spotlight on... waiting for new images from the rover mission with the Mystery Hut, so this thread can announce it, if-and-when there really are new images published.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
If we want to be grammatical and stupid about it, then everything in the world is an "image."
Why don't you tell me some better semantics to describe how absolutely disgusting the image is, please.
The low-resolution makes it look like it was drawn with crayons.
It's certainly a worthless image in terms of actually SEEING ANYTHING, right?
I mean you're arguing the semantics of an "image" being an "image" that is too low-res to SEE anything? LOL
The "image" lacks the basic purpose of a published image normally, i.e. the purpose of SEEING THE CONTENTS OF THE IMAGE.
Yes it's an image, everything's an image, my foot is an image, but so what.
It's "new published imagery" that unfortunately is too low-res to see, but yes it's "new published imagery." I only wish it was the type of "imagery" that can actually be seen, lol.
Sometimes some people are just belligerent and then here we are bantering about whether an image is an image if it's too low-res to see anything...
originally posted by: JamesChessman
I double checked the other day, and plus, even your own quote, is referring to the "background here in their twitter feed," I promise that DOES mean the black-background of that webpage.
It means that black background of the Twitter feed.
That's the normal reading of it.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
Thank you, this seems to be the first new imagery that I've seen from the Mystery Hut rover mission. Not counting the super low-res Twitter thing... Thankfully your links do have higher resolution images.
If I could see these same images in hi-res, now THAT would be something exciting.
So we can see the most beautiful model in the world in hi-resolution shots from 2005, we can see the glitter in her make-up and lipstick for example.
So then here are new images from the moon in 2022, I can't see what's rocks and what's shadows, that's all, I really want hi-res versions of China's rover images.
Because China's actual lunar mission itself is amazing, and I want to see it as clearly as possible.
originally posted by: MissVocalcord
It is funny to see how they start giving every single rock and crater a name there....
originally posted by: MissVocalcord
originally posted by: JamesChessman
So what is this though, an online journal from the Chinese space agency, correct?
Space.com describes it as :
a Chinese language science outreach channel affiliated with the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
So I guess it is a bit of a promotional site for the Chinese space program.
...Also while the images are better than the previous Twitter thing, we have to be honest that even these new higher-res images are still overall pretty low-res.
Again; these images are mainly for public showing use, not research. There are thousands of images available up till April 2021. Somewhere in 2020 when the first batch of files was released people have made some translations to more easily viewable formats:
www.space.com...
dougellison.smugmug.com...
drive.google.com...
If I could see these same images in hi-res, now THAT would be something exciting.
By now you should have realised you won't be able to do that yourself, unless you get a Windows/PC machine
Btw; you say the NASAView tool doesn't work on your Mac; but what doesn't work? Does it give an error, not starting up at all, etc etc (not that it would help you with the Chinese images...)
The first image, which I made the thread about, which has the background imagery, IIRC it's the highest-res image, and the resolution has decreased in published images since then.
Which after going back at it again is that you were looking at the "wrong" picture...
Space.com credits the "our space" site as the original source for the picture.
Space.com hosts this jpg image (Width x Height = 2198 x 1143 )
cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net...
However the original source has this png image ( Width x Height = 552 x 288 )
mmbiz.qpic.cn... azy=1&wx_co=1
It looks like space.com has enlarged the image (probably with some interpolation/blurring going on) and then saved it to jpeg with the necessary compression; That is what you're looking at when you see your "buildings"; jpeg compression artifacts.
Just try to do the same brightening/contrast to the real original png image and you'll see it is much more a noisy/gradient transition as something else.
originally posted by: JamesChessman
Re: Windows: I do have a couple broken Windows computers that I will get fixed eventually, and along those lines I should be working and saving $$ as much as possible.
So eventually I'll have Windows going again and I can try that PDS software, although there are probably other solutions too, there's running a virtual machine with Windows and stuff like that, but I'm not very familiar, and like I said, real-life is what's demanding my time right now.