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8 years 9 months ago #2137 by dude
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CUROSITY ROVER
SOL 532
NAVCAM LEFT B
TIMES; 19:17:43 & 19:18:14
A VERY SHINY METALLIC FLYING SAUCER HAS LANDED ON A ROCK & THEN IN THE NEXT IMAGE (31 SECONDS LATER) IT HAS VANISHED! IT MUST BE OBSERVING OUR ROVER AND GOT CAUGHT BY OUR CAMERA BY ACCIDENT.
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8 years 9 months ago #2164 by Dawn
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Okay, I hope I found the right one, at the least the one image has the UFO on it. I used Paint as it's easier for me to use the boxes and arrows in Paint than in my other program, but I couldn't lighten them up to get better contrast. Do you suppose the Rover just moved over enough that the rock that it was sitting on was behind the hill in the second image? Pretty interesting--it may be something prosaic, but it certainly is shaped like the traditional "saucer". Nice catch!
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8 years 9 months ago #2168 by Todd
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That one is hard to identify since the corresponding right image would obscure the light if it was there, so there is no way of telling if the light is present in the right image. Like most of the bright spots in the Curiosity navcam images, it's most likely a sun glint off a reflective rock or a cosmic ray striking the detector creating data fallout. This happens frequently with the SOHO mission.
soho.nascom.nasa.gov/hotshots/2003_01_17/full.gif
www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=4102
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8 years 9 months ago #2169 by dude
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hi todd & jane doe, I hope you go back and look at my original jpeg's and just enlarge them 4X and you will see the same rock clearly. I was excited to find a "before" and "after " shot of this anomaly. after scanning thousands of images I feel it is so rare to find signs of movement or changes since we have no way to overlay these photos on top of each other. thanks for the remarks since I still feel this is one my best finds. please do more enhancements to show this better.

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8 years 9 months ago #2171 by Todd
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The camera appears to have moved position for the next image, so if it was a bright reflection, the vantage point for the reflection likely changed making it go away. Each navcam has its own detector, so if it was a cosmic ray, it would likely appear only once in either the left or right camera.
www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/publications/Mark_Maimone/fulltext.pdf

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