"No sooner had Nasa published images of an ice lake inside a crater on the Martian plain Vastitas Borealis, than internet exo-archaeologists were excitedly pointing out the crumbled ruins of a vast, ancient city on the crater's banks."
This article goes on to compare one person's interpretation of JPG imaging artifacts to the Cydonia controversy, which has engaged academics and credentialed scientists for over two decades.
In the writer's view, the demonstrably nonexistent etchings on the ice crater's bank and the forms in the Cydonia Mensae region -- including five-sided pyramids of varying sizes and orientation, tantalizing squares and mathematically consistent "mounds" located south of a most interesting collection of larger geometric oddities -- are evidentially equivalent.
Neat trick.
Perhaps if I didn't read drek like this on a regular basis I'd be somewhat appalled. But depressingly, this is the "state of the art" when it comes to mainstream coverage of the anomalous.
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The last Skipper "enhancement" I'm aware of involved overbaked pixels from a computer-generated illustration showing what a certain landform would look like from an angle. In other words, it wasn't even a real picture.
As Sauceruney has pointed out, you can get raw data online before atempting any sort of processing. This is what any serious researcher should do.
The main reason why "people" who jump at every jpeg artifact and shout "anomaly" totally piss me off.
Yep, MSM at its "finest."
That's why I don't touch the stuff unless absolutely necessary.
I remember the "nuked the face" comment. It was just that, a comment. Someone left it in TEM's message forum.
Maybe Hoagland does work for the CIA/NSA
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