NASA caught Photoshopping an image of Saturn's moons.

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]

[QUOTE="Dr_Manfattan"]

no, all you're seeig is another NASA photoshop

Wolls

This guy gets it! Flags dont wave in space bro. Common logic.

I consider it more about the conspiracy theorists arrogance that they some how see the "truth" but no one else...

[QUOTE="Dr_Manfattan"]

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

WE CAN take shots from observatories of the site...

sSubZerOo

no, all you're seeig is another NASA photoshop

Except NASA doesn't own every observatory in the world.. There are numerous independent ones.. THEY MUST ALL BE IN ON IT!

Whos to say they arent? Hell Id be in on it too if I was getting bribed to keep my mouth shut. But Im here to tell you the truth.

I wish I could 'shop raw data.

I just did the brightness thing on the image. There definitely IS something there that doesn't belong. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories... but my question is what the hell is that?! :PManiacc1

Already explained in the first post. :P

NASA's Emily Lakdawalla, who was responsible for the photoshopping, explained it over at Planetary.org:

Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels.

She explains the process further here, showing how some other images of Saturn and its moons have been photoshopped — but she didn't post any raw images of the Dione/Titan image that caused the controversy. So at least some conspiracy theorists were not appeased, demanding to see the raw images.

TheShadowLord07

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Yeah its a conspiracy even though we can see the landing site as well as the stuff left there including a flag..

PannicAtack

The flag was waving. How can it do that in a place with no air?

If they're hiding the existence of aliens out there, then why the hell would they show the pic in the first place? :?

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

[QUOTE="Dr_Manfattan"]

no, all you're seeig is another NASA photoshop

Capitan_Kid

Except NASA doesn't own every observatory in the world.. There are numerous independent ones.. THEY MUST ALL BE IN ON IT!

Whos to say they arent? Hell Id be in on it too if I was getting bribed to keep my mouth shut. But Im here to tell you the truth.

Ah yes, all the money flying around in Big Astronomy is appalling isn't it?xaos

I haven't seen such decadence since the '80s.

[QUOTE="xaos"] Ah yes, all the money flying around in Big Astronomy is appalling isn't it?entropyecho

I haven't seen such decadence since the '80s.

This would explain why all the photos of the moon don't look like cheese.

If that's the alien's space fleet, would it arrive the designated time(Oct. 13th)? Seems far from our home sweet home. :P

WOW! Look what I found when I lightened the image even more:

WOW! Look what I found when I lightened the image even more:

Installing

Isn't that just an effect when you make the brightness of the pic higher?

[QUOTE="Maniacc1"]I just did the brightness thing on the image. There definitely IS something there that doesn't belong. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories... but my question is what the hell is that?! :PGabuEx

Already explained in the first post. :P

NASA's Emily Lakdawalla, who was responsible for the photoshopping, explained it over at Planetary.org:

Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels.

She explains the process further here, showing how some other images of Saturn and its moons have been photoshopped - but she didn't post any raw images of the Dione/Titan image that caused the controversy. So at least some conspiracy theorists were not appeased, demanding to see the raw images.

TheShadowLord07

They didn't do it very well! I still see some green stuff.

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]

[QUOTE="sSubZerOo"]

Yeah its a conspiracy even though we can see the landing site as well as the stuff left there including a flag..

Rckstrchik

The flag was waving. How can it do that in a place with no air?

[QUOTE="Rckstrchik"]

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]

The flag was waving. How can it do that in a place with no air?

Cheesehead9099

conspiracy theorist

TheShadowLord07

A YouTube user named DominatorPS3TheShadowLord07

DominatorPS3: the most trusted name in news!xaos

That would be DominatorXbox360, dammit. :evil:

[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]A YouTube user named DominatorPS3SeraphimGoddess

[QUOTE="SeraphimGoddess"][QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]A YouTube user named DominatorPS3xaos

ps3 has no aliensSeraphimGoddess

I'm pretty sure the chimera are alien

[QUOTE="SeraphimGoddess"]ps3 has no aliensTheShadowLord07

I'm pretty sure the chimera are alien

[QUOTE="Maniacc1"]I just did the brightness thing on the image. There definitely IS something there that doesn't belong. I'm not one to believe in conspiracy theories... but my question is what the hell is that?! :PGabuEx

Already explained in the first post. :P

NASA's Emily Lakdawalla, who was responsible for the photoshopping, explained it over at Planetary.org:

Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. In the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did a simple color composite I would be able to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione had been in two of the three channels.

She explains the process further here, showing how some other images of Saturn and its moons have been photoshopped — but she didn't post any raw images of the Dione/Titan image that caused the controversy. So at least some conspiracy theorists were not appeased, demanding to see the raw images.

TheShadowLord07

Exactly.

See...I don't know if people realize this, but their color digital cameras don't actually record color. They record LUMINOSITY. Each photosite is only designed to record HOW MUCH light is reaching that photosite. The reason that our digital cameras produce color pictures is because each photosite has a red, green, or blue filter over it. It's then possible to use the luminosity value from the red photosite, match that with the luminosity from the R, G, and B photosites next to it, and then ARTIFICIALLY determine the color for each individual pixel based on a complex mathematical formula which takes into account the luminosity from all adjacent photosites.

Again, no color recorded. Just luminosity values which go through either the red, green, or blue filters.

I don't know crap about NASA technology, but the explanation provided is a perfectly 100% satisfying explanation. It's merely just a different variant on producing a color image by combining different data from separate color channels. That's it. Unless anyone can show that that's not how the camera on the spacecraft works, then the explanation for the Photoshopping seems entirely plausible.

This is what NASA wants us to think. Got you there, huh?

They couldn't just be cleaning up an image? I believe in intelligent life elsewhere, but this new alien fad is getting out of control. It's more annoying than the swine flu and earthquake fads combined.

Pirate700

On the earthquakes, that is how many major earthquakes happen yearly. It's just that the media actually decided to report on them. Swine flu is a completely different matter. The thing about swine flu was that if it had managed to mutant along side another, easily transferable flu virus the results could have been disastrous. If left alone h1n1 was only dangerous to the very young and the elderly; the average, healthy adult should have been able to fight it off. We're long overdue for an epidemic, something chalked up to the success of modern medicine, so it's always better to be on the safe side. Anyway, yes, the media did greatly over exaggerate both. I'm with you on this though; if they were going to try to cover it up why release the pic. The gaps in logic are hilarious. :lol:

yeah I like photoshopping moons :? .................................but I probably in a different way :(

It's obviously shopped. I can tell because of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time.

I kept on enhancing it and look what I found!

I kept on enhancing it and look what I found!

Installing

Oh ****, we have about 3 days guys. I better go get my Ocarina back from that damn Skull kid.

What I want to know is who goes through all of NASA's photos, trying to find something that doesn't look quite right.Z0MBIES

i find it ridiculous that they have to photoshop the pictures in the first place. i mean, people want to see what the objects in space ACTUALLY look like without edits. it's not like we're looking at magazine models here.rowzzr

We can't see what they actually look like. See the post above, we're just taking several different pcitures of different wavelengths and putting them together to make a picture that better represents the actual thing.

i find it ridiculous that they have to photoshop the pictures in the first place. i mean, people want to see what the objects in space ACTUALLY look like without edits. it's not like we're looking at magazine models here.rowzzr

I hope you realize that a HELL of a lot of objects that NASA has photographed and then released photos of DON'T LOOK LIKE ANYTHING. Because they're freaking false-color images photgraphed in the part of the spectrum which is INVISIBLE to the human eye.

It's really no different than when the weather guy "shows you" what the weather looks like by slapping some red and green blobs on screen.

NASA doesn't afraid of anything

ahaha, that has to be one of the worst photoshops ever :lol:

I hope that I have the original unphotoshopped picture of it.

well there you have it ladies

tycho magnetic anomaly-2, or i'll eat my old hat

i find it ridiculous that they have to photoshop the pictures in the first place. i mean, people want to see what the objects in space ACTUALLY look like without edits. it's not like we're looking at magazine models here.rowzzr

If it was something to hide they wouldn't use the picture at all.

What I want to know is who goes through all of NASA's photos, trying to find something that doesn't look quite right.Z0MBIES