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From: Don Allen <dona@totcon.com>
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 23:25:04 -0400
Fwd Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 01:41:17 -0400
Subject: Re: Mars Pathfinder Photo #81977

At 11:58 AM 07/27/97 -0400, Desiree Holloway wrote:

>From: "the snakester" <snake@mwaz.com> [Desiree Holloway]
>To: "UFO UpDates - Toronto" <updates@globalserve.net>
>Subject: Re: UFO UpDate: Re: Mars Pathfinder Photo #81977
>Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 07:59:57 -0700

>> To: updates@globalserve.net
>> Subject: Re: Mars Pathfinder Photo #81977
>> From: budscan@juno.com (Bud Jamison)
>> Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 22:04:04 EDT

>> Right, NASA is so incompetent that they accidentally put up
>> a picture offering proof of an extinct Martian civilization
>> on their website, just long enough for a few people to
>> capture it, then they change it, and expect no one to notice.

>> I believe that.

>1) I NEVER claimed that the whatzit in the photo was PROOF
>of anything, much less an extinct Martian civilization! I
>merely questioned what it was.

>2) I can only tell you the facts. The picture was there, it
>was gone for a while, it came back...with a grainy texture
>in the background that was not previously there. Why this
>happened I don't know.

>3)  The object in the picture is faint enough that it is
>possible that they could have missed it initially.

Yes, it's an oddity but most likely caused by something in
the CCD camera imaging for that particular picture, noise
perhaps, or a bad CRC in transmission, which isn't
unheard of.

I've d/l over 30 megs of the Pathfinder pix in the last
2 weeks. I used to be able to get into the plain directory
at http://mars.sgi.com/ops where all these photos
were, including ones that weren't even thumnailed or
made it onto the main public page...but they have now
put that directory off limits. The CCD camera has limits,
that's why you only see small squares stitched together
for mosaics.

Very few of the photos I got from the /ops directory
are what you would consider "high detailed resolution".
A large portion are very grainy, and the gamma is way
too dark in many, however I didn't see anything to
indicate some kind of "bait and switch" was going on
in the few days that I had access to the direct
(mirrored) picture folder.

Don