I did a quick blow up and enhancement of the image.
...turned it 90 degrees as well.
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Quoting: Useless Cookie Eater Looks like some kind of futuristic spacecraft Mr Cookie Monster.
How would you know how such a thing would look like?
Hollywood movies are not a tech reference.
What's going on with the massive north western European debunking?
Quoting: World_TV_Watcher Don't you want to know what it is?
You prefer fantasy?
Halcyon Dayz, i'm still waiting for the Apollo 11 communication data rates and error correction protocols...
Quoting: World_TV_Watcher Have you tried NASA?
Object seems to be too big to be junk, and the images with the lights doesn't look like debris
Quoting: World_TV_Watcher So how big is it, and aren't those just reflections?
Most Earth observation satellites are in
NEAR polar orbits.
It's the sole reason of existence for the launch facility at Vandenburg AFB.
One degree off isn't polar enough for you?
You wouldn't want all the orbits to cross at one point, increases the chance of collision.
Why does everybody think there is something magical about polar orbits?
It just has a higher energy requirement than eastward orbits.
The object in the picture is NOT in a polar orbit, the existence of the picture itself proofs it.
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Nonsense, polar and equatorial orbits can cross each other.
Only at very high speeds.
Any object in a polar orbit would have swooped by at 7 klicks per second
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD It's a photographic screenshot, not a vid.
It's a
photograph. Made on ordinary Kodak colour film.
So NOT with a superfast shutter. If it were moving at such high speeds you'd get a streak at best.
There's no indication of movement at all.
And there are
6 photographs of it, I.E. it didn't move much between shots.
There are several pictures and they are more or less in focus, i.e. the object's orbit closely matches that of the Orbiter.
Most parsimonious explanation is that the object is something that came of the Orbiter.
Quoting: Halcyon Dayz, FCD Parsimonius indeed.
You don't like parsimony?
It's a very useful intellectual tool.
I think it's rather small and close to the camera.
IOW space debris.
Just as the caption reads: [
link to eol.jsc.nasa.gov]
I think it's rather big and clicks away.
On what grounds?
If and when it's in a polar orbit is up for debate.
Quoting: Dutch Coward 32129936 It's not, for the reasons I mentioned.
The thing in the pictures is not the BKS, if there exists such a thing.
Question is, why would NASA leak this picture on their own server no less..????
Quoting: Swedish Coward 29898248 "The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth" [
link to eol.jsc.nasa.gov]
is where you can request downloads of pretty much every picture ever taken of Earth from space by NASA astronauts.
They got more than a million so they're not all hosted online but can be requested from the archives.
So it's not a leak, it's a feature.
And they obviously don't think they've got any secrets to keep.
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES THAT NOT EVEN LOOK LIKE EARTH IN ALL THOSE PICTURES???
Quoting: Dr. Charles Norris Yes, it's just you.
earth isnt that color
Quoting: Dr. Charles Norris Never seen a sunset?
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 32544514 That's Laguna Colorado in Bolivia's Altiplano.
well i found the launch of Corona, Discoverer 5, 1959
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Quoting: Ostria1 The CIA Corona programme was classified at the time, and used the USAF's Discovery programme as a cover.
The exposed films were indeed returned to Earth in little re-entry capsules.
They are all gone now, in LEO there's still enough air molecules wandering around to slowly deorbit everything up there.
The ISS has to have its orbit boosted every six months or so.
Its all right on their website. Nothing is hidden:
[
link to eol.jsc.nasa.gov]
look under STS088-724-66 to find the pic or just got to page 28 and see them all. The caption says it is space debris.
space debris, yeah right.....do you beliebe in NASA?
I do believe it exists, yes.
They are the source of these images.
