NASA Swamp Gas Photo

It's a scratch on the photo, just like dozens of scratches all over it, look again.

Not the white marks, try again.

Yes it is, what color do you think paper is?

Do you really not see the object I'm talking about? Look again and the object is not white.

I think it's Kami's Lookout! Knew it had to be up there somewhere.

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grey dot with grey scratch under it?

Got a good laugh out of that, thank you.

No, the giant brown/black object.

I see it now, that is where the film was clipped when it was hung up to dry, there's even a scratch on the top of it where the clip bit into the paper.

You understand it is a digital image right?

That was not a digital image, hence the scratches, and of course the CLIP MARK gives it away, how do you scratch a digital image?

The lens? And then why is there not the same mark on any other photos? Surly they made that mistake before, if it happened with this one.

That's an old photograph that was scratched up before it was digitized, there's even artifacts from the developer solution, meaning it was dirty when the photo was processed, anyone that has worked in film processing will tell you the same.

You mean the 2 dark lines on the right edge? The ones that are in all the photos before and after this photo, in the same place?

Keep trying. This is getting funny.

OMG!! I think it may be one of the missing NK subs! Lol

Clip bit the paper. Developers solution.

Lol wtf!

Those dark lines are pieces of hair or fiber that got stuck inside the camera when the lenses were last changed, it happened to me on occasion when switching between different focal length lenses, those hairs or fibers will leave a shadow on every photo in the same place until the lens is removed and cleaned.

Are you talking about the scratch in the image?

Last Edited by Bomb Cyclone on 04/28/2013 12:57 AM

Already covered that, please read above.

So what are you saying the developer solution is? The darker blue hue in the bottom right corner?

When dust or dirt particles get into the solution they will leave artifacts, "birdseye" is the term we use in the printing and photo industry, they're the little defects in the photo some look like an eye spot, some are just a "glop", they're all over the pic you posted.

NASA develops digital images from ISS at a horrible quality, then scans them back to a digital image to upload to their server. Why not print it with a high quality ink printer, then scan them back to a digital image?

Best argument ever. NASA is going to steal this one.

it's just a bug on the camera lens.

Because there are so many bugs running around the ISS.

I don't know where you got the picture from, but it definitely wasn't digital, they probably came from the early space shuttle missions, because that was definitely an old photo that was scanned and posted without being cleaned up.

They wouldn't tell us if there was...

You got the image number in the link, look it up.

I SEE THAT BROWN LONG OBJECT TOP OF PAGE