01-31-2011, 10:53 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-31-2011, 11:02 PM by Peregrinus.)
(01-31-2011, 10:26 PM)zenmaster Wrote: It's another extremely common imaging artifact of the camera's CCD. Cosmic rays impact the sensors, impart their electrical charge, and create such streaks. Please look it up - it's one of the reasons satellites and space ships have radiation shielding.I'm surprised you didn't call it a weather balloon or swamp gas. This item would be there every day if it were as you suggest.
(01-31-2011, 10:26 PM)zenmaster Wrote: The original photo was not taken offline (of course).I downloaded the rest of the day. That one and the one before and after were gone. I have a witness to that.
(01-31-2011, 10:26 PM)zenmaster Wrote: And, of course, the artifact was not there the entire day.I've got at least 20 other pics from the same day showing the same artifact at multiple times and angles in orbit. It has specific characteristics that can be easily seen to be the same, which would not happen if this were random streaks.
Another blip... for your debunking. Enjoy.
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