Debunked: Blurred NASA image on Mars [Stitched in part of the Rover]

[Joe]

VIDEO Claiming blurred image on Mars panoramic photo is a Martian Artifact

Video
and My response to the Video there is nothing there but rocks in the original photo http://mars.nasa.gov/multimedia/interactives/billionpixel/index.cfm?image=PIA16918&view=pano

Screenshot

 

[Auldy]

I can't find this blurred image in the panoramic either.

Fake/hoax?

 

[deirdre]

yea I only see rocks in the original too.

 

[Joe]

I can't find this blurred image in the panoramic either.

Fake/hoax?

here is the Blurred image they used for the video http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/124981/snapshots/420909

 

[GregMc]

Pretty clearly (well, not so clear) it's the blurred top section of the robotic arm as seen above the cylindrical motor as seen in this pic:
https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/de863e28f38301734a47053e1b51119f.jpg

 

[Auldy]

It's a copy of the rock group below the 'blurred image', then been blurred. A doctored image.

Either that or it's a prototype chemtrail Mars rover that was blurred in the original upload, but removed now.

 

[GregMc]

In other words, a blurred view of this component from the robotic arm viewed from a slightly different angle. This is a crop of the image I linked to above

 

[Joe]

View attachment 10102 In other words, a blurred view of this component from the robotic arm viewed from a slightly different angle. This is a crop of the image I linked to above

They were claiming it was a artifact or little alien and NASA blurred the Image to hide it from us . Or as some commentators said "it was filmed in the desert and was a was a coke bottle or trash" .

 

[Trigger Hippie]

The blurred image comes from Gigpan.com. According to Wikipedia, Gigapan is an open website where users can upload and share images. This particular blured image was uploaded by the user MPJ.

The NASA image can be found here.

When you over lay the NASA image over the one published on Gigapan you get this:

It could be a hoax, or it might be a processing error that happened when the panorama image was stitched from the many Mastcam images.

 

[Mick West]

Not a hoax, just bad stitching. Should have removed this image from the set.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?rawid=0072MR0005610190103644E01_DXXX&s=72

Via:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/raw/?s=72&camera=MAST_

You can see other images that have part of the Rover in the way of the camera.

The date range was found from the Gigapan description, Sol 67-75

 

[GregMc]

Agree. Here's the same component roughly scaled similarly but the insert is viewed at a different angle so the curvatures do not accurately match due to perspective. The specular highlights of the two tube like fastners are visible in the corresponding area of the "creature"

 

[Lolly Gags]

I love how around 1:26 it was insinuated life was much smaller there so I was able to entertain the idea that I was looking at a blurred out tiny town. Unfortunately, for me to take that idea and run with it I would also have to accept that my life was being indirectly (or directly) manipulated by a sinister cabal that has yet to figure out the clone stamp tool in photoshop, which would be embarrassing for all parties involved.

 

[Rico]

Because martians, aliens, and UFOs are ALWAYS blurred. I suspect that since man started documented them, they really don't like to be seen too clearly. They must have low self-esteem or something.

 

[Mick West]

"Levitating" rock image debunk moved to:
https://www.metabunk.org/threads/debunked-mars-levitating-rock-optical-illusion-two-rocks.5048/