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Offline Tom Bishop

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Re: Mars Curiosity Rover - Rock Issues
« Reply #80 on: August 05, 2018, 09:40:33 PM »
Well I'll provide and example anyway.

I used the on-line app here: https://www.dermandar.com/create/

Here is a composite image of rock outcropping.  It is composed of 6 different images that were combined automatically at the above site:
https://i.imgur.com/r9OQrTq.jpg

Here is a close up of the middle of that image.  Note the circled rocks:
https://i.imgur.com/CoSnoSk.jpg

here are images 4 and 5 of the sequence:
https://i.imgur.com/uw50LNc.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/IADyX1d.jpg

and close ups of where the software got the previously noted rocks:
https://i.imgur.com/d6cIdZE.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ZD5SRv0.jpg

There are many more errors in that composite.  this is just one example.  If anyone wants to explore it a bit more I can provide the other 4 frames.  It's pretty easy to see how these automated image stitching routines can easily make errors like the ones Tom claims are the result of some fancy conspiracy.  Of course Occam's Razor tells us this without all the hoopla in the fist place.

It didn't delete or rearrange any rocks individuallly, it just chose to overlay one version of the rocks (image 4) in preference of the other image. Its an overlay issue.

Those rock arrangements still exist in both raw images.

The rocks in the curiosity selfie have been rearranged in odd ways that is difficult to attribute to an overlay issue. Unlike your example, the arrangement doesn't even exist in the raw images.

Re: Mars Curiosity Rover - Rock Issues
« Reply #81 on: August 06, 2018, 03:18:57 AM »
ever thought that the image could be taken at different angles