Artificial?

• by Yoza

  The bottom/middle of this image has an object that I haven't seen in many other images which I have viewed. Could this object be artificial - as in one of the Mars probes or its delivery systems?

  Posted August 27, 2013 12:39 PM

• by p.titchin in response to Yoza's comment.

  Hi Yoza , Looks like a bad pixel. APF00003wz is another the same . Ill try to find it.--Got it, 😃 Ive put it on this chat board under 'bad pixel. Hope it helps. It would have been nice if it was a lander ! ~Pete

  Posted August 27, 2013 1:11 PM

• by Kitharode moderator in response to Yoza's comment.

  Excuse the pun, but there's a few of these dotted about the place and the general concensus leans towards 'bad pixel'. Good find though, Yoza, and a bit of scrap spacecraft might well show up like this.

  Posted August 27, 2013 9:07 PM

• by Yoza

  Thanks for the feedback. I was having a look at the moon survey site and they had a picture of one of the Russian landers and it showed up as a dot like this. Cheers.

  Posted August 28, 2013 1:41 AM

• by Yoza

  I just had a look at the bad pixel and you're right, it is exactly the same.

  Posted August 28, 2013 1:43 AM