NASA caught Photoshopping an image of Saturn’s moons. What were they looking to hide? [Space Porn]

Oct 10th 2010
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A conspiracy theorist noticed that an image in NASA’s Astronomy Picture Of The Day had noticeable Photoshop brushstrokes in it, once you turned up the contrast. Is there a mysterious object hiding near Saturn’s moons?

Check out the official image of Dione and Titan, above . A YouTube user named DominatorPS3 turned up the contrast on the image, and discovered brush strokes. You may very nearly see a ” rainbow aura” around the thing that’s been blacked out.

As quoted by Fox News , DominatorPS3 said: ” More solid proof of NASA/ government cover-ups. And here’s recent. You are able to try this yourself!!”

Dominator PS3′s tell-all YouTube video has been taken down, allegedly because he received death threats. But he’s publish a follow-up video, which you’ll be able to watch here .

NASA’s Emily Lakdawalla, who was accountable for the photoshopping, explained it over at Planetary.org:

Cassini takes color pictures by snapping three sequential photos through red, green, and blue filters. Inside the time that separated the three frames, Dione moved, so if I did an effortless color composite i’d have the ability to make Titan look right, but not Dione; or Dione look right, but not Titan. So I aligned Dione, cut it out, and then aligned Titan, and then had to account for the missing bits of shadow where the bits of Dione have been in two of the three channels.

She explains the process further here , showing how some other images of Saturn and its moons were photoshopped – but she didn’t post any raw images of the Dione/Titan image that caused the talk. So no less than some conspiracy theorists were not appeased, demanding to work out the raw images. Update: She did actually include a link to the raw image feed, where you are able to grab it.

What do you believe? Did NASA really attempt to hide evidence of extraterrestrial life by photoshopping a picture – and then making that picture is Astronomy Picture Of The Day, to simply confuse us further? It’s so crazy, it might probably just be true! [ Fox News ]

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