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by CatchDude
Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:34 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Phobos from Mars Express (2010 Mar 17)
Replies: 53
Views: 22792

Re: APOD: Phobos from Mars Express (2010 Mar 17)

What I find interesting is that there is a strange snaking trail of small asteroid impacts (that being an assumption, it could be something else that created the holes) going from the large crater on the left to the bottom right in this picture. Even though there's multiple impact sites visible, thi...
by CatchDude
Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:30 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)
Replies: 238
Views: 64204

Re: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript (2010 Jan 31)

After looking at it from a astronomical/scientific point of view, I wonder what a psychiatrist would make of it. (I'm not saying that's not science. ;-) Could it not be that someone tried to make records of psychadelic experiences in this book? It is safe to assume it would be very hard to comprehen...
by CatchDude
Tue Dec 15, 2009 11:27 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)
Replies: 23
Views: 11050

Re: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)

With those walls slightly curving inward, it kind of reminds me of the shapes you get when putting a sheet over a speaker that's laid down on its back and then putting some sand on it. Once you run some sound-pulses through them, you get these strange shapes made of sand with curved 'legs' which mov...
by CatchDude
Mon Dec 14, 2009 3:32 pm
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: APOD: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)
Replies: 23
Views: 11050

Re: Saturns Hexagon Comes to Light (2009 Dec 14)

Why is the central part blacked-out artificially? Is it because the picture of the hexagon shaped cloud is made up out of multiple pictures which did not include the centre, is the centre maybe unusually brightly lid so it had to be blacked out just like the sun is on the SOHO lasco pictures? Or is ...