Comments on: Where In The Universe Challenge #22

By: genesis continuous

genesis continuous — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:43:53 +0000

Wow! I guessed it was earth, but Satel Light is a terrific artist.

David

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 20:04:27 +0000

Well, I agree that by adulterating the photo (montage) it takes away from the reality that allows for educated tries. The only place in the solar system with that much yellow is Io and yet we don't have any extreme close ups of that moon so I gave up. Reading the answer didn't make me feel any better.

By: Dori

Dori — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:52:45 +0000

Well, at least I got the right planet, though I thought it was a caldera on some island somewhere. Looked to me like there was a spray of water hitting the cliffs at the top of the photo, just left of center.

By: Vino

Vino — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:02:08 +0000

I thought it was Mars…

By: Navneeth

Navneeth — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:47:10 +0000

Earth…yes! Otherwise I was clueless.

By: LLDIAZ

LLDIAZ — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:51:17 +0000

I thought Venus.
The colors threw me off…

By: Pedro

Pedro — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:41:56 +0000

I thought it was earth, but – I don't know why – I receive the newsletter almost 12 hours and It was allready solved.

But I'll just keep on the game just for the sheer fun of it!

Pedro

By: Dankwa

Dankwa — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:32:12 +0000

Got Earth correct. My 2nd time of nailing 1/2 of the answer. I am still hopeful that one day I will get the spacecraft correct. Great image, learnt something new.

By: Price

Price — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:37:30 +0000

The vertical exaggeration was a great shame. The image was not 'taken' – it was constructed from 2 or more disparate images. 'Taken' implies captured without gross manipulation. Until now I have enjoyed these image quizzes.

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:14:20 +0000

Yellowstone in earth

By: Luis

Luis — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:13:12 +0000

Yellowstone

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:00:24 +0000

Now this was somewhat unfair. The vertical exaggeration made me assume that it could not be Earth since the slopes looked to steep. My guess was thus that it would be Mars with some kind of false colour mineral map. Though the "river" beds did give it away a little so I was considering the Earth. Obviously the feature was not one that I was aware of so I didn't have that for free. Distorting an image to this degree makes deducing the location very hard.

/Adam

By: newton

newton — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:11:51 +0000

TITAN

By: Astrofiend

Astrofiend — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 04:05:37 +0000

Got Earth, got 'a desert somewhere'.

No idea of the satellite that snapped it though…

By: Micah Sittig

Micah Sittig — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:21:53 +0000

I guessed Earth/satellite, but had no idea what/who. There are more pictures of the structure on Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=all&q=Richat+Structure&m=text

Including this striking perspective:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25946251@N08/2514069722/

By: Frank

Frank — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:19:02 +0000

I guessed Io…boy was I off.

By: Nexus

Nexus — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 03:09:55 +0000

I guessed Mars, and either Spirit or Opportunity. I was wrong.

By: RL

RL — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:52:51 +0000

D'OH! I guessed Mars. My son guessed Venus.

I was thinking Earth but changed my answer.

Maybe next time!

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:09:01 +0000

OK, this is a famous circular structure in the Sahara desert which is not an impact crater and whose name I don't recall now. So the planet is Earth. That's definitely.

As for the spacecraft, well, I don't think I'm gonna nail it. The colours are too crisp to be a simple picture shot from the ISS by an astronaut. I'd expect some blue haze with that perspective. So I would guess it to be an enhanced colour picture shot from some other Earth orbiter. Or the result of post treatement of a vertical photo with a digital elevation model of some sort.

Let's see now…

Wow! Apart from the names of the structure and the orbiter I did great!

I think I'm putting this one on the success column…

By: Michael Foerster

Michael Foerster — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:00:03 +0000

Richat Structure, Mauritania, EARTH (my favorite planet!)

It has to be Shuttle radar.

GOT IT! (I don't get all the "Where in the U" subjects, but this image is already one of my favorites)