by Kathryn Hansen NASA Earth Observatory
Every month on Earth Matters, we offer a puzzling satellite image. The October 2018 puzzler is above. Your challenge is to use the comments section to tell us what we are looking at and why it is interesting.
How to answer. You can use a few words or several paragraphs. You might simply tell us the location. Or you can dig deeper and explain what satellite and instrument produced the image, what spectral bands were used to create it, or what is compelling about some obscure feature in the image. If you think something is interesting or noteworthy, tell us about it.
The prize. We can’t offer prize money or a trip to Mars, but we can promise you credit and glory. Well, maybe just credit. Roughly one week after a puzzler image appears on this blog, we will post an annotated and captioned version as our Image of the Day. After we post the answer, we will acknowledge the first person to correctly identify the image at the bottom of this blog post. We also may recognize readers who offer the most interesting tidbits of information about the geological, meteorological, or human processes that have shaped the landscape. Please include your preferred name or alias with your comment. If you work for or attend an institution that you would like to recognize, please mention that as well.
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Its the prototype of Elon’s new battery, designed in conjunction with Apple in deference to the late Steve Jobs.
The battery equivalent of an oil tanker and we see it here undergoing sea trials in a place where they thought no-one would see it.
Under a cloud. In fact lots of clouds coz that’s where its all at these days. yeah?
But of course, clouds ain’t all they’re cracked up to be. Bit like Windows 10 not least.
Basically, it sails around the globe to sunny places, charges itself up and brings the juice home or to wherever its needed.
Saves all the grief of running wires around the world, especially through places where The Natives are, shall we say, less than hospitable. And would probably pinch all that copper and melt it down for recycling = most anywhere in the UK where ‘travellers’ may be spotted.
Well, that was easy.
next
Peta of Newark
Ooooooo……you’re skating on thin ice (coffin) mentioning ‘travellers’ in a derogatory manner.
I mean, we can’t say anything about Anjem Choudary being released from jail this week lest we’re tracked down by the thought police.
“………the prisons minister, Rory Stewart, said Choudary, from Ilford in east London, remained a “genuinely dangerous” figure and that the “completely pernicious” cleric would be watched “very, very carefully” by police and security services.”
Why don’t I believe that?
The white stuff is in several pieces, starting with three pieces near the head and a long thin tail.
Looks to me like the white background is to help gauge water color an albedo.
The water is an Arctic or Greenland melt pond with clumps of snow on the surface of the melted water .
Antarctic ice berg, one of the bigger, several miles long at least.
It’s the crypt of Great Cthulhu, R’lyeh risen from the (wait for it) icy depths!
World’s largest Baked Alaska escapes from Al Gore’s Fortress of Solitude. BOLO! BOLO!
“Unless you send money now, the planet will turn into one giant, encompassing dessert,” warns new IPCC head Leonardo Dimutant Ninja.
What we see here is the coffin climate alarmism will be buried in. Its remains have to go somewhere.
It’s a giant Arctic halibut, floating belly up, dead because global warming
It is a fabricated image. Not sure how it was done but suggest: Crop out the clouds shown above the geometric shape and slightly zoom in to produce an image. Next generate the geometric shape. Then place these two images on top of the background clouds with the enhanced clouds on top. Bingo!
The shadows on the enhanced clouds do not tie in with the background clouds. At the lower left hand side of the coffin there is an odd patch where the cropping got abit out of sync. methinks.
Earth trolling NASA.
It’s the monolith from 2001, complete with snow-monkeys.
You can’t see them because they are behind the clouds.
NASA’s photogrammetrists have way too much time on their hands.
It resembles an arrowhead.
Tabular iceberg
Believe you are correct.
At least this observation and characterization is near-frame. That said, science has evolved as a pattern matching hobby — consistent with.
Speaking of pattern matching, I read a very interesting article in the October issue of Astronomy magazine about the “Zooniverse Projects”.
This is a program where volunteers are used to search, as one example, through images and locate such things as gravitational lenses, an area where humans are superior to computers.
It’s Citizen Science in action and looks exciting. There’s even a climate change project, although I have no idea what they do there.
It’s a giant coffin. The clue is in the title dummies.
You ask, what is it? Obviously, by circular reasoning: it is a satellite image of giant coffin-shaped entity shrouded in clouds.
Do I win?
Well, even place second for correct hyphenation??
It’s a giant white sheet of plastic sent up by the AGW crowd to reflect the sun’s heat and save us all from GW etc.
sea ice seems far too easy to guess. it’s all i have though.
Second and last entry from me (the above article did NOT say only one entry from any person):
You ask, what is it? “It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
—with full credit given to former US President Bill Clinton.
Accumulation of snow along the ridge of a mountain. So perhaps a glacier in Idahoe?
Is it a tall white structure?
We just see a coffin shape because the clouds disguise the corners of the structure, spoiling the perspective that would otherwise be obvious. Suggesting it’s coffin shaped in the preamble leads the brain down the wrong path.
It is a giant ice coffins carved out by Green Peace from Antarctic sheet ice to advertise the threat of Global Warming.
However, due to the specifics of shape, distance and resolution I contend that it is
Iceberg A68 prior to become A68A and A68B
It’s the wreck of the Bismarck (or the Yamato), which slowly filled with methane-water ice clathrate over the years. Global warming totally triggered the sudden decomposition of the clathrate, filling the hull with methane and raising the wreck to the surface. The white is just froth, like on any decent pint of Guinness.
This game is easy.
A northern snow covered island.
Obviously, nature is signifying the death knell of the “CO2 control-knob” meme. It’s the clouds, stupid!