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.
Recent winners. If you’ve won the puzzler in the past few months or if you work in geospatial imaging, please hold your answer for at least a day to give less experienced readers a chance to play.
Releasing Comments. Savvy readers have solved some puzzlers after a few minutes. To give more people a chance to play, we may wait between 24 to 48 hours before posting comments.
Good luck!
NOTE: WUWT readers are welcome to comment and speculate here, but to win the contest, you will need to post the comment on the NASA website here
Thanks, Anthony
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Trust me, I know what it is. And no, you can’t see the data. Nor am I going to tell you. But if you don’t do exactly as I say, the planet is doomed.
From the comments I’ve read, and eliminating those I haven’t read or have not been made yet, I’d say there is a 97% consensus … of … something that has to do with what you said.
The right side of the berg is chaos, the left side a kind of orderliness.
A colorized photo of Howard Hughes’ secret Spruce flying wing Goose before it broke through the clouds.
Al Gore and friends trying to make a point,
An electron microscope image blown up?
Did anyone say it was life size?
This is the coffin the Global Warming farce will be buried in
Goth skate board in a cloud of marijuana smoke?
So that is where my kite wound up? Can I get it back, please? It takes a lot of thread to sew that much silk together.
1 – It’s a ginormous iceberg that Al Gorebull is renting space on for his Fear of Warming lectures. It only looks tall. Reality is that it is barely six inches above the water line.
2 – It’s a party platform for college students on midterm breaks.
3 – It’s a cloud painting by Andrew Wyeth.
4 – Looks like a great place to start a Frozen Dairy Things shack.
As you have said it is a satellite image.
I’ll go for Bouvet Island in the South Atlantic
London,
Doesn’t appear to be the right shape:
It is Lusy
Without peanuts.
I am really astounded that the normally astute readers of this blog have not recognized the obvious.
This is a photo of Dracula’s coffin taken as it was being transported from Transylvania.
Due to global warming, it became too hot on the ship, so it was placed into the water and is now floating into port.
It is a snow covered island that has never had snow at this time of the year before as far back as our records go.
The comments are all awesome! I miss the upvote button. That said, it is obviously a coffin large enough to inter all the busted climate theories.
It’s a polar bear cruise ship… 😁
I really have no idea what it is but I surrender. If you torture me all I am going to give is my name and address and the fact that I believe it is a satellite image of giant coffin shaped entity shrouded in clouds.
Whatever it is, it’s bad, unprecedented and all the fault of humanity.
And we need to fundamentally change our economy, spend trillions of dollars, and starve half the world’s population in order to “fix” this bad, unprecedented human-caused thing. or something.
It’s the missing plastic hot-spot! We are dooooooomed!
It’s an aircraft carrier. Notice the “missing” notch in the lower left part of the “coffin.”
Here’s a similar, though not identical, shape.
It’s a giant polar bear ship!
Wat, Wait, Wait…I kn ow what it is….Its a…..Its a, Its a…. Its a Gorebull Confession Chamber ‘torqued up’ to get the attention of folks.
A sheet of buoyant white plastic lies beneath recently formed frazil ice. The photo was taken about 30 feet (10 m) above the surface of the water. The experiment is another demonstration of your tax money at work.
The phenomena is the result of the collision of two different atmospheric conditions.
(Note upper left has large clouds than lower right)
It looks like an ice berg to me, but it can’t be that easy!
So a wild guess, is it a large waterfall?
I thought I’d go to NASA to have a look at their imagery, yeah, cheating. But I didn’t find anything except this beauty! LiveScience indeed, or not. BrainDeadScience? LiveNotScience? Since when is Crater Lake, Oregon, the result of an impact? Howling with laughter. And they let these people walk about on their own?
https://www.livescience.com/45411-impact-crater-photos.html
It’s Christo’s latest art project, covering the ocean with white plastic off shore, Marin County.