owlice wrote:Chris, I'm embarrassed to say that I found it by color. :oops: I am happy to cede my turn for a new one to you!
Certainly not.
Even if I knew what it was, my inability to focus on a string of icons well enough to actually see it (right in front of me!) is unacceptable. Have at it!
Chris
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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory https://www.cloudbait.com
Ever larger rocks are growing by colliding and accreting dust as the messy business of planet formation appears to be underway. For an Earth-like planet in such a hostile environment, the sky would be lit continuously with streaking meteors and the ground would rumble continuously with impacts.
So it is not unlike the U.S. Congress this weekend then as
the messy business of health care reform appears finally to be underway.
With all due respect, neufer, can you not involve your local politics in a completely unrelated thread? We've run our course, we have a winner, there's no need to be posting at all.
I'm the best part of intoxicated and I found that in around a minute of searching. Without any intent to offend you, I think that was way too easy. With this in mind I will waive my right to make the next one and let you have another go at it. You can do 16 with my blessing.
Chris, only because I found one easily (with feeling! and meaning!), I went ahead but really, I'd have been quite happy to pass the mantle (or magic helmet... whichever!).
in this case, there were several searches involving inurl:apod and various combinations of asteroid/moon/craters. then phobos images popped up in approximately right palette. but craters didn't match, so I finally searched for deimos.
Well I initially searched (using APOD's own search) for space probe flybys, which got me nowhere. I used terms "CONTOUR", "cassini" (big mistake), "streak", "flyby" and "probe". Then I tried "satellite", which again got nowhere.
The only other thing I could think of which would make such a streak on the image was an asteroid, so I searched "asteroid" and a bit down the page, there it was. It was still very easily missed: I had to extract the frames to be sure I was right.
