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I fart in your general direction! Comet 67P lets rip on Europe's Rosetta probe
Scientists at the European Space Agency (ESA) got lucky when the Rosetta probe, currently orbiting Comet 67P, picked up a massive outgassing from the frozen body. On February 19, the comet suddenly started to emit dust and gas in an unprecedented display, as Rosetta was orbiting 35 kilometers away. Nine of the probe's …
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Friday 26th August 2016 15:36 GMT Anonymous Coward
Did nobody notice...?
Not El Reg's fault, apart from not noticing either, but the 'Boffins pinpoint landslide spot' photo is a bit fscked up - there are two serious problems with this image.
The first, and immediately obvious, problem is that the 'zoomed' area shown in the right-hand half of the image simply doesn't match the indicated area in the full image.
The second problem only becomes apparent when you follow the link to ESA page about this event. At the top of the ESA page is an eight frame .GIF sequence of the outburst where you can clearly see that it occurs on the opposite 'inner face' of the larger lobe, close to where the two lobes join, and not on the 'outer face' surface of the larger lobe, as the 'landslide spot' image would have us believe.
Now the blame for this falls squarely upon the ESA - El Reg simply lifted the landslide spot pic from the ESA web page - but I can't figure out why the ESA would use such a misleading bogus image in the first place.
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Monday 29th August 2016 12:32 GMT ratfox
Re: Did nobody notice...?
My assumption about the zoom not matching the larger picture: those are two pictures taken at different times, which means the lighting is different. The reason they didn't simply zoom the larger image is that it would mean crap resolution, so instead they used a different picture taken with different optics.
Or maybe they simply didn't have a larger picture showing where the zoom is, and they just put any old picture.
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Monday 29th August 2016 12:49 GMT Yer Mother You Will
The Register is posting so much BULLSHIT these days, mostly propaganda set to whip up the usual negative thoughts in the thick, the dumb and the mostly stupid public. I thin it's about time I started to pay for REAL science news and subscribe to the various science journals such as....
https://www.newscientist.com/ or https://royalsociety.org/journals/ or https://www.ibms.org/go/media/publications/british-journal-biomedical-science or https://uk.sagepub.com/en-gb/eur/Journals or www.scientific-journals.co.uk/ or http://highwire.stanford.edu/lists/freeart.dtl or www.freefullpdf.com/
I want to read real science, not this puerile mug capturing rubbish that says everything about the author, someone so poor at his job that he/she has to write such garbage, someone so inept he or she cannot obtain employment as a proper science journalist.
Personally, I wouldn't put this guy in charge of a wheelbarrow. My account is now being closed.