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KathyT · 03-08-2009, 07:36 PM

Many of you may be familiar with Google’s “Google Earth”.

There is a similar software product provided by NASA, it is called “NASA World Wind”. The history of this software is explained here on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind

When I recently became aware of NASA’s World Wind, I immediately went looking for what they would show of both poles… would it again be a “cover up”?

You decide.

Here is the North Pole via World Wind. Clouds and weather across the continents and artic ocean area, snow or ice on northern Canada, Russia, Greenland is a continent of ice… but what is that being blurred out at and around the North Pole area?

This is zooming in… Greenland is still in photo. But what are we seeing of the Artic ocean?

For those of you who are not familiar with what satellite photography can get you, here is an example of the detail one can get of San Francisco, on World Wind… very zoomed in, lots of detail, streets and buildings… I could have zoomed in further.

But when you zoom in to look for the detail on the top of Greenland… you can’t get the same level of detail ... why no detail? You can see the inset image in the upper right showing the location of Greenland.

My only conclusion, is that NASA won’t show us true aerial or satellite photography of the approximate 2000 square mile area of the north arctic ocean area. What could be there they don’t want us to see?

Here's the World Wind South pole image:

And when you begin to zoom in, lots of white:

When I use Photoshop's Adustment Curves tool, to darken tones it can identify, I get this. Notice the appearance of brush marks, the shading strokes don't go in straight lines, they look feathered. Even across the ocean in the upper left, the shading looks feathered. All the interesting geometrical patterns across the continents on the right and lower parts can not be a natural occurrence in nature.

I demonstrate the effect of changing tone ranges in the image so that you can see the detail that the eye normally glances over. Go back to the first South pole image, and see if you would have noticed the feathered curves of what appears to be brush strokes to blur and smudge the real image.

For me, it raises a lot of questions… what is being blurred out so that we can’t see the real Antarctica and South Pole, and the real North Pole and arctic ice, from an aerial perspective? Is there something significant there which must be kept hidden from the world? Why all this effort to blur out what is at the Poles to the general public????

Does it concern me? Yes I am concerned. I am still searching for links to specific reliable aerial/satellite pictures of either pole.

03-08-2009, 07:36 PM	#43
KathyT Avalon Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: America Posts: 427	NASA's images of the North and South Poles Many of you may be familiar with Google’s “Google Earth”. There is a similar software product provided by NASA, it is called “NASA World Wind”. The history of this software is explained here on Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_World_Wind When I recently became aware of NASA’s World Wind, I immediately went looking for what they would show of both poles… would it again be a “cover up”? You decide. Here is the North Pole via World Wind. Clouds and weather across the continents and artic ocean area, snow or ice on northern Canada, Russia, Greenland is a continent of ice… but what is that being blurred out at and around the North Pole area? This is zooming in… Greenland is still in photo. But what are we seeing of the Artic ocean? For those of you who are not familiar with what satellite photography can get you, here is an example of the detail one can get of San Francisco, on World Wind… very zoomed in, lots of detail, streets and buildings… I could have zoomed in further. But when you zoom in to look for the detail on the top of Greenland… you can’t get the same level of detail ... why no detail? You can see the inset image in the upper right showing the location of Greenland. My only conclusion, is that NASA won’t show us true aerial or satellite photography of the approximate 2000 square mile area of the north arctic ocean area. What could be there they don’t want us to see? Here's the World Wind South pole image: And when you begin to zoom in, lots of white: When I use Photoshop's Adustment Curves tool, to darken tones it can identify, I get this. Notice the appearance of brush marks, the shading strokes don't go in straight lines, they look feathered. Even across the ocean in the upper left, the shading looks feathered. All the interesting geometrical patterns across the continents on the right and lower parts can not be a natural occurrence in nature. I demonstrate the effect of changing tone ranges in the image so that you can see the detail that the eye normally glances over. Go back to the first South pole image, and see if you would have noticed the feathered curves of what appears to be brush strokes to blur and smudge the real image. For me, it raises a lot of questions… what is being blurred out so that we can’t see the real Antarctica and South Pole, and the real North Pole and arctic ice, from an aerial perspective? Is there something significant there which must be kept hidden from the world? Why all this effort to blur out what is at the Poles to the general public???? Does it concern me? Yes I am concerned. I am still searching for links to specific reliable aerial/satellite pictures of either pole. Last edited by KathyT; 03-08-2009 at 07:39 PM.