MASSED BUILDINGS IN

PRECISE CROSS-ROW PATTERNS

REPORT #39

DOCUMENTATION SECTION

MOC STRIP M03-05186

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/mc30.html: The above chart found at the URL to the left indicates the physical location of the M03-05186 strip based discovery on the upper edge of the South Polar Cap itself. The processed official science data and the specific imaging for this strip can be accessed at the URL addresses listed below. Each of the below sites offers similar but also unique and different ways of presenting the data. Remember to that some of the MOC imaging is often flipped either vertically or horizontally or both at official level. The results of this can be as little as just offering a different view perspective to severely distorting a anomaly site into something unrecognizable and any thing in between those extremes. Serious researchers must be wary of this factor, never assume anything, and make sure to compare all views available.

MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS (MSSS)

http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/M0305186.html: Note that the front page orientation image here doesn't work, there is no wide-angle context image, and the first listed JPEG and second listed GIF map-projected strips also do not work leaving the third listed slower loading straight GIF strip as the only working choice for browser display. This is also the only site that offers sinusodial (angled) map-projected view strips as opposed to straight vertical strips and companion MOC wide-angle context images as opposed to older Viking images at the PDS and USGS sites. Note that the proprietary PDS format strips here do not work with standard unmodified browsers and may require special "NASAView" software to open and view.

 

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY (USGS)

http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m03051/m0305186.html: This site offers only two versions of any MOC strip. The first is a browser compatible faster loading JPEG strip and the second is the much larger but not browser compatible PDS .img format compressed strip. Their presentation approach is that the the browser enabled JPEG strip is essentially a initial look tool and that any serious subsequent research will be conducted in the PDS format or "Standard Compressed Data Product" as USGS describes it. That means you may need both compatible decompression software as well as the special "NASAView" software to open it and look at it. One nice feature of this site especially beneficial to those with slow dial-up connections is that you can click on the browser enabled image shown there and view only parts of it that you are interested in without having to take the time for the whole strip to download. It can be a convenience.

NASAVIEW SOFTWARE

http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/docs/helpview.htm: Although decompression and NASAView software can be had for free at the URL here, be aware that you must give some identification information on yourself for it and there is a warning at their site about their monitoring your use of this material. While they may be referring only to your registration going into their database, for me this brings up questions of spyware and loss of privacy issues. You must decide for yourself. Remember to that this software only allows you to open and look at the strip in the original PDS format, it does not allow you to zoom in or out in fine increments, lighten or darken scenes, or sharpen up scenes that is so essential to proper research in this data.

LOCATOR IMAGING

Below is a compressed version of the M03-05186 strip with the location of each of the images in my investigative report labeled and identified in it to help you locate them easier. This is a very long and narrow strip, which means that it has a very distant view. Further, the strip is quite dark over much of its length. Therefore, the best viewing and proper examination will require the use of graphics software to zoom in as well as lighten up the scenes and sharpen them up.