Brian Cory Dobbs

Now, an upscaled, zoomed-in version of this, and I'll qualify upscale in just a second, reveals exactly what you thought it was.

From one perspective, you might say it looks like a cone, but I would argue it's more like a buried cylinder.

Sort of buried into the landscape.

I think it's buried in there.

Because you see the dirt sort of coming up on its side there.

Regardless, it's perfectly smooth and appears to be perfectly circular on one end of it.

I don't know what the other end of it looks like.

And it's just not part of the surrounding landscape.

Yes, sir.

You might think...

Yeah.

This is how it looks like on their website.

So you have to remove this

Bayesian filter that produces this grid like pattern on it.

And oh, by the way, the color images are only accessible through something called the analyst notebook, which requires a login used for academics and things of that nature.

But they don't comment on this.

So if we're looking at this, I want to qualify upscaling here.

NASA uses a tool called Gigapixel.

It's made by a company called Topaz Labs.

They use it on their own images to help kind of bring out some of the detail that is otherwise lost to compression artifacts and blurriness due to it being, you know, just something to take in a photo of its faraway way.