Lynette wrote:
Just a thought - it might be the colour/contrast/brightness settings on your monitor. I like to have my brightness turned down quite a bit & I know I have to adjust for different sites sometimes. Took me nearly 6 months once to realise that the background of a site I visit often was dark green instead of black!
Dean Writes:
Lynette,
I think that you have hit the nail on the head. I've checked everything about those pictures and nothing is wrong technically. The web site provider only allows uploads of 500K, and I didn't overdo it.
Someone mentioned that they got to see the images but that they didn't seem to prove much. Well, remember that these images are magnifications of images which were taken from 240 kilometers up. The original images only showed some smudges at that point. When I zoom in, of course, resolution gets lost. If anyone wants better pics, I think that Jan's expedition might be the only way.
But look at the second image down and think about it. Those two dark spots on the left are definitely two of the New Siberian Islands. The image is centered at 80*, and the islands are at 76*, so that is them. There is a third one on the left, but due to the lost resolution due to magnification, it just merged with the blackness of the water below it and on to the left. As I mentioned before, on a larger picture I visually noted the island closer to the Siberian shore and the Siberian shore, all in the blackness of night.
What is of interest is not going to be visual features, but rather the location of the top dark area. Below that area, everything is frozen- the ice reaches to the islands. The ice should just keep extending but, just above the point to which Nansen penetrated, from which he experienced so many anomalies, is that huge dark area. You may say that it is open water, and I am sure that open water is there, too, but why? That has to be an image of the opening. We imagine that that is where it is anyway- the rest of the basin has been scoured and covered well except for that very area and when you overmagnify a clear image of the place, lo and behold, there is a dark area right there, bigger than any of the islands.
Anyway, I think that's it. It is the same area where Rod circles on his map, third image down on the right: http://www.ourhollowearth.com/PolarOpn.htm
Dean