On the honor system, let’s all remain masters of our domain. Anyone want to venture some guesses on what planet and/or event we’re looking at in the image above? I promise you, you have heard about it! You can click it and get the answer or look below …
(Scotsman) — Researchers say they have captured the clearest picture yet of the wreckage of the Titanic which lies scattered across miles of ocean floor. An expedition team used sonar imaging and more than 100,000 photos taken from underwater robots to create the map, which shows where hundreds of objects and pieces of the vessel landed after striking an iceberg, killing more than 1,500 people.
'Tis Himself, OM says
While I didn’t guess the Titanic was involved, I did recognize it was a picture of the ocean bottom. Having been a submariner and seen a bunch of sonar images gave me a clue.
neilt says
Uh……Martian trailer park after the spring dust devils?
StevoR says
I wouldn’t have guessed and had to click te image.
My first thought was that it was lunar or Mercurian but then Ithought it looked vaguely like the (fictional) scene of the Yamato on the dead surface of Gamilon bombed Earth in the old StarBlazers cartoon(aka SpaceBattlecrusier Yamato) which turns out to be oddly close~ish to mark!
Markita Lynda says
What’s the scale? Is that a boot in the upper center? Am I looking at rivets or table legs? Walls or suitcases?
Trebuchet says
That’s the whole stern section on the left of the picture. Be sure to click the picture to go to The Scotsman article and look at the other pictures. Seriously lacking in size/resolution, however.
crissakentavr says
Well, first I thought it was the surface of a planet, but which planet where, wouldn’t give me much. It’s black and white, which could mean sonar or any other single radiometric, so… There’s mostly nicks and cuts and debris, so it really looks much like a microscopic picture of a piece of metal.
I would not have thought ‘titanic’ but its debris impacting the otherwise smooth and undulating solid surface of the ocean floor is nicks and cuts and piles, so…
Reginald Selkirk says
You’re being quite loose with your terminology. Sonar image = photograph?
nemothederv says
Aha! That’s where they hid those Iraqi WMDs.