On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:54:37 +0000, Bob Harrington wrote:

Proton Fox wrote in
:

STS-123 punches into the cloud deck early this morning...

Tres spiff!

And if my photo isn't bad enough for you, check out the giant smeary
artifact/fingersmudge/whatsit on the offical NASA photo at:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/2...n_08pd0697.jpg

Admittedly, I'm optically challenged as a bat - but I'm not seeing the giant
smeary artifact/fingersmudge/whatsit on the NASA image...?

Bob ^,,^

Mayhaps your newsreader and/or pic viewer is resizing it to the screen
resolution?

Data:

Size: 3.1 MB (3267812 bytes)
Image Type: jpeg (The JPEG image format)
Width: 3000 pixels
Height: 1995 pixels

If you view it at that size, it does look a bit --- uh --- thin? But
that's typical of a JPEG that size; lots if data so you can resize it to
whatever suits you, even widescreen. And that's /compressed/ JPEG, a BMP
or TIFF (NASA loves TIFFs) would take an hour to download!

Ciao for miao....


SW