Brief
Arizona State University
The claims the writer was given for Arizona State University, in the order they were given.
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Michael Malin, then an associate professor at Arizona State University, concluded that Billy Meier's controversial photographs were not fakes.
“In that capacity, Malin, then an associate professor at Arizona State University, had concluded that Meier’s controversial photographs were not fakes.”
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Jim Dilettoso went to dozens of manufacturers of image processing equipment, including government contractors EG&G and TRW, government labs including the United States Geological Survey and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and universities including the University of Southern California (USC) and Arizona State University, to find scientists able to contribute to photo-testing projects for Wendelle Stevens.
“Dilettoso went to dozens of manufacturers of image processing equipment, including government contractors like EG&G and TRW, government labs like the United States Geological Survey and JPL, and certain universities that were known for their image processing and analysis capabilities; USC and Arizona State University among them.”
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Michael Malin was working at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the time he was contacted by Jim Dilettoso, but was planning a move to Arizona to take a position as a professor and scientist in a Geology Department.
“Malin was working at JPL at the time, but was planning a move to Arizona soon thereafter to take a position as a professor and scientist in the Geology Department.”
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Jim Dilettoso arranged to meet Michael Malin at Arizona State University (ASU) a few months after their initial contact at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
“After making initial contact at JPL, Dilettoso made arrangements with Malin to meet up with him at ASU a few months later.”
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Around 1980, Wendelle Stevens and Jim Dilettoso went to Michael Malin's laboratory at Arizona State University (ASU) with the same four Billy Meier photographs and two control pictures they had taken to other researchers.
“Stevens and Dilettoso went back to Malin’s lab at ASU around 1980, with the same four Meier photos and two controls that they had taken to everyone else.”
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Jim Dilettoso kept regular contact over the years with Michael Malin's secretary and lab assistant from Arizona State University (ASU), who visited his Village Labs processing facility in Tempe, Arizona every few months during the 1990s.
“over the years, Dilettoso kept regular contact with Malin’s secretary/lab assistant from ASU, who would visit his Village Labs processing facility in Tempe, Arizona every few months in the 1990s.”
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Michael Malin moved his private company, Malin Space Science Systems, which held the Mars Observer camera contract, from Arizona State University (ASU) in Arizona and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California to San Diego, over 480 kilometres south of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
“Malin even moved his entire private company, “Malin Space Science Systems” (which held the actual Mars Observer camera contract) away from ASU in Arizona and JPL in California to San Diego (over 300 miles south of JPL in Pasadena).”
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Philip Christensen, a relative newcomer to the Mars programmes, would run the THEMIS visible light camera out of Arizona State University.
“Dr. Philip Christensen, a relative newcomer to the Mars programs, would run it out of Arizona State University”
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The caption accompanying the 2002 Mars Odyssey Cydonia image release, posted on the Arizona State University Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) web page, compared the Face on Mars to Camelback Mountain in Arizona and the 'Sleeping Beauty' rock formation near Ludlow, California.
“They then compare the Face to Arizona's Camelback Mountain (shades of NASA's previously failed “Middle Butte Mesa” comparison), and “Sleeping Beauty” near Ludlow, California, among several other places.”
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The Internet Archive ceased tracking changes to the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) Arizona State University image release pages within a few months of Richard C. Hoagland's investigation obtaining Wayback Machine data on the Cydonia infrared image page.
“Within a few months of our obtaining the Wayback Machine data on the Cydonia IR page, the Internet Archive ceased tracking changes to any of the THEMIS ASU image release pages.”
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The Face on Mars appears to disappear in a Thermal Emission Imaging System nighttime infrared emission image released by Arizona State University when compared to the daytime infrared reflectance image, an effect attributed to the nighttime image being taken during deep Cydonian winter contrary to official Arizona State University statements, combined with deliberately added pixel noise.
“Fig. 10-5 -The Face on Mars mysteriously "disappears" in this THEMIS nighttime IR emission image (R) released by ASU, compared to daytime IR reflectance image. This is due to nighttime image being taken in deep Cydonian winter (contrary to official ASU statements), in addition to deliberately- added "pixel noise" (ASU/Enterprise Mission)”
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A Wayback Machine screen capture shows that the Arizona State University Thermal Emission Imaging System webpage containing the 'real' Cydonia infrared image was altered just hours after Keith Laney downloaded the 'real' infrared data from the official Arizona State University Thermal Emission Imaging System site.
“Fig. 10-7 - Screen capture from the "Wayback Machine" - archive Website showing ASU-THEMIS page containing the "real" Cydonia IR image was *altered* just hours after Keith Laney downloaded the "real" IR data from the official ASU-THEMIS site.”
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Arizona State University and Philip Christensen, Principal Investigator of the Thermal Emission Imaging System, have repeatedly and officially denied that the webpage containing the 'real' Cydonia infrared image was ever altered.
“ASU and Dr. Philip Christensen (THEMIS-PI) have repeatedly (and officially) denied this crucial page was ever altered (Wayback Machine)”
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The bulletin board user "Bamf" was identified as Noel Gorelick, who claimed in his online Enterprise Mission bulletin board profile to be the manager of Arizona State University's Mars Computation Center.
“that suspicion only deepened when we discovered that “Bamf” was in fact none other than Noel Gorelick—who claimed (in his on-line Enterprise BBS profile) to be the manager of Arizona State University’s Mars Computation Center.”
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Mike Bara found Noel Gorelick's contact information in the Arizona State University phone directory and called him on the afternoon of 2002-09-06.
“one of the authors (Bara) called him... It took no time at all to find Noel Gorelick in the ASU phone directory. Bara called him the afternoon of September 6, 2002.”
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Instead of the agreed multispectral analysis, Mark Carlotto subjected the official ASU version of the Cydonia THEMIS image to a series of contrast and blur filters in an attempt to show that the Laney image was a degraded version of the official one.
“Carlotto decided instead to take the “official” version of the Cydonia THEMIS image and subject it to a series of contrast and blur filters in an apparent attempt to “prove” that the Laney image was generated by degrading the official one.”
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Mark Carlotto concluded that the similarity of the Laney image to the 'real' top-left image strongly suggested that the Enterprise Mission image was an altered version of the Arizona State University image.
“This led him to conclude “its similarity to the top left [“real”] image strongly suggests that the Enterprise image is an altered version of the ASU image.””
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Mark Carlotto claimed that because the Laney image changes from band to band in the unratioed grayscale it is a distorted version of the official Arizona State University release.
“He then goes on to claim that because the Laney image changes from band to band in the unratioed grayscale it is a “distorted” version of the “official” ASU release.”
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Mark Carlotto parroted the position of Philip Christensen of Arizona State University in declaring that the Laney Cydonia data was degraded.
“In effect, Carlotto had simply parroted the position of Dr. Phillip Christensen of ASU by declaring that the Laney data is “degraded,””
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On 2002-10-31, Arizona State University released what was claimed to be a nighttime infrared image of Cydonia.
“On October 31, 2002—Halloween no less, the same pagan holiday that marked the “birth” of JPL—ASU released what they alleged was a nighttime infrared image of Cydonia.”
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The official Arizona State University caption for the paired daytime and nighttime Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared images of the Face on Mars stated that the nighttime image was acquired on 2002-10-24 and the daytime image was originally released on 2002-07-24, both of THEMIS's ninth infrared band at 12.57 microns, geometrically projected for image registration.
““This pair of THEMIS infrared images shows the so-called ‘Face on Mars’ landform viewed during both the day and night. The nighttime THEMIS IR image was acquired on October 24, 2002; the daytime image was originally released on July 24, 2002. Both images are of THEMIS’s ninth IR band (12.57 microns), and they have been geometrically projected for image registration.””
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The original Arizona State University graphic for the 2002-07-24 daytime infrared release listed band nine's centre wavelength as 12.58 microns, while the 2002-10-31 comparison graphic cited the same band as 12.57 microns.
“Band nine of the July 24 daytime IR is listed on the original ASU graphic as being “12.58 microns”; but on the October 31 comparison, it’s cited as “12.57 microns.””
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Arizona State University and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) had maintained for months that there was only one version of the 2002-07-24 Cydonia infrared image, before the 2002-10-31 release revealed two demonstrably different footprints.
“Two verifiably different image “footprints,” for what had been categorically maintained by NASA, ASU and JPL for months as only one July 24 image.”
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According to the official Arizona State University October 31 release caption, the daytime scene of the nighttime Cydonia image ranges in temperature from -50 degrees Celsius (darkest) to -15 degrees Celsius (brightest).
“"The temperature in the daytime scene ranges from -50° C (darkest) to -15° C (brightest).”
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According to the official Arizona State University October 31 release caption for the nighttime Cydonia image, nighttime temperatures vary from approximately -90 degrees Celsius (darkest) to -7 degrees Celsius (warmest).
“The temperatures at night vary from approximately -90° C (darkest) to -7° C (warmest)…”
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In the newest NASA/JPL/Arizona State University release, the Face on Mars almost completely disappears when comparing the daytime infrared image from July 24 with the nighttime October 31 counterpart.
“The most striking "Cydonia anomaly" in the newest NASA/JPL/ASU release is the almost complete "disappearance" of the Face. In a side-by-side presentation, the Face—as seen in the July 24 daytime IR image (left), compared with its nighttime "October 31" counterpart (right), is almost completely missing”
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A random check of about fifty of the approximately two hundred nighttime images then displayed on the Arizona State University THEMIS archive website revealed only one other image acquired with all nine infrared bands in the entire THEMIS library.
“A random check of about fifty (of the approximately two hundred nighttime) images then displayed on the ASU THEMIS archive website revealed only one other image which was acquired with all nine bands in the entire THEMIS library.”
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Philip Christensen became highly agitated and paced back and forth across the stage as Mike Bara asked whether the original Cydonia daytime infrared image, posted on the Arizona State University website on 2002-07-24, had ever been changed.
“Christensen himself became highly agitated. He began pacing back and forth across the stage as Bara asked him if the original Cydonia daytime infrared image, which was posted on the ASU website on July 24, 2002 had ever been changed.”
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When Mike Bara asked Philip Christensen for clarification on whether the data posted on the Arizona State University THEMIS website had been changed after 2002-07-24, Christensen again emphatically answered no.
“Just to be sure, Bara asked for clarification on the most crucial point: had the data that was posted on the ASU THEMIS website been changed after July 24, 2002? Christensen again emphatically answered "no."”
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Using the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine search tool on the URL of the daytime Cydonia infrared image, Richard C. Hoagland's team found that the Arizona State University THEMIS website page, managed by Noel Gorelick, had originally been posted on 2002-07-24 and was subsequently altered in the early morning hours of 2002-07-26.
“Using a search engine called the "Wayback Machine," we had been able to plug in the URL of the daytime Cydonia infrared image. It had shown that, contrary to Christensen's previous e-mail statements and contrary to his latest public statements, the ASU website containing the image created and managed by Christensen's lieutenant Noel Gorelick had been originally posted on July 24, 2002, and had subsequently been altered in the early morning hours of July 26, 2002”
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Image V0 3814003 was taken by the Mars Odyssey camera at 4:39 a.m. local Martian (Cydonia) time.
“we can immediately ascertain that it was taken by the Odyssey camera at 4:39 a.m., local Martian (Cydonia) time”
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The Mars Odyssey image release used in Fig. 11-1 is officially designated MRO/Odyssey image V0 3814003.
“The Odyssey image release is officially designated JPL/ASU V0 3814003.”
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Figure 11-1 in Dark Mission is a composite image made from a May 2001 Mars Global Surveyor black-and-white image and a July 2003 Mars Odyssey five-band colour image, showing anomalously bright, geometrically aligned structural elements on the eastern side of the Face on Mars, credited to Arizona State University, Keith Laney, and Richard C. Hoagland.
“Fig. 11-1 - Composite image made from May 2001 MGS B&W image, and July 2003 Mars Odyssey 2001 five-band color image. Note anomalously bright, geometrically aligned, *structural* elements on eastern side (R) (ASU/Laney/Hoagland)”
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MRO/Odyssey image V0 3814003 is a five-band colour infrared image showing highly anomalous lighting of the Face on Mars and the D&M Pyramid, even in the pre-dawn conditions of the image.
“Fig. 11-2 - Grayscale version of five-band color IR image V0 3814003. Note highly anomalous lighting of the Face and D&M, even in this “pre-dawn” image. (ASU)”
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The unique lighting geometry of the pre-dawn MRO/Odyssey image V0 3814003 reveals the same underlying architectural substructure of the Face on Mars detected at much lower resolution in a nighttime Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) infrared image.
“Unique lighting geometry of this *pre-dawn* image acts like an x-ray, optically revealing the same underlying architectural substructure of the Face seen at much lower resolution (10 X) detected in nighttime THEMIS IR image (ASU).”
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Mark Robinson of Arizona State University is the Principal Investigator of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera system.
“The “PI” (Principal Investigator) of the LRO camera system (LROC) is Dr. Mark Robinson, of Arizona State University.”
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NASA maintains an archive of more recent, higher-resolution scans of the Apollo films, managed by Arizona State University and Johnson Space Center, called the March to the Moon Archive.
“NASA has an archive of more recent scans of the Apollo films. It's managed by Arizona State University and the Johnson Space Center. It's called the March to the Moon Archive.”
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