Comments on: August Puzzler Answer http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/?src=earthmatters-rss Earth is an amazing planet, and the one that matters most to us. Let’s have a conversation about it. Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Yiannis Raftopoulos http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/#comment-11079 Yiannis Raftopoulos Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:18:43 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=2510#comment-11079 Yes, this puzzler was easy especially compared with the two previous ones. Once you guessed where the wider area it was located (central Asia) it was pretty easy to then find it via Google Earth. Personally I found the previous far more intriguing.

I think the proposals of Alexandre Mathieu above are excellent. In some cases (like when there are drastic landscape changes) the adition of some hints could draw the attention of even more people.

]]> By: Dave McKay http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/#comment-11075 Dave McKay Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:48:48 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=2510#comment-11075 Physical locations where significant, current historic, social, tecnological, etc. events took place.

Use puns. dates. Don’t be too esoteric.

Q- Google Earth is about the only resource I have. Make answers deterministic via GE.

]]> By: JohnnyMorales http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/#comment-11074 JohnnyMorales Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:39:57 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=2510#comment-11074 Surely you guys know that all you have to do to find what most images are is drop the image into google images search. When you do that it will search for similar images. When you get the results many will have the information as to where/when info on the image. With the new drag and drop feature on google images search you can expect most of your puzzlers to be solved in minutes if not seconds.

]]> By: Gustavo Ortiz http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/#comment-11073 Gustavo Ortiz Tue, 21 Aug 2012 22:04:44 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=2510#comment-11073 Hi everybody,

A suggestion to improve the puzzles should be a scene of a natural disaster, curious environmental process or even an interesting man-made surface transformation. The challenge in that case should be to guess “What is happening/happened there? What processes or structures caused it?”
Two images from different periods might also be shown in order to evidence the transformations and motivate the participants.

]]> By: Alexandre Mathieu http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/08/21/august-puzzler-answer/#comment-11072 Alexandre Mathieu Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:44:33 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=2510#comment-11072 Hi,

Here are possible solutions which could make puzzlers more challenging :

- to propose pictures which are not necessarily north-oriented, like it was for the first puzzler.
- to propose not only natural-color pictures, but false-color too.
- to propose former picture from an area which has undergone major changes over time that make it almost unrecognizable
- the possibility to combine these three solutions…

Best regards,
Alexandre.

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