Comments on: December Puzzler http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/?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: Crews Giles http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11622 Crews Giles Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:38:44 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11622 It is the 18th of January and I want a January puzzler. Just saying.

]]> By: Chris Williams http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11599 Chris Williams Wed, 02 Jan 2013 15:17:51 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11599 “December Puzzler” image shows density of forest greens. The darker the color the higher the density and a valuable lesson – to follow what you have learned on Earth about the color spectrum’s and what the basics tell you. Green is life and blue is water and with the two colors together in a planetary closeup image- it generally means inhabitable zone is highly probable for the planet in question and is in turn a fair assessment, that the planet has life on it. Confirmation at that point depends on what perimeters are set up but never underestimate the accuracy of the basic color spectrum’s and what we already know about them here on Earth. Never underestimate the color spectrum’s ability to expose the misconceptions of artful ignorance.

]]> By: Crews Giles http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11596 Crews Giles Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:31:02 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11596 Ah! Thank you, Adam! I’m often not up-to-speed on current events.

I do love these puzzles. Starting with my seeing an aerial photo of my neighborhood when I was about seven years of age, I have always found such images to be fascinating– and a great excuse to explore using maps, Google Earth, and satellite images.

]]> By: Adam Voiland http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11595 Adam Voiland Mon, 31 Dec 2012 17:47:43 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11595 Crews,

The image shows the part of White River National Forest where the 2012 U.S. Capitol Christmas tree (an Engelmann spruce) was harvested. Look for the Ripple Creek Lodge marker to see where it was. More details at the links below:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=79985
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/24/december-puzzler-answer/
http://www.ripplecreeklodge.com/news/

Thanks for playing and good luck with the January puzzler!

-Adam

]]> By: Mohamed.A. Farahani http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11594 Mohamed.A. Farahani Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:08:44 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11594 The puzzle was little bit complicated. It needs somebody to be excellent in Geography especially Physical Geography. I can see that the image has taken from the sky (Oblique photograph).And the greenish features for me translates a huge forest.(that’s why I said Amazon) Also I can see other features like water; which shows a river or something like that.

]]> By: Crews Giles http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11593 Crews Giles Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:41:05 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11593 I’m stumped on the Holiday connection. Using USGS maps, I was just certain I would find “Nativity Lake” or some such; but have located no connection. Congrats to Alan. Once the Holiday connection is provided, I’m ready for January’s.

]]> By: gilad freiman http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11592 gilad freiman Sun, 30 Dec 2012 13:10:16 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11592 scandinavia

]]> By: Doug http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11591 Doug Sun, 30 Dec 2012 11:13:26 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11591 Bugarach, the ‘doomsday’ mountain in France.

]]> By: Ali Rahimy (From Iran) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11590 Ali Rahimy (From Iran) Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:55:33 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11590 Respectfully, this is to revise my previous comment: The image has been acquired using the reflection of SUN light (not infra-red). Also bands of satellite image of Khasan are the inverted colors of Red, Green and Blue. I’m waiting for final results impatiently {:-) Thank you.

]]> By: Ali Rahimy (From Iran) http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/12/17/december-puzzler/#comment-11589 Ali Rahimy (From Iran) Wed, 26 Dec 2012 06:26:02 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=3083#comment-11589 Just Invert the colors of picture in a photo editing software, like PhotoShop, and you’ll be surprised! It’s a Desert! The colors of picture have been inverted using Photoshop CS6! You may save the picture on your desktop and take a look at the properties of it in Windows VISTA and see the name and version of the software that has been used for editing the image. Thank you and forgive me for too many comments.

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