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Ground Control to Major Frog, Burrito Justice (w/cool frog GIF)
“Ground Control to Major Frog
Commencing countdown engines on
WTF are you doing in the pond
Check ignition and may frog’s love be with you”
Biologist, Explorers Club Fellow, ex-NASA Space Biologist and Payload integrator, Editor of NASAWatch.com and Astrobiology.com, Lapsed climber, Explorer, Synaesthete, Former Challenger Center board member... More by Keith Cowing
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Talk about your “giant leap”.
http://burritojustice.files…
Zoom in and observe the frog is surrounded by a square box of pixels that don’t quite match the rest of the background. Photoshopped.
This is not the raw photo but rather one that has been compressed for the web. Web compression creates artifacts like this. Nice try.
Better images on Space.com don’t show the background mismatch:
http://www.space.com/22772-…
Yep, JPEG compression reduces file size by using a method that takes advantage of areas that have similar colors. As a result, when color changes sharply, often artifacts occur nearby.