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- From: qsi@contrast.wlink.nl (Peter Kocourek)
- Newsgroups: sci.astro
- Subject: Re: NASA Duplicity?
- Message-ID: <722329353.F00001@contrast.wlink.nl>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 01:39:00
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- In a message of <18 Nov 92 17:23:32>, Steinn Sigurdsson (2:281/527.0) writes:
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- >> Thirdly, the well-known COBE graphic, that appeared in all newspapers,
- >> showing anisotropies in the cosmic background radiation, is alleged
- >> to have been only a graphic of test results, not of the actual
- >> measurements themselves.
- >
- > Well, there exist COBE "synthetic" plots, but the ugly green ones
- > are real data, massaged a little bit. They're somewhat deceptive
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- What exactly are these synthetic plots? And from what you're saying, am I right
- in concluding that the "ugly green ones" are not the same as the false color
- ones printed in journals such as Nature? If they were different from those,
- what are the differences?
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- YHS:QSI!
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