Bright Spots on CERES Resolved!

I am not a writer. I am a photo imaging hobbyist. I love to burn up a whole day 
just downloading and "cleaning-up" NASA/JPL photos and combing through them for 
surprises. I also used to enjoy the old game called "Where's Waldo" for similar 
reasons....it's the thrill of the hunt, mostly, I think. 
 
  In any event, I have indeed found some surprises yet the biggest surprise of 
all is that all that I can only categorize these surprises as "art". I've had to 
accept that even though my fevered imagination may spy some extreme anomalies 
in, say a NASA/JPL Mars photo, the truth of it is that EVEN NASA CANNOT call 
their OWN photos "evidence". As it turns out, accepted rules of evidence require 
an eye-witness to accompany any form of photo-evidence; an impossibility with 
ALL of NASA's photos except for NASA's Moon photos. This is a good rule since, 
after all, you and I cannot possibly know what has transpired between the time a 
NASA a photo is taken and the time it is actually downloaded to our home 
computer. Photo files can be hacked and so until the long-awaited day that NASA 
actually announces an anomaly in one of their photos, one can only call these 
anomalies unidentified "art". Even with such a NASA announcement, these photos, 
again, can never be considered legal evidence without an eye-witness as 
mentioned. 
 
   Having said that, I present to you  this piece of NASA "Art". This is what my 
little lap-top and Paint Shop Pro software managed to interpolate from the May 
4th photo of CERES when the DAWN spacecraft was still 8400 miles away. Yes! DAWN 
was Eight-Thousand four hundred miles from CERES when this photo was taken which 
makes this photo all the more amazing when one considers that this photo 
exhibits street-level resolution. Although NASA only admits to a packing a 66 
meg CCD camera with a 150 mm lens on their DAWN spacecraft, apparently it's 
enough to zoom down to street level at over eight thousand miles away!  Of 
course, NASA offers no sense of scale in these photos so, it's possible that 
these objects are just very large. There's just no way to know without a 
distance scale. 
 
   My imaging methods are simple and were all learned from the "help" section of 
my Paint Shop Pro software and can be duplicated by anyone with imaging 
software. The heart of my restoration process is, firstly, to make as small a 
"crop" as possible. For some unknown reason, noise is greatly lessened by 
minimizing the size of these NASA photo out-takes. Next I simply raise the 
resolution (using the "bi-cubic" method) over several steps while controlling 
all "levels", focus and noise. NASA posts their photos at a paltry 72 pixels per 
inch. One must slowly raise this "PPI" to 1440 PPI and higher to even approach 
their original resolution. 
 
   My fondest hope is that SOMEONE with some time and imaging software will 
duplicate my efforts and indeed verify that this "art" is indeed there and can 
be duplicated at will. 
  
   In any event, I hope you enjoy this unidentified NASA "Art" while remembering 
that art is in the eye of the beer-holder!   
 
Donald P. Pineda 
Lakeview, Texas 

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