What is this?

 contest, photography
May 062011
 

Take a guess:

ANSWER: It’s the Moon. On fire. See HERE.

 Posted by at 11:23 pm

  18 Responses to “What is this?”

  1. The Brickmuppet says:
    May 6, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    The rising river water.

  2. Michel Van says:
    May 7, 2011 at 4:12 am

    some radarpicture of planet or moonsurface ?

  3. sferrin says:
    May 7, 2011 at 5:25 am

    Could be the specular highlight off some aircraft/missile thingamajig.

  4. Brianna says:
    May 7, 2011 at 8:54 am

    I’ll just go with the obvious. Is it a cloud?

  5. allen T says:
    May 7, 2011 at 10:09 am

    schlieren photo of someone passing gas?

    a Moon Dog ?

  6. s says:
    May 7, 2011 at 11:08 am

    Photo of one of the very high altitude nuclear tests. Hardtack or one of the others.

  7. Pat Flannery says:
    May 7, 2011 at 5:20 pm

    Outgassing from a comet nucleus?

  8. Tim Kyger says:
    May 7, 2011 at 5:43 pm

    It’s Iapatus.

  9. JimK says:
    May 7, 2011 at 6:06 pm

    Surface of a comet?

  10. admin says:
    May 7, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    Some guesses have *almost* come close…

  11. JWR says:
    May 7, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Scans of an asteroid?

  12. Michel Van says:
    May 8, 2011 at 12:45 am

    is this asteroid thing that passt close to earth last week ?
    better say its radar picture for speed ticket because to fast fly by…

  13. joe says:
    May 8, 2011 at 3:35 am

    Cloud in front of the moon.

  14. Jeff Wright says:
    May 8, 2011 at 11:45 am

    Microscope picture of a blossomed out slug.

  15. D.A.D. says:
    May 8, 2011 at 12:49 pm

    New snow on a mountain. Picture taken at night with a bright moon.

  16. heroicrelics says:
    May 8, 2011 at 5:11 pm

    Ultrasound from a pregnant cat? 🙂

  17. Murgatroyd says:
    May 8, 2011 at 11:50 pm

    Sonogram of your innards?

  18. admin says:
    May 9, 2011 at 7:59 am

    Survey sez: http://up-ship.com/blog/blog/?p=9795

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