What do you think this photo from Mars below represents? Is it a Convex Object or Concave Crater? Many of my friends argued on this one, before I gave them true answer. NASA said it shows “Victoria crater,” an impact crater at Meridiani Planum – near the equator of Mars. The crater is approximately 800 meters (half a mile) in diameter. Peter Hosey sent in this fabulous illusion. He said that it “Looks like a convex object, but that’s actually a crater — the Victoria Crater at Meridian Planum on Mars, photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.”
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I had to cover the northwest hemisphere with my hand to see the “island”. It looks like a piece of metal with a splotch of welding tack on it now that I can see it :)
This is pretty common with many NASA images — NASA’s publishing standard (and this may have changed in the past few years) is to orient the pictures to have the light source coming from the bottom right corner of the image.
Most modern operating systems draw their widgets with the light source coming from the top left. Since you have become used to assuming the “sun” in your operating system is in the top left of the screen, when you see pictures where the light source is bottom-left, you will see it convex instead of concave.
If you don’t see the crater as convex, Try saving the crater image and rotating it 180% – it should “pop out” immediately.
I can only see the crater.
i don’t where the island is but all i see is a concave crater , and looks to me like a concave volcano.
I can only see a crater.
It looks to me like a Jelly Fish on the beach, with a little bit of sand on it, drying in the sun,
I saw it as a crator first, but then I put it on word and turned it upside down, and it looked convex, then put it the right way around, and it still looked convex…
weird
I have been looking and looking and looking, and could not see it as an island. After turning it upside down in paint, I finally saw what everyone was talking about, but I don’t think “island” is a word I would choose to describe it, that was what was really messing me up. It’s more of a…glowing seashell…or bottle cap or rock or something.
Nope, I only see a crater, sorry:/….
haha! finally i saw the island.. i only see the crater.. but i suppose you should save the image on your desktop.. use image and fax viewer of microsoft, and rotate the image… one of the commentors helped me :D
nuts. this is crazzzzzy
wickid this is cool but dont think its a island just crater
I”m only seing the island; no crater here…
Crater, duh
FAILURE
AKA FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
shadows told me its crater :D