Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

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Post by edge17 » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:05 PM UTC

Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps
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Re: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

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Post by anormalpapier » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 5:09 PM UTC

Not so stealth eh?

Re: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

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Post by fred_is_fred » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

I would love to know if this was found other than randomly poking around and if so how it worked specifically. "out of place shapes in the middle of fields" might find out some other neat stuff too.

Re: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

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Post by killjoywashere » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

anormalpapier wrote: post #2

Not so stealth eh?

Interestingly, it gives us information about the orientation of pixels on the satellite.

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Post by pensatoio » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:07 PM UTC

anormalpapier wrote: post #2

Not so stealth eh?

to be fair, stealth has never meant "invisible" when it comes to planes

Re: Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

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Post by capableweb » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:09 PM UTC

anormalpapier wrote: post #2

Not so stealth eh?

I'm sure you wrote this in jest, but in case people aren't aware: The "Stealth" in "Stealth bomber" refer to hiding the plane from anti-aircraft defenses like radar, infrared, acoustics and some optical visibility, but the anti-reflective paint that is used for hiding it optically is only on the underside, not on the top.

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Post by jp57 » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:10 PM UTC

Look out, St. Louis!

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Post by newaccount2021 » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:11 PM UTC

anormalpapier wrote: post #2

Not so stealth eh?

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Post by MontyCarloHall » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

Interesting how the three separate R/G/B images are taken independently a few ~seconds~ milliseconds apart, with a different color filter placed over the image sensor.

I assume this is to maximize resolution, since no Bayer interpolation [0] is needed to demosaic the output of a traditional image sensor that integrates the color filters onto the sensor pixels themselves. As these satellites are not intended to photograph things in motion, the color channel alignment artifacts seen here are a rare, small price to pay for vastly improved resolution and absence of demosaicing artifacts.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayer_filter

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Post by dillondoyle » Mon, Dec 20, 2021, 6:14 PM UTC

I was googling to see what shape matched that and found this. Looks like not the first time this (probably b2?) type of plane was caught on candid camera ;0

https://www.kmbc.com/article/satellite-image-b-2-stealth-bom...