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Old 10-May-2008, 09:16 PM
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Some say it is compression artifacts. I just don't know . . . any suggestions??
Almost certainly JPEG compression artifacts (Wikipedia).

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[...] and/or blockiness in "busy" regions (sometimes called quilting or checkerboarding).
See Wikipedia Discrete cosine transform (DCT):

And ponder two-dimensional DCT frequencies:


Somebody was either very sloppy or very deceitful with that Mars image.

Partake of Bad Astronomer: Are There Artifacts on Mars?
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