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From: packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer)
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Subject: Re: News photo contains "smart glitch?"
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Date: 28 Apr 91 00:04:41 GMT
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In article <5110@dftsrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>, packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes...
>have short segments shifted cleanly to the left at a point


It was with acute chagrin that I realized later that the effect
was caused not by a shift to the left of selected parts of the
image,  but by a repeated horizontal band in the photograph
about .05 inch high and going all the way across. 

Incidentally, the most likely cause for the glitch was that it was
read out of a computer memory twice. The implication: the age of
computer-processed news photographs has definitely arrived.