The very first thing i thought of was some mechanism similar to our northern lights, but i have no grasp of the distances, axes (unless the weird artifact line is one) or sizes or anything from the video to argue for it.

I guess we're seeing in IR, so all we know for sure is that something is hot around that region, bearing in mind that it's at least the diameter of mercury itself, so it's a fucking big whatever it is. A ship that big? Well, i guess if you say it's a ship you can say it's any size you like, we're in the realm of imagination.

Edit:
Also, culd be a fault in the equipment.

Edit 2:
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/sccmovies/mpegs/2010/HI1/20101203_1216_hi1.mpg

Happens several places on that video, it looks like some artifact of the video that comes from the planet when the CME hits.

I think this is a more accurate explanation.
I'm not convinced that a race which advanced enough technology to travel here and cloak them selves would make the mistake of hiding so close to a star where it is most likely their technology would be foiled by a coronal mass ejection. Hide further away from the sun!


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45571392/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tt_3vLIk6nB

>> ^dannym3141:

The very first thing i thought of was some mechanism similar to our northern lights, but i have no grasp of the distances, axes (unless the weird artifact line is one) or sizes or anything from the video to argue for it.
I guess we're seeing in IR, so all we know for sure is that something is hot around that region, bearing in mind that it's at least the diameter of mercury itself, so it's a fucking big whatever it is. A ship that big? Well, i guess if you say it's a ship you can say it's any size you like, we're in the realm of imagination.
Edit:
Also, culd be a fault in the equipment.
Edit 2:
http://secchi.nrl.navy.mil/sccmovies/mpegs/2010/HI1/20101203_1216_hi1
.mpg
Happens several places on that video, it looks like some artifact of the video that comes from the planet when the CME hits.


You nailed it with that Edit2 video. It's just an artifact of failing to mask the enormous brightness of the planets out.

*discard

Discarding this post - discard requested by original submitter deathcow.

@deathcow sift a video of the cme hitting mercury without a nutter scatting over it, i think the video is good just not the audio