Just a quick note here. My background is in Radio/TV/Film, and I'm quite familiar with photoshop and Video programs. Now the news is showing newly "enhanced" versions of the video that claim to show what we missed before. My response? Take all that with a grain of salt.
Folks talk about sharpening, but contrary to what some might thing, the sharpening done doesn't put pixel information in where the picture didn't have it. There are some programs that can calculate some kind of interpolation, but for the most part, if you didn't capture it, you don't have it.
Sharpening in photoshop and other programs tends to be about raising contrast between adjacent pixels, not inventing new detail where the camera didn't pick it up. This can improve the crispness of sharpness of edges, but they had to be there in the first place to show up.
This is important, because when you take a picture, even nowadays, you don't just get picture information, pure and crisp from the source, you also get compression artifacts, and good old fashion electronic noise. The sharpening programs don't necessarily do a good job of telling the difference, especially if there's a lot of noise.
And from the looks of it, it just looks like they sharpened the living hell out of that picture. It looks like they got something, but looks can be deceiving. If you got something like GIMP, Photoshop Elements, or Photoshop itself, you can test this out simply by turning on one of the sharpening tools and maxing it out. You can make your face look as cratered as the moon doing that, if there's enough noise. And what I've noticed is that the highlights get something of a red fringe.
So, what they may be showing is no more than a highlight that the combination of Noise and Sharpen have made look bloody awful. I mean, looking at the way the image looks, there are a ton of artifacts from the enhancement, splotches all over from where noise and detail have created unrealistically high contrast patterns.
So, to me, this is even less reliable than the video itself. Remember folks, if the camera doesn't capture it, your programs can't make it appear from out of nowhere.