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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
10-04-2016
Idaho witness sketches details from low hovering UFO
Idaho witness sketches details from low hovering UFO
An Idaho witness at Meridian recalled a UFO event from 1977 when a disc-shaped craft hovered over a nearby home and moved towards him, according to testimony in Case 75381 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was driving home in his truck late at night on May 5, 1977, and noticed the UFO hovering just above a neighbor’s roof as he pulled into his driveway. The case was reported to MUFON on March 23, 2016, and is under investigation by Idaho STAR Team Investigator Charles Stansburge who provides the account details.
“As he looked up from the road ahead to view it he seemed to ‘hear in his mind’ an authoritative male voice saying, ‘This is not of this world,’” Stansburge reported.“He stopped the truck, got out and watched for 20 to 30 minutes. His passenger did not stay outside with him. She went immediately into their home, as she was concerned for the safety of the children there.”
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness continued to watch the craft as it noiselessly and slowly approached where he was standing.
“Drawings are attached showing the shape of the craft from the side. It had a ‘nipple’-shaped dome on top which was shrouded in a swirling vaporous cloud which changed colors. A sparkly zone shown ‘like diamonds’ around the perimeter of the disc.”
Witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
At first the witness did not see any detail under the craft, but when it passed nearer to him he saw pulsating, colored lights in rectangular panels on the underside of the craft.
“There was no noise, emission of any kind from the craft and the lights from it were very bright, but did not seem to illuminate the ground or adjacent buildings. The disc was still in the sky over the homes when the witness eventually tired and went inside.”
The witness provided three illustrations with the report.
The witness was able to watch the object for nearly 30 minutes. Pictured: Meridian, ID. (Credit: Wikimedia Commons)
Meridian is a city located in Ada County, Idaho, population 75,092. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
Cleveland witness reports close encounter with triangle UFO
Cleveland witness reports close encounter with triangle UFO
An Ohio witness at Cleveland reported a close encounter with a triangle-shaped UFO, according to testimony in Case 75119 from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) witness reporting database.
The event occurred beginning about 10:21 p.m. on March 8, 2016, with the object heading south, and the witness soon dictated details into a telephone as he is a lifelong visual artist.
“At first I saw it coming,” the witness stated.“It was traveling slowly. It was not that high up in the air and it was an unusual constellation of lights so a grab my iPhone and I thought I should take a picture of whatever it is. And then it got closer and I got closer. We were converging right over Interstate 90.”
Witness illustration of the object. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness first thought the object was something that could be identified.
“As it got closer and closer I thought it might be a group of helicopters. But they were in too tight of a cluster. I saw a constellation of lights that were in an abstract sort of triangular form. As the craft got closer, I kept looking up and I saw that there was a slightly lighter color to the body than the dark sky.”
The witness described the lighting on the objects.
“There were lights on all three corners and in between the corners with a dazzling white very, very white, bright, bright light. On the bottom there was a flashing red light. At least one. Maybe they were alternating from different positions on the bottom.”
Cropped and enlarged version of the witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The craft was traveling very slow and low to the ground.
“The craft was traveling very slowly. It was probably four to six telephone poles off of the ground. Not regular telephone poles, but the kind of tall ones that are along the interstate. If this craft was indeed triangular, it appeared to be traveling backwards away from the point.”
There was an aspect of this triangular pattern that was hard for the witness to comprehend.
“The lights seemed to be pointing toward me, not so much at me, but so bright that it looked like they were pointed at me, although it was not pointed at me at all. That’s how dazzling the lights were.”
As the object moved overhead, the witness thought there was structure to the object.
“As the craft approached the highway before it crossed over me, I thought it could be a structure, a linear structure like I-beams or something that have lights along it and it was not a flat triangle. It appeared to have a flat aspect, but the front seemed to be folded a little making it like two long, skinny triangles, but only in the front.”
Cropped and enlarged version of the witness illustration. (Credit: MUFON)
The witness was not afraid.
“I did not feel any unusual feelings outside of disbelief. I racked my mind trying to figure out what it could be other than a craft. It was not that high off the ground. As an artist my life profession is about looking and seeing. I’m very articulate and I’m able to describe things well. I worked as a carpenter for 30 years and I have a pretty good sense of dimension. I would guess this craft was between 40 and 60 feet long. Of course perspective could have thrown all of this off. Of course everything about this could be incorrect. But if it was what it appeared to be, I saw something quite remarkable and would like to know if anybody else sa w the same damn thing.”
The witness provided an exact location for the sighting.
“It was west of exit 169 on Interstate 90 – that was what I dictated (with only punctuation changes). I am most curious if there were other reports of this thing. It had to have been seen by many others because it was so low and moved so slowly and was over a very, very populated area – along the edge of Cleveland. And lastly, and strangely enough, I have been struggling to photograph my drawings and for some reason they will not photograph. I have never had a problem with taking photos on my phone. Very strange. And I am not even suggesting that they are related at all.
Ohio MUFON Field Investigator Joseph Pavlansky closed this case as an Unknown. Please remember that most UFO sightings can be explained as something natural or man-made. The above quotes were edited for clarity. Please report UFO activity to MUFON.com.
UFO PENDELDIENST TUSSEN POPOCATEKPETL VULKAAN EN ISS - RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
UFO PENDELDIENST TUSSEN POPOCATEKPETL VULKAAN EN ISS - RUIMTESTATION ( VIDEO )
Het ISS ruimtestation dat boven onze hoofden rondjes draait rond de aarde speelt een hele andere rol dan het grote publiek denkt.
Met steeds meer mensen die van alles volgen via webcams en andere camera’s wordt het steeds moeilijker om UFO’s verborgen te houden.
Er moet toch een keer een moment komen dat ook de gevestigde mainstream niet meer om een aantal simpele feiten heen kan.
Die zijn onder andere dat er op talloze foto’s en video’s intussen is vastgelegd dat er zich zo langzamerhand ontelbare UFO’s bevinden bij de Mexicaanse vulkaan Popocatépetl en het ISS ruimtestation.
Naast die feiten begint het ook steeds duidelijker te worden dat het in een aantal gevallen waarschijnlijk dezelfde ruimteschepen gaat.
Zowel over de UFO’s bij het ISS en die bij de Popocatépetl is op deze website uitgebreide documentatie vinden.
Enkele weken geleden, op 25 maart 2016, werd boven de Popocatépetl vulkaan de volgende prachtige UFO vastgelegd.
Enige tijd later op 5 april 2016 wordt bij het ISS voor de zoveelste keer een ruimteschip waargenomen.
Dit object lijkt verdacht veel op die die kort daarvoor boven de Popocatépetl was vastgelegd.
Dat er een verband bestaat tussen de basis van Popocatépetl en ISS, is overduidelijk. Dat er diverse soorten ruimteschepen op een neer pendelen tussen de twee, ook.
De achtergronden ervan zijn echter nog steeds een stuk onduidelijker.
Kepler's New Mission: To Hunt Strange Orphan Worlds
Kepler's New Mission: To Hunt Strange Orphan Worlds
By Irene Klotz, Discovery News
This is an artist's impression of an orphaned or "rogue" planet — a world that has become excited from its parent star and is drifting through interstellar space.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
After an unprecedented survey to look for Earth-like planets beyond the solar system, NASA's Kepler space telescope this week begins a search for free-flying planets to learn just how common orphan worlds may be.
Planets without host stars are difficult to find, but they do exist. Scientists believe these bodies were ejected from their solar system families due to gravitational dynamics, lured away by tidal forces from interloping passersby, or perhaps even formed without the benefit of a parent star. What they don't know is if orphan planets are common or not.
To find the free-flying worlds, astronomers are turning to a technique known as microlensing, which occurs when the background light of a star is distorted due to the gravitational effects of another, unseen body located between the star and the observing telescope.
"For a lensing event that's due to a just a single object, the most salient feature of the light curve is the time scale. In general, a shorter time scale is potentially indicative of a lower-mass lensing object," said astronomer Calen Henderson, with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
The Transit
As an exoplanet passes in front of its star as viewed from Earth, a very slight dip in starlight brightness is detected. Observatories such as NASA's Kepler space telescope use this "transit method" to great effect, constantly detecting new worlds.
IMAGE: AN EXOPLANET PASSES IN FRONT OF (OR "T
Hot Jupiters
Some exoplanets orbit close to their parent stars. Due to their close proximity and generally large size, worlds known as "hot Jupiters" are easier to spot than their smaller, more distant-orbiting cousins.
CREDIT: ESO
Habitable Worlds
The primary thrust of exoplanet hunting is to find small, rocky worlds that orbit within their stars' "habitable zones." The habitable zone, also known as the "Goldilocks zone," is the region surrounding a star that is neither too hot nor too cold. At this sweet spot, liquid water may exist on the exoplanet's surface. Where there's water, there's the potential for life.
IMAGE: AN ARTIST'S IMPRESSION OF GLIESE 581D,
A Phantom
Usually, exoplanet hunters look for the slight dimming of a star or a star's "wobble" to detect the presence of an exoplanet. However, in the case of Kepler-19c, its presence has been detected by analyzing its gravitational pull on another exoplanet, Kepler-19b.
Kepler-19c is therefore the Phantom Menace of the exoplanet world.
CREDIT: DAVID A. AGUILAR (CFA)
Crazy Aurorae
Planets with a global magnetic field, like Earth, have some dazzling interactions with the winds emanating from their stars. The high-energy particles bombard the planet's atmosphere after being channeled by the magnetism. A wonderful auroral lightshow ensues.
But say if there's an exoplanet, with a magnetosphere, orbiting really close to its star? Well, stand back! The entire world would become engulfed in a dancing show, 100-1000 times brighter than anything we see on Earth.
IMAGE: A "HOT JUPITER" AND ITS TWO HYPOTHETIC
The "Candidates"
"Candidate" exoplanets are often mentioned, especially when talking about detections by the Kepler space telescope. But what does this mean?
As a world passes in front of its star, slightly dimming the starlight, this isn't considered a "confirmed" exoplanet detection. To make sure that signal is real, more orbital passes of the exoplanet need to be logged before a bona fide discovery can be announced. Until then, these preliminary detections are called exoplanet candidates.
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Angry Suns, Naked Planets
Exoplanets come in all sizes and all states of chaos. Some might have wonky orbits, others might be getting naked. Other times, they're simply being ripped apart by X-rays blasted from their parent star. Bummer.
IMAGE: AN EXOPLANET BEING DESTROYED BY X-RAYS
Super-Earths
Super-Earths get a lot of press. Mainly because "Earth" is mentioned. Sadly, most of these worlds are likely completely different to anything we'd call "Earth." And you can forget calling the vast majority of them "Earth-like." It's simply a size thing -- they're bigger than Earth, yet a lot smaller than Jupiter, hence their name, "super-Earth." Easy.
IMAGE: ARTIST'S IMPRESSION SHOWS HD 85512B, A
The time scale for a lensing event caused by a free-floating planet may last just days or even hours, he added.
"If you're just monitoring one star, it's very, very rare to capture a microlensing event. That would only happen once per individual star every maybe 300,000 years," Henderson told Discovery News.
"It's a fishing expedition. Microlensing events are rare. They're unpredictable and so what microlensing surveys have done for decades is just try to play the numbers game," he said.
Ongoing ground-based surveys boost the odds of capturing a microlensing event by focusing on tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of stars, looking for targets that brighten within short time periods.
While some variations in a star's brightness are due to stellar flares or because the star is what is known as a cataclysmic variable and periodically erupts, other changes are caused by unseen bodies in the foreground warping the light of the background star.
"What we're going to try to do with K2 is look for those events that are due to a lensing system that is just a free-floating planet," Henderson said.
To accomplish that, the K2 team will work in conjunction with ground-based surveys to try to get two perspectives of a lensing event, which will allow astronomers to calculate the mass what is causing the lensing.
"It's the first chance that we will have to actually measure the masses of these objects and the first chance to find out if the ones we find that are low-mass are (gravitationally) bound to a host star or not," Henderson said.
Scientists believe that they will be able to detect free-floating planets about the size of Saturn or larger with the technique.
K2's hunt for orphan worlds began on Thursday and is scheduled to last until July 1.
A white paper on the project was released at the American Astronomical Society meeting in Orlando in January.
The possible internal structure of Planet Nine, a large world hypothesized to exist far beyond the orbit of Pluto.
Credit: Esther Linder, Christoph Mordasini, University of Bern
Astronomers are trying to take the measure of Planet Nine before the hypothesized world has even been discovered.
Earlier this year, astronomers Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown, both of whom are based at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, proposed that a large planet lurks undetected in the outer solar system, far beyond Pluto's orbit.
Batygin and Brown didn't spot this prospective Planet Nine; rather, they inferred its existence based on the orbits of a half-dozen objects in the Kuiper Belt, the ring of icy bodies beyond Neptune. [Planet Nine: The Evidence for a New Giant Planet in Pictures]
These objects' orbits suggest that Planet Nine may be about 10 times more massive than Earth, and may circle the sun at an average distance of 600 astronomical units (AU) or so, Batygin and Brown said. (One AU is the average distance from Earth to the sun — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
Now, a new study models what Planet Nine — which, contrary to the claims of a recent New York Post video, will not destroy the Earth — might look like if those parameters are on the money.
Astrophysics professor Christoph Mordasini and his Ph.D. student Esther Linder, both of the University of Bern in Switzerland, assumed that Planet Nine — if it exists — is basically a smaller version of the "ice giants" Uranus and Neptune, with an atmosphere dominated by hydrogen and helium.
NASA Officially Cautious About 'Planet Nine' | Video
The duo then calculated that such a 10-Earth-mass Planet Nine would be about 3.7 times wider than our planet, with a temperature of minus 375 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 226 degrees Celsius; 47 degrees Kelvin).
"This means that the planet’s emission is dominated by the cooling of its core; otherwise, the temperature would only be 10 Kelvin," Linder said in a statement.
Since reflected sunlight would contribute very little to the total radiation emitted by Planet Nine, it would be much brighter in infrared light than in visual wavelengths, Mordasini and Linder said.
"With our study, candidate Planet Nine is now more than a simple point mass; it takes shape, having physical properties," Mordasini said in the same statement.
Mini-Neptunes like "Planet Nine" outnumber other types of planets found by astronomers. See our full infographic here.
Credit: by Karl Tate, Infographics artist
The researchers also used the results of their modeling work to investigate just how detectable Planet Nine might be. They determined that the various sky surveys that astronomers have already performed were likely incapable of spotting a Planet Nine that's less than 20 Earth masses, especially if the mysterious world were close to aphelion (the planet's farthest point from the sun during its highly elliptical orbit). But NASA's Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer satellite likely would have spotted a Planet Nine harboring more than 50 Earth masses.
"This puts an interesting upper mass limit for the planet," Linder said.
Further surveys and future instruments — such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which is currently being built in Chile — should be able to confirm or rule out the existence of Planet Nine, the researchers said.
The new study has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics.
This award-winning film supports the theory that some UFOs are of extraterrestrial origin.
Unexplained cases from around the world; the team investigates 50 years of official contradictions and denials, and puts forth possible reasons for secrecy.
The film also examines scientific theories regarding interstellar travel and discusses the current movement for official disclosure on the subject of UFOs - a subject that has been considered by most government officials to be unworthy of serious investigation.
The team travels the globe, interviewing eyewitnesses and high-ranking military & government personnel about their UFO knowledge and experiences.
The ‘Drip-feeding’ of Disclosure appears to continue in numerous different ways, what with NASA recently presenting to the world photos taken from space of a series of huge, mysterious geoglyphs were discovered in the grasslands, or steppes, of Kazakhstan, first discovered back in 2007.
Please see below one of the 260 sites discovered in Kazakhstan:
As you can see from the above NASA image these structures are huge in size. They were thought to have been formedby human-made mounds, divots, and trenches, the structures create giant images that can be seen from the sky, including shapes that look like crop circles, squares, and swastikas. Archaeologists estimate they were created around 8,000 years ago, but have no idea who built them, or why – It has even been suggested by some leading researchers that perhaps an Advanced Alien species used these as some kind of Galactic ‘markers’ or used to transmit energy in some way.
Since NASA has released these photos they have even admitted that they are completely clueless as to what or WHO created these incredible structures. These structures could very well change our perspective on early humanity.
Yet another image taken from NASA – You can see by the scale how huge these structures really are.
These incredible glyphs were first discovered by an amateur Archaeologist called Dmitriy Dey way back in 2007, whilst using Google Earth – over 260 of them have been discovered since. I guess what makes them intriguing enough for the guys at NASA to get involved is probably due to the fact that they were created a VERY long time ago! To put things into perspective the Nazca Lines in Peru, were only built around 1,500 years ago.
One of the most interesting things about this apart from the fantastic structures themselves, is that the only humans thought to be living in this region of Kazakhstan back then were nomadic Stone Age tribes – Leading researchers don’t believe that they were sophisticated enough to build anything like this, in fact it would have been impossible.
Could Ancient ‘Advanced’ Alien Beings be responsible for some of these age old structures? Art by Raphael Terra@http://ufoartist.blogspot.co.uk/
“The idea that foragers could amass the numbers of people necessary to undertake large-scale projects – like creating the Kazakhstan geoglyphs – has caused archaeologists to deeply rethink the nature and timing of sophisticated large-scale human organisation as one that predates settled and civilised societies,” Persis B. Clarkson, an archaeologist at the University of Winnipeg, told Ralph Blumenthal from The New York Times.
It has only been very recently that serious investigation into the shapes had only really just begun, with the glyphs formally being described at an archaeology conference last year for the first time – before that there were some concerns the whole thing was a hoax due to how remarkable the structures are. And it’s only the last two weeks that NASA has gotten involved.
NASA are now using satellites from one of their main contractors, DigitalGlobe, to take images of some of the most amazing structures from space, and they’ve also instructed that the astronauts on board the International Space Station to immediately start taking photos of the region – clearly things are being taken very seriously about these structures, although NASA will underplay that.
“I’ve never seen anything like this; I found it remarkable,” said Compton J. Tucker, a NASA scientist who provided the images. He added that NASA was “proceeding to map the entire region”.
Notice the Nazi looking sign to the left.
U.I.P SUMMARY –
When I FIRST read about this, straight away I thought to myself “there could be FAR much more to this story than meets the eye!” especially with NASA getting heavily involved and spending millions of dollars in research!
What makes these glyphs so fascinating is their sheer size, they are that large that they’re unable to be seen from the ground. It is impossible to imagine a civilisation over 8,000 years ago contemplating the surface of the Earth from the air, for a start HOW WOULD THEY GET UP INTO THE AIR? Consider this, one of the largest structures is the Ushtogay Square, which is about 250,000 metres in area,with its sides as long as a huge US aircraft carrier.
Another structure, which is called the Bestamskoe Ring, is basically a circle which has been made up of dozens of other smaller circles. There’s also the Turgai Swastika, which looks kind of like a three-armed swastika and as many of us will know the Swastika was used way before the Nazi’s started using it to inflict fear into the planet.
There is no way at this moment in time anybody can confirm who created these structures and WHY they are there, but what we can say is that we all need to take a large pinch of salt with whatever NASA throws back our way about these amazing structures. The evidence is building that we have NOT been alone for a very long time, from looking at our own DNA, to unusual structures and markings around the world – It has even been suggested that these strange structures may be landing markers for Alien Beings, or some kind of coded message for Beings from a far!
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Humans Should Edit Genes to Survive In Space, Scientist Says (Video)
Humans Should Edit Genes to Survive In Space, Scientist Says (Video)
by Tia Ghose, Senior Writer
Credit: iurii/Shutterstock.com
Using the tools of synthetic biology, scientists could genetically engineer humans, and the plants and bacteria they bring with them, to create Earth-like conditions on another planet — known as terraforming, Nip said. This would be much more efficient than other proposed terraforming methods, such as hauling all of the tools to create a hermetically sealed environment, she added. [7 Most Mars-Like Places on Earth]To brave the conditions of microgravity, thin air and harsh ionizing radiation for any length of time, humans may need to borrow genes from some of the hardiest organisms on the planet, Lisa Nip, a doctoral candidate at the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said in a recent TED Talk.
Humans are the ultimate homebodies. Having evolved for hundreds of thousands of years on our verdant, oxygen-rich, temperate planet, humans are uniquely well adapted to Earth's gentle conditions.
But space explorers will face much harsher conditions. In outer space, microgravity can weaken bones and damage the heart, and ionizing radiation can wreck DNA, she said.
Even on Mars — by far the most "hospitable" of the seven other planets in our solar system — the average temperature is about minus 85 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 65 degrees Celsius), yearly rainfall is zero, the miniscule atmosphere offers no shield against solar radiation and the soil is similar to the volcanic ash in Hawaii, Nip said.
"If we were to dump any of us on Mars right this minute — even given ample food, air and water and a suit — we are likely to experience very unpleasant health problems from the ionizing radiation," she said.
Superspeed evolution
Instead of hiding humans behind a wall of lead or a suit of armor that weighs as much as the body itself, people should take a page fromextremophile bacteria already living on Earth, she said. For instance, the world's toughest bacterium, Deinococcus radiodurans, can withstand 100 times the ionizing radiation that would kill a human, with no apparent adverse effects. Scientists already understand some of the pathways that give D. radioduransits incredibly hardy nature, so harnessing just a handful of these could help humans become more resilient in the harsh environments lurking in the cosmos, Nip said.
But synthetic biology also could be used to alter the creatures and flora that humans bring along for space colonization. For instance, growing food on Mars with traditional crops means "engineering endless acres of land on an entirely new planet and releasing trillions of gallons of atmospheric gases, and then enclosing it all in a glass dome," Nip said.
Instead, plants could be engineered to be both more drought-resistant more cold-resistant. For instance, genes for antifreeze found in fish could be transplanted into these crops to allow them to resist the endless winter on the Red Planet, Nip said.
Of course, genetic engineering has its risks and ethical challenges. And humans, and all other organisms for that matter, already have a time-tested way to adjust to their environment: evolution that proceeds via natural selection. But typically, that requires many small changes adding up over a relatively long period of time, in many, many organisms.
"Evolution requires two things that we may not always have or be able to afford: They are death and time," Nip said. "In our species' struggle to find our place in the universe, we may not have the time necessary for the natural evolution of extra functions on new planets."
Instead, humans may need to engage in targeted evolution at hyperspeed to survive the vagaries of the cosmos, she said.
The Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant, called G1.9+0.3, was likely caused by the merging of two dense cores left over from dying stars. Credit: NASA/CXC/CfA/S. Chakraborti et al.
The Milky Way's youngest supernova — an explosion of a star that renders it extremely bright — was probably caused by the collision of two ultradense remnants of stars, new research suggests. The epic blast, shrouded in dust, also likely happened even more recently than scientists thought.
The supernova remnant was identified by radio telescope in 1984, and astronomers set out to fit X-ray and radio data to a model that could help reveal what instigated the explosion.
Researchers tracked down the explosion's cause by measuring how the supernova remnant brightened over time, and their technique could be used to better understand the type of supernova in general, called Type Ia — a cosmic blast essential to measuring the universe's expansion. Such supernovas can briefly shine brighter than the galaxies in which they reside. [Supernovas: Amazing Star Explosion Images]
"Astronomers use Type Ia supernovas as distance markers across the universe, which helped us discover that its expansion was accelerating," Sayan Chakraborti, an astrophysicist at Harvard University and lead author of the new study, said in a statement. "If there are any differences in how these supernovas explode and the amount of light they produce, that could have an impact on our understanding of this expansion."
The supernova remnant in question, called G1.9+0.3, is the echo of a cosmic explosion whose light would have hit Earth about 110 years ago, the new research suggests, but its dusty home in the constellation Sagittarius blocked its light from 19th century astronomers.
The new research incorporated data from the orbiting Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Jansky Very Large Array, a radio telescope in New Mexico. Both observatories focus on wavelengths of light that can pierce the dense cloud of dust around the supernova remnant. The researchers examined how the supernova remnant was interacting with the gas and dust around it, and noticed an increase in radiation over time.
Researchers classify Type Ia supernovas as explosions caused by white dwarfs, the superdense cores left behindwhen stars run out of fuel. But they aren't sure exactly why the white dwarfs explode. Potentially, the white dwarf could have either sucked in too much material from a companion star in its orbit, or two white dwarfs could have slammed together and merged, NASA officials said in a statement.
According to the Harvard team's new model, a supernova remnant's brightening over time suggests that it was formed the second way, through a white dwarf merger. They also concluded that scientists were seeing the blast 110 years after it happened, rather than 150.
"We observed that the X-ray and radio brightness increased with time, so the data point strongly to a collision between two white dwarfs as being the trigger for the supernova explosion in G1.9+0.3," study co-author Francesca Childs, also at Harvard, said in the statement.
The researchers can use their model to figure out the triggers of other Type Ia supernovas, which are thought to let out a consistent amount of light at their peaks. That consistency lets researchers calculate the distance to the galaxies they reside in, based on their brightness. Therefore, more information about how they form, which could affect the amount of light they put out, means researchers may need to recalculate some of the distances found based on the explosions.
"It is important to identify the trigger mechanism for Type Ia supernovas, because if there is more than one cause, then the contribution from each may change over time," Alicia Soderberg, an astronomer at Harvard and a study co-author, said in the statement. "This means astronomers might have to recalibrate some of the ways we use them as 'standard candles' in cosmology."
NASA HACKER FOUND EVIDENCE AMERICA HAS DEEP SPACE WARSHIPS
NASA HACKER FOUND EVIDENCE AMERICA HAS DEEP SPACE WARSHIPS
According to a hacker who is facing a ten-year legal battle after breaking into NASA computers, the United States has a fully operational fleet of Space Warships. Gary McKinnon, firmly believes that he came across the ultimate information that proves the US have a secret space program operated by the navy with fully operational warships that operate in Space.
In a new interview on UFO channel Richplanet TV, McKinnon finally reveals the entire truth about his findings saying: ‘I kept going for months and months. I kept thinking, ‘They’re going to close this door’.
McKinnon said that he used a software called Landsearch which allowed him to search all files and folders of interest to him.
‘I scanned and looked for documents, I found an Excel spreadsheet which said, ‘Non-terrestrial officers’, states McKinnon.
‘It had ranks and names. It had tabs for ‘material transfer’ between ships.
‘I took that to be, they must have a ships based in space – the names started with U.S.S.’
Gary McKinnon is accused of mounting the biggest ever hack in the history of the Unite3d States by breaking into the computers of the Army, Air force, Navy and NASA.
During his latest interview, McKinnon describes a conversation from a former NASA whistleblower Donna Hare, who had been told by a colleague that NASA was trying to hide delicate information by “airbrushing” UFOs from their photos.
“There was a colleague, who was in another room — they all had secret clearance but they were on different projects — and she (Hare) was in this chap’s lab or room or whatever it is and he said come and take a look at this,” said McKinnon.
While there are many people who firmly believe this is yet another elaborate hoax, there have been a series of former NASA and government employees who back up the claims made by McKinnon.
Parts of the testimony from Captain Kaye are consistent with that of Michael Relfe, another whistleblower who claims to have served 20 years tour on the red planet. Laura Magdalene Eisenhower, great-granddaughter of former President Eisenhower claims that efforts were made to recruit here onto a human colony on Mars, led by researcher Dr. Hal Puthoff.
According to “Jackie”, there are humans on Mars, and we have been on the red planet for over 20 years. ‘Jackie’, she and six other employees saw the exact same thing, suggesting this might be the evidence that proves that a secret space program did exist (or might even still).
According to ‘Jackie’ while working as part of the team downloading telemetry from the Viking Lander, she saw human setting foot on the surface of the red planet via a live feed from Mars.
In an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie talked about humans on Mars, something that has been discussed among other alleged NASA employees for years.
Many Ufologists firmly believe that the statements made by the above individuals is accurate and that this information is being withheld from the general public.
No doubt you have in your possession irrefutable evidence with which to qualify your comment. Considering the absence of checks, balances or oversight not to mention maintaining what could only be imagined as being an incredibly sophisticated and advanced security apparatus required for this epic type of clandestine enterprise we are indeed very fortunate to have someone with direct access to their secret doings such as yourself along here on Disqus to furnish us with the undeniable proof and facts of the matter
Thanks to modern science and technology, scientists have been able to account for many of the creatures that exist on the planet.
In some cases though, these creatures cannot be properly examined in order to determine their origin or to create any scientifically recognized data.
That doesn’t stop people from recording imagery or videos of the bizarre things they encounter – even if only for a brief moment.
5 Strange Creatures
Hook Island Monster
It was a seemingly innocent family vacation in 1965 at the Great Barrier Reef when Robert Le Serrec and his wife spotted an unusual sight.
The creature looked like a tadpole in the water but was perceived to be a massive 80 feet long. The creature was not moving and was considered dead so Le Serrec jumped in the water for a closer look. When the Australian monster swam towards him with mouth open wide, the man promptly reentered his boat.
Many consider the image to be a manipulated hoax, but photo manipulation software wasn’t invented for another 25 years. Individuals attempting to make sense of the image have postulated it was simply a school of fish or potentially a piece of plastic in the sand. Others consider the mammoth cryptid to be Bernard Heuvelmans’ Yellow Belly (1).
Similar creatures have been spotted since the 1800s but Heuvelmans believes it’s just a variation of a shark.
Rods or Skyfish
For a century these unidentified creatures have been filmed in still shots and video capture of the skies. No one knows for sure what they are or where they’re from but their visual presence is undeniable.
Referred to as rods or skyfish, these entities in the skies are perceived to be cylindrical in shape and up to six feet long with the possibility of multiple wings the length of the shape (2).
The entity has been filmed on multiple occasions but moves at speeds perceived up to 200mph, making clear imagery unavailable. Some believe the creature to be an unidentified species while others consider the possibility of an extraterrestrial life force or possibly its vehicle.
Some of those who have sighted the rods also consider the option of an object from a fourth dimension. Others weigh the option of a mechanical creation or simply a bird. Whatever it is, solid physical evidence has yet to be captured.
100-Arm Sea Creature
In September 2014, Ong Han Boon was fishing off the island of Sentosa in Singapore when he pulled an unusual creature from the water. He had captured what he believed to be an alien creature with 100 arms.
The bizarre find appeared to be a cross between an octopus and a starfish with numerous winding arms. The 65-year-old man grabbed his camera phone to share his discovery on Facebook. No one he knew nor any of his research could point him in the right direction so he considered it to be a mutation caused by pollutants in the water.
The odd creature was later discovered to be a basket star, a creature in the same family as sea stars and sand dollars (3). The basket star features long, slender appendages with hooks to attach to prey. The brittle creature is known to live at depths of 6,000 feet and typically feeds on zooplankton.
Monkey Pig
This bizarre creature looks like it could be a strange science experiment. Between the cloven feet, hairy body, and bulging odd facial appearance this creature has some believing it came to be after a cross-species tryst between a monkey and a pig.
However, this creature born in a remote Chinese village is nothing more than a deformed pig (4). The unfortunate appearance is believed to be a rare brain development condition called holoprosencephaly (5). The condition causes the eyes to fail to separate during the development stages like the mythical cyclops.
Neon Blue Sea Dragon
It’s no surprise that the bulk of unidentified creatures come from the sea. Scientists believe many of the creatures living in the depths of the sea have yet to be discovered due to the constraints of the pressure so deep below sea level.
A tiny creature that looks more like a creation from the anime series Pokemon, was spotted on the shores of Queensland, Australia.
Commonly known as the Blue Dragon, the creature looks similar to an Axolotl but with bold blue coloring (6). This sweet looking inch-long creature is actually quite deadly. The sea slug floats at the surface of the water and targets blue bottle jellyfish, ingesting their poison to use against their own predators.
While some creatures can be easily explained, others remain a mystery. Regional folklore and unexplained phenomenon continue to intrigue people to find solid evidence of well-known cryptids.
PETER2011:Persoonlijk denk ik dat dit een goede trucage of hoax is, maar mooi gemaakt... Het is moeilijk te geloven, dat zo iets kan bestaan, niet? Maar ik wil jullie deze beelden toch tonen, zodat je ze zelf kritisch kan bekijken. OORDEEL ZELF MAAR OVER DE AARD VAN DEZE BEELDEN!!!
We worden tegenwoordig overspoeld met allerlei video-opnames, waarvan helaas een groot aantal iedere keer weer nep blijkt te zijn.
Wanneer een bepaalde opname al een tijdje bestaat en niemand heeft kunnen aantonen dat deze niet echt zou zijn, wordt het mogelijk echt interessant.
De video hieronder verscheen voor het eerst in 2008 op een aantal Chinese video websites en is sindsdien op diverse andere plekken online verschenen.
Het laat een beeld zien van een wezen wat er duidelijk uitziet als de bekende Gray alien in een kamer met een beveiligingscamera.
Duidelijk blijkt uit de beelden dat de alien gevangen wordt gehouden en dat hij op een zeker moment probeert een raam te openen, maar daarbij wordt gestoord wanneer plotseling de deur opengaat en er iemand binnenkomt.
Deze zet een bord voedsel neer en vertrekt weer. Vervolgens pakt de alien het voedsel en gaat op de vloer zitten.
Het schijnt dat er origineel meer delen van deze video zijn geweest, maar volgens Scott Waring zijn die allemaal verdwenen.
Volgens hem heeft niemand ooit kunnen bewijzen dat de beelden hieronder niet echt zijn en dus gaan we er maar vanuit dat het hier inderdaad een gevangen alien betreft.
Onduidelijk is wat er verder met dit arme wezen is gebeurd. Onze wetenschappers kennende, weten die meestal wel raad met dit soort buitenkansjes.
Als de beelden echt zijn, is hier uiteraard sprake van een bijzonder opname.
Yes, a new website has appeared on the internet called Space Speak, and it instantly transmits your messages into radio waves. This message will travel at the speed of light across the universe, virtually forever. You can send anything, messages to those lost, those loved or to aliens themselves. Me...I always start off with a joke about an alien who went into a bar...its a way to break the ice and to make aliens laugh.
These sites never stay up for long so take advantage of it while you can for free. I have sent about 500 messages into space about 3 years ago. I used several giant radio telescope around the globe, but all of which are now shut off from public use. I used them to shoot off my books I wrote, my thoughts, my messages to aliens...its no wonder they ignore me, but lucky they haven't destroyed the planet, LOL. At the site, I'm YodaTW...I will be sending more messages, but the coolest thing is it tells you how far our message has traveled. So far, my alien joke has traveled 7,184,904,463 miles from Earth. Its free...let your hearts fly with this one. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
These UFO photos were taken over the Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, and ancient volcano that was named by the Aztecs, and worshiped as a god. I have been watching the live cam off and on over the years. In the beginning about 6 years ago, seeing a UFO on it was almost a daily event, and the UFOs stayed there for hours. Things changed after we started reporting them. The time they hovered around the volcano dropped from hours to seconds. I believe its due to all the UFO videos we placed on Youtube years back about it. Something that also started a few years after reporting these UFOs...the live cam would suddenly go out for a few minutes. I believe its because aliens leaned of the live cams and are using tech to shut the down as they come out of the volcano so we cannot see them as easily. See...aliens do play dirty. Scott C. Waring www.ufosightingsdaily.com
It may look like the boulder that chased Indiana Jones out of a lost temple, but an archaeologist claims a bizarre natural sphere found in Bosnia is far from a film prop.
In fact, he believes it is the world's oldest man-made sphere and claims it proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation that used impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago.
But there seems to be no proof that the 'sphere' is anything more than an unusual product of nature at the moment.
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Archaeologist Semir Osmanagic claims this round rock is the world's oldest man-made stone sphere. He believes it proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation that used impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago. But there seems to be no proof that the 'sphere' is anything more than an unusual product of nature
Controversial archaeologist Semir Osmanagic made the sensational claims in a forest at Podubravlje.
He has previously hit the headlines for his work on the supposed existence of ancient pyramids in the Visoko Valley, which he believes are hidden in plain sight as a cluster of hills.
He believes once his research is complete, one of the pyramids will be shown to be taller than the Great Pyramid of Giza, Egypt and the discovery will be the greatest find since Tutankhamen.
Dr Osmanagic, known as 'Bosnian Indiana Jones' who now lives in Austin in Texas, travels the world to investigate ancient sites.
He discovered the 'stone ball' near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and said it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world.
It has a radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres).
The archaeologist (pictured centre) believes its discovery in Bosnia proves Europe has an advanced lost civilisation using impressive technology more than 1,500 years ago
He discovered the 'stone ball' in a forest at Podubravlje (marked on the map) near the town Zavidovici in central Bosnia and Herzegovina and said it is the heaviest man-made ball in the world
The mysterious Bosnian boulder bears some resemblance to the spherical 'stone' that almost crushed Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford (pictured) when recovering a gold idol from a temple
THE BOSNIAN 'PYRAMIDS'
Semir Osmanagić has proposed a cluster of hills near the town of Visoko in central Bosnia and Herzegovina are actually the largest human-made ancient pyramids on Earth.
This claim in 2005 has provoked mixed reactions, with some experts rubbishing the idea, saying the pyramid shape of the hills is die to natural formations known as flatirons.
Dr Osmanagić said he has found tunnels, stone blocks and ancient mortar, suggesting the 'pyramid' was made by humans.
He has dubbed Visočica hill the 'Pyramid of the Sun' and has previously said they may have been made as early as 12,000 BC.
The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica.
In total there are around 300, weighing up to 15 tonnes, which are believed to have been created by the now extinct Diquis culture, potentially making them up to 1,500 years old.
It is unclear how they were created but it is believed they were first sculpted from a local stone before being hammered and polished with sand.
If the huge stone in Bosnia is found to be hewn by human hands, it would be the largest man-made stone ball ever found - twice as heavy as the Costa Rican ones.
It's claimed that Bosnia used to have hundreds of spherical stones, but they were destroyed by people looking for gold inside them, as mentioned in a local myth.
Only eight are known to still be in their natural environment, including the one now been uncovered in the forest at Podubravlje.
Dr Osmanagic said the sphere has an extremely high iron content, and believes it may be older than those in Costa Rica, as well as larger.
Archaeologist explains his 'stone ball' discovery in Podubravlje
The 'stone ball' (pictured) has a radius of between four and five feet (1.2 to 1.5 metres). If the huge stone in Bosnia is found to be hewn by human hands, it would be the largest man-made stone ball ever found
It is claimed that Bosnia used to have hundreds of spherical stones, but they were destroyed by people looking for gold inside them, as mentioned in a local myth. Here, Dr Osmanagic is pictured with his poodle
'It is once again further proof that there was an advanced civilisation here with a high level of technology about which we know very little,' he said.
DOUBTS CAST ABOUT THE SPHERE
Lecturer Mandy Edwards from the university's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences believes the spherical stone may be an example of concretion.
This is when a compact mass of rock is formed by the precipitation of natural mineral cement within the spaces between sediment grains.
The result is often spherical in shape, with the process forming the famed Koutu boulders in New Zealand.
The controversial archaeologist has been researching stone balls for 15 years and based on visiting sites around the world believes that the ancient civilisation used the stone ball in the belief that it attracted positive energy and was able to offer healing benefits.
However, a number of experts from the University of Manchester disagree and believe the boulder is not man-made.
Lecturer Mandy Edwards from the university's School of Earth, Atmospheric and Environmental Sciences told MailOnline the spherical stone may be an example of concretion.
This is when a compact mass of rock is formed by the precipitation of natural mineral cement within the spaces between sediment grains.
The result is often spherical in shape, with the process forming the famed Koutu boulders in New Zealand.
Experts at the Geological Society said the round shape of the rock could be the result of like spheroidal weathering - a form of chemical weathering that affects jointed bedrock and results in the formation of concentric or spherical layers of highly decayed rock - and that there may be similar rocks in the area too.
Dr Osmanagic was treated as a crank when he first made claims about the pyramids, but he was given backing by the government of Bosnia and Herzegovina to fund his research into the subject.
The Bosnian Prime Minister at the time, Nedzad Brankovic, said: 'We were told the world was laughing at us when we decided to back this excavation, but there is no government in the world that should stay quiet on things which are positive.
Dr Osmanagic said the sphere has an extremely high iron content, and believes it may be older than those in Costa Rica, as well as larger. Here, researchers are shown touching the mysterious rock
Dr Osmanagic has been researching stone balls for 15 years and believes an ancient civilisation used the stone ball in the belief that it attracted positive energy and was able to offer healing benefits
'Why should we deny something that has attracted the attention of the whole world? We want to have official institutions involved in research in Visoko.'
American author Paul Von Ward said the Bosnian Valley of Pyramids was the 'most exciting and most important archaeological place in the world' and added: 'They are a stunning blow to conventional history - these mammoth structures were built bigger and better and even earlier - thousands of miles away in Europe - than the pyramids in Egypt.
'The Bosnian pyramids don't have pharaohs in them, but were instead built as tributes to ancient gods by thousands of slave workers.'
Egyptian archaeologist Dr Nabil Swelim said: 'It is a building achievement of genius and great importance for the entire world.
'This is an unbelievable discovery. It will take a lot of time to understand how these great structures were built.'
However, some professional geologists, archaeologists, and scientists have said the 'pyramids' show no signs of human construction.
THE INCREDIBLE STONE SPHERES OF COSTA RICA
The phenomenon of stone balls has been linked with ancient civilisations around the world with the most famous being the stone spheres of Costa Rica, or 'Las Bolas'.
In total there are around 300 petrospheres, weighing up to 15 tonnes, which are believed to have been created by the now extinct Diquis culture, making them up to 1,500 years old.
In total there are around 300 petrospheres, weighing up to 15 tonnes. A selection of the ancient rock spheres (pictured) are shown in the country's National Museum in San José
The spheres range in size from a few centimetres to over 6.6ft (two metres) in diameter.
Most are sculpted from gabbro - the coarse-grained equivalent of basalt- and there are a dozen or so made from shell-rich limestone, and another dozen made from a sandstone.
It is unclear how they were created but it is believed that they were first sculpted from a local stone before being hammered and then polished with sand.
The degree of finishing and precision of working varies considerably.
A bizarre structure in the Egyptian desert and visible on Google Earth has sparked a wave of speculation among UFO hunters.
The strange complex, in barren landscape to the east of the capital Cairo, features two long pointed buildings surrounded by mysterious circles.
Its futuristic design has prompted a range of suggestions over what it is used for - with some even believing it has links to UFO research.
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A bizarre structure in the Egyptian desert and visible on Google Earth has sparked a wave of speculation among UFO hunters
The futuristic design has prompted a range of suggestions over what it is used for - with some even believing it has links to UFO research
The existence of the building was highlighted by Secureteam10 which describes itself as a source for 'UFO sighting videos' as well as 'government cover-up and the alien activity happening on and off our planet'.
The Red Planet's tiny, misshapen moons Phobos and Deimos are widely believed to be captured asteroid - but a new theory claims they may once been part of the red planet.
Researchers modelled the effect of a giant impact on the red planet - and now believe it may have formed the moons.
The simulations showed an object with roughly the mass of Pluto would throw around a thousandth of Mars's mass into orbit.
Deimos, the outer moon, has a smooth surface due to a blanket of fragmental rock or regolith, except for the most recent impact craters. It is a dark, reddish object, very similar to Mars' other moon, Phobos.
THE GIANT IMPACT HYPOTHESIS
One theory is that Phobos' was formed in a similar way to our own moon, in something known as the 'Giant Impact Hypothesis.'
This states the moon formed shortly after Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago when a large object, around the size of Mars, collided with our planet.
The material that was thrown out form this collision rapidly combined quickly after the impact to form the moon.
Some researchers, however, argue that Phobos was once an asteroid that got drawn in by Mars' gravitational pull.
Julien Salmon of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado revealed his theory at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas, last month, according to New Scientist.
If the moons were asteroids, they would have less regular orbits, the researchers say.
Now Salmon and his colleague Robin Canup adapted models used to study the formation of Earth's moon, which is also thought to be the result of a large collision.
On Mars, the collision would throw around a thousandth of Mars's mass into orbit, and the edge of the disc would reach beyond the 24,000-kilometre orbit of Deimos, the outer moon.
Although nearby material would be dragged back to the Martian surface, the team fund the outer part of the disk would spin fast enough to keep it out of gravity's clutches - meaning the material could have formed into the Phobos and Deimos we see today.
'The idea is that Phobos and Deimos are the only two survivors of a once much larger population of satellites,' said Salmon.
'Such a large object hitting Mars in its past could also explain some other features we see today, like the planet's relatively fast rotation and the large differences in average surface height between its northern and southern hemisphere, says Salmon.
'It makes sense to think about a big impact for Mars.'
In late November and early December, the space agency's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (Maven) mission made a series of close approaches to the Martian moon.
This allowed it to collect data from within 300 miles (500km) of the lunar surface, as well as produce spectral images of Phobos in the ultraviolet.
Unlike our moon, Mars's main satellite Phobos (pictured is an artist's impression) is moving closer and closer to its parent planet, which is pulling it down. This gravitational tide is opening grooves on Phobos's surface which can measure 328 to 656 feet (100 to 200 metres) wide and 33 to 98 feet (10 to 30 metres) tall
The images will allow Maven scientists to better assess the composition of this enigmatic object, whose origin is unknown.
Comparing Maven's images and spectra of the surface of Phobos to similar data from asteroids and meteorites will help planetary scientists understand the moon's origin – whether it is a captured asteroid or was formed in orbit around Mars.
The latest theor is theory is that Phobos' was formed in a similar way to our own moon, in something known as the 'Giant Impact Hypothesis.'
In this image, orange shows mid-ultraviolet (MUV) sunlight reflected from the surface of Phobos, exposing the moon's irregular shape and many craters. Blue shows far ultraviolet light, which is scattered off of hydrogen gas in the upper atmosphere of Mars. Phobos blocks this light, eclipsing the ultraviolet sky
This states the moon formed shortly after Earth was formed 4.5 billion years ago when a large object, around the size of Mars, collided with our planet.
The material that was thrown out form this collision rapidly combined quickly after the impact to form the moon.
Some researchers, however, argue that Phobos was once an asteroid that got drawn in by Mars' gravitational pull.
The orbit of the Maven probe sometimes crosses the orbit of Phobos. This image shows the configuration of the two orbits in early December 2015, when Maven's Phobos observations were made
Astronomers predict that Mars's larger moon, Phobos, will eventually be destroyed by its parent planet's gravitational force. This graphic shows how the satellite's remains are expected to encircle the red planet, causing it to become 'a smaller version of Saturn' and the first non-gaseous planet in our system to sport rings
The Maven data, when fully studied, will also help scientists look for organic molecules on the surface.
Evidence for such molecules has been reported by previous measurements from the ultraviolet spectrograph on the Mars Express spacecraft.
THE MARKINGS OF PHOBOS
Phobos is the larger and closer of Mars' two moons, the other being Deimos.
They were both discovered in 1877.
Irregularly-shaped Phobos has an average radius of seven miles (11km) and is seven times larger than Deimos.
Phobos is 3,700 miles (6,000km) from Mars and has the closest orbit of any known planetary moon.
It is so close that it orbits Mars faster than Mars rotates, and completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes.
Due to tidal interactions, Phobos is drawing closer to Mars by one metre every century, and it is predicted that in 50 million years it will collide with the planet or break up into a planetary ring.
It was thought that mysterious grooves on the moon were markings as the result of an impact, but nor scientists say they are the first sign the rocky body is under stress.
Last year, astronomers from California predicted that Phobos will eventually be destroyed by its parent planet's gravitational force.
Once destroyed, the satellite's remains will encircle Mars, causing it to become 'a smaller version of Saturn' and the first non-gaseous planet in our solar system to sport rings.
In a paper published on Nature Geoscience, the researchers from the University of California, Berkeley explained how Phobos and the red planet are on a collision course.
Unlike our moon, Mars' main satellite is moving closer and closer to its parent planet, which is inexorably pulling it down.
This gravitational tide is opening grooves on Phobos' surface which can measure 328 to 656 feet (100 to 200 metres) wide and 33 to 98 feet (10 to 30 metres) tall .
The scientists attempted to calculate whether the moon would eventually just crash on the red planet, or rather break into pieces.
Combining observational data with a computer model to calculate the internal strength of Phobos, they found that much of the satellite is composed of weak materials, which makes its disintegration almost inevitable.
Phobos might not be the only doomed moon in our solar system either.
'We speculate that diminutive Phobos may be the last of many inwardly migrating prograde satellites in our solar system,' the researchers wrote in the study
Something similar could be happening, for instance, to Neptune's moon Triton - which is also slowly losing orbit and has comparable fissures on its surface.
Mars moons 'Phobos' passing in front of smaller moon Deimos | Curiosity Rover | Planet Mars
Eindelijk! SpaceX landt raket voor het eerst op zeeplatform
Eindelijk! SpaceX landt raket voor het eerst op zeeplatform
Tim Kraaijvanger
Na veel mislukte pogingen is het SpaceX gelukt om een raket op een zeeplatform te laten landen. De Falcon 9-raket wordt over enkele maanden opnieuw gelanceerd.
In december 2015 lukte het SpaceX om de Falcon 9-raket op het vaste land neer te zetten. Een zeelanding is veel lastiger. Niet alleen is het drijvend platform erg klein – 90 bij 30 meter groot – ook is water altijd in beweging. Daarnaast is er geen beschutting, waardoor het doorgaans harder waait op zee.
Toch is het gisteravond gelukt! Om 22:55 uur Nederlandse tijd meldde het private ruimevaartbedrijf dat de eerste trap van de raket op het ‘Of Course I Still Love you’-droneschip is geland. “De Dragon-capsule is in de juiste baan om de aarde”, aldus SpaceX.
On April 8th, 2016, Space landed its Falcon 9 first stage on an ocean barge for the first time. A camera mounted to the rocket captured the landing along with a chase plane. The same hardware launched the Dragon spacecraft on the CRS-8 Space Station re-supply mission minutes earlier. -- SpaceX Mission Control Erupts in Applause: http://goo.gl/Akgaew
Enkele uren later feliciteerde president Obama Elon Musk en zijn collega’s: “Gefeliciteerd SpaceX met deze zeelanding. Dankzij innovators als jullie en NASA blijft de Verenigde Staten voorop lopen in de ruimtevaart.”
Groene ruimtevaartindustrie De landing op zee is een grote stap naar een duurzame ruimtevaartindustrie. Vaak worden raketten slechts eenmaal gebruikt. De eerste trap van de Falcon 9-raket kan tien tot twintig keer opnieuw gebruik worden. Sommige onderdelen kan SpaceX zelfs duizenden malen recyclen.
Maar eerst is het belangrijk dat zeelandingen routinematig slagen. “We zijn pas succesvol wanneer een zeelanding saai is”, zegt Musk.
Blue Origin Het bedrijf van Elon Musk is overigens niet het enige bedrijf dat raketten hergebruikt door ze te laten landen op aarde. Ook Blue Origin heeft al drie geslaagde raketlandingen uitgevoerd. Dit is wel appels vergelijken met peren, aangezien de raketten van SpaceX hoger gaan om satellieten in de juiste baan om de aarde te krijgen, terwijl de raketten van Blue Origine ‘slechts’ de ruimte aantikken.
UFO at one million miles away. What is it? (Linked)
UFO at one million miles away. What is it? (Linked)
Published on Apr 8, 2016
This was filmed by the furthest satellite we have at point L1. The SOHO satellite that monitors our Sun. Could this be an Alien Satellite or Ship passing by monitoring our Planet?
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Ik ben Pieter, en gebruik soms ook wel de schuilnaam Peter2011.
Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 74 jaar jong.
Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën...
Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
We worden tegenwoordig overspoeld met allerlei video-opnames, waarvan helaas een groot aantal iedere keer weer nep blijkt te zijn. 
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