Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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THAT IS AN AVERAGE OF 400GUESTS PER DAY.
THANK YOU FOR VISITING MY BLOG AND HOPE YOU ENJOY EACH TIME.
The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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Deze blog is opgedragen aan mijn overleden echtgenote Lucienne.
In 2012 verloor ze haar moedige strijd tegen kanker!
In 2011 startte ik deze blog, omdat ik niet mocht stoppen met mijn UFO-onderzoek.
BEDANKT!!!
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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...
26-11-2016
Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)
Travis Walton, UFO Abductee Q&A with Richard Dolan, Victor Viggiani, Chris Russak (Modern Knowledge)
Published on Jul 2, 2016
Travis Walton live in Toronto. MANY ARE FAMILIAR WITH THE STORY OF TRAVIS WALTON AS PORTRAYED IN THE HIT 1993 MOVIE 'FIRE IN THE SKY' THAT WAS HOLLYWOOD, BUT ABDUCTIONS ARE DEFINITELY NOT SCIENCE FICTION.
HEAR THE TRUTH OF THIS AMAZING STORY FROM TRAVIS WALTON HIMSELF, IN A RARE PUBLIC SCREENING AND QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION WITH THE WORLD'S MOST DOCUMENTED ALIEN ABDUCTEE.
TRAVIS, Travis: The True Story of Travis Walton, recounts the experiences of the work crew that day in the forest and the weeks that followed this incident. They and Travis struggled to make sense of the event enduring humiliation, and job losses. Travis has encountered lifelong ridicule regarding his experiences.Driving home after a day of clearing underbrush in the Sitgreaves National Forest, seven loggers come upon a 40 foot shiny disc hovering on the crest of a ridge. As if spellbound, Travis jumps from the passenger side of their work truck and runs toward the craft for a closer look. That decision November 5, 1975 would change him and these loggers forever. Travis’s story became a book called “Fire in the Sky” and a movie (1993). The Paramount Picture feature film enhanced his “close encounter of the third kind,” (a term coined by ufologist J. Allen Hynek denoting human observations of actual aliens or “animate beings”). The Travis Walton UFO story remains one of the most well documented stories of all time that will soon commemorate the 40th anniversary of this incident.
Travis Walton's First Interview Ever - After His Abduction
FREIGHTENING ALIEN CRAFT CLOSE ENCOUNTER IN RUSSIA
AUGUST 15, 1663 ………… ROBOZERO LAKE RUSSIA
On August 15, 1663, between 10 a.m. and noon, local time, a “great noise” resounded over Robozero Lake, located in the Vologda Region; about 50 kilometers southwest of Belozersk.
From the north, out of the clear sky appeared a huge flaming sphere no less than 40 meters in diameter. From its fore part emitted two “flame” beams, about “20 sazhens ahead of it” (i.e. around 40 meters; asazhen is 2.13 meters). From its sides poured blue smoke. This huge ball of fire, its height like that of a modern 15-story building, hovered over the lake.
The phenomenon was observed by a multitude of people. It was the day of the Assumption, and villagers from all of nearby villages gathered for Mass at the parish church, situated on the lake shore. The “great noise” occurred just as the prayer singing had begun. Terrified by this noise, the people emerged from the church to the vestibule, but upon seeing the “frightful sight” they went back into the church and “prayed to the Lord and the Virgin Mary with tears and weeping,” whereupon “the great flame and the two smaller ones vanished.” However, soon after “the fiery flame” again appeared over the lake, somewhat to the west, “about half a versta (approximately 1750 feet) from the spot where it had vanished.” Its appearance was just as unexpected as the first time and it had “dimmed.”
A little later the same body, seemingly becoming even brighter and more terrifying, reappeared another half kilometer to the west, and then, moving westward, it dimmed and disappeared from view. The “flame” hovered over Robozero for about an hour and a half. The lake is quite small, its size “two versts long and about one wide.”
Peasants were sailing in a boat in the lake at the time, but the scorching heat did not let them come closer. They saw that light from the unknown object penetrated the water, and reached the bottom of the lake that was “about four sazhens down.” They observed “fish fleeing from the flame towards the shore.” And where the flame touched the water, appeared a brown film of oxide on the surface, resembling rust (“just like rust”); it was later dispersed by wind.
Ivan Rzhevsky was an educated and intelligent man, as his observations reveal quite clearly. He went as far as to check out the testimony of an eyewitness, a peasant by the name of Levko Fedorov. He also received written confirmation from the local priests that “such a sign was observed on that date;” only then did Rzhevsky report the occurrence to his superiors.
The Russian author provides a detailed description of the phenomenon, but does not offer any subjective interpretation of it. Others tried to interpret the Robozero Phenomenon. Russian astronomer D. Svyatski, in his book “Astronomical phenomena in Russian chronicles (Petrograd, 1915),” claims that the eyewitnesses saw pieces of a meteorite that flew apart after an explosion.
How could the people in the boat approach a hovering body? Some have tried to explain it as a ball lightning. But there was no storm and no rain that day. A lightning’s life span is short. Its diameter is not larger than a meter, certainly never 40 meters. Then, there were two rays that emitted from the body. Ball lightning does not emit rays. Yuri Roszius analyzed Rzhevsky’s report. His detailed analysis included the study of one interesting episode related by eyewitnesses. The document notes a change in the outer appearance of the object: an increase in its brightness when it came into view for the third time.
For some reason this change preceded the start of the object’s progressive movement westward. In modern times, such increase in brightness could be attributed to the firing a cruise engines (increase in its trust). Is it by chance that the object’s brightness increased before its departure?
New York City is a unique and lively area of the United States. Many of the most common methods of traveling involve using buses and subways as New York City is often referred as the city that does not sleep. This is mostly the case, because of the endless action that takes place. The subway is a unique form of transportation that thousands of New Yorkers take daily. There is a unique atmosphere in the subway, due to the random personalities that are spotted one the train. Some attempt to perform a criminal activity, while some live in the subway, although illegal. One specific individual, however, looked vaguely different from the rest.
When a common user of the subway in a 25-year old man saw a child on the subway, he quickly noticed something was much different about him. He was no ordinary child, and it was because of his unusual look in his eyes. His eyes were black. Such eyes are typically indicative of someone who is not of this world. Particularly demonic or someone who is probably human for sure.
When the older gentleman became curious about the child, he began to monitor him endlessly. He would track the child to see what he is doing and why he constantly just sits on a train and stares blankly. The child would never give any response as if he was in a trance. One day he did finally respond to the man and asked the older man for help. The man was clearly in fear. However the kid said he was scared and needed help. When the man was reluctant, he began to get much more aggressive.
The man became extremely scared and began to pray that the kid would disappear, however, his prayers became a reality. The kid disappeared out of thin air. However the man still had no clue who it was. He thought he was free of this situation. However he later saw an area full of black-eyed children and could not move around if he wanted it. Was it an alien or was it a demon. Whoever it was it was not a person who is acting solely on the power of humans. The man never traveled by train again. The interesting question is why did he suddenly see a multitude of the same child. Was it a cult of some sort or was the man simply seeing things and he had his issues? Only time may tell whether this issue ever arises again.
ASTRONOMERS HAVE RECEIVED A SHOCKING SIGNAL FROM A MISSING US SATELLITE
ASTRONOMERS HAVE RECEIVED A SHOCKING SIGNAL FROM A MISSING US SATELLITE
It's amazing how many spacecrafts, rockets and satellites we have sent to space and the number of launches keeps increasing with the ever growing technological development.
Satellites are a crucial tool for transmitting important signals throughout Earth. Branching into several areas such as: Television, communication, navigation, weather, business, etc.
But one of the most interesting functions of certain satellites is space science, which has helped scientists understand more about universe over the years, with the study of blackholes and all the mysterious cosmic phenomena.
But some satellites can go rogue and disappear for a long time.
Recently, the LES1 which has been missing for around 50 years, has mysteriously began to transmit strange signals. Some people think the satellite was hijacked by an alien civilization that went on to transmit signals in order to establish contact with humanity.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
SPY SATELLITE DETECTS AN ANCIENT 12,000-YEAR-OLD STRUCTURE UNDER ANTARCTICA ICE
Disturbing news has been leaking out from the giant continent at the bottom of the world. During April 2016 an ancient structure or apparatus that lay encased miles under the hard Antarctic ice was detected by a roving spy satellite. The US military immediately moved to quash the reports and the mainstream news media dutifully complied.
There appears to be many secrets hidden in the Antarctica and we are pretty much hearing different stories every month about military personnel disclosing information about Aliens in that part of the world! But what a great secluded part of the world for the Aliens to keep out of sight from prying eyes….or so they thought!
While the mainstream news recently reported on further explorations in the Antarctica which they claim "holds the key" to mankind's future", what they do not do is connect the many dots which build a picture that appears to blur the lines between conspiracy and reality.
BIZARRE! MASSIVE ALASKAN SEA DRAGON CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
BIZARRE! MASSIVE ALASKAN SEA DRAGON CAUGHT ON CAMERA!
One of the most fascinating creatures that has been a prevalent topic for cryptid enthusiasts for years is the famous sea beast "The Lochness Monster".
The earliest account of a Lochness monster sighting was back in 1933, when a London couple were driving around Loch, they witnessed a gigantic creature akin to a dragon or a pre-historic animal with another smaller animal on his mouth and quickly moving from the road to the lake. This report was then published on the Courier.
The first photograph of the alleged beast was taken on the same year and was published in the Daily Express.
Through the following years, people have been reporting new "Nessie" sightings with some photographic proof to back their claims.
But these sea dragons aren't exclusive to the Scottish Highlands. There have been recent clips and photos of a supposed sea creature swimming along the icy cold Alaskan waters.
The footage taken had gone viral and it remains a mystery to what that creature is.
Even more recently new footage emerged showing another dragon creature submerging on Alaskan waters with spikes sticking out to the surface.
Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
Deepest water found 1000km down, a third of way to Earth’s core
Priceless imperfection
Mederic Palot
By Andy Coghlan
JULES VERNE’s idea of an ocean deep below the surface in Journey to the Centre of the Earth may not have been too far off. Earth’s mantle may contain many oceans’ worth of water – with the deepest 1000 kilometres down.
“If it wasn’t down there, we would all be submerged,” says Steve Jacobsen at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, whose team made the discovery. “This implies a bigger reservoir of water on the planet than previously thought.”
This water is much deeper than any seen before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core. Its presence was indicated by a diamond spat out 90 million years ago by a volcano near the São Luíz river in Juina, Brazil.
The diamond has an imperfection – a sealed-off inclusion – that contains minerals that became trapped during the diamond’s formation. When the researchers took a closer look at it with infrared microscopy, they saw unmistakable evidence of the presence of hydroxyl ions, which normally come from water. They were everywhere, says Jacobsen.
To work out the depth the diamond formed at – and hence the origins of this water – the team again turned to the inclusion. It is made of a ferropericlase mineral, which is composed of iron and magnesium oxide, and can also absorb other metals such as chromium, aluminium and titanium at ultra-high temperatures and pressures typical of the lower mantle.
“This water is much deeper than ever found before, at a third of the way to the edge of Earth’s core”
Jacobsen found that these additional metals had separated from the ferropericlase – something that happens in the milder conditions a diamond experiences as it edges up through shallower depths. But for the metals to be present at all, the diamond must have originated in the intense conditions of the lower mantle (Lithos, doi.org/btcn). “Based on the composition of the trapped mineral, we speculate that the depth was around 1000 kilometres,” says Jacobsen.
The clincher is that as the inclusion was trapped in the diamond the whole time, the water signature can only have come from the diamond’s place of formation in the lower mantle. “This is the deepest evidence for water recycling on the planet,” he says. “The big take-home message is that the water cycle on Earth is bigger than we ever thought, extending into the deep mantle.”
His team has previously found evidence of massive amounts of water some 600 kilometres down, mixed in with rock.
“Water clearly has a role in plate tectonics, and we didn’t know before how deep these effects could reach,” he says. “It has implications for the origin of water on the planet.” For example, it is possible that Earth had water from day one in the very dust and rocks that first formed it.
But it’s still not clear exactly how water got so far down. It may have arrived in the mantle even earlier than 90 million years ago, through sedimentary oceanic crust burrowing downwards as primitive tectonic plates thrust against and past each other.
The new study suggests cycling of subducted material, even at these depths, says Lydia Hallis at the University of Glasgow, UK. “Ultimately, this research will help us better understand the way our planet recycles itself.”
Jacobsen thinks that this water may help explain why Earth is the only planet we know to have plate tectonics. “Water mixes with ocean crust and gets subducted at convergent plate boundaries,” he says. “Introducing water into the mantle promotes melting and weakens rock, likely helping out the motions of plates like grease.”
The hope is that such research will yield insights into how our oceans and atmosphere formed in the first place.
This article appeared in print under the headline “Oceans of water in deep Earth go 1000 km down”
Oceanen aan water in de aarde bereiken diepte van 1000 (!) kilometer
Oceanen aan water in de aarde bereiken diepte van 1000 (!) kilometer
Jules Verne schreef in zijn boek ‘Reis naar het middelpunt van de aarde’ over een oceaan diep onder het aardoppervlak. Waarschijnlijk zat hij er niet ver naast, schrijft New Scientist.
De aardmantel bevat namelijk vele oceanen aan water, waarvan de diepste zich op zo’n 1000 kilometer onder de grond bevindt.
“Als die er niet zat, zouden we allemaal onder water leven,” zei Steve Jacobsen van de Northwestern University in Illinois, die de ontdekking heeft gedaan.
Diamant
“Dit wijst erop dat onze planeet over een grotere voorraad water beschikt dan voorheen werd gedacht.”
Het water zit veel dieper dan ooit eerder is waargenomen, op een derde van de afstand tot de aardkern.
Een diamant die 90 miljoen jaar geleden werd uitgespuwd door een vulkaan in het Braziliaanse Juína, bracht de wetenschappers op het spoor van het water.
De diamant bevat mineralen die bestaan uit hydroxyl-ionen, die normaal gesproken afkomstig zijn uit water. “Ze waren overal,” zei Jacobsen.
Onduidelijk
Zijn team stelde vast dat de diamant in de lagere mantel gevormd moet zijn, op een diepte van circa 1000 kilometer.
Nooit eerder werd op zo’n grote diepte water gevonden. “De watercyclus op aarde is groter dan we dachten en strekt zich uit tot diep in de mantel,” lichtte Jacobsen toe.
Zijn team ontdekte eerder al bewijs voor gigantische hoeveelheden water op een diepte van 600 kilometer, gemixt met gesteente.
Hij zei dat de aarde mogelijk al sinds haar ontstaan over water beschikt. Het is alleen nog onduidelijk hoe het water zo ontzettend diep kan reiken.
Check out the speed on this UFO. The white reflective surface of it prevents us from getting a clear view of it, and allows it to blend into the clouds easily to hide.
This UFO is over Australia, yet its the same type of ship that is seen by thousands over Denver, Colorado in the US. The alien species that uses this type of UFO probably have several bases located in the Australian outback.
Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible, Nov 2016, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of painting: 1600s
Artist who made painting: Ventura Salimbeni
Aliens have influence our lives it more ways that most are aware. Here an artist painted the Sputnik satellite 450 years before it was created. It also closely resembles a lot of the UFOs seen around the world...especially the ones we call cloud orbs. The artists must have hand some mental visions given to him from an alien...much like the famous french warrior Joan of Arc had in the 1400s. Aliens can, do and have mentally manipulated humans since the beginning of our existence.
Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
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Alien influence in historic works of art of the Bible? Why are there UFO like objects in the Glorification of the Eucharist?
What is a machine resembling the Sputnik satellite doing in a painting from the year 1600?
Ventura Salimbeni of the 16th and 17th century was assigned to do three painting for a church in Tuscany, Italy. Out of the three, he did one very odd looking one.
The painting, which is quite large and still stands today. The top of the painting is said to be symbolic of God the Father and God the Son with scepters touching what was known as the universe.
The thing is...this just looks a little bit too uncanny for symbolic reference.
If the sphere is said to represent the universe, why did the painter not include any stars or other celestial objects?...and why does the sphere seem to reflect light much like an actual shiny ball would?
The ball even appears to have seams that hold it together.
The strangest and most outlandish part of it all are the two quote "scepters" that stick out from the top of the object.
These scepters bear absolutely no resemblance what one would have looked like at the time.
In fact...they even look engineered to be antennaes. Look at the base of each of them and how they are slightly wider as they connect with the object. They even get thinner as they reach their end...perfectly resembling an antennae.
They even look as if they have a "telescoping" like design...such as if they could shorten away when not needed and expand when needed.
Plus, there are two of them...two of them positioned in a way to maximize radio wave transmission.
What exactly was the vision the artist saw when he painted this work of art? What inspired him?This is truly odd.
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
Did NASA Mars Rover Find a Signature of Past Life?
By Leonard David, Space.com's Space Insider Columnist
Home Plate opaline silica (left) occurs in nodular masses with digitate structures that resemble those at El Tatio (right).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
During its wheeled treks on the Red Planet, NASA's Spirit rover may have encountered a potential signature of past life on Mars, report scientists at Arizona State University (ASU).
To help make their case, the researchers have contrasted Spirit's study of "Home Plate" — a plateau of layered rocks that the robot explored during the early part of its third year on Mars — with features found within active hot spring/geyser discharge channels at a site in northern Chile called El Tatio.
The work has resulted in a provocative paper: "Silica deposits on Mars with features resembling hot spring biosignatures at El Tatio in Chile." [5 Bold Claims of Alien Life]
Field work
As reported online last week in the journal Nature Communications, field work in Chile by the ASU team — Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer of the university's School of Earth and Space Exploration — shows that the nodular and digitate silica structures at El Tatio that most closely resemble those on Mars include complex sedimentary structures produced by a combination of biotic and abiotic processes.
"Although fully abiotic processes are not ruled out for the Martian silica structures, they satisfy an a priori definition of potential biosignatures," the researchers wrote in the study.
Ancient setting
Spiritlanded on Mars in January 2004, a few weeks before its twin, Opportunity, touched down in a different part of the Red Planet. Both golf-cart-size rovers were tasked with looking for signs of past water activity during their missions, which were originally planned to last three months.
Spirit encountered outcrops and regolith composed of opaline silica (amorphous SiO2nH2O) in an ancient volcanic hydrothermal setting in Gusev crater.
An origin via either fumarole-related acid-sulfate leaching or precipitation from hot spring fluids was considered possible. "However, the potential significance of the characteristic nodular and [millimeter]-scale digitate opaline silica structures was not recognized," Ruff and Farmer noted in the new study.
Spirit imagery shows opaline silica nodular outcrops adjacent to Home Plate showing typical stratiform expression. White outline highlights nodular silica outcrop. Rover wheel tracks are roughly 1 meter apart. Rolling wheels did not deform the roughly 6-inch-high high outcrop (lighter tracks) compared with the inoperative dragging wheel in a later traverse (darker track).
Credit: ASU/Ruff & Farmer
El Tatio: Mars-like conditions
The physical environment of El Tatio offers a rare combination of high elevation, low precipitation rate, high mean annual evaporation rate, common diurnal freeze-thaw and extremely high ultraviolet irradiance.
"Such conditions provide a better environmental analog for Mars than those of Yellowstone National Park (USA) and other well-known geothermal sites on Earth," suggested Ruff and Farmer. "Our results demonstrate that the more Mars-like conditions of El Tatio produce unique deposits, including biomediated silica structures, with characteristics that compare favorably with the Home Plate silica outcrops. The similarities raise the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner."
Biosignature definition
Previously, a NASA science team defined a potential biosignature as "an object, substance and/or pattern that might have a biological origin and thus compels investigators to gather more data before reaching a conclusion as to the presence or absence of life."
"Because we can neither prove nor disprove a biological origin for the microstromatolite-like digitate silica structures at Home Plate, they constitute a potential biosignature according to this definition," Ruff and Farmer wrote.
Spirit of future exploration
Spirit bogged down on Mars in May 2009, becoming stuck in soft soil.
In late January 2010, after months of attempts to free the rover, NASA dubbed the wheeled robot a stationary research platform. The lack of mobility and the harsh climes of Mars conspired to seal Spirit's fate, with attempts to regain contact with the robot ending in May 2011. Subsequently, NASA announced the end of contact efforts and the completion of Spirit’s mission. (Opportunity is still going strong today.)
The ASU researchers suggested that a future and specially instrumented rover mission could perhaps provide a more definitive assessment of possible biogenicity of Home Plate silica structures.
"However, because of the challenges in obtaining unambiguous evidence in situ, coordinated microscopic and compositional analyses of samples returned to laboratories on Earth may be required to reach a robust conclusion as to the presence or absence of past Martian life in these rocks," Ruff and Farmer stated.
Leonard David is author of "Mars: Our Future on the Red Planet." The book is a companion to the National Geographic Channel six-part series airing in November. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebookor Google+. Story published on Space.com.
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars
Scientists Uncover New Evidence for Life on Ancient Mars
NASA
IN BRIEF
Pictures from NASA's Spirit Rover suggest that ancient life on Mars may have been involved in the building of silica deposits.
NASA will be launching another mission in 2020, which can interrogate the evidence and determine if microbial life exists (or existed before) on the Red Planet.
MICROBIAL LIFE
In 2007, NASA’s unmanned Spirit Rover wheeled across Mars, taking photographs and data, until it eventually got stuck in soft red soil two years later. Photographs of hot spring silica deposits were seen, but was thought to be just another geological structure. That is until quite recently when two geologists discovered similar deposits here on Earth, and found that these structures are made by tiny organisms—now suggesting existence of the organisms on the Red Planet.
Arizona State University geologists Steven Ruff and Jack Farmer’s research is detailed in Nature Communications. They contrasted the Spirit’s study on the Mars Home Plate with their findings in the El Tatio Chilean hot springs, a place known to be the best“Mars analog” because of its high elevation, extreme freeze-thaw temperatures, and high exposure ultraviolet rays. Ruff described the mineral outcrops found in El Tatio to be “the most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.”
Left: Silica deposits on Mars; Right: Silica deposits from El Tatio. Credit: ASU
The finger-like silica deposits found in Home Plate were poorly misunderstood. Now, the geologists have determined that microbes play a major role in forming the silica deposits, suggesting that the same has been occurring on Mars.
FUTURE EXPLORATION
The ASU researchers’ discovery prompts future explorations to search specifically for the possible biosignatures in the silica structures. NASA has announced plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020, and this new mission, which is yet unnamed, could be specifically instrumented and prepared for the search for microbial life.
NASA's Spirit rover imaged this cluster of fingerlike silica nodules near Home Plate in the Columbia Hills in April 2007. The nodules appear to have the same size and shape as silica nodules at the El Tatio hot springs on Earth, where biological activity contributed to their formation.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech
ASU astrobiologist Jack Farmer studies an outflow colored by microorganisms that flows from the hot springs at El Tatio in Chile. Farmer and ASU planetary scientist Steve Ruff have identified silica structures at El Tatio that formed with the help of microorganisms and which appear nearly identical to silica structures found by the Spirit rover at a site on Mars.
Photo by Steve Ruff
Today, continued study about Mars’ dynamic system is ever-imperative as plans to send humansthere loom closer to materialization. These discoveries could greatly alter preparations from SpaceX and NASA before we can finally set up camp on the Red Planet.
Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review
Test of 'Impossible' EmDrive Space Engine Passes Peer Review
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The EmDrive engine, which is designed to generate thrust by bouncing microwaves around inside a cone-shaped chamber.
Credit: SPR Ltd./www.emdrive.com
Good news for all you EmDrive enthusiasts: A new study suggesting that the seemingly impossible space engine may actually work has passed the peer-review process.
The study — which was led by physicist Harold "Sonny" White, of NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston — found that an EmDrive design generated small amounts of thrust in the lab. These results were leaked online recently, and now the paper has been published, in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics' Journal of Propulsion and Power.
Development of the EmDrive was begun by British scientist Roger Shawyer about 15 years ago. The engine works by bouncing microwaves around inside a chamber; it requires no propellant and could therefore usher in a new era of superfast and efficient spaceflight, advocates say.
There's just one little issue: The EmDrive shouldn't work, if you put any stock in Newton's Third Law of Motion ("for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"). The EmDrive doesn't blast anything out the back, so just how it produces thrust (the equal and opposite reaction) is a mystery.
The new study is just a lab test, and it doesn't prove that the EmDrive definitely works — White and his team couldn't rule out all sources of experimental error, for example — so don't let visions of EmDrive-powered spaceships fill your head. However, its publication is the latest in a series of recent steps suggesting that the technology may be more than a sci-fi dream.
Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007
Is there life on Mars? Evidence of aliens may have been found on the Red Planet – in 2007
Nasa's Spirit rover may have photographed evidence for life on Mars in 2007, but nobody noticed until now CREDIT: NASA
Evidence ofalien life on Marsmay have already been found by Nasa’s rover but scientists failed to notice, a new study suggests
In 2007, the Spirit rover photographed intriguing finger-like rock formations at the Home Plate plateau, a 300 square foot area in the Gusev crater near the Martian equator.
Scientists from the University of Arizona decided to look for similar features on Earth to determine how they were formed, and found nearly identical structures at El Tatio, Chile, which were created by a combination of hot springs and crucially, micro-organisms.
The Spirit rover which is currently stuck in soil on Mars
The team chose to study El Tatio because it has conditions which are very like Mars. Situated at 14,000 feet above sea level even in summer temperatures often drop below freezing at night, and by day huge amounts of ultraviolet light from the Sun comes through the thin, dry air.
The formations on Mars appear to be similar to structures on Earth known as stromatolites, which are formed when microbes form colonies in wet environments and trap sediment on their sticky surface coatings.
That sediment eventually reacts to calcium carbonate in the water and forms a build up of nobbly limestone layers.
El Tatio in Chile which is thought to resemble ancient Mars
“We went to El Tatio looking for comparisons with the feature found by Spirit at Home Plate,” said Dr Steve Ruff, of the school of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona.
“Our results show the conditions at El Tatio produce silica deposits with characteristics that are most Mars-like of any silica deposits on Earth.
"The fact that microbes play a role in producing the distinctive silica structures at El Tatio raises the possibility that the Martian silica structures formed in a comparable manner – in other words with the help of organisms that were alive at the time."
Mars on the left and Chile on the right
Mars is thought to be the best chance of finding evidence of extra-terrestrial life because it once had running water and an atmosphere. The hope of discovering life was also raised in December 2014 whenintriguing burps of methane were recorded by Nasa’s curiosity rover.
On Earth, around 90 per cent of methane is produced by organisms, so the expectation is that some kind of life is also emitting the gas on Mars.
However the Spirit rover mission has since been decommissioned after the robot became stuck in soft soil in 2011 so it cannot go back to check for signs of life or take new pictures.
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The current active rovers, Curiosity and Opportunity, are also too far away to take a detour, and Nasa’s next rover is not due to launch until 2020, so it could be a while before the suspicions are confirmed.
Fortunately, the Home Plate is one of eight suggested sites for the next rover mission, and the new findings could help persuade controllers to land near to where the original images were taken.
But Dr Ruff added: "We know exactly where to land and where to go collect samples.”
The Gusev crater on Mars
Writing in the journal Nature Communications, the researchers say that no firm conclusion will be reached until Martian rocks are brought back to labs on Earth.
Astrophysicist Dr Dan Brown of Nottingham Trent University said: “Finding live on Mars or even the past presence of live has been a driving goal and infamous challenge for missions to Mars.
“The current findings presented in Nature seem to add to this chapter of Martian exploration. But as always carrying out Martian geology in search for life is never straightforward.
“I find myself wondering what we actually can achieve using rover, landers and orbiters alone to find clear evidence of past Martian bacterial life. Does this not require human researchers to be on Mars that could then investigate and interrogate the evidence far more comprehensively and creatively than we could ever anticipate a rover to do?
“However it shows how data gathered by missions now nine years ago, still brings forth valuable results."
Bewijs voor aliens mogelijk in 2007 al gevonden op Mars
Bewijs voor aliens mogelijk in 2007 al gevonden op Mars
Marslander Spirit heeft in 2007 mogelijk sporen van leven gevonden op de rode planeet. Dat schrijven Amerikaanse wetenschappers inNature Communications.
Ze hebben silica-afzettingen op foto’s van het wagentje vergeleken met afzettingen in Chili. Die blijken verdacht veel op elkaar te lijken.
De silica-afzettingen in El Tatio in Chili zijn gevormd door een combinatie van chemische processen en microben die rond geisers leven.
Identieke structuur
De afzettingen die Spirit vond op Mars hebben een vrijwel identieke structuur en zijn dus mogelijk op dezelfde manier gevormd.
De structuren staan bekend als stromatolieten en ontstaan als microben kolonies vormen in een vochtige omgeving en sediment vasthouden.
Dat sediment reageert met calciumkarbonaat in het water en vormt kalksteen.
In leven
“Omdat microben een rol spelen bij de vorming van silica-afzettingen in El Tatio, is het mogelijk dat de afzettingen op Mars op een soortgelijke manier zijn ontstaan,” lichtte dr. Steve Ruff van de Universiteit van Arizona toe.
“Met andere woorden: met de hulp van organismen die op dat moment in leven waren,” voegde hij toe.
In december 2014 trof Marsrover Curiosity methaan aan op de rode planeet. Op aarde wordt 90 procent van alle methaan geproduceerd door organismen.
Marsgesteente
In 2011 kwam Spirit vast te zitten in de bodem. De robot kan dus niet teruggaan om te speuren naar tekenen van leven of om nieuwe foto’s te maken.
Rovers Curiosity en Opportunity zijn te ver weg om naar de plek te rijden waar de afzettingen zijn gevonden. De eerstvolgende rover wordt pas in 2020 gelanceerd.
Dr. Ruff zei: “We weten precies waar we moeten landen en waar we monsters moeten verzamelen.”
De onderzoekers zeggen dat ze pas definitieve conclusies kunnen trekken als Marsgesteente mee terug wordt genomen naar de aarde.
An unnamed witness reportedly spotted a black UFO in a ski resort live cam. A still picture has been sent to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for further analysis. It is a screen grab from the camera monitoring the Winter Park ski resort in Colorado on Tuesday, November 22, 2016.
The witness was apparently watching the web camera covering the Winter Park ski resort. His primary work instruction is to perform operational cloud seeding for the resort. He noted that it is important to increase snowpack and use the cameras to keep track of the weather conditions.
To his knowledge, the frames update around every three minutes.
He said that there was nothing but the typical view in one frame, but in the next frame, a black disk-like object can be seen over the mountaintop. Nothing was found in the next frame.
He thought it was very close to the mountain for it to be a drone or plane. He further claimed to have confirmed with the resort that there were no helicopters in the area at that time.
He also ruled out a bug or bird because of the distance and the size of the object.
The witness added that they have been using the webcam for many years, but it was the first time he noticed a UFO on the live cam.
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