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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...
13-04-2018
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
Newly Released NASA Footage Raises Speculations That Alien Life Is Monitoring Humanity
The second man to step on the moon Buzz Aldrin and other three astronauts reportedly passed a lie detector test over their claims of UFO being spotted on their way to the moon.
Aldrin together with Al Worden, Edgar Mitchell and Gordon Cooper reportedly took part of a particular study, which left the UFO enthusiasts and experts to be convinced that the signs of alien life were witnessed during the space mission of Apollo 11 on 1969.
It seemed the footage being posted online supported the claim.
The video shows what seems to be a UFO encounter on board a space shuttle mission, which claimed to have taken place in the same year. It reveals the moment when NASA’s mission control received a radio message from a concerned space explorer reporting the sighting.
Mario Runco Jn, who claimed to have taken the video, stated that they were observing the object for quite some time. Mario added that he saw another light passing above it, which he thought to be a star.
However, it appeared that the control team wasn’t interested in the report and even tried to change the subject.
The recording was taken during the 77th Space Shuttle mission of NASA known as STS-77.
The launched was at the year of 1969 from the launch pad 39B at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and lasted ten days.
YouTube channel UFO Today then uploaded the video, which now has hundreds of views. They believe that NASA is trying to hide something to the public.
Images from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission revealed an extraordinary feature, but the feature poses more questions than it answers: is it the remnant of an ancient supervolcano, or the crater of a meteorite crash?
Perspective view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
Back in 2003, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched Mars Express — a mission with the goal of exploring Mars. More than 14 years later, the orbiter is still providing valuable insight into the Red Planet. Now, it has sent astronomers on Earth pictures of an intriguing feature called Ismenia Patera.
Patera means ‘flat bowl’ in Latin, and it’s as accurate a name as any. Measuring some 75 km across, it has a flat central area, surrounded by a ring of hills, blocks, and lumps of rock which seem to have been ejected from the center. The feature lies in a transition area which lies between Mars’ southern mountains and its northern plains.
Supervolcano or meteorite crater? We don’t really know.
The Mars Express view of Ismenia Patera.
The Martian topography is split into two parts: the northern lowland and the southern highlands — the latter being a few kilometers higher. This clear split is an extremely interesting puzzle for researchers, as the cause of this split isn’t really clear. It could be a massive impact, several smaller impacts, tectonic activity, or even supervolcanoes — whatever the reason may be, it remains hidden for now.
Understanding Ismenia Patera could be a much-needed puzzle piece that would allow astronomers to understand the transition area, and ultimately, the geological history of Mars.
Topographic view of Ismenia Patera.
Image credits: ESA.
However, things are not very clear. There are two competing theories: the first one is that it’s a volcano — a supervolcano to be more precise. At some point, the supervolcano would have undergone a massive eruption, which would eject huge quantities of material outwards, collapsing after the magma was thrown out.
The other theory is that it’s actually the site of a meteorite that collided with Mars at some point. So far, the visual data and our limited knowledge of Martian geology are our only clues regarding the nature of this feature. The transitional area shows signs of being the location of an ancient and long-inactive volcanic province. Ismenia Patera does have an irregular shape, low topographic relief, and relatively uplifted rims, which would suggest a volcanic nature. But then again, Mars is also riddled with numerous impact craters, so this remains an open question.
Hopefully, future missions will offer more surface and subsurface data, allowing scientists to finally untangle the planet’s complex and fascinating history.
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
Space aliens could have died out long ago, scientist says
A new paper argues that any extraterrestrials we hear from are likely to have died out.
by Seth Shostak
This artist's concept depicts one possible appearance of the planet Kepler-452b, the first near-Earth-size world to be found in the habitable zone of star that is similar to our sun, NASA announced July 23, 2015.
Abaca Press / Sipa USA via AP file
“He's dead, Jim.”
So sayeth Leonard “Bones” McCoy, the plainspoken doctor in the original "Star Trek" television series, to Captain James Kirk whenever an alien croaks in their high-tech sickbay. Expired extraterrestrials have been frequent players in many sci-fi potboilers, and for obvious dramatic reasons.
This possibility may sound bizarre. After all, how could we possibly tell whether a culture is still around when it’s hundreds or thousands of light-years away? In general we can’t. And yet there are reasons why Grimaldi and his team may be right. In fact, their argument is reminiscent of one I often hear in connection with the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI).
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the typical globular cluster Messier 80, an object made up of hundreds of thousands of stars and located in the direction of the constellation of Scorpius. The Milky Way galaxy has an estimated 160 globular clusters of which one quarter are thought to be 'alien'. NASA
Since any alien radio message we might receive would have been lumbering through space at the finite speed of light — and since space is big — many folks assume that the signal must have been sent “millions of years ago.” The obvious corollary is that the alien broadcasters may have long since cashed in their chips.
My response to this melancholy logic is to note that most of the star systems examined by SETI scientists are less than a few hundred light-years away. So a signal from one of these wouldn’t be a million years old. And since a few centuries isn’t really much time, I usually offer an analogy: It takes the postal service three days to deliver a letter from my aunt. But it’s unlikely that she died in the interim because three days is brief in comparison to the average lifetime of aunts.
The new paper offers a similar argument, mathematically elaborated. The authors assume a simple scenario in which extraterrestrial societies spring up at random places in the galaxy at random times, and that they broadcast their talk shows (or whatever) into space. You can imagine these transmissions spreading like ripples across the plane of the Milky Way, reaching more and more star systems as time goes on.
A further assumption is that at some point — due to unspecified events (including, one presumes, self-destruction) — the aliens’ transmitters go silent. So each alien society’s radio signature is like an expanding doughnut, with an outer boundary representing the moment their transmissions start and an inner boundary defined by the moment they stop.
Very Large Array Radio Telescope, for picking up signals, New Mexico, United States. MyLoupe / UIG Via Getty Images
Now if your average alien society lasts for a long time — say more than 100,000 years — then its signals can cover the entire galaxy while the aliens are still with us. If this is a typical situation — if Klingon cultures have staying power — there could be many transmissions wafting over the Earth from societies that are still extant.
On the other hand, if the lights go out for most societies relatively quickly, then most signals reaching Earth now or in the immediate future are likely to be from aliens who are dead. If most civilizations transmit for 10,000 years (we earthlings have been transmitting for roughly a century), then 99 percent of all the signals washing over our planet are from expired, or at least silent, societies.
So yes, a SETI detection might come from a fossilized culture. But it’s fair to ask, “So what?” Would we care that the aliens are gone? Obviously, back-and-forth conversations would be out of the question. But conversations would be tedious anyway if the aliens are as much as 100 light-years distant.
And besides, I read Julius Caesar in high school Latin class, and it was interesting even though the “message” was 2,000 years old and the Roman Empire was dead. If we were to receive a message from aliens, the big news wouldn’t hinge on whether we were able to converse with them. It would be simply that someone else was out there.
Any message we receive would come from a society whose technology was far beyond our own. After all, they were able to transmit an intelligible signal powerful enough to reach across the cosmos. And so I believe that whether or not they were still around, what they had to say would be enormously interesting — and possibly useful in ensuring our own long-term survival.
VeryChic Sponsored It stays there for a few seconds, hovering in the sky, before flying off in the flash of a light.
The video comes just weeks after a passenger on a plane traveling to Athens in Greece claimed he captured a UFO flying alongside the aircraft.
In the footage above, you’ll see a dark shape come into the frame, which undoubtedly resembles a UFO.
Photo: Facebook/Ufo Türkiye. Turkey
Kerry Forides, filmed the unidentified object from his plane seat while travelling over the Aegean Sea on March 28.
The footage was then shared on Youtube and on his Facebook page.
"It appears to be flying away at right angles from our commercial jet and somehow without either of us appearing to turn we end up almost following it," he wrote alongside the video.
UFO Appears Over the Aegean Sea During Flight to Athens
VIDEO AN unidentified object has been captured on camera from a plane flying over theAegean Sea.
A video recording of eerie trumpet sounds from Hawaii has gone viral on YouTube, leading some to speculate that the End Times and the Second Coming of Jesus Christ are imminent. Others suggested UFOs, scientific explanations, and even Godzilla. (Watch the video below.)
"Jesus Christ is coming soon. I say it is a trumpet," a YouTube user named "Believer John Seventeen" posted.
Another user agreed. "Christ shall return. If you know Him, then you know His warnings — every eye shall hear and every ear shall hear," posted "Roger Dat." "Be not afraid for you are saved by faith in Jesus. Repent and turn from wickedness. The price was paid at Calvary and as He was risen, so shall His disciples be."
The video itself has no clear religious meaning, however.
Snippins News posted the video, reporting, "Not the first time to be heard, but it's been heard in multiple places all strangely at the same time."
"Unusual and unexplained noises are recorded in various locations around the world from time to time," Snippins News added. "While the specific origins of all such sounds may not yet be known, most scientific research points to natural causes such as tidal waves, methane explosions, underground earthquakes, or shifting sand dunes as explanations for these aural phenomena."
Even so, the YouTube channel remarked that "USGS scientist David Hill says it's also possible some of these noises originate from above."
Multiple users asked to share the video on their own YouTube channels, one with an alien focus. "Can we share this video on our Secureteam UFO channel with full credit and link back to your channel?" the alien-focused Secureteam YouTube channel posted.
Another user, perhaps joking, merely commented, "Godzilla."
User Jeff Suttles twisted the End Times angle into a Trump joke. "Heaven is trying to influence the outcome of the 2020 election by blowing trumpets," he wrote. "I say that Donald is colluding with heaven. Time to call for a special council [sic] and impose sanctions."
Christians believe that Jesus Christ will bodily return and resurrect all the dead for a final judgment. There will be one last great battle between good and evil, and God will create a new heaven and a new earth.
Beyond these general points, Christians disagree on the interpretation of the book of Revelation. Many End Times theorists have attempted to predict the exact time when Jesus will return, but Jesus rather explicitly said that not even He knew "that day or hour."
But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark; and they knew nothing about what would happen until the flood came and took them all away. That is how it will be at the coming of the Son of Man(Mathew 24:36-39).
The book of Revelation records John's vision that seven trumpets will sound, as part of God's final judgment.
These sounds prove eerie, but some users suggested there would be a scientific explanation — or that the noises could even be a hoax. If these were any of the trumpets in Revelation, hail and fire mixed with blood would burn up a third of the trees on the planet, a third of the oceans would become blood, freshwater sources would be poisoned, the sun would become dark, or even worse things would happen.
The sounds in this video may seem weird, but they likely have no End Times significance whatsoever.
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Trompetachtige geluiden vastgelegd in Hawaï. Is dit een teken van de apocalyps?
Een video met daarin vreemde trompetachtige geluiden in Hawaï is viraal gegaan op YouTube. Sommigen dachten dat de eindtijd was aangebroken, terwijl anderen zeiden dat het een teken is dat Jezus zal terugkeren.
Weer anderen dachten aan UFO’s of kwamen met mogelijke wetenschappelijke verklaringen op de proppen.
Zeven trompetten
Het filmpje werd geplaatst door Snippins News, dat erbij schreef dat het geluid eerder op meerdere plekken tegelijk is gehoord.
Sommige mensen verwezen naar de zeven trompetten in een Bijbelpassage in het boek Openbaring:
Toen nam de engel vuur van het altaar, legde het in de wierookschaal en gooide het op de aarde. Het begon te donderen, te rommelen en te bliksemen en de aarde schudde. Toen maakten de zeven engelen die de trompetten hadden gekregen zich klaar om op hun trompet te blazen.
Wetenschappelijke verklaring
Sommige YouTube-gebruikers suggereerden dat er een wetenschappelijke verklaring is voor de geluiden, of dat het mogelijk gaat om een hoax.
This UFO appeared on live cam and spit out an orb that quickly came closer to the space station. As the orb left the main ship, it was visible. However its systems seem to become activated after it left, because it soon cloaked.
Aliens are not giving up on us, the public. They will continue to send small messages to us all at different locations around the world. When you see a UFO, its probably because they wanted you to see them, so take photos or video and share it, because they would like the public to be aware of them. Its the governments of the world that refuse to let the public know of the existence of aliens.
If you follow the link, then in that recorded ISS video go to the 2:44 mark, the UFO will be visible, then it disappears and the screen becomes green.
Er lijkt maar geen eind te komen aan vreemde verschijnselen op de grond als ook in de lucht.
Zo worden er nu weer vreemde stralen aan de hemel waargenomen op verschillende plekken en niemand weet wat het is of waar het vandaan komt.
Wij leven in bijzondere tijden, want bijna iedere dag is er wel iets ongewoons te ontdekken op de planeet die wij aarde noemen.
Zo was er op 6 april het volgende waar te nemen bij Rockwall in de Amerikaanse staat Texas. Een straal die vanuit de aarde naar de hemel gaat of andersom.
Het is gefilmd vanuit een auto die daar op dat moment reed:
Twee dagen later was het opnieuw raak in de buurt van Phoenix in de staat Arizona en dit keer zag het er zo uit:
In beide gevallen heeft niemand een zinnige verklaring kunnen bedenken en ook van deze lichtstraal bestaat een korte video.
Dit is niet de eerste keer dat dit soort verschijnselen zich voordoen. Het is wat de laatste jaren regelmatig voorkomt en nog steeds heeft niemand er een verklaring voor.
Hieronder een deel uit een eerder artikel van ongeveer anderhalf jaar geleden met vergelijkbare verschijnselen.
Zo zagen de bewoners van een klein plaatsje in de buurt van het Argentijnse Buenos Aires op 30 december een vreemde lichtstraal die naar de hemel wees.
De lichtstraal schijnt te wijzen naar de lucht waar duidelijke een soort tweede lichtbron naast de zon is waar te nemen, precies op de plek waar we de planeet Helion zagen.
Is het dan vergezocht om te denken dat de aarde of iets op de planeet reageert, dat er iets ontwaakt, door de komst van dit zonnestelsel.
De laatste jaren is er sprake van nog meer merkwaardige lichtstralen, die dan voornamelijk van piramides en/of vulkanen afkomstig zijn.
Enkele jaren geleden bijvoorbeeld vreemde lichtstralen boven de beroemde Popocatépetl vulkaan in Mexico.
Ook de oude piramides schijnen wereldwijd weer tot leven te komen en lichtstralen naar de hemel te sturen zoals wij schreven in een eerder artikel:
Ter vergelijking volgen hieronder enkele foto’s van piramides waar energiestralen zijn gefotografeerd.
De eerste is een opname vanaf de Bosnische piramide van de Zon.
De volgende is een opname van 24 juni 2009 toen iemand een foto nam van ChiChen Itza piramide, eveneens in Mexico. Deze straal was niet zichtbaar toen de foto werd genomen, maar werd pas later waargenomen toen de afdruk werd bekeken.
De volgende en laatste opname is al wat ouder en genomen in 2000. Ook hier een merkwaardige energie/lichtstraal afkomstig van de Piramide van de Maan, wederom in Mexico.
Niets van dit alles vind je terug in het mainstream journaal van acht uur, noch in die van tien of zes uur.
A highly unusually beam of light that seemly shoots from the sun has been photographed.
More images of the strange phenomenon show that the beam even shoots through the clouds
It seems the beam is not a lens flare or camera defect as one image shows a blue dot below the beam of the light which is the actual lens flare.
Another unexplained phenomenon has been filmed showing a rare glitch in the sky. At the moment the glitch appears the camera registered a very strange distorted picture from the sky which can be seen in the video.
The questions about the existence of aliens are one that has been debated for many decades. Humanity has been peering into space for a long time hoping to find proof. Scientists still have not yet found any real proof of the existence of aliens, but then the universe is so big so it might be possible that alien life is too far from Earth to be found. However, a new report suggests that this might not be the case and there might be another possibility as to why evidence of aliens has not been found, people are blind to their existence.
Alien Life Might Be Hiding in Plain Sight
Scientists have been looking for aliens that are human-like. There is a preconceived notion that life exists elsewhere. This is something that could be stopping the ability to detect aliens, and they are hiding in plain sight.
Researchers from the University of Cadiz, Spain came up with the report, and it talks about the idea that alien life exists in a way that human beings simply cannot fathom. The idea is something that is both fascinating along with being frightening. However, if disbelief can be put aside for a few minutes, it does make a lot of sense.
Neuropsychologist, Gabriel de la Torre, co-author of the study suggested that beings of dimensions that the mind is unable to grasp or alien intelligence that is based around energy or dark matter, which is something that makes up about 95% of the universe, is something we are only now starting to glimpse. He went on to say it might be possible that there are other universes in existence and this is something that Stephen Hawking along with other scientists have indicated.
Researchers Undertook Study to Show Humans Are Misguided Due to Expectations
The researchers wanted to prove that human beings are often misguided due to their expectations, so they undertook an experiment and asked 137 people to work out if features and structures in aerial photographs were natural or made by man.
The researchers hid a small image of a gorilla in one of the photographs to find out if the people would be able to spot it. Those taking part did as they were asked, but many of them missed spotting the gorilla because they were not specifically looking for a gorilla in the photos.
The researchers said that this is what is termed “unintentional bias inattentional blindness” and suggests that this is what might be happening to astronomers along with the rest of the scientific community overall. He said that if people do not know what they are looking for, it is likely that they will not spot it. This could apply to those who have been searching for signs of alien life. Alien life could be hiding in plain sight just as the photograph of the gorilla was hiding.
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Star Wars’ Yoda Is Real: Master Yoda’s Image Found In 14th Century Manuscript
Star Wars’ Yoda Is Real: Master Yoda’s Image Found In 14th Century Manuscript
Just when I thought I’d seen it all. Apparently, Master Yoda From Star Wars is real.
An image of Yoda appears in a medieval manuscript of the fourteenth century, and its the best thing I’ve seen in a while.
Looking at the depiction, it obvious that there are similarities between Yoda and the character found in a manuscript of the Decretals of Gregory IX also known among researchers as the Smithfield Decretals.
It is found in the British Library and was written in the south of France probably between 1300 and 1340 and includes papal letters, doctrine, and ecclesiastical decrees.
Master Yoda was apparently found by historian Damien Kempf while researching for his new book, Medieval Monsters.
“When I came across this monster, I actually couldn’t believe it. It’s a manuscript that was produced 700 years ago,” Kempf told BBC Radio’s
Nobody knows who this character with greenish complexion, a big skirt, and big ears really is.
However, compared to an image of the Jedi master who was a mentor to the young Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, the two are identical.
The British Library started uploading images like of ancient texts like this one where we can see Yoda in 2010, so it’s not really possible that George Lucas was inspired by ancient manuscripts like these unless of course he actually went through the British Library’s archives when he was creating the first Star Wars movie.
So… how did Yoda come into existence? The make-up artist Stuart Freeborn
based Yoda’s face partly on his own and partly on Albert Einstein’s. Freeborn oversaw the design of the original Jabba the Hutt puppet used in Return of the Jedi, as well as the creation of the Ewoks.
In The Phantom Menace, Yoda was redesigned to look younger.
He was computer-generated for two distant shots but remained mostly a puppet.
The puppet was re-designed by Nick Dudman from Stuart Freeborn’s original design.
Therefore, many people—especially Star WarsFans—find it would be necessary to clarify who this greenish, Yoga-looking figure really represents, and what he’s doing in an ancient manuscript that dates back to the 14th Century.
Curiously, if you take a look at the ancient manuscript, and compare it to the ‘characters’ from Kempf’s new book, you’ll notice Yoda isn’t the only familiar character around.
You can spot a few more creatures that bear an incredible resemblance to figures of recent times.
Is that a Ferengi from Star Trek?
Featured image credit:Wikimedia Commons / British Library
Could it be that the more rational and methodical searches for extraterrestrial intelligence are overlooking “the gorilla in the room?” A new study suggests it’s possible.
Have you seen the video above? Count how many times the players in white pass the basketball. Watch the video all the way through. What number did you get? And did you see the gorilla? When researchers in the 1990s first showed this video, as part of a test of human beings’ inattentional blindness, more than half the participants did not notice the gorilla. In a way that’s similar, a new study from neuropsychologists suggests that our human culture may not have detected extraterrestrial signals because, according to the study’s first author Gabriel de la Torre of the University of Cádiz, when we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them through our unique human perceptions and consciousness:
… We are limited by our sui generis vision of the world, and it’s hard for us to admit it. What we are trying to do … is to contemplate other possibilities, for example, beings of dimensions that our mind cannot grasp; or intelligences based on dark matter or energy forms, which make up almost 95% of the universe and which we are only beginning to glimpse. There is even the possibility that other universes exist, as the texts of Stephen Hawking and other scientists indicate.
De la Torre and co-author Manuel García, also of the University of Cádiz, have an article related to this subject coming out in May 2018 in the peer-reviewed journal Acta Astronautica (view article online).
The authors – who say they prefer to avoid the terms extraterrestrial or alien and instead use the more generic term non-terrestrial – state that our own neurophysiology, psychology and consciousness can play an important role in the search for non-terrestrial civilizations. In relation to this, they conducted an experiment with 137 people, who had to distinguish aerial photographs with artificial structures (buildings, roads …) from others with natural elements (mountains, rivers …).
In one of the images, shown below, a tiny character disguised as a gorilla was inserted to see if the participants noticed.
Aerial picture to which a small gorilla was incorporated (top left) for an experiment. The more intuitive observers identified it more times than the more rational and methodical ones. / Modified photo of an original NASA picture via SiNC.
The result was similar to those in the 1990s gorillia-video study, described at the top of this post. In other words, many did not notice the guy in the gorilla costume. But De La Torre’s study found a difference in perception of the gorilla between people with different cognitive styles. De La Torre said:
…we assessed the participants with a series of questions to determine their cognitive style (if they were more intuitive or rational), and it turned out that the intuitive individuals identified the gorilla of our photo more times than those more rational and methodical.
If we transfer this to the problem of searching for other non-terrestrial intelligences, the question arises about whether our current strategy may result in us not perceiving the gorilla. Our traditional conception of space is limited by our brain, and we may have the signs above and be unable to see them. Maybe we’re not looking in the right direction.
The authors’ paper also mentioned another example, drawn from Dawn spacecraft images of the dwarf planet Ceres, which is famous for its bright spots. Within the Ceres crater Occator, there appears an apparently geometric figure. De La Torre said:
Our structured mind tells us that this structure looks like a triangle with a square inside, something that theoretically is not possible in Ceres, but maybe we are seeing things where there are none, what in psychology is called pareidolia.
However, De La Torre said, there is another possibility:
The opposite could also be true. We can have the signal in front of us and not perceive it or be unable to identify it. If this happened, it would be an example of the cosmic gorilla effect. In fact, it could have happened in the past or it could be happening right now.
Bottom line: A new study from neuropsychologists suggests that our human culture may not have detected extraterrestrial signals because, when we think of other intelligent beings, we tend to see them through the filter of our own human perceptions and consciousness. There could be a range of possibilities that we’re not considering.
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12-04-2018
NASA’s STS 115 Mission: When A UFO Prevented The Space Shuttle From Returning Home
NASA’s STS 115 Mission: When A UFO Prevented The Space Shuttle From Returning Home
One of the most fascinating UFO videos ever filmed by NASA was recorded during space shuttle Atlantis’ trip to the International Space Station in September of 2006.
During the 13-day mission, a number of mysterious objects were spotted by the Astronauts, and one in particular sighting caused Atlantis to delay their return to Earth.
On September 19, 11 days into the mission, when the crew was preparing for their return home, astronauts aboard the shuttle informed the Mission Control Center that, following the test of the reaction control system, an object was seen moving in a co-orbital path with the Orbiter. The astronauts spotted the object using an on-board TV camera, but unfortunately the resolution of the images was not high enough to identify the object.
In a news report by Space.com from September 19 dubbed ‘Atlantis Landing Delayed After Mystery Object Spotted,’ we can see the importance not only NASA, but Astronauts gave to the object, and the confusion it created.
“The question is ‘What is it?'” NASA’s shuttle program manager Wayne Hale said at the time, adding that the object – which appeared small and dark against a blue Earth in the video – could be something as simple as ice, ceramic cloth gap-filler, or a piece of harmless shim stock plastic known to be dangling from Atlantis’ heat shield. “Is it something benign like that, which we have seen before, or is it something more critical that we should pay attention to?”
But was it only ice, ceramic cloth gap-filler, or a piece of harmless shim stock plastic known to be dangling from Atlantis’ heat shield? Or is it possible that the mysterious object may have been something far more mysterious?
“Shuttle Atlantis’ return home has been moved back a day, until Thursday morning, due to poor weather at the Kennedy Space Center, and continued analysis by NASA managers/Tiger Team to ascertain what an Unidentified Falling Object (UFO) may be after it was spotted near the orbiter.”
Speaking to NASA Spaceflight at the time, Wayne Hale said: “‘It appears to be tumbling, and it also appears to be rectangular in shape, but we have no scale to reference with that photography – so we still have a bit of a mystery there.”
But despite trying to understand what it was, no one could say for sure. What NASA did know at the time is that nothing was missing from the orbited:
“We have already cleared many parts of the orbiter (through that data),” confirmed Hale. “And we’ve spotted nothing missing.”
But the one object wasn’t alone. Astronauts quickly spotted more mysterious objects near the shuttle.
At the time, Atlantis commander Brent Jett described the objects as two rings, adding that: “It doesn’t look like anything I’ve seen outside the shuttle.”
It is noteworthy to mention that during NASA Space Shuttle program, countless mysterious objects have been spotted not only near NASA’s Space Shuttles but near the International Space Station as well.
In December 1984 a package with no return address and an Albuquerque post-mark arrived in Jaime Shandera’s mail in North Hollywood, California. Inside was a roll of 35mm film. When developed, it turned out to contain eight pages of an alleged briefing paper, dated November 18, 1952, in which Vice Adm. Roscoe Hillenkoetter told President-elect Dwight Eisenhower of the recovery of the remains of two crashed spaceships.
In the first of these crashes, in early July 1947, authorities recovered the bodies of four humanoid beings. According to the document, which appended a copy of what was supposed to be the actual executive order, President Harry Truman authorized the creation of a supersecret group called “Majestic 12” (MJ-12 for short) to study the remains.
Acting on a tip from sources who claimed to represent Air Force intelligence, Shandera and his associate William Moore (coauthor of The Roswell Incident) flew to Washington, D.C. They searched the National Archives looking for references in official documents to MJ-12. They found a July 1954 memo from Gen. Robert Cutler, an Eisenhower assistant, referring to an “MJ-12 SSP [Special Studies Project]” to be held at the White House on the 16th of that month.
In the first of these crashes, in early July 1947, authorities recovered the bodies of four humanoid beings. According to the document, which appended a copy of what was supposed to be the actual executive order, President Harry Truman authorized the creation of a supersecret group called “Majestic 12” (MJ-12 for short) to study the remains.
Acting on a tip from sources who claimed to represent Air Force intelligence, Shandera and his associate William Moore (coauthor of The Roswell Incident) flew to Washington, D.C. They searched the National Archives looking for references in official documents to MJ-12. They found a July 1954 memo from Gen. Robert Cutler, an Eisenhower assistant, referring to an “MJ-12 SSP [Special Studies Project]” to be held at the White House on the 16th of that month.
When this document was released in May 1987, it sparked massive controversy. The document is believed to be a hoax, but the identity and motive of the perpetrator remain unknown.
In the spring of 1987 an unknown individual, allegedly associated with an intelligence agency, gave British writer Timothy Good a copy of the MJ-12 document. Upon learning Good was going to disclose its existence to the press, Moore and Shandera released their copy, along with the Cutler memo. The result was a massive uproar, including coverage in The New York Times and Night line, an FBI investigation, and furious controversy that continues to this day.
For various technical reasons most investigators agree that the MJ-12 document is a forgery, but the identity of the forger remains a deep mystery that even the FBI cannot crack. The forger apparently had access to obscure official information, much of it not even in the public record, leading to suspicions that an intelligence agency created the document for disinformation purposes. Whatever the answer, the MJ-12 document is surely the most puzzling hoax in UFO history.
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SUBJECT: OPERATION MAJESTIC-12 PRELIMINARY BRIEFING FOR PRESIDENT-ELECT EISENHOWER
DOCUMENT PREPARED 18 NOVEMBER, 1952
BRIEFING OFFICER: ADM. ROSCOE H. HILLENKOETTER (MJ-1)
NOTE: This document has been prepared as a preliminary briefing only. It should be regarded as introductory to a full operations briefing intended to follow.
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OPERATION MAJESTIC-12 is a TOP SECRET Research and Development/Intelligence operation responsible directly and only to the President of the United States. Operations of the project are carried out under the control of the Majestic-12 (Majic-12) Group which was established by special classified executive order of President Truman on 24 September, 1947, upon recommendation by Dr. Vannevar Bush and Secretary James Forrestal. (See Attachment “A”.)
Members of the Majestic-12 Group were designated as follows:
Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter Dr. Vannevar Bush Secy. James V. Forrestal* Gen. Nathan P. Twining Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg Dr. Detlev Bronk Dr. Jerome Hunsaker Mr. Sidney W. Souers Mr. Gordon Gray Dr. Donald Menzel Gen. Robert M. Montague Dr. Lloyd V. Berkner
The death of Secretary Forrestal on 22 May, 1949, created a vacancy which remained unfilled until 01 August, 1950, upon which date Gen. Walter B. Smith was designated as permanent replacement.
On 24 June, 1947, a civilian pilot flying over the Cascade Mountains in the State of Washington observed nine flying disc-shaped aircraft traveling in formation at a high rate of speed. Although this was not the first known sighting of such objects, it was the first to gain widespread attention in the public media. Hundreds of reports of sightings of similar objects followed. Many of these came from highly credible military and civilian sources. These reports resulted in independent efforts by several different elements of the military to ascertain the nature and purpose of these objects in the interests of national defense. A number of witnesses were interviewed and there were several unsuccessful attempts to utilize aircraft in efforts to pursue reported discs in flight. Public reaction bordered on near hysteria at times.
In spite of these efforts, little of substance was learned about the objects until a local rancher reported that one had crashed in a remote region of New Mexico located approximately seventy-five miles northwest of Roswell Army Air Base (now Walker Field).
On 07 July, 1947, a secret operation was begun to assure recovery of the wreckage of this object for scientific study. During the course of this operation, aerial reconnaissance discovered that four small human-like beings had apparently ejected from the craft at some point before it exploded. These had fallen to earth about two miles east of the wreckage site. All four were dead and badly decomposed due to action by predators and exposure to the elements during the approximately one week time period which had elapsed before their discovery. A special scientific team took charge of removing these bodies for study. (See attachment “C”.) The wreckage of the craft was also removed to several different locations. (See Attachment “B”.) Civilian and military witnesses in the area were debriefed, and news reporters were given the effective cover story that the object had been a misguided weather research balloon.
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A covert analytical effort organized by Gen. Twining and Dr. Bush acting on the direct orders of the President, resulted in a preliminary consensus (19 September, 1947) that the disc was most likely a short range reconnaissance craft. This conclusion was based for the most part on the craft’s size and the apparent lack of any identifiable provisioning. (See Attachment “D”.) A similar analysis of the four dead occupants was arranged by Dr. Bronk. It was the tentative conclusions of this group (30 November, 1947) that although these creatures are human-like in appearance, the biological and evolutionary processes responsible for their development has apparently been quite different from those observed or postulated in homo-sapiens. Dr. Bronk’s team has suggested the term “Extra-terrestrial Biological Entities”, or “EBE’s”, be adopted as the standard term of reference for these creatures until such time as a more definitive designation can be agreed upon.
Since it is virtually certain that these craft do not originate in any country on earth, considerable speculation has centered around what their point of origin might be and how they get here. Mars was and remains a possibility, although some scientists, most notably Dr. Menzel, consider it more likely that we are dealing with beings from another solar system entirely.
Numerous examples of what appear to be a form of writing were found in the wreckage. Efforts to decipher these have remained largely unsuccessful. (See Attachment “E”.) Equally unsuccessful have been efforts to determine the method of propulsion or the nature or method of transmission of the power source involved. Research along these lines has been complicated by the complete absence of identifiable wings, propellers, jets, or other conventional methods of propulsion and guidance, as well as a total lack of metallic wiring, vacuum tubes, or similar recognizable electronic components. (See Attachment “F”.) It is assumed that the propulsion unit was completely destroyed by the explosion which caused the crash.
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A need for as much additional information as possible about these craft, their performance characteristics and their purpose led to the undertaking known as U. S. Air Force Project SIGN in December, 1947. In order to preserve security, liaison between SIGN and Majestic-12 was limited to two individuals within the Intelligence Division of Air Material Command whose role was to pass along certain types of information through channels. SIGN evolved into Project GRUDGE in December, 1948. The operation is currently being conducted under the code name BLUE BOOK, with liaison maintained through the Air Force officer who is head of the project.
On 06 December, 1950, a second object, probably of similar origin, impacted the earth at high speed in the El Indio – Guerrero area of the Texas – Mexican border after following a long trajectory through the atmosphere. By the time a search team arrived, what remained of the object had been almost totally incinerated. Such material as could be recovered was transported to the A.E.C. facility at Sandia, New Mexico, for study.
Implications for the National Security are of continuing importance in that the motives and ultimate intentions of these visitors remain completely unknown. In addition, a significant upsurge in the surveillance activity of these craft beginning in May and continuing through the autumn of this year has caused considerable concern that new developments may be imminent. It is for these reasons, as well as the obvious international and technological considerations and the ultimate need to avoid a public panic at all costs, that the Majestic-12 Group remains of the unanimous opinion that imposition of the strictest security precautions should continue without interruption into the new administration. At the same time, contingency plan MJ-1949-04P/78 (Top Secret – Eyes Only) should be held in continued readiness should the need to make a public announcement present itself. (See Attachment “G”.)
What Are Good Reasons For The Government To Hide Proof Of Alien Contact?
What Are Good Reasons For The Government To Hide Proof Of Alien Contact?
I am going to try and deal with some potentially realistic scenarios. Keep in mind the government plans for the worst case scenario but hopes for the best. So these describe the worst case scenarios of the public finding out. Any worst-case scenario that is impossible to tame or deal with would indicate it might be best to keep the info hidden until they need to tell us.
Also, we should remember any species that is capable of surviving for the hundreds of years it would take to get here under less than light speed or any species capable of faster than light travel would also be hundreds and hundreds of years more advanced than us. Both long distance slow travel and faster than light travel are so incredibly difficult that it would far exceed our science. So much so that their technology would seem almost like magic to us. It would be like showing someone from the middle ages tv’s, jet planes and open heart surgery. They might have active nanotech, the ability to manipulate gravitons, antimatter, and magnetic monopoles or some other exotic technologies we haven’t even dreamed of yet.
To be very clear: These are hypothetical scenarios based on the question. Personally, I know of no evidence that leads any direct credence to any of these. While each might be possible there is no known evidence of any of these scenarios.
Aliens are suspected to have visited but only a very long time ago and there is no evidence of hostility. It would not make sense to get the public up in arms over something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. Such a revelation would create a host of issues from religious to political as well as boldening fringe groups, militants, and wackos. Why create an alarm if it was so long ago, there is no evidence they are harmful and we don’t even know if they would come back?
Aliens visited but only a few times and there is either no evidence of hostility or not enough to make a determination of if they are potentially friend or foe. In this scenario, the aliens might be peaceful or might not but if you get the whole world and the internet talking about it. You will eventually have high-profile and visible people making stupid or dangerous statements that could be misinterpreted by the aliens. Our movies are bad enough in how we depict aliens but if we have talking heads talking about how we need to put killer satellites in space to defend against what may, in fact, be peaceful aliens we risk creating a more tense situation than is necessary. When the aliens do return they will see us going crazy over aliens.That is probably not the way the government wants to make first contact.
Aliens have visited us could be hostile and they have technology that we cannot hope to compete with. This is the worst of all possible scenarios. They seem to be potentially hostile and they have weapons that would make it near impossible to beat them in a conflict. Widespread panic would engulf the world including doomsday cults and those that want to worship the aliens.Religious leaders would have to explain how aliens fit into systems that are inherently human biased.Speculation and talk of how to defend or fight such aliens in the media and public would make a potentially bad situation against a superior enemy worse. It might even move them to make a preemptive strike as opposed to accepting some kind of surrender or treaty.
The aliens are friendly, social and responsible. They are working with the government to quietly and slowly acclimate us to the idea of there being aliens without admitting it until we are ready to reduce panic and social unrest. Even if the aliens were good-natured they could easily see how exposing themselves to us could disrupt our societies. Thus they would tell the government to deny any existence but they would encourage us to explore the concepts in movies, TV and books and plays. Occasional leaks would happen because such a coverup cannot be perfect but those only help to seed the idea that aliens might exist.In this scenario, they are actually keeping it quiet so they can do a slow and phased exposure to this idea. First, they would show life on Mars and other planets in a simple and harmless form, and might even fake such results (if these planets are barren) just to get the dialogue going. Once we have accepted life can exist on other planets other revelations would come at a very slow pace maybe once every 5 or 10 years such as receiving a strange but brief broadcast signal. Eventually, these kinds of events and experiences would ramp up until we get to the point of actually trying to send messages to the aliens. The aliens which might very well already be here would pretend to be sending the messages from very far away and thus replies take 10 or more years. Eventually, they would plan for our first public first contact. Using a scenario like this most of the threats from the above scenarios could be avoided.
We know that they exist but we only know from receiving very distant and very faint communications. In this scenario, the government would want to tread very lightly and take it very slowly. They might not want to communicate back and confirm we are here until they know more about the aliens. There is no evidence the aliens have ever visited us and based on the source of the communications any trip or message would take a very long time to arrive. They would likely want to wait and learn more as well as ramp up our space spending so we can try to have sufficient technology to deal with any political or hostile situations that might arise.
There is evidence of aliens and it points to them either interfering directly with human development or the genetics of all life on our planet. The potential questions and issues surrounding alien-initiated Panspermia are too many to name.It would throw most religions into a tailspin because it would mean life was created by aliens and not by some deity. Many religions would fracture and either declare such evidence to be false and demonic or might even move to start embracing the aliens as gods and worshipping them. Others would leave the churches and yet others might join them seeking some kind of help as they fear the implications of such a revelation. Socially this would mean a great deal of upheaval given the numbers of religious people worldwide.Scientifically it would validate some science and throw others out the window. We would then have to begin looking at how this alien abiogenesis was accomplished and how much of the development of life was altered and how much was from natural evolution. All data on evolution would need to be carefully scrutinized.On top of all of that, the question would be if they are still here or not and how much they have continued to interfere with human development. Are we just a big experiment to them?
No matter how you look at it, although proof of extraterrestrial life in any form especially a sentient form would be both a big boon and a big strife to our society. It would likely be a transformative event on the scale of nuclear bombs. Using nuclear weapons as an example, governments were researching and developing the technology for them for decades and denied any knowledge of their existence until the USA actually dropped the first ones. Such things that shake up a society you do not take lightly. I trust the government would take finding aliens very carefully too.
Much thought has gone into what might be the Potential cultural impact of extraterrestrial contact. These include many additional scenarios to the ones above including loss of identity as a species, being forced to remove weapons of mass destruction, risks from technology we do not yet know how to use, legal issues over personhood and rights of aliens and so much more.
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NASA TESS set to reveal thousands of alien worlds around us
NASA TESS set to reveal thousands of alien worlds around us
Scott Sutherland Meteorologist/Science Writer
Wednesday, April 11, 2018, 5:22 PM - NASA's newest exoplanet hunter is go for launch on Monday, and is set to draw back the veil on our universe, to reveal the multitude of alien planets that are no doubt surrounding us.
Just over nine years ago, NASA launched the Kepler Space Telescope, which has found over 2,600 confirmed alien worlds, and an even greater number of candidate worlds awaiting confirmation from other sources. Kepler accomplished this by initially fixing its gaze down the local branch of our galactic spiral arm, at one specific batch of around 100,000 stars, and then later, under its K2 mission, by adjusting its field of view to a different patch of space every three months.
On Monday, April 16, NASA is scheduled to launch their new Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, aka TESS.
This new satellite will take up the search from Kepler, but rather than looking at only one patch of the sky, TESS will scan nearly the entire sky around us, during its first two years in space.
Watch below to see the field of view of TESS, and how it plans to scan space around us.
NASA will be hosting three different events on Sunday, April 15 - a NASA Social Mission Overview at 11 a.m. EDT, a prelaunch news conference at 1 p.m. EDT, and a science news conference at 3 p.m. EDT. Tune in below to watch (and enjoy the NASA TV stream until then).
Then, return on Monday, April 16, first at 10 a.m. EDT for a live 30 minute show NASA EDGE: TESS, which will discuss how the spacecraft will search for alien worlds, and then at 6 p.m. EDT for coverage of the 6:32 p.m. EDT launch.
How do you find exoplanets?
There are a few ways to tell if there are planets orbiting around a distant star.
You can directly image them, but this is very difficult, and only captures the largest planets, and those in the most distant orbits around their stars. You can watch for a wobble in the star's light, caused as a planet drags the star around in a bit of a stellar dance. Again, this tends to only find the largest planets. You can even use spacetime itself, as a planet's gravity forms a gravitational lens, warping the light from stars directly beyond your star of interest. This, too, only tends to find the largest planets, since they create the largest gravitational lens.
The most successful method at finding planets, and the best at finding smaller, rocky worlds, is the 'transit method'.
Here, you aim a very sensitive, very steady telescope at a distant star, and watch that star, constantly, for as long as possible. If the star's light dims briefly, and does so regularly, by the same amount, it is very likely that you're seeing a planet pass between your telescope and that star.
This animation demonstrates how a 'transiting' exoplanet shows up to a telescope like Kepler or TESS. Credit: NASA/Scott Sutherland
TESS will use this method as it concentrates on over 200,000 of the closest stars around us, out to about 300 light years, which will be far brighter than most of the stars studied so far by Kepler. This will provide much more information on these targets, as the spacecraft's cameras spend a total of 27 days on each sector of space.
The combined field of view of the four TESS cameras (left), how each of the 26 observation sectors (13 per hemisphere) fit together during the first two years (centre), and the duration of observations for different regions of the celestial sphere, taking into account overlap of TESS's field of view. The dashed black circle around the ecliptic pole is where the James Webb Space Telescope will be able to observe at any time.
Credit: NASA GSFC
That schedule will limit TESS's ability to spot repeat transits, except for those planets orbiting closely around red dwarf stars, however by scanning nearly all of the space around us, it still has a chance to pick up thousands, to tens of thousands of transiting planets during its initial 2-year scan, and possibly things that we can not even anticipate at this time.
"I don’t think we know everything TESS is going to accomplish," Stephen Rinehart, TESS project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, said in a NASA statement. "To me, the most exciting part of any mission is the unexpected result, the one that nobody saw coming."
RUSSIA “UFO’S ARE REAL AND WE KNOW HOW TO SUMMON THEM!”
RUSSIA “UFO’S ARE REAL AND WE KNOW HOW TO SUMMON THEM!”
Russians have claimed that they can predict when UFOs will appear and that they can even willingly summon them. They claim that UFO activity is increased when large scale weapons testing is taking place and have been measuring UFO activity by doing so.
According to Vasily Yeremenko, a Major General of FIB in reserve, academician of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement:
“We can say that we learned to summon UFOs in Vladimirovka. To do this, we dramatically increased the number of military flights and movement of the equipment. If the intensity on our side increased, UFOs appeared with the probability of 100 percent.”
The Russians have come to three main conclusions:
Modern science is not yet able to identify such phenomena.
The UFOs could be US or Japan surveillance drones.
The UFOs could be extraterrestrial activity.
According to Svobodnaya Pressa, a news website, the Russian Navy have now declassified records of encounters with unidentified objects that technologically surpass anything ever built by humanity.
A special Navy group headed by Deputy Navy Commander Admiral Nikolay Smirnov collected information on reports of unidentified objects, delivered by submarines and military ships.
According to Vladimir Azhazha, a UFO researcher and former Navy officer:
“Fifty percent of UFO encounters are connected with oceans. Fifteen more – with lakes. So UFOs tend to stick to the water.”
According to one report, a nuclear submarine on a combat mission detected six unknown objects pursuing them. After failing to lose the objects, the captain ordered the submarine to surface – the objects followed, departed from the water and flew away at high speed.
In 1982 a group of military divers training at Baikal saw a group of humanoid beings dressed in silvery suits. Despite the divers trying to catch them, three of them died whilst the other four were injured.
According to Captain 1st rank Igor Barklayof Navy Intelligence:
“Ocean UFO’s often show up wherever our or NATO’s fleets concentrate. Near Bahamas, Bermudas, Puerto Rico. They are most often seen in the deepest part of the Atlantic Ocean, in the southern part of the Bermuda Triangle, and also in the Caribbean Sea.”
A sealed lake is an ideal place to look for clues about extraterrestrial life — and researchers have just identified a few more.
Small valley glacier exiting the Devon Island Ice Cap in Canada. The Devon Ice Cap appears to be the only holder of salty subglacial lakes (as far as we know).
Image credits: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
Life on other planets might not be located the most obvious of places. While researchers used to think that Earth-like planets such as Mars or Venus were capable of holding life, modern research has shown that places like Europa or Enceladus are much more likely to be hospitable (Europa and Enceladus are two frozen moons of Jupiter and Saturn respectively). However, astronomers have evidence that beneath the frozen surface lies a vast ocean of liquid where life may very well thrive. Researchers want to explore this avenue before actually landing a shuttle on the surface of these moons (which may take a very long time) and the best way to do that is by studying subglacial lakes.
Subglacial lakes are bodies of water perfectly sealed under a glacier — typically an ice cap or ice sheet. There are 400 known subglacial lakes in the world, most of which can be found in Antarctica, with Lake Vostok being probably the most well known. Since they’re sealed off from the rest of the world, life can develop and adapt independently — this essentially means that subglacial lakes are potentially unique microbial habitats which can provide information about how life might have developed on places like Europa. Now, lead author Anja Rutishauser, a Ph.D. student at the University of Alberta, has found the first subglacial lakes in the Canadian High Arctic.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
An artist’s cross-section of Lake Vostok, the largest known subglacial lake in Antarctica. Importantly, the lake is sealed by kilometers of ice.
Image credits: Nicolle Rager-Fuller / NSF.
What makes these newly discovered lakes extra special is that they seem to contain very salty water — all other subglacial lakes we know of are thought to contain freshwater, or only mildly saline water. All subglacial lakes are good analogs for life beyond Earth, but the hypersaline nature of these newly discovered lakes makes them particularly tantalizing analogs for ice-covered moons in our solar system, according to the researchers. There is strong evidence that Jupiter’s icy moon Europa contains hypersaline water.
The lake was discovered using remote sensing, which is promising, especially considering that NASA’s Europa Clipper mission, which is set to launch sometime in the 2020s and take samples from Europa, will use similar remote sensing techniques. An analysis of the radar data shows that the lakes are located 550 to 750 meters beneath the Devon Ice Cap, one of the largest ice caps in the Canadian Arctic. They’ve not had contact with the outside world for tens of thousands of years.
“If there is microbial life in these lakes, it has likely been under the ice for at least 120,000 years, so it likely evolved in isolation,” Rutishauser said. “If we can collect a sample of the water, we may determine whether microbial life exists, how it evolved, and how it continues to live in this cold environment with no connection to the atmosphere.”
Now, researchers would like to sample this environment, which is probably more complicated than you’d expect. It’s not just drilling through hundreds of meters (or perhaps even kilometers) of ice that’s problematic: there’s also the matter of contamination — if a unique microbial environment does exist, the last thing you’d want to do is contaminate it.
Journal Reference: Anja Rutishause et al. Discovery of a hypersaline subglacial lake complex beneath Devon Ice Cap, Canadian Arctic. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aar4353
On This Day In Space! April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin Becomes 1st Human in Space
On This Day In Space! April 12, 1961: Yuri Gagarin Becomes 1st Human in Space
ByHanneke Weitering, Space.com Staff Writer
Welcome to "On This Day ... in Space!" where we peer back in our archives to find historic moments in spaceflight and astronomy. So enjoy a blast from the past with Space.com's Hanneke Weitering to look back at what happened on this day in space!
On April 12, 1961, a human went to space for the first time! Yuri Gagarin was the first Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to orbit the Earth.
This was the Soviet Union's next big move in the "space race" after it launched the first satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. His mission was called Vostok 1, and it involved both a Vostok rocket and Vostok space capsule.
Gagarin lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and reached an altitude of about 200 miles. He orbited the Earth one time before his re-entry module separated and fell to Earth. Gagarin ejected himself from the spacecraft and safely parachuted down to Earth. Both he and his spacecraft touched down some 1,700 miles west of the planned landing site.
Yuri Gagarin's flight has spawned an international party to celebrate space exploration, human spaceflight and Gagarin himself. The Yuri's Night party occurs each year to give space fans around the world a chance to assemble and share their enthusiasm. They also have another reason to celebrate on April 12: It's the anniversary of NASA's first space shuttle launch - STS-1 on Columbia in 1981 - ushering in the era of reusable spacecraft.
NASA-GSFCIllustratie van de Transiting Exoplanet Survey Telescope (TESS).
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET SpaceX, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van Elon Musk, zal volgende week een nieuwe NASA-telescoop lanceren. De Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) zal 200.000 nabijgelegen sterren afspeuren op zoek naar rotsachtige planeten, ongeveer even groot als de aarde.
De TESS is NASA’s krachtigste telescoop totnogtoe die zal worden ingeschakeld voor de zoektocht naar leefbare planeten buiten ons zonnestelsel. Maandag omstreeks 16.32 uur lokale tijd zal een Falcon 9-raket de satelliet in een baan om de aarde brengen.
NASA ontdekte al duizenden exoplaneten met de Kepler-telescoop, maar die onderzocht slecht een smalle, diepe regio. TESS zal een gebied afspeuren dat honderden keren groter is, en veel dichter bij de Aarde, op zoek naar mogelijk leefbare planeten.
“We leerden van Kepler dat er aan de hemel meer planeten dan sterren zijn en nu zal TESS ons de ogen openen voor een brede waaier aan planeten rondom de meest nabijgelegen sterren”, zegt Paul Hertz, directeur van de afdeling astrofysica bij NASA in een persbericht.
Kepler vs. TESS
De Kepler-telescoop onderzocht 150.000 sterren op zoek naar exoplaneten die eromheen cirkelen. De telescoop speurde daarbij een gebied ter grootte van 0,25 procent van de nachtelijke hemel af dat 3000 lichtjaren diep is. Daarbij ontdekte hij een vijftigtal rotsachtige, aardeachtige planeten, waarvan er tien mogelijk bewoonbaar zijn, en 4000 mogelijke andere planeten sinds de lancering in 2009. Met een artificiële intelligentie-algoritme van Google werden in die data nog meer kandidaat-planeten aangetroffen.
TESS zal gedurende twee jaar 200.000 sterren aan ongeveer 85 procent van de nachtelijke hemel onderzoeken die allemaal amper minder dan 300 lichtjaren van ons verwijderd zijn en zo’n 30 tot 100 keer krachtiger de sterren die Kepler bestudeerde.
Transitiemethode
De telescoop hanteert de transitiemethode en detecteert exoplaneten door op zoek te gaan naar dipjes in het zichtbare licht van de sterren. Als die dipjes repetitief zijn en een vast tijdsinterval hebben, kan dat wijzen op een planeet of planeten die rond een ster cirkelen.
“TESS zal duizenden planeten ontdekken en is bovendien specifiek ontworpen om een groep kleine planeten te vinden die rond kleine sterren draaien”, zo valt te lezen op een website van het project. Onderzoekers verwachten een 300-tal planeten te vinden die zo groot zijn als de Aarde of als een superaarde: maximaal twee keer zo groot als de Aarde.
Opvolging
De James Webb-ruimtetelescoop die vanaf 2020 de Hubble-ruimtetelescoop moet vervangen en het grootste ruimteobservatorium zal zijn dat ooit gelanceerd werd, zal de data van TESS vervolgens verder onderzoeken en de meest interessante nabijgelegen rotsachtige planeten bestuderen.
Met wat geluk zal de James Webb-telescoop zelfs licht opvangen van de atmosfeer van een exoplaneet en zo indirect bewijs vinden voor buitenaards leven.
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