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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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    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...
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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Fatima - Miracle Of The Sun

    Fatima - Miracle Of The Sun

    Fatima set a precedent for so-called sun miracles that continue into modernity. However ancient goddesses were able to "spin" the sun. This is why, in L.A, Marzulli's opinion; Fatima was a harbinger of deception!


    L.A. Marzulli recently went to Portugal to investigate the event, which has been called the "Miracle of the Sun" that took place on October 13, 1917 and witnessed by 70,000 people in a field in Fatima.

    Word had spread about the apparitions the children were seeing, and Lucia had been told that a sign would be presented for all to see on the 13th.

    After a morning of rain, the clouds parted, and the sun came out. From out of a cloud an object appeared, spinning on its axis, as it cast vibrant colors over the crowd.

    Then, the disc-shaped object descended, before flying low over the gathering.

    Rather than a holy miracle, Marzulli has concluded that it was a UFO of demonic origin that the crowd witnessed. The following video shows some of these “Sun Miracles” including images of the 1917 Fatima incident.
      
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    02-06-2018 om 16:03 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.NASA Removes All But Three Ceres Photos From Public Index, June 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News.

    NASA Removes All But Three Ceres Photos From Public Index, June 2, 2018, UFO Sighting News.


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    Dwarf Ceres Index that NASA has put up for the public has been taken down. There was once hundreds of photos, but now there are only there. If you go to the link and click on Dwarf Planets, you will see only three photos. This Is NASA trying to hide the true nature of Ceres white spots from the public. Many times I have reported these white spots looking like structures, but now NASA has removed them in hopes of preventing the public from investigating this further. 

    As I said before, the reason NASA was created 50 years go was to hide the existence of alien life from the public. They are on a mission to drip feed the public useless scientific facts that change nothing...they drip feed the public so that the public gets some satisfaction about learning about space...and keeps the public in the dark. 

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    02-06-2018 om 15:45 geschreven door peter  

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    Aliens Are Real, But Humans Will Probably Kill Them All, New Paper Says

    02-06-2018 om 01:48 geschreven door peter  

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    Are All Energy-Intensive Civilizations Doomed To Self-Destruct? Scientists Model Alien Planets To Find Out

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    02-06-2018 om 01:34 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO Disk Flying over Hastings Victoria Australia

    UFO disk flying in the sky over Hastings, Australia, the UFO follows a certain flight path and is clearly under intelligent control.


    Witness: on May 30, 2018 I dropped my mom to work that day and on my way home saw this strange object flying in the sky, so I pulled over on the side of the road and took a video of it.

      

    http://ufosightingshotspot.blogspot.com/ }

    02-06-2018 om 01:10 geschreven door peter  

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    Most remarkable UFO sightings in May 2018

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    02-06-2018 om 01:03 geschreven door peter  

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    Area 51 under scanner again? Continuous UFO sightings in Nevada desert sparks alien debate

    The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.

    ufo, alien, Area 51, US,

    Conspiracy theory channel 'Disclose Screen' has recently released a video featuring a UFO in the skies above Nevada desert. The object spotted in the video moves erratically before it disappears into thin air. Interestingly, the video was apparently shot somewhere near Area 51, the most confidential military site in the US. Now, conspiracy theorists have started saying that the government is testing secret alien experiments in the base, and the increasing number of UFO sightings in the area is a clear cut evidence of this.

    The man who shot the video speculates that the UFO might be of alien origin, and it is attracted by the Luxor lights of the sin city. The uploader has also released an enhanced version of the clip, and it clearly shows that the alleged UFO has a number of lights attached to its body.

    In the same video, the conspiracy theory channel shared the visuals of another weird sighting. In the second video, a white snake-like object is seen flying across the sky, and adding the mystery quotient, it moves in such a way that all the laws of physics have been defied.

    As the video went viral, viewers started putting forward various theories explaining the weird phenomenon.

    "The first group of objects certainly were strange, but without extreme zoom and clarity, we're stuck once again, without any definitive answers. As for the second one, I was expecting either someone to come rushing by, having snagged their shoot in mid-air or I was trying to figure out what other man-made objects it could be other than a long cut of fabric or paper and if it was either, where did it come from, as it was not floating but falling," commented Headon Enterprises, a YouTube user.

    Most of the viewers who watched the video strongly argue that aliens are in constant touch with the government, and they used to visit military bases like Area 51. They even claim that these extraterrestrials are now gearing up for a disclosure which will reshape the entire course of humanity.

    The new video was released just a few days after another clip showing an alien-like figure took the internet by a storm. The uploader of the alien video argued that the clip was shot from the S4 Base medical laboratory in Papoose Lake near AREA 51, Nevada. After watching this video, many conspiracy theorists stated that many aliens are being kept as captives in Area 51 after their UFO gets crashed.

    UFO'S/Lights over the luxor light, Vegas May 20 (Disclose Screen)

    How Area 51 became the center of alien conspiracy theories
    AREA 51 "BASE CAMP" Employee Housing and Airport - UFO Seekers © S2E5

    02-06-2018 om 00:54 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious UFO described as 'a ball of pure white light' filmed flying over Leeds

    Mysterious UFO described as 'a ball of pure white light' filmed flying over Leeds

    Exclusive: The strange circular UFO doesn't appear to be a drone, plane or satellite - and could be extra terrestrial in origin

    By Jeff Parsons Tech/Science Reporter

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    Intriguing footage has emerged of a bright, circular UFO moving over Leeds last weekend.

    The object had no wings, made no sound and appeared roughly 300 meters above the ground. It was described as being a pure "ball of white light" and moving with "absolute purpose" across a clear sky.

    Evidence of the strange object was captured on a smartphone camera by Leeds resident James Goldman, 30, who was at a loss to explain what he was witnessing.

    "It definitely wasn't a plane and it was too low to be a satellite. I know what drones look like and it just wasn't a drone either. I doubt it was a military craft because they wouldn't be flying something like that over a populated area," he told Mirror Tech.

    A zoomed in image of the UFO that was spotted over Leeds last weekend 

    As the footage above shows, the UFO appears smaller and dimmer than the nearly full moon that was also present in the sky.

    Gary Heseltine, a retired Detective Constable and UFO expert, verified the footage and was also unable to come to a conclusion over what it might be.

    "It was an interesting piece of footage and based on the information supplied by the witness it appears to be anomalous," said Gary, who also runs UFO Truth Magazine which documents unexplained sightings.

    This particular UFO was spotted at 10.30pm on Sunday night and moved at a speed Mr Goldman estimates to be around 200kph (124mph) - putting it beyond the speeds of any commercially-available drone.

    "It was just a round bright white lit ball slightly metallic in nature," Mr Goldman said, likening it to the kind of light you see when metal is being welded.

    It also bore a striking similarity to the Death Star space station from the Star Wars film series.

    "I couldn’t believe such an object would fly so low," Mr Goldman said.

    Leeds City Square

    The UFO was spotted flying fast and low over Leeds

    The question naturally arises whether or not the object was extra-terrestrial in nature and Mr. Goldman confirmed that he had nothing against that idea.

    He told Mirror Tech that he had never seen a UFO before and had always been sceptical of mainstream media reports of alien visitors.

    But witnessing the object in the sky at the weekend has made him more uncertain.

    "It was much clearer with the eye than what the camera has captured," he said. "After I stopped recording it continued to move at a 45-degree angle upwards and disappeared into the distance. It didn't blink out suddenly or anything like that, it just petered out into the distance."

    UFO 

    They may often be sidelined as the hobby of conspiracy theorists, but the British government has actually been taking UFOs seriously for many years.

    In 2008, the government started to release its UFO files to the public in the hopes of being as transparent as possible.

    But while the release process was expected to take three years at most, three files still haven’t been made public, according to Nick Pope, a former employee at the Ministry of Defence (MoD).

    Mr Pope said: “Having worked on the Ministry of Defence's UFO project and having written many of the documents that have already been released, I'm extremely disappointed that ten years after the release of the first files, the project is still incomplete.”

    Nick Pope, a former employee at the MoD

    Why the Government is withholding the files remains unclear, but Mr Pope explained that the files have been sent backwards and forwards between the MoD and The National Archives at least twice, adding to people's suspicions.

    Mr Pope said: “A lot of people think the government is covering up the truth about UFOs and this unfortunate situation is only adding fuel to the fire with regard to these conspiracy theories.”

    Mr Pope added that while he and his colleagues took the issue of UFOs seriously, they were often forced to ‘spin’ the subject for the media, ‘disingenuously stating that the subject was of "no defence significance"'.

    Do you have any idea what the Leeds UFO might be? Let us know in the comments below or get in touch on Twitter.

    https://www.mirror.co.uk/ }

    02-06-2018 om 00:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream

    How The Blink 182 Guy Brought UFO News Into The Mainstream

    If you know about Tom DeLonge, you probably recognize the name first from his work as the frontman for Blink-182 and classic albums such as Enema of the State. But as the popularity of the band decreased, DeLonge began using his good fortune to pursue another interest of his. That was the paranormal, including everything from Bigfoot to the Loch Ness Monster was on the table. But what the singer was really interested in was UFOs and extraterrestrials. The odd thing is, people began taking him seriously… and that includes people in the United States government.

    As I wrote about just before Christmas last year, DeLonge was part of the To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science which brought forward news of a secret government program which had been studying possible extraterrestrial phenomenon and led to the release of military videos showing flying craft which nobody could quite explain. But a number of military pilots thought they had an explanation: aliens. Still, given all of the politicians, military personnel and scientists who were involved, the question still remains… how did a rock star wind up playing such an integral role in making this happen? The Washington Post dug into that curious arrangement this week and came up with at least a few answers.

    At a launch event for To the Stars Academy in Seattle last fall, he explained that he was expanding his small entertainment venture — which has mostly published his graphic novels and books about UFOs and the paranormal — into a far more ambitious scientific operation, to explore “the most controversial secret on Earth.”

    DeLonge, who was unavailable for comment, explained at the launch that he had used his fame to meet with the keepers of that secret, in “clandestine encounters” in “desert airports” and “vacant buildings deep within Washington, D.C.”

    Some of those people sat behind DeLonge onstage, including former intelligence officer Luis Elizondo, the former director of a hush-hush UFO program at the Pentagon.

    “The phenomenon is indeed real,” Elizondo said when it was his turn to speak. Just days before, the 22-year Defense Department veteran had submitted a resignation letter to the Pentagon, citing its disregard of “overwhelming evidence” that unexplained phenomena have been interfering with the U.S. military.

    Reading this story it becomes clear that there was nothing particularly magical or mysterious as to how DeLonge managed to pull this off. It was just tenaciousness. He had made a fair amount of money (and plenty of contacts) through his work in music and publishing and once he launched into the UFO question he just didn’t give up. He was willing to talk to anyone – really anyone – who claimed to have information and he gained a foothold through some people with both government and military contacts. And then he kept on digging.

    The biggest barrier DeLonge faced was the fact that there’s an unspoken rule about possible UFO phenomenon. Whether you’re in the government, the military or the media, you don’t talk about it. At least not seriously. To do so is a career death sentence and you’ll be mocked for it relentlessly. But Brad DeLonge had nothing to lose on that score and he kept digging, eventually finding some people willing to share information from inside the government and also some fighter pilots who had questions they knew they weren’t supposed to be asking. What were these things that they had been seeing?

    DeLonge’s group has promised that there are more videos and reports being reviewed which will be released. None of it is conclusive… at least not yet. There could still be some perfectly acceptable terrestrial explanations for what they’ve found, though it would likely mean there is technology out there which most of us can’t even imagine and aren’t being told about. Perhaps it’s all U.S. black ops work. Or worse, something from the Russians or the Chinese. Or, just maybe… from somewhere further away.

    Good for Brad Delonge. We don’t know what, if anything, he’s actually found yet. But these are questions worth answering and a very improbable agent was the guy who brought the conversation out into the daylight for examination.

    02-06-2018 om 00:26 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Pluto's "Earth-Like Characteristics" Are More Diverse Than Expected

    Pluto has had a tough few years since losing its planet status. In the years since its demotion, NASA scientists found the trans-Neptunian object to be a colder, hazier hellscape than once believed, and other researchers are actively searching for Pluto’s replacement in the elusive Planet Nine. It’s about time Pluto got some good news.

    According to a new study published in the journal Science on Thursday, the surface of Pluto is more geologically diverse and dynamic than had been expected. One surprising find is that Pluto has dunes that give the demoted dwarf planet “Earth-like characteristics” rarely seen elsewhere in the Solar System. Outside of Earth, dunes only exist on Mars, Venus, Saturn’s moon Titan, and, somewhat randomly, Comet 67P.

    Led by Matt W. Telfer, Ph.D., of the University of Plymouth, and the team first identified Pluto’s dunes from images taken by the New Horizons spacecraft. Unlike the sandy hills found on Earth, Pluto’s dunes are made from solid methane ice grains, found on the dwarf planet’s mountainous Sputnik Planitia region.

    Dunes (black lines) at the margins of western Sputnik Planitia. Prominent wind streaks are marked with orange lines.

    Dunes (black lines) at the margins of western Sputnik Planitia. Prominent wind streaks are marked with orange lines.

    “When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere,” said Jani Radebaugh, Ph.D. and co-author from Brigham Young University. “However despite being 30 times further away from the sun as the Earth, it turns out Pluto still has Earth-like characteristics. We have been focusing on what’s close to us, but there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system too.”

    While Pluto’s dunes, situated at the edges of mountains near visible wind streaks, certainly give off an Earthly vibe, the dwarf planet’s atmosphere is considered too thin to actually pick up the tiny grains of methane to form these dunes. Dunes normally require a lot of wind-power to form, and it’s still unclear how Pluto’s methane dunes got there. Telfer’s team posits that methane grains could have been sent into the atmosphere due to the melting of nitrogen ice, or blown down from nearby mountains in Sputnik Planitia.

    The age of Pluto’s dunes is also forcing researchers to reconsider what is known about the shamed former-planet. As observed by Telfer and Radebaugh’s team, these methane dunes appear largely undisturbed, which suggests that they were formed within the past 500,000 years or earlier. If they have, indeed, formed in the recent geological past, it would mean that Pluto, at 4.5 billion years old, still hosts an active and changing atmosphere that produces geologically young landforms.

    While Earth-like characteristics might not bring back Pluto’s planet status, the rarity of this find means the dwarf planet still has a lot of insight to offer scientists. This discovery means researchers now must rethink the role of a space object’s atmosphere in shaping the surface landscape.

    Dunes on Pluto

    Top 10 AMAZING Facts About PLANET PLUTO (Dwarf Planet)
    Photos via Matt W. Telfer/Science, NASA, NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute

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    01-06-2018 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Aside from a stray asteroid whizzing past Earth every now and then, our little corner of the Milky Way may seem pretty peaceful. But in reality, our galactic neighborhood is being held together by an army of the most destructive and mysterious beings in the universe: black holes. Now, for the first time, NASA has captured this terrifying squad in living color.

    We first got a hint of how many black holes formed this squad in April, when a Nature article revealed estimates that the center of the Milky Way is home to tens of thousands of black holes. In April, when Inverse interviewed Chuck Hailey, Ph.D.,the co-director of the Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory and lead author of that paper, he explained that this mob of black holes occupies an area only three light years away from the supermassive black hole that also resides at the center of our galaxy — Sagittarius A*.

    Now, thanks to NASA we no longer have to imagine what the gaping jaws of death in the Milky Way’s core look like. On Thursday, the space agency published an image of the black hole cluster it rendered from data collected by the Chandra X-ray Observatory.

    black holes milky way center nasa x-ray renderd image

    All black holes are completely invisible to us because they don’t emit or reflect light — they just gobble it up. Luckily, the region of space shown above is also inhabited by tons of stars, gas, dust for the black holes to feed on. For us to capture images of these perplexing, insatiable life-suckers, they need to be constantly feeding on these celestial bodies.

    As debris from nearby stars spiral into a black hole, they form an accretion disk, which is a rotating disk of superheated particles. The debris in these discs heat up to millions of degrees and emit powerful X-rays before disappearing into oblivion. Telescopes like Chandra can pick up on those distant X-rays, which are represented by the bright white spots in the image.

    While this image, with its numerous white spots, might seem more surreal than informative, astronomers can tell the relative sizes of some of the black holes by comparing their accretion disks. This also offers insight into how these monolithically destructive forces are transforming the core of our galaxy.

    It’s a sobering thought: If you’re ever feeling stressed out or sad by minor Earth things, just remember that our existence is held in the balance by 10,000 to 20,000 black holes.

    A Tour of the Sagittarius A* Black Hole Swarm

    Photos via 

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    01-06-2018 om 23:35 geschreven door peter  

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    01-06-2018 om 22:02 geschreven door peter  

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    01-06-2018 om 21:55 geschreven door peter  

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    01-06-2018 om 21:41 geschreven door peter  

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    01-06-2018 om 21:35 geschreven door peter  

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    Pluto has frozen ‘sand’ dunes made from methane ice

    BY TIBI PUIU 

    Finger-print like pattern observed near al-Idrisi Montes mountain on Pluto. Credit: NASA.

    Finger-print like pattern observed near al-Idrisi Montes mountain on Pluto.

    Credit: NASA.

    For some time, scientists have been intrigued by strange, regularly spaced ridges, that stuck out of Pluto’s cold, dark plains like thumbprints pressed into ice. Now, a new study suggests that these formations are actually dunes made out of methane “sand,” which is striking considering the dwarf planet’s extremely thin atmosphere.

    When we first saw the New Horizons images, we thought instantly that these were dunes but it was really surprising because we know there is not much of an atmosphere. However despite being 30 times further away from the sun as the Earth, it turns out Pluto still has Earth-like characteristics. We have been focusing on what’s close to us, but there’s a wealth of information in the distant reaches of the solar system too,” said Dr. Jani Radebaugh, Associate Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at Brigham Young University.

    Earth is not the only place in the solar system with dunes. Previously, scientists had spotted them on Mars, Titan, and even on a freaking comet. Now, Pluto, a place few expected could harbor such formations, joins the list of dune-bearing worlds.

    We knew that every solar system body with an atmosphere and a solid rocky surface has dunes on it, but we didn’t know what we’d find on Pluto, said Dr Matt Telfer, Lecturer in Physical Geography at the University of Plymouth, lead author of the new study published in Science.

    The dunes were first spotted by NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft in 2015 when it found methane mounds nestled beside the massive glacier that makes up the western half of Pluto’s Sputnik Planitia, the famous heart-shaped region. The mounds stretch for more than 12 miles and occupy an area equivalent to twice that of Utah Lake.

    Pluto's Sputnik Planitia. Credit: NASA.

    Pluto’s heart-shaped Sputnik Planitia.

    Credit: NASA.

    The frozen sand whose features resembles earthly dunes is shaped by winds blown on the glacial plain from the direction of a mountain range found along Planitia’s border. Scientists know this because of the shape of the piles of sand whose dark streaks allowed them to retrace the direction from which the wind blew.

    This was a surprising observation. With an atmosphere 100,000 times thinner than on Earth and an average temperature hovering at about -230°C, it’s difficult to imagine the wind blowing anything there. The surface patterns recorded by New Horizons don’t lie, though.

    Researchers modeled the conditions they saw and concluded that the ‘sand’ is made of nitrogen or methane ice. There’s plenty of nitrogen ice adorning the glacier nearby from the dunes while methane is likely sourced from the snowcaps of nearby mountains like al-Idrisi Montes, which drifts down into the plane.

    Once airborne, the particles are pushed by winds that blow between 18 and 24 miles an hour. The winds may be powered by the sublimation of surface ice which turns from solid directly into gas when sunlight hits. The upward force is what drives the piles of particles at the surface.

    On Earth, you need a certain strength of wind to release sand particles into the air, but winds that are 20% weaker are then sufficient to maintain transport. The considerably lower gravity of Pluto, and the extremely low atmospheric pressure, means the winds needed to maintain sediment transport can be a hundred times lower. The temperature gradients in the granular ice layer, caused by solar radiation, also play an important role in the onset of the saltation process. Put together, we have found that these combined processes can form dunes under normal, everyday wind conditions on Pluto,said Dr Eric Parteli, Lecturer in Computational Geosciences at the University of Cologne.

    The researchers also think that the dunes are young, rather than ancient, and might still be active. For instance, Pluto’s heart-shaped central plain has a peculiar polygonal pattern which resembles the surface of gently boiling water. This feature is the result of slow convection in the thick layer or nitrogen and other ices over hundreds of thousands of years, according to one hypothesis. If this is true, the dunes have to be more recent than the action of this convection otherwise they’d be churned apart by it.

    Personally, I find it remarkable every time we get to see familiar Earthly features on alien worlds, be them tall mountains, vast deserts, or undulating canals. Sights like these, including these most recent findings on Pluto, remind us that, in some respects, our world isn’t that special at all.

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    01-06-2018 om 21:23 geschreven door peter  

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    De hel van Proxima b

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    Govert Schilling neemt je mee naar een fascinerende bestemming, op 4,2 lichtjaar van onze aarde.

    Met een onvoorstelbare snelheid vliegen we door het heelal. De zon is achter ons ineengeschrompeld tot een heldere ster. Voor ons, oogverblindend fel inmiddels, schittert Alfa Centauri. Maar ons werkelijke reisdoel is dat onopvallende rode sterretje rechts daarvan, pas sinds kort zichtbaar met het blote oog, nu we al aardig in de buurt komen. Dat is Proxima, de ster die het dichtst bij de zon staat, op 4,2 lichtjaar afstand.

    Onze geigertellers slaan op hol wanneer een tsunami van geladen deeltjes ongehinderd op het planeetoppervlak inbeukt

    Het wemelt in het Melkwegstelsel van de rode dwergen. Proxima is de dichtstbijzijnde. Nauwelijks groter dan de reuzenplaneet Jupiter, maar wel minstens honderd keer zo zwaar. Veel energie produceert hij niet; het oppervlak is nog geen 3.000 graden Celsius heet. We brengen ons ruimteschip in een baan rond de dwergster. De cockpit hult zich in een mysterieus oranjerood licht.

    En kijk, daar cirkelt planeet Proxima b rond, op slechts 7,5 miljoen kilometer afstand van zijn ster. Een wereld die vergelijkbaar is met de aarde. Proxima b is weliswaar een slag groter en zwaarder, maar heeft ook een kern van ijzer en een rotsachtig oppervlak. En er heerst een aangename temperatuur. Wie weet stroomt er water op deze planeet. Misschien is er leven.

    De remraketten gaan aan; we maken een zachte landing op het buitenaardse oppervlak. Gehuld in beschermende ruimtepakken stappen we even later de ladder af. De omgeving ligt bezaaid met rotsblokken. In de verte is een hoge bergrug te zien. Het terrein is kaal en ruig; het oogt zwartgeblakerd.

    Op Proxima b valt de nacht. Rechtsboven de rode dwergster Proxima fonkelen piepklein de sterren Alfa en Bèta Centauri.

    De blik gaat al snel omhoog, naar die vreemde zon. Proxima b staat zo dicht bij zijn kleine moederster dat die aan de hemel toch nog twee keer zo groot lijkt als de zon vanaf de aarde. En ondanks de relatief lage temperatuur is Proxima veel te fel om in te kijken. Dit mag dan een zwak dwergsterretje zijn, het blijft een gigantische bal van gloeiend heet gas, aangedreven door kernfusiereacties in het inwendige.

    En dan gebeurt het. Vanaf het oppervlak van de ster schiet een gigantische tong van vuur de ruimte in. De explosie breidt zich binnen een paar minuten uit over het hele steroppervlak. Proxima verandert in een kolkende zee van energie. De ster straalt steeds feller en feller, tot hij uiteindelijk bijna zeventigmaal zijn oorspronkelijke lichtkracht bereikt. We knijpen onze ogen dicht; zelfs het donkere planeetlandschap is nu oogverblindend helder.

    Een uur lang baadt Proxima b in een allesverzengende vloedgolf van uv- en röntgenstraling. Gelukkig bieden onze ruimtepakken afdoende bescherming, anders werden we levend geroosterd. Even later slaan onze geigertellers op hol wanneer een tsunami van geladen deeltjes ongehinderd op het planeetoppervlak inbeukt. Tegen dit kosmisch geweld is geen enkel organisme opgewassen.

    Na een paar uur is de supervlam gedoofd, en keert de rust weer. Opeens is het niet langer zo verwonderlijk dat Proxima b zo’n getormenteerd uiterlijk heeft. Dat de dampkring die de planeet misschien ooit had al lang geleden weggeblazen is. Dat geen enkel complex molecuul, laat staan een levende cel, het lang uithoudt in deze hel.

    ’s Nachts straalt er een heldere ster aan de hemel: onze zon, op een afstand van een slordige 40 biljoen kilometer. Ook die vertoont af en toe uitbarstingen en explosies, maar vergeleken bij Proxima is zij de rust zelve. Met weemoed denken we terug aan onze paradijselijke aarde.

    Leven is er niet op Proxima b. We moeten elders zoeken. Verder. Gelukkig heeft het heelal nog veel meer voor ons in petto.

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    01-06-2018 om 21:12 geschreven door peter  

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    Een oog op de weg

    Figure 1 Principle of range measurement using laser

    Afstanden meten met lasers, nieuw is het niet. Toch is er vandaag veel te doen rond een geavanceerde vorm van de lasermeettechnologie.

    Een van de heetste technologieën van het moment is één waarvan je wellicht nog nooit gehoord hebt. En toch heb je het binnenkort mogelijk zelfs in huis staan – of liever: in de garage. LIDAR of LIght Detection And Ranging of Laser Imaging Detection And Ranging blijkt een cruciale bouwsteen te zijn voor autonoom rijdende auto’s. Dit verklaart ook de plotse toename in start-ups die rond LIDAR werken en de grote overnames die rond de technologie plaatsvinden. LIDAR is ook de achterliggende reden waarom Uber in een bits juridisch gevecht verwikkeld raakte rond een ingenieur die het wegplukte bij zijn Amerikaanse rivaal Waymo.

    Radar met licht

    LIDAR is een paraplu waaronder verschillende technologieën schuilen om snel en accuraat afstanden te meten. Je zou kunnen stellen dat het een verre verwante is van de lasermeters die doe-het-zelvers gebruiken in plaats van rolmeters, maar dan wel heel wat geavanceerder. Lijkt de naam wat op ‘radar’? Dat is geen toeval, want LIDAR lijkt er wat op. In plaats van radiogolven worden laserpulsen uitgestuurd. De tijd die nodig is om een weerkaatsing te ontvangen, geeft aan hoe ver een object zich bevindt.

    Een fotodetector in een LIDAR-eenheid kijkt echter niet enkel naar directe reflecties, maar observeert hoe het licht dat terugkeert verstrooit. Het ziet hiermee hoe een laserstraal ‘breekt’ op een object. Door te werken met miljoenen laserpulsen en verschillende frequenties wordt zo een 3D-beeld van een object gevormd. Met meerdere lasers en door deze te plaatsen achter een bewegelijke spiegel wordt het mogelijk om heel de omgeving te scannen.

    LIDAR-technologieën bestaan al decennia. De NASA paste het zelfs toe voor één van de Apollo-maanmissies. Sinds de jaren zeventig wordt breed ingezet, bijvoorbeeld om zeer nauwkeurige kaartdata vanuit vliegtuigen of satellieten te creëren. Er zijn systemen die vanaf extreme hoogte toch in staat zijn om objecten van enkele tientallen centimeters groot te detecteren.

    Hoe werken zelfrijdende auto's actueel eigenlijk? ( Tesla, Volvo, Google )

    Nodig voor level 3 en hoger

    Het is die extreme nauwkeurigheid dat LIDAR zo aantrekkelijk maakt voor autobouwers. Op korte afstand is de technologie veel preciezer, waardoor niet enkel een menselijke lichaam kan gedetecteerd worden maar ook delen er van, zoals armen en benen. Als je denkt aan scenario’s zoals een autonoom rijdende wagen die een fietser moet voorbijsteken, dan is dat wel belangrijk. Maar er is nog veel werk aan de winkel, want het moet nog sneller, nauwkeuriger en goedkoper kunnen. Daarom dat er nog veel ruimte is voor nieuwe start-ups, naast oudere LIDAR-bedrijven, zoals Velodyne. Die laatste begon al tien jaar geleden met LIDAR in kader van een robotautorace die de Amerikaanse defensie organiseerde.

    Velodyne was tot voor kort de enige die een LIDAR-systeem kon produceren die goed genoeg was voor gebruik op de openbare weg, maar er zijn nu uitdagers zoals Luminar (verbonden met Toyota en uitvinder van een systeem die in één blik 120° graden bestrijkt) en Innoviz (die samenwerkt met BWM en LIDAR maakt zonder bewegende delen). De uitdaging blijft LIDAR voldoende betrouwbaar te maken voor zelfrijdende wagens van level 3 (conditionele automatisatie met chauffeur die kan ingrijpen) tot level 5 (volledig autonoom).

    Recente ongelukken met (semi)-autonome wagens verhoogt de kans dat overheden hier nog strenger op zullen toekijken. LIDAR kan daarbij ook de oplossing zijn. Tesla is één van de weinigen die LIDAR links laat liggen en camera’s in combinatie met slimme software toepast voor afstandsmeting van objecten rondom de auto. Het bedrijf van Musk heeft echter af te rekenen met enkele incidenten waarbij een Model S verongelukte in autonome modus, wat Tesla onder druk zet om toch ook LIDAR te implementeren.

    Welke zijn de Top 5 gebruiken van LIDAR? Waarom is LIDAR zo belangrijk?

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    01-06-2018 om 21:01 geschreven door peter  

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    Researchers have identified 121 giant planets that may have habitable moons

    by Sarah Nightingale, University of California - Riverside

    Researchers have identified 121 giant planets that may have habitable moons

    An artist’s illustration of a potentially habitable exomoon orbiting a giant planet in a distant solar system.
    Credit: NASA GSFC: JAY FRIEDLANDER AND BRITT GRISWOLD

    We've all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons?

    In a paper forthcoming in The Astrophysical Journal, researchers at the University of California, Riverside and the University of Southern Queensland have identified more than 100 giant  that potentially host moons capable of supporting life. Their work will guide the design of future telescopes that can detect these potential moons and look for tell-tale signs of life, called biosignatures, in their atmospheres.

    Since the 2009 launch of NASA's Kepler telescope, scientists have identified thousands of planets outside our solar system, which are called exoplanets. A primary goal of the Kepler mission is to identify planets that are in the  of their stars, meaning it's neither too hot nor too cold for liquid water—and potentially life—to exist.

    Terrestrial (rocky) planets are prime targets in the quest to find life because some of them might be geologically and atmospherically similar to Earth. Another place to look is the many gas giants identified during the Kepler mission. While not a candidate for life themselves, Jupiter-like planets in the habitable zone may harbor rocky moons, called exomoons, that could sustain life.

    "There are currently 175 known moons orbiting the eight planets in our solar system. While most of these moons orbit Saturn and Jupiter, which are outside the Sun's habitable zone, that may not be the case in other solar systems," said Stephen Kane, an associate professor of planetary astrophysics and a member of the UCR's Alternative Earths Astrobiology Center. "Including rocky exomoons in our search for life in space will greatly expand the places we can look."

    The researchers identified 121 giant planets that have orbits within the habitable zones of their stars. At more than three times the radii of the Earth, these gaseous planets are less common than terrestrial planets, but each is expected to host several large moons.

    Scientists have speculated that exomoons might provide a favorable environment for life, perhaps even better than Earth. That's because they receive energy not only from their star, but also from radiation reflected from their planet. Until now, no exomoons have been confirmed.

    "Now that we have created a database of the known  in the habitable zone of their star, observations of the best candidates for hosting potential exomoons will be made to help refine the expected exomoon properties. Our follow-up studies will help inform future telescope design so that we can detect these moons, study their properties, and look for signs of ," said Michelle Hill, an undergraduate student at the University of Southern Queensland who is working with Kane and will join UCR's graduate program in the fall.

    The title of the paper is "Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone." In addition to Hill, who is the is lead author, and Kane, other contributors are: Eduardo Seperuelo Duarte from Instituto Federal do Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; Ravi K. Kopparapu from the NASA Goddard Flight Center in Maryland; Dawn M. Gelino from the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech; and Robert A. Wittenmyer from University of Southern Queensland.

     Explore further: Hunting for hidden life on worlds orbiting old, red stars

    More information: Exploring Kepler Giant Planets in the Habitable Zone, arXiv:1805.03370 [astro-ph.EP] arxiv.org/abs/1805.03370 

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    01-06-2018 om 18:40 geschreven door peter  

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    Human Brains Are Too Small To Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe

    Human Brains Are Too Small To Fully Understand The Scale of The Universe

    The universe is so huge that it boggles the mind when thinking about it. In fact, the true scale of the universe is so big that human brains cannot truly understand the full scale of it and perhaps never will.

    Cosmological Argument Hd Cosmology

    The Universe Extends Tens of Billions of Light Years

    The universe extends over many tens of billions of light years. For many people this is incomprehensible. Perhaps the easiest way to begin to grasp it is if it is broken down into smaller steps with the first of these steps being to gain an understanding of the size of Earth.

    Start with how big the sun is it is around 100 times the size of Earth in diameter. Now consider the fact that when flying from San Francisco to Dubai on a non-stop flight it is about 8,000 miles. This is about the same as Earths diameter. Then consider the fact that the distance in-between the sun and Earth is even bigger, about 100 times bigger as it is roughly 100 million miles. This alone is overwhelming, but in reality, it is a measurement in astronomy. An AU or Astronomical Unit is the “radius of the Earth’s orbit around the sun.

    Things get even more complex going on when talking about size and distance. The Voyager 1 spacecraft went into space in 1977, and it traveled at about 11 miles per second and was 137 Astronomical Units away from the sun. Then we come to think about the stars, and the closest of them is 270,000 Astronomical Units away, 4.25 light years in fact, and this is the Proxima Centauri star. To put this distance into perspective, the distance is equivalent to the distance of 30 million suns. This is truly overwhelming and difficult to grasp.

    Milky Way You Are Here Galaxy

    The Moon Is As Far As Humans Have Got In the Universe

    While space exploration has sent men to the Moon, this is as far as man has got in space. This should come as no big surprise as the distance to the closest star is so vast. There are numerous stars twinkling away in the Milky Way, around 300 billion of them and the average distance between them is four light years. This is something that is difficult to comprehend when sitting on the front porch staring up at the night sky. However, the reality of it is that the Milky Way is vast with a diameter of about 100,000 light years.

    Many of the stars in the Milky Way that are like the sun have orbiting planets, and many of these are at a distance and have a size from their parent that suggests they may be capable of hosting life. Many people believe that we are not alone in the universe, but finding the truth is another matter and an almost impossible task as it would take 75,000 years for a spacecraft to arrive at Proxima Centauri, which is the closest of the stars.

    The Universe Cannot Be Explored until Suspended Animation Arrives

    Space travel is one of the main scenarios in science fiction. TV shows and movies show humans traveling into far-reaching space and coming across aliens. The only way they can make people believe it is possible to go so far into the universe is by coming up with “states of suspended animation.” In the Alien movies, the humans went into suspended animation while they traveled into space. Of course, there was never a happy conclusion in these movies, so perhaps it is good that it is only science fiction. Another successful TV series “Star Trek” featured being able to travel at the speed of light or warp speed.

    Centuries ago, astronomers mapped out the measurements of the galaxy, and the true scale of the universe became apparent. It was overwhelming and for the time being science fiction is the only way that humans can travel deep into space to reach other planets.

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    Light from Stars Astronomers See Has Travelled 13 Billion Years

    Astronomers use telescopes to peer deep into the sky and pick up light that comes from galaxies that are distant. Bear in mind that the light picked up has traveled for around 13 billion years they are so far away. The nearest neighbor to Earth is an astonishing 2 million light-years.

    The enormity of the universe comes when considering what lies outside the boundaries of the universe seen. Just because humans cannot see it, it does not mean there is nothing there. The universe extends forever, and this is something almost impossible to grasp. Neil deGrasse Tyson, a US astronomer, said 'The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.' For many people this is so true, it is unfathomable.

    Earth Is Just One Small Planet in the Universe

    Science fiction writers can only guess what is out there and many do not understand the vastness of the universe so they cannot expect to capture the true scale. Earth is only one small planet in the entire cosmos, and this is something that has been a challenge to comprehend by not only science fiction writers but also astronomers and everyday people alike. The reality is that the human brain is too small to be able to understand the full scale of the universe.

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