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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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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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...
On our quest to find life beyond Earth, scientists first must have to ask themselves: what signs would be the most compelling evidence? Credit: M. Neveu/NASA Astrobiology Program/NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA
In the past two decades, NASA spacecraft have identified potentially habitable environments throughout the solar system and beyond. Spacecraft on Mars have found evidence that lakes and streams once covered the planet, protected by a long-gone thick atmosphere. At Saturn's moon Enceladus, the Cassini spacecraft sniffed plumes of water jetting out of Enceladus's icy shell—detecting chemistry akin to that occurring in certain places on Earth's seafloor, where seawater chemically reacts with rock (and where living creatures thrive). The upcoming Europa Clipper mission could do the same at Jupiter's moon Europa, where scientists have spotted more plumes. Even beyond the solar system, some of the thousands of planets now known to orbit other stars may harbor surface oceans.
The next step in exploring these environments is to find out whether they're actually habitable—and then search for life. Unfortunately, no simple life-detection instrument currently exists. Unless a camera captures a growing mat of bacteria on a Martian rock or alien plankton swimming under Enceladus's ice, scientists must use a suite of instruments and diverse sets of data to look for biosigatures—or signs of life.
But what are those signs? To help answer this question, a team from NASA's Astrobiology Program has developed the "Ladder of Life Detection," a guide for researchers where each rung represents a key attribute of life. The Ladder was published in the journal Astrobiology on June 4, 2018.
The Ladder's Biosignatures
"The Ladder of Life Detection lists 15 features that the astrobiology community proposed to represent indicators of life," said Marc Neveu, a postdoctoral fellow at NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC and lead author of the paper. The Ladder also describes how scientists might measure these features and determine whether they really are evidence of life.
For instance, all life that we know of requires complex organic molecules and uses amino acids—two features in the Ladder.
But just finding these molecules doesn't mean they arose from life. "Many of the molecules that are used by life can be formed without life," said Mary Voytek, Senior Scientist for Astrobiology at NASA Headquarters and paper coauthor. For example, chemical reactions on a planet or comet can form amino acids and other organic molecules.
Scientists have to "figure out, with those caveats, how you can say that what you're looking at was produced by life," Voytek said.
An indication would be target molecules found in unique proportions compared to expected levels in the surrounding environment. "The presence of something that's not predicted in the environment is evidence of life," Voytek said. "Life pushes things out of equilibrium."
For instance, organic molecules of a certain complexity (think a Lego car versus individual bricks clicked together) could only have been made by life, Voytek continued. "Chemical complexity is a result of biology—it requires energy or enzymes to make it happen."
Other biosignatures include pigments, indications of metabolism (e.g., waste heat or compounds breathed out by life), or even evidence of Darwinian evolution. The latter can't currently be detected within the timescales of a space mission, but would be the golden ticket to identifying life.
Understanding the Environmental Context
Whether scientists can measure these biosignatures, either remotely or in place, is the next question, Voytek said. It's not just about instrument performance or avoiding the contamination of samples with molecules brought from Earth. Scientists will also need to consider the environmental context. How fragile is the sample? Can our analysis destroy the sample? Does the environment chemically change the sample? Can life tolerate the conditions where the sample came from (like the radiation-exposed surface of Mars or the cold depths of an ocean under ice)?
The Ladder lists answers for each biosignature, based on experience gained by looking for life on Mars and in Earth's oldest rocks and most extreme environments. As it turns out, easier measurements to make (the bottom rungs) might be harder to interpret than rungs further up the Ladder. Climbing the Ladder toward life will require challenging measurements.
Neveu stressed that the rungs on the Ladder aren't set in stone—with more research and discussion, each step of the Ladder can be moved around, and more can be added. He and his coauthors encourage input from the astrobiology community to improve the Ladder.
A new study suggests also looking for "bioessential" elements when searching for alien life.
Charles Q. Choi, Contributor
(Inside Science) – When it comes to looking for alien life, scientists mostly focus on where there is water. Now researchers suggest that looking at "bioessential" elements such as phosphorus and molybdenum could help judge a world's potential for life.
There is life virtually wherever there is water on Earth, from clouds high above the surface to the deepest layer of Earth's crust. As such, the search for life outside Earth typically concentrates on worlds that are "habitable," possessing temperatures conducive to hosting liquid water on its surface.
For example, although the surface of Venus is currently hot enough to melt lead, a 2016 study suggested it may have been habitable until as recently as 715 million years ago. Scientists have even conjectured that if life once existed on Venus, it still might survive within its clouds.
However, "there are of course other ingredients needed for life as we know it," said study senior author Avi Loeb, chair of astronomy at Harvard University in Cambridge. For example, on Earth, elements that are key to how much life oceans hold may include nitrogen and phosphorus. Nitrogen is needed to create proteins, and both nitrogen and phosphorus are key ingredients of DNA and RNA. Several recent studies suggest the increased availability of phosphorus in the oceans about 635 million to 800 million years ago may have even helped support the evolution of animals on Earth, the researchers noted.
To see what roles such bioessential elements might play in the evolution of alien life, the researchers focused on how accessible they might be on worlds with liquid oceans underneath their frozen surfaces, much like Jupiter's moon Europa and Saturn's moon Enceladus. "People suspect there may be life in liquid water under the ice in Europa and Enceladus, and both NASA and ESA [the European Space Agency] have plans to visit them with missions such as Europa Clipper 1," Loeb said.
On Earth, a major source of phosphorus in oceans is via the weathering of so-called felsic rock by mildly acidic rainwater. Phosphorus is in turn removed from Earth's seas by hydrothermal activity; prior work suggests hydrothermal activity exists on Enceladus and presumably Europa as well, the researchers said.
Radiation from Jupiter constantly bathes Europa's surface, generating molecules known as oxidants, and as Europa's icy surface churns, these oxidants can enter Europa's hidden seas, where they can react with sulfides and make the water highly acidic. As such, Europa may possess enough phosphorus to support life, although highly acidic oceans might stifle chances for life, the researchers said.
In contrast, previous research suggested the underground oceans of Enceladus may be strongly alkaline. In the new study, the scientists calculated that if a world's oceans are either neutral or alkaline and possess hydrothermal activity, "phosphorus may be entirely removed from the subsurface ocean world in a very short timescale compared to the age of the solar system -- millions of years," said study lead author Manasvi Lingam, an astrophysicist at Harvard.
The scientists also suggested trace metals such as molybdenum, manganese and cobalt might prove bioessential as well. "Molybdenum plays a crucial role in several enzymes, most notably in fixing nitrogen" -- that is, breaking apart the powerful chemical bonds that hold nitrogen atoms in pairs in the atmosphere and "fixing" the resulting single nitrogen atoms into vital organic molecules, Lingam said. In addition, molybdenum "affects protein synthesis as well as metabolism and growth in many organisms," he explained.
Furthermore, "manganese plays an important role in the context of generating oxygen via photosynthesis in chloroplasts," Lingam said. "Cobalt has a variety of biological roles in metabolism -- most notably, it forms a component of the vitamin B-12."
"The idea of a habitable zone goes back to the 1950s, and since that time we've learned a lot, such as the existence of subsurface oceans, so it's important to move our thinking about habitability being just about water to specific elements and chemicals that might be essential for life," said astrophysicist Adam Frank at the University of Rochester in New York, who did not participate in this study.
One way to remotely see if alien worlds outside of our solar system might have bioessential elements is to look at their stars, which might shed light on the compositions of their planets and moons. The presence of an element in a star would generate a unique spectrum of colors visible in its starlight, and "could thereby provide us with some information regarding the habitability of any planets orbiting them," Lingam said.
If a world's levels of bioessential elements are low, that may limit their potential for life as we know it. Although the new study suggested that future missions to Europa and Enceladus only had a slim chance of detecting life, they are "an excellent opportunity to falsify our model, and therefore we are in favor of such missions," Lingam said
Planetary scientist Jonathan Lunine at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not take part in this research, cautioned "these are calculations based on simple assumptions, and we must always remember that planets and moons are more complex than we expect -- that is one of the lessons of the discoveries made by planetary exploration. So we should not take the results as definitive, but as a way of pointing toward some of the observations that ought to be made by future missions."
The researchers cautioned that although bioessential elements might prove rare on average across a world, patches could exist on a world where levels of these elements, and the chances for life, are higher, Lingam said. And of course, the researchers only accounted for life as we know it -- "life as we do not know it might follow different chemical routes than on Earth, which would be a more exciting finding than finding life as we do know it," Loeb said.
WETENSCHAPDe Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA heeft een even mysterieuze als indrukwekkende foto genomen van een blauwe zandduin op Mars. “De duin bestaat uit fijner materiaal en hebben een andere samenstelling dan de omliggende duinen”, luidt het.
De MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter) van NASA nam al in januari een foto van de blauwe zandduin op Mars, maar NASA maakt die vandaag pas publiek. De duin ligt in de buurt van de Lyotkrater, waar wel meer zandduinen liggen. Maar wetenschappers hebben vastgesteld dat de opvallende blauwe duin een andere samenstelling heeft dan de andere duinen.
Eigenlijk is het zand op de duin grijs, maar omdat de foto bewerkt is om het contrast te vergroten, valt de duin blauw uit. Dat zegt planetair geoloog Alfred McEwen. Waarom het zand een andere samenstelling heeft, is voorlopig onduidelijk.
Mention the word “Chupacabra” to most people and it will almost certainly provoke imagery of strange, hairless dog-like animals mainly seen in the southwest area of the United States. They are actually coyotes with a few genuinely odd issues that go beyond just mange. It should be noted, however, that what passes for the Chupacabra today is very different to the original Chupacabra that surfaced on Puerto Rico in the mid-1990s. One of the most striking things about the Puerto Rican creature is that in more than a few cases it has been described as having wings. This is, of course, nothing like what has been seen in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma. I’ll share with you a few examples from my own files.
In 2004, I headed out to Puerto Rico with a team from the SyFy Channel to make a show on the Chupacabra. The show was titled Proof Positive. One of the witnesses was a woman named Norka, whose encounter occurred midway through 1975, twenty years before the Chupacabra phenomenon began. It was dusk, on a stiflingly hot, weekday night and the atmosphere – as day began to surrender to nightfall – was as normal and tranquil as it had ever been. It wasn’t long, however, before normality and tranquility gave way to something hideous. As Norka drove carefully and slowly along the twisting, climbing road, something suddenly surfaced from the huge, dense trees that stood proud and tall, like gigantic green curtains, and which dominated each side of the road.
Doing barely twenty miles an hour to begin with, Norka was easily able to slow down as a curious beast loomed into view. Norka, looking into the cameras of the SyFy Channel, said that only about twenty feet in front of her was the strangest, most terrifying animal it had ever been her misfortune to encounter. For all intents and purposes, it looked very much like a bat. Except, that is, for one astonishing thing: the abomination was around four to five feet in height.
Not surprisingly, Norka could scarcely believe her eyes as the monster shuffled slowly across the road, its muscular legs taking slow but deliberate strides across the hot tarmac. With her eyes transfixed on the beast, Norka could see that its body was dark brown in color. Two large wings were folded tight against its back. The clawed fingers on its hands – that drooped in curious, limp fashion from its bony wrists – were of a distinct, white-yellow hue. Of a near-identical color were two enormous fangs that protruded from its gaping, almost slack-jawed, mouth. Most frightening of all to Norka were the eyes of the creature: focused intently on Norka herself, they were almost blazing, like red hot coals. It was soon gone from sight.
While I was on Puerto Rico in the summer of 2004, I gave my phone number to all of the Puerto Rico-based crew-members on the Proof Positive shoot, just in case any of them got any leads of the chupacabra variety. As a result, and late one morning not long after I returned home, I received a phone call from a woman I’ll call Rosa. I listened both carefully and intently as Rosa told me how, on a Friday night, around thirteen years previously, she was having a night on the town, in Old San Juan, with one of her girlfriends. The evening was normal, fun and just like any Friday night anywhere on the planet. At least, it was until they decided to head home.
For reasons which neither Rosa nor her friend could ever fathom, both developed a sudden and overpowering urge to drive to El Yunque. It was, said Rosa, as if the pair was in a kind of hypnotic haze. Around 1.00 a.m. they arrived at the base of the rain forest and took a long and winding road – one that I know very well – into its depths. They had driven along the compact, coiling road for around fifteen minutes when they encountered something that was as remarkable as it was terrifying: a very strange animal making its slow way across the road.
Whatever the creature was, it was certainly no regular resident of Puerto Rico. Somewhere in the region of four and a half feet in height, its color was gray, it moved across the road in a curious, tentative fashion (as if, said Rosa, it wasn’t even used to walking), and sported a pair of what were undeniably wings on its hunched back. The wings, she added, were so long, they dragged on the ground for a couple of feet behind the beast. There was one more thing: the animal had a pair of self-illuminating red eyes. That much was apparent when it stopped in its tracks and gave the friends an icy stare, after which it continued on its odd, clumsy, penguin-like walk to the left side of the road and vanished into the trees.
Then there was my 2005 trek around Puerto Rico with Paul Kimball’s Redstar Films team from Canada. A resident of a small village that was home to a cool-looking church, one which rather reminded me of an old English castle, our source had an encounter in early 2005 with…well…something. It clearly wasn’t your average chupacabra, but it did end with multiple animal mutilations; so, in that sense, the story has relevance. The month, the man thought, was February, and the time, definitely late evening. He was walking past the old church when an ear-splitting roar filled the air. It came from an area dominated by tall, thick trees and barely fifty feet away. Frozen rigid in his tracks, he stared intently at the woods.
Suddenly, something terrifying happened: a huge, feathery beast burst through the trees and took to the skies. Whatever the creature was, it was no ordinary bird; the incredible size of it, somewhere in the region of a man, made that abundantly clear. The man could only stare in awe as the infernal thing flapped its mighty wings and vanished into the distance.
To keep matters balanced, it’s very important to read the words of Ben Radford on the matter of the Puerto Rican Chupacabra. He said that: “…the origin of the mysterious vampire beast el chupacabra can be traced back to a Puerto Rican eyewitness who saw the 1995 film Species, which featured a nearly identical monster. Though both vampire legends and ‘mysterious’ animal predation date back many centuries, there seems to be no evidence of any blood-sucking ‘chupacabra’ before the 1990s.”
Ben also says: “The chupacabra has two origin stories invoked to help explain its sudden appearance: the first is that the creature is an extraterrestrial brought here by visiting aliens; the second is that the chupacabra is an escaped entity created in a top-secret U.S. government genetics laboratory experiment gone wrong—essentially a classic conspiracy-laden Frankenstein scenario. Not coincidentally, these two origin stories are identical to those of Sil, a chupacabra-like monster in the film Species.”
Ben notes too that in some cases wings have been reported, as have feathers on the backs of the animals. Ben, however, is strongly of the opinion that Species played a major role in the development of the phenomenon. I’m not so sure, primarily because (a) there are cases that predate the 1990s by not just years but by decades; and (b) during the course of my now-eleven trips to Puerto Rico I have had the good fortune to speak to a lot of witnesses to the Chupacabra, and who come across as very credible. What’s important, though, is that whatever your opinion on the undeniably controversial matter of winged-things versus odd-looking coyotes, the Puerto Rican beast is nothing like the one that roams the southwest. And it never has been.
Movies about UFO death cults are few and far between. So those who are in to that sort of thing (UFO death cults), will no doubt be excited at the impending release of The Endless, a critically-acclaimed sci-fi horror from directors Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead. The directors also star in the movie; they play brothers who find themselves drawn back to Camp Arcadia, a secretive community from which they’d escaped as young men. Hoping their return will bring them some closure, they’re instead confounded by inexplicable phenomena occurring around the camp. Meanwhile, the cult members ominously prepare for a mysterious “event”…
The micro-budget movie has received rave reviews from critics; its vérité aesthetic enhancing the fantastical elements of its plot. The Endless also apparently shares the same creative universe as the directors’ first movie—the genre-defying Resolution (2013). The Endless received a limited US theatrical release back in April this year, but, at this point, very few people will have seen the movie. It arrives on DVD and Blu-ray on this week in the US and will soon available in Europe on VOD.
It’s refreshing to see filmmakers thoughtfully engage with alien themes outside the narrative constraints and popular expectations that come with a mega-budget. There have, of course, been a number of UFO movies over the years that have quietly eschewed traditional approaches to the subgenre (among them The Stranger Within and The Arrivalof Wang), though most of them fail to find an audience upon release. Still, I’m firmly of the opinion that less is often more; what is suggested or implied can be so much more effective than what is shown; a whisper can be louder than a scream. This stripped-back approach was successfully embraced earlier this year in A Quiet Place, in which Earth is invaded by sightless aliens with hypersensitive hearing, sending the remaining human population into silent hiding. The movie cost in the region of $17 million (very modest for Hollywood) and grossed in excess of $326 worldwide. Unsurprisingly, a sequel is now in development.
Perhaps movies like A Quiet Place and The Endless are signalling a new approach to the alien/UFO subgenre of science-fiction, one not reliant upon epic spectacle, the American military, and cheesy one-liners. Roland Emmerich, take note…
This video of ‘Bruce Sees al’ consists of live moon footage of UFOs on the lunar surface.
The recordings of the recent UFO activities have been taken with a CGXL 1400 High Definition Telescope.
All moving objects above the surface of the moon have been zoomed in and analyzed by ‘Bruce Sees al’ and it shows that there is much more UFO activity on the moon than we know.
Mars Had a Seriously Crazy Volcanic Past, New Study of 'UFO' Rocks Reveals
Mars Had a Seriously Crazy Volcanic Past, New Study of 'UFO' Rocks Reveals
By Brandon Specktor, Live Science Senior Writer
The Medusae Fossae formation, photographed here by the ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, may be the single largest volcanic deposit in the solar system.
Credit: ESA
Today's Martian weather forecast calls for a hat, sunglasses and anything that will protect you from a planet-wide storm of hellish dust. But a few billion years ago, you might've been able to get by with just a pair of galoshes.
According to a new study published May 22 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, the entire surface of the Red Planet may have been covered in a single ocean about 3 billion years ago. The water would have been shallow — only about 4 inches (20 centimeters) deep, the study authors wrote. But Mars' "Waterworld" phase would have been just one consequence of a much larger phenomenon.
Beginning about 3.5 billion years ago and continuing for up to 500 million years after that, an outbreak of massive volcanic eruptions may have changed every aspect of the Martian geosphere, the authors wrote.
"[These eruptions] would have marked a pivotal point in the atmospheric, surface and interior evolution of Mars," lead study author and famed Mars-water-finder Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said in a statement.
The bubbling dunes and mesas of Medusae Fossae stretch more than 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) across Mars' equator. Scientists think it was once twice as big.
Credit: ESA
The mystery of the Medusae
For evidence of Mars' volcanic past, Ojha and fellow Johns Hopkins researcher Kevin Lewis looked to the Red Planet's most mysterious landmark: the sprawling collection of wind-sculpted hills and mesas known as the Medusae Fossae Formation (MFF).
"This is a massive deposit, not only on a Martian scale, but also in terms of the solar system," Ojha said.
This unusual region stretches along Mars' equator over an area about one-fifth the size of the United States, standing in stark contrast to the flat crust nearby. The rocks there are also significantly softer than regular Martian crust and have eroded into strange patterns over time, the researchers said.
This map compares the size of Mars' Medusae Fossae formation to Fish Canyon Tuff, the largest volcanic deposit on Earth.
Credit: American Geophysical Union
Conspiracy theorists like pointing to Medusae Fossae as the site where an alien vehicle crashed. But scientists prefer simpler explanations for the anomalous terrain: Perhaps the rolling rocks are partially made of ice, or perhaps they are porous leftovers of past volcanic eruptions.
To get a clearer answer, Ojha and Lewis compared a slew of radar and gravity data taken during several previous Mars orbiter missions. From these combined measurements, they found that Medusae Fossae was far less dense than the rest of the Martian crust — about two-thirds as dense, to be exact.
According to Ojha, this ruled out the ice explanation right away, because ice is much less dense than rock. If Medusae Fossae were partly made of ice, density measurements would have to be far lower than they were.
However, Medusae Fossae's density closely matched that of a terrestrial rock called ignimbrite, which forms on Earth when fiery volcanic gases cool into solids. The stones are porous and less dense than solid crust — just as the stones of Medusae Fossae appeared to be. To the Johns Hopkins researchers, this was clear evidence that Medusae Fossae was the product of volcanic eruptions. [7 Most Mars-Like Places on Earth]
The biggest eruption in the solar system?
However, the researchers predicted that the Medusae Fossae once covered more than 2 million square miles (5 million square kilometers) of land. And a volcano doesn't simply create a deposit the size of the U.S. West Coast overnight.
To result in the formation of a region as large as Medusae Fossae, Mars' volcanoes would have to have erupted in enormous explosions, possibly some of the biggest eruptions our solar system has ever seen, the researchers said. What's more, these mammoth volcanic blasts would have to have occurred hundreds of times over a span of about 500 million years to produce a deposit as big as Medusae Fossae.
"The presence of a [volcanic] deposit of this scale on Mars has important implications for our understanding of the planet's volcanic history, its interior and volatile content," the researchers wrote in the paper.
If these eruptions happened, they would have changed the entire planet in myriad ways, Ojha added. Volcanic greenhouse gases would have poured into the sky; Mars' climate would have warmed severely; the composition of Martian soil and crust would have changed, and so much water would have flowed onto the planet's surface that Mars could've become one giant puddle.
Further research into this potentially pivotal moment of Martian history is needed. Luckily, as Mars continues to slowly evolve, humans may have a front-row seat.
Launched in 2014 as the world’s first exhibition on the phenomenon and research of crop circles in a natural science museum – the “Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Centre” – has found its home this year in the new spacious Honeystreet Mill Café, near Alton Barnes in Wiltshire. After a burglary into the winter storage of the exhibition and the theft of essential parts of the display and technical equipment, the exhibition organizers ask crop circle enthusiasts now via crowdfunding for support for the coming summer.
“Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Centre 2018” from July 1st to August 12, 2018 at the Honeystreet Mill Café, neat Alton Barnes, Wiltshire (UK). Copyright: http://www.cropcircleaccess.com
The exhibition’s organizer Monique Klinkenberg who also curated the exhibition together with Andreas Müller. Copyright: A. Müller, grenzwissenschaft-aktuell.de
The burglary (read more about it here) of the winter storage rooms was discovered a few weeks ago when the exhibition was to be transported to their new home. High-quality exhibits and panels as well as technical equipment such as digital photo and video frames, cameras, headphones and video projector were stolen. “The total loss was in excess of 5.000 British Pounds (about 6.700 US-Dollar),” reports Monique Klinkenbergh, who had curated and designed the exhibition together with crop circle researcher Andreas Müller originally for the cultural-historical “Wiltshire Museum” in Devizes, GreWi reported. Since then they expanded and supplemented the annual summer exhibition in Wiltshire.
“The exhibition itself was always meant as a self-financed and self-sustained non-profit information and educational project,“ explains Müller. “While previous exhibitions have been a visitor’s success and had already set a visitor’s record in 2014 for the Wiltshire Museum, otherwise known for its original archaeological finds from ancient Stonehenge they always left a financial four-figure loss every year to compensate. Therefore the current theft caused a painful gap.”
Some compiled thumbnails of the “digital version of the crop circle exhibition”, which supporters receive as a small thank-you-gift.
Copyright: http://www.cropcircleaccess.com
For this reason, the exhibition organizers and their numerous volunteers now turn to all crop circle friends who would like to support the exhibition with a private crowdfunding campaign financially: “On the website of the exhibition, there is a donation-button, and if you donate 10 GBP (about 13 US-Dollar) or more, you will receive a copy of the ‘Exhibition at Home’ – your digital edition of the Crop Circle Exhibition, featuring all the (updated) information panels of our previous exhibitions.“
“Every little support is a great help to us” conclude Klinkenbergh and Müller and thank all supporters in advance.
– If you want to support the “Crop Circle Exhibition & Information Center” please visit its website HERE.
WORLD UFO DAY 2017: 9 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE
WORLD UFO DAY 2017: 9 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS THAT WILL MAKE YOU BELIEVE
Alien encounters, the type that involve UFOs and blinding lights and extraterrestrial hands probing you, often defy all scientific and logical explanation and are often the same kind of hoaxes baring huge fangs on the cover of The Sun ...
... until they're not.
While infinite faux encounters have been crawling all over the media even before War of the Worlds was taken way more seriously than the dramatization it was supposed to be, actual aliens do lurk among the sensational clickbait of the Internet. Except these accounts expose the real terrors that some Earthlings went through when they saw something they shouldn't have. Or ended up somewhere they shouldn't have. Or ended up with a passenger that shouldn't have been riding shotgun in their car.
However bizarre it might seem to encounter an extraterrestrial light show thousands of feet in the air or to just vanish and show up in your backyard months later thinking it was only a couple of hours (presumably because you were on board something that traveled into the far reaches of space at the speed of light), these experiences that may not be as famous as Roswell and other Area 51's are even more chilling on account of them haunting the memories of people who never worked for the FBI or CIA or even SETI. You might expect a bizarre flash of something when you've been searching for it since the Clinton era. Not so when you're just trying to drive home after dark without your engine breaking down.
Probe these 9 alien encounters that are almost (operative word here) beyond belief and even nonbelievers will find it impossible to stay in the cynic bubble.
01. Those aren't Christmas lights
An amateur astronomer observed something beyond imagination after eyeing a bizarre white flash that was definitely not of this planet.
Heat lightning would have been the assumption, but the night was clear and cloudless with no forecasted storms. Whatever it was briefly lit up the entire night sky with an otherworldly blaze. It tinged the surrounding air, which somehow felt heavier, with a mysterious metallic taste. Then an unexpected flash of red exploded in the darkness. When it seemed things couldn't get much weirder, the light show began.
Alternating white and red flashes appeared, and someone out there must have been having fun twisting human brains because a third flash soon joined the production. It was almost as if they were being beamed into the sky as some sort of mysterious communication mode.
Then came the noise that silenced everything. Frogs stopped croaking, crickets ceased their chirping and the night went deathly silent at the sinister whirring until every dog in the neighborhood started barking like it was the apocalypse. This whirring kept rising in volume as the flashes ascended.
The alien fireworks have never been explained, but the astronomer and a legion of canine witnesses remain forever spooked.
02. The perfect storm (for abduction)
Storms sometimes bring other things down to Earth besides rain.
Thunder and lightning probably aren’t how you'd want to spend your birthday, but Jason Andrews of Kent, England got much more than cake when he turned four in July 1987. He began muttering complex mathematical equations as the sky exploded with lightning. Even Einstein probably hadn't been able to understand math of this level at that age, but Jason kept spewing numbers as if he was on the brink of developing an unprecedented theorem. Then the windows began to tremble when Jason turned to his parents in a trancelike state and said "They are waiting for me! I have to go!" His father struggled to pull him back from the doorway, and as he did so it was as if someone took a tranquilizer to the storm. The windows stopped rattling. The trance broke.
Jason was being drawn towards something — an alien starship? A makeshift lab for probing human specimens? — and probably would have followed the invisible force that had him in its claws if it weren't for his altered state being shattered.
Years later, Jason revealed that he had been getting nightly visits from something definitely not human. The controversial theory behind his experience is that he has some sort of remote viewing capabilities that attracted aliens to him.
Whether or not science thinks this phenomenon is real, there is at least one person on this planet who certainly does.
03.Nobody knows but it's green
Sometimes the monsters aren't under your bed but outside your window. The monsters became real in 2009 for one anonymous witness who only wanted to relax with headphones on when an unearthly sound cut through the edgy guitars and haunting vocals of Tool. It was the type of high-pitched electric sound that assaults your ears — except this wasn't caused by a scratch on the CD. Whatever the source of the noise (which kept getting louder) was bathed the entire room in an ectoplasmic green glow.
Now this is the part when that sinking feeling that warns you not to look out the window, but you do anyway. Because you feel a presence. That presence was an enormous airborne vessel, a triangular metal thing that doesn’t typically take off from any human airport. It was pulsing with orbs of that same eerie green radiation.
As if the fear factor wasn’t enough, the thing then shook the house violently before floating off into the dark unknown. At least it didn't end up hurtling through the sky and crashing in the land of Oz.
This event occurred in northeast Ohio, known to be a hotbed of paranormal activity. Why everything freaky comes out to play there is still beyond science.
04. Roadside attractions
The obstacle that Wisconsin resident William Bosak encountered on the road in 1974 while driving home after dark was no pothole.
Foggy nights can be deceptive, especially when it comes to separating those murky tendrils from something supernatural, but what Bosak saw as he slowed down towards a strange roadside object defies explanation. While the brightness of his headlights seemed to vaporize the bottom half of ... whatever it was ... that which he was able to see would have sent anybody into the middle of the road screaming.
Staring through an enormous glass dome was Chewbacca in spandex ... or, at least it would've made a killer backup for Chewie. This hairy humanoid in a skintight bodysuit had ears protruding from the top of its head and terrified eyes that bulged from a face that could have been a mashup of human and bovine DNA. It looked as if it had thrown its arms above its head in surrender. Just one eyeful of this ten-foot monster was enough to make Bosak frantically step on the accelerator, but to his horror, the lights inside his car went dark and a suspicious noise suggested the engine was missing.
That the former UFO skeptic now believes is an understatement.
05. Morphing on the fly
In 1989, an airline pilot taking off from Kansas City International Airport flew into something unexpected when he encountered an alien white disc among the clouds.
Almost an illusion at first, the disc appeared dim to pilot Andrew Danziger until the plane began to descend. Hovering above the clouds where the disc had been, an immense red orb not unlike a blood moon or blazing sunset sent the pilot and his copilot into a psychological tailspin (they somehow managed not to spook the passengers). It also started playing a deranged game at 13,000 feet.
As the aircraft lost altitude, so did the orb. There was a moment of relief when it seemed to vanish into a cloud — only to re-manifest within the clouds as hundreds of flashing lights that would rival anyone's electric holiday display. Even more mind-blowing, the cloud this thing had descended into was now pulling itself apart like galactic goo.
The second it succeeded in tearing itself apart, everything that had been materializing for the last 40 minutes disappeared. Danziger filed a UFO report stat after landing. Even creepier is that he was just one of many to report the phenomenon involving this unidentified flying whatever.
Nothing was ever identified by air traffic controllers.
06. Garden gnomes from outer space
The peculiar figures that appeared at one Wisconsin couple's door one night were mistaken for trick-or-treaters who had forgotten Halloween was over — until they floated.
Whoever (or whatever) rang the doorbell was a wrinkled life-form that looked like a cross between a scarecrow and a garden gnome that could have been a horror movie extra. Obscuring its face was a floppy hat from which stray tufts of hair stuck out and its chin was unnaturally sharp. It was either nonverbal or refused to speak -- what must have been its mouth was a puckered toothless void.
The creature was also clutching a strange white staff that the couple soon realized wasn't made of anything earthly when the creature reacted to human hands reaching out to touch it and make sure it wasn't a teenage prank. When it raised the staff and struck the sidewalk, it floated backwards. Its four companions were standing silently in the grass and on the asphalt like lawn ornaments. They were all clutching their staffs, thought to be energy rods powered by an unknown force, levitating several inches above ground. By morning, they disappeared as mysteriously as they had arrived.
Whatever these things were, they were anything but costumed humans.
07. Glow-in-the-dark hitchhikers
Orbs of unexplained origin seem to be a common thread in UFO sightings, but this one just takes that otherworldly glow to a whole new level.
When a security officer was driving home on a South Dakota highway in 2011, hundreds of mysterious red lights started to appear and circle the moving car like some sort of alien halo. Though the driver thought he was still doing 60, the car was decelerating with absolutely no explanation. Then the lights vanished and the car sped up ...
Just as unexplained as the vanishing light halo was what appeared in its absence. The officer noticed something strange — beyond strange — at the side of the road. Then the thing was on the car. It was a glowing, translucent life-form with gangly arms that stretched right through the roof of the officer's vehicle. Spindly fingers ran down his back and left a burning sensation.
But there was more where that came from. By the curb was another glowing creature that could only be described as the evil version of Hoggle from Labyrinth.
The translucent thing made itself a passenger until it sensed more humans. Then it vanished, but the horror never did.
08. Monolithic madness
When Lee Parish was driving home in the dark back in 1977, the road was surprisingly well-lit — but not by a streetlight.
What Parish remembered under hypnosis later on was that a huge rectangular UFO floating above his Jeep was lighting the way. Of course, it wasn't just there to function as a superpowered flashlight. His car then came to a sudden stop directly beneath the strange spacecraft. While alien forces messing with auto innards isn't exactly unknown, what supposedly happened next was almost unbelievable. The hypnotized Parish recalled that his car was somehow being levitated by the UFO. He then found himself standing inside it.
The spacecraft’s inner chamber was circular with white walls that emitted an otherworldly glow. (Everything apparently has to glow in alien starships.) He was surrounded by three blocky beings (which also glowed from within). The black entity was the nightmare version of a 20-foot-tall suitcase, while the red one was like a walking one-armed Coke machine. The white one, the obvious leader, was two-armed and square-headed.
The creatures examined Parish with an unnervingly freezing touch that sung wherever their limbs and half-limbs went exploring. Then, with no explanation, they merged into each other and vanished.
Parish might have gotten away, but the unfortunate Jeep's electrical systems soon failed.
09. When the dead aren't dead
Sometime in the 1960s, somewhere in Ethiopia, a boy named Gabriel was running around the backyard with his friend when he just disappeared. Just like that. Then he materialized six months later. Just like that.
After everyone who thought Gabriel was dead could be assured they were not seeing a ghost, he recounted a story that wouldn't have been out of place on The Twilight Zone ...
Gabriel had been led into a glowing, windowless white room by benevolent humanoid creatures. Inside were child abductees from all over planet Earth. (How they and the 'men' who had abducted them could understand each other was a mystery.) With the press a button on the wall, a bed instantly appeared — which makes you wonder how long some of those kids had been on board.
Before Gabriel knew it, he found himself standing in a sparkling city, surrounded by supernatural skyscrapers and flying cars. Beings that appeared both human and alien walked streets that almost shone. The boy was then taken to an impossibly tall building by one of his captors and shown to a room in which he could push any button and be transported to any number of places. When he was told he needed to stay a while, he had no idea exactly how long "a while" would be. He claimed it felt like a mere couple of hours.
This is why you never, ever go off with strangers.
Say goodbye to ET, Marvin the Martian and Yoda. Humans are probably the only intelligent life in the universe, researchers from the University of Oxford have reported in a paper posted to academic preprint server arXiv.
The researchers found “a substantial probability that we are alone in our galaxy, and perhaps even in our observable universe (53–99.6 percent and 39–85 percent respectively).”
The team investigated the so-called "Fermi paradox," which asks: "If intelligent alien life exists, why haven’t we heard from it?"
NASA's Great Observatories image the Milky Way. Is there anyone alive out there?JPL-CALTECH/CXC/STSCI/ESA//NASA
As of June 24, Japan’s Hayabusa 2 was about 22 miles (36 km) from Ryugu. The craft will get slightly closer over the next several days. Latest images here.
The closest view of Ryugu released so far, from a distance of only 62 miles (100 kilometers), on June 20, 2018, showing a rough diamond shape, craters and boulders, as well as a bright spot bear the top point of the diamond.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft is now rapidly approaching asteroid Ryugu, providing the first-ever close-up views of this near-Earth object. According to The Mainichi, a news source covering the encounter from Japan, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said on June 24, 2018, that the Hayabusa 2 space probe has successfully completed a course adjustment and entered the final leg of its 4.5-year journey to the asteroid. Its planned arrival will be on June 27. Meanwhile, JAXA has also released a new set of images, showing a roughly diamond-shaped body – also being compared to a spinning top – with boulders and craters.
As of June 24, the most recently released images are from a distance of 136-62 miles (220-100 km). A bright spot can be seen near the top point of the diamond (shades of Ceres?) and what may be an equatorial ridge, something seen elsewhere in the solar system as well, such as on Saturn’s moon Iapetus and several other Saturn moons (Atlas, Pan, Daphnis).
The images are already showing quite a bit of detail, and of course, they will only get better as the spacecraft gets even closer!
Ryugu is small, with a diameter of about 2,788-2,887 feet (850 to 880 meters), and has an appearance similar to the asteroid Bennu, which the U.S. spacecraft OSIRIS-REx will encounter in 2020. Hayabusa 2 will attempt to send both a small lander and rovers to the surface of the asteroid, as well as bring samples back to Earth for study.
Additional images from Hayabusa 2’s approach, from June 18-20.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
When I saw these images, I was surprised that Ryugu is very similar in shape to both the destination of the U.S. OSIRIS-REx mission, asteroid Bennu, and also the target of the previously proposed MarcoPolo-R mission by Europe, asteroid 2008 EV5. Bennu and 2008 EV5 are about half the diameter (and 1/8 the volume) of Ryugu, with rotation periods about half as long. In other words, these celestial bodies are small and rotating fast compared to Ryugu. On the other hand, Bennu is a B-type asteroid, which is very similar to C-type asteroids such as 2009 EV5 and Ryugu. Therefore there should also be common properties due to the asteroid type. So we have both differences and similarities that have combined to produce very similar shapes … why is that? I think this is very interesting. So far, the asteroids we have explored have been different in shape, so Ryugu and Bennu could be the first time two similar-shaped asteroids have been examined. It will be interesting to clarify exactly what this similarity means scientifically.
Images from Hayabusa 2’s approach to Ryugu, from between June 17-18, 2018.
Image via JAXA/University of Tokyo/Kochi University/Rikkyo University/Nagoya University/Chiba Institute of Technology/Meiji University/University of Aizu/AIST.
After Hayabusa 2 arrives at Ryugu, it will be only 12.5 miles (20 km) above the asteroid’s surface. Between this coming September and July of next year, one small lander (called MASCOT-1) and three small rovers (called MINERVA-II) will be deployed to the surface. Before then, however, the spacecraft will need to study the asteroid to find the best landing locations. As Yoshikawa noted:
If the axis of rotation for Ryugu is close to the vertical direction in this image, there is a big advantage as it will be possible to know almost the entire appearance of Ryugu at an early stage after arrival. This makes the project planning easier. However, it is also possible that potential landing sites may be limited to the equator of Ryugu. I hope we can find a suitable place to set down the lander and rovers.
Ryugu is already proving to be an interesting body, as described by optical navigation camera principal investigator Seiji Sugita:
As we approached Ryugu and were able to distinguish individual features in the asteroid’s topology, it became clear that Ryugu has a land of rich terrain. Numerous clusters of rock roll on the surface. Among these, a large rocky mass (about 150m across) stands out on the upper part of Ryugu due to its brighter color (higher reflectivity). The belt-shaped ring of peaks that surround the equator are also slightly brighter than their surroundings. This color difference may reflect a difference in material composition and the size of the particles that form the rock. We can also see many sunken regions that look like craters. These depressions may have been made in collisions with other celestial bodies. A structure that looks like a grove is also visible.
The existence of such varied topographies is an indication that Ryugu has undergone a complex evolutionary history. It is generally believed that small asteroids that are less than .6 miles (1 km), such as Ryugu, were created fairly recently in the solar system’s history (within several hundred million years) during the fragmentation of a larger parent body. Ryugu’s terrain will tell us about the division from the parent body and the asteroid’s subsequent evolution.
Artist’s concep of Hayabusa 2 at Ryugu. Image via JAXA.
Hayabusa 2 is the second asteroid sample-return mission by JAXA. The first, Hayabusa, was launched in 2003 and arrived at the asteroid Itokawa in 2005. Despite some problems, 1,500 grains of rock from the asteroid were successfully returned to Earth in June 2010. Hayabusa 2 is scheduled to return its samples back to Earth in 2020.
Want more details? Check out Scott Manley’s video, below:
Bottom line: We are now getting our first close-up look at a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu, thanks to the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa 2. Its “diamond” or “spinning top” shape might seem peculiar, but its shape is similar to that of another asteroid, Bennu, which will also receive its first earthly visitor, the U.S. spacecraft OSIRIS-REx, in 2020.
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Were ALIEN-HUMAN Hybrids
The Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt Were ALIEN-HUMAN Hybrids
The pharaohs of historical Egypt might have been alien-human hybrids, based on a new strange conspiracy theory going around on the internet.
Believers have created mocked-up images from the gods alongside extraterrestrials. This is to demonstrate how they might have been human beings along with elongated brains.
The reviews state that Egyptian stories date their own origins returning to the Zep Tepi. That explicates as the actual “first time”, a “golden age” whenever legend states gods originated from the atmosphere in eggs or vessels.
The hypotheses advise that superior lifeforms transferred their information or came up with the monuments prior to civilisations surfaced.
One conspiracy theory website assigns a whole area to the discussion that “aliens built the actual pyramids.” The early Egyptians could hardly have the knowledge of creating the pyramids.
It takes the large leap through the mystery to state it must be aliens.
The theory states: “The ones that they apparently built as a residence to the remains of lifeless pharaohs?
“Everyone believed that ancient Egyptians built them! However, that is incorrect.
“ALIENS built them!”
“Let’s glimpse at some incontrovertible proof.”
This states: “Here’s what truly happened: A few aliens, travelling high enough on the Earth in order to see the location where the Nile Delta’s origin is actually, easily noticed what direction the pyramid should be so as to have its diagonals lie upon those 2 lines.”
“These aliens, rich in their expertise and with all that technology, arrived and taking advantage of their compasses. They got on Earth and located the actual North as well as South Poles. Then they constructed the pyramids.”
The Sun, sets within the exact centre of the 2 pyramids.
During the time, the Egyptians didn’t understand the precise duration of a year, or even when the summertime solstice.
It states aliens might, nevertheless, happen to be able to determine the lengthiest day in a year.
Sunlight also goes up and remnants the head from the Sphinx within the winter solstice, the website highlights.
The website says: “The extraterrestrials, with their variety of knowledge, came straight down in the year ten, 500 BC and constructed the Pyramids as well as the Sphinx.
“They made it using a head of the lion to complement the Belt of Orion, and the groundation of Leo.
The site indicates that in case humans could hardly have done this, then exceptional aliens probably were included.
However, on the other hand, ancient aliens debunked. com is as similarly excited about evidence that people could have constructed the pyramids when historical past tells us these were constructed.
Within an article concerning the pyramids, the site claims the alleged unfinished obelisk, is 1.000 tones. It is made out of granite. However, was forgotten midway due to the fact a split created.
This said: “The stone, as it is not finished, provides us immediate insight into how they trim and formed granite, along with other stones.
“Right after they shaped the stones, working with pounding stones, Egyptians would start to polish the stones with grinders.
“There were various kinds of stone mills, or polishers, in historic Egypt.
“Around 85% of the rock used in the development of the pyramids was fairly soft sandstone. It was quarried right on the spot.”
This swirling pattern of color isn’t some long-lost Van Gogh oil painting — it’s Jupiter and its tumultuous vortices that dot the gas giant’s northern hemisphere.
The picture was snapped by the Juno spacecraft on May 23, 2018, during the spacecraft’s 13th close flyby of Jupiter. At the time, Juno was about 9,600 miles from the planet’s cloud tops.
Behold the dreamy beauty of Jupiter's clouds
According to NASA, the darker clouds are found deeper in the Jovian planet’s atmosphere while the bright clouds are found higher up into the atmosphere. These bright clouds are likely made of ammonia or ammonia and water, mixed with some yet unknown chemical ingredients. The bright oval at the bottom center of the picture which resembles a cosmic eye appears uniformly white to ground-based telescopes. From very close, however, we can resolve fine-scale features within the weather system. Just like in the case of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, winds probably slow down greatly toward the center, where there doesn’t seem to be that much motion compared to the exterior of the eye.
Remarkably, the image was not processed by NASA. Citizen scientists Gerald Eichstädt and Seán Doran were responsible for the final image, who used data from the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager. Check out more pictures like this but also unprocessed data that anyone can use at the Juno Mission homepage.
This month, Juno was supposed to reach the climax of its mission by diving into the gas giant. NASA, however, decided to offer a three-year extension to the mission which means more opportunities for both science and eye candy such as the view feature here. Juno’s end of prime operations is now expected in July 2021, with data analysis and mission close-out activities continuing into 2022.
“This is great news for planetary exploration as well as for the Juno team,” said Scott Bolton, principal investigator of Juno, from the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio. “These updated plans for Juno will allow it to complete its primary science goals. As a bonus, the larger orbits allow us to further explore the far reaches of the Jovian magnetosphere — the region of space dominated by Jupiter’s magnetic field — including the far magnetotail, the southern magnetosphere, and the magnetospheric boundary region called the magnetopause.”
“We have also found Jupiter’s radiation environment in this orbit to be less extreme than expected, which has been beneficial to not only our spacecraft, but our instruments and the continued quality of science data collected.”
What has NASA's Juno discovered around Jupiter so far?
Neither of NASA’s two Mars-based rovers nor the Reconnaissance Orbiter has sent back any especially compelling photos of the Red Planet lately, thanks to a “planet-encircling” dust storm that’s made photography hard over the last couple of weeks. To remind us that, hey, there’s more to Mars than clouds of red dust, NASA recently released a stunning photo of an unexpectedly turquoise sand dune, shot in January. Alfred McEwen, Ph.D., one of the scientists who run the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment — HiRISE — camera that took this photo, explained to Inverse how this strange image came to be.
Mars: Once in a Blue Dune
The photo, posted by NASA on June 20, was taken by the HiRISE on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on January 24. It zooms in on the floor of Lyot Crater, where a bunch of regular sand dunes is overlaid by one huge blue sand dune, sprawling over the landscape like a giant turquoise slug. The smaller dunes are classic barchan dunes — the technical term for a crescent-shaped dune formed by gusts of wind. The big blue one, however, “appearing like turquoise blue in enhanced color, is made of finer material and/or has a different composition than the surrounding,” said NASA in a press release. McEwen, a planetary geologist and director of the Planetary Image Research Laboratory at the University of Arizona, explained the extent to which photo enhancement created the striking blue color in an email to Inverse.
“The images are given min-max stretches in each individual color image to increase contrast,” he says. “The dunes are actually grey, but appear relatively blue after such a stretch because most of Mars is red.”
The dune is grey, not blue, but it appears turquoise relative to the red hue that colors most of Mars.
The reason HiRISE photos have to undergo so much editing is because, to the naked eye (or camera lens), the surface of Mars actually looks quite bland and blurry because all you really see from above is light reflecting off the dust in the atmosphere. Even the HiRISE, with its unprecedented resolution (it can image objects on Mars as small as three feet tall), can’t get around the dust. So, to see images in fine detail, the team has to turn up the contrast — which often leads to a dramatic shift in color. The photos below, of Mars’s Nili Patera region, shows what a difference some editing can make.
Images of the Nili Patera region of Mars -- a proposed landing site for future missions.
In an article for the HiRISE website written in 2016, McEwan explained how the color enhancement process created the above photos.
At the top is an apprximation of the natural color as seen by people with normal color vision—almost no surface detail is visible. In the middle is the standard HiRISE IRB color product, consisting of the infrared, red, and blue-green images displayed as red, green, and blue, respectively, and with a min-max stretch applied to each color. In other words, the darkest pixel in the entire image is set to black, the brightest pixel is set to white, and all others are linearly interpolated. At bottom is an enhanced color product, in which each bandpass is given a linear stretch for the local subimage, sometimes saturating a small percentage of data to black or white to give the rest of the scene more contrast, followed by color saturation enhancement. Now we can see a diversity of colors that distinguish different surface units: dust, sand, and rocks with different minerals.
The same process produced the now-iconic blue dune, shown in a color-enhanced version below.
The blue dune appears turquoise in the color-enhanced version of the image.
In short, the blue dune isn’t actually blue, but if it wasn’t edited to look blue, it wouldn’t be nearly as impressive. Mars purists can rest assured: Its reputation as the Red Planet is intact for now.
Camera detects high speed unknown object near Mars
Camera detects high speed unknown object near Mars
On June 24, 2018 a sky watcher while recording Mars in the SSW sky he noticed something else that was moving at a very high rate of speed.
Despite that the object is probably at a distance from Mars, it is not likely that it would be a satellite since it moves too fast and it not follows a straight flight path like satellites do.
If you look carefully at the unknown object it rotates and it changes colors too.
I don’t know about you, but when I’m not busy researching or reading about strange phenomena, I like to kick back and enjoy a TV show or movie about some of my favorite subjects –– whether it’s catching Ancient Aliens, Curse of Oak Island or Finding Bigfoot during the week or making time on the weekends to watch an oldie but a goodie from the Area 51 movie archives.
Here are some of our favorites that, like the UFOs they describe, have flown under the radar. All three are based on true stories.
The crash at Roswell, for many UFOlogists, is the grandaddy of the whole phenomena. Whatever happened back on Mac Brazel’s New Mexico ranch back in 1947 touched off a series of events that forever changed the way we look at the skies, as well as how we look at our own government.
This is a serious film with serious actors. Kyle MacLachlan and Martin Sheen each do an outstanding job with the material which is presented in a series of flashbacks at a military reunion 30 years after the crash. The storytelling is intelligent and compelling; this isn’t a dry documentary. If you care about why Roswell was such a big deal, you need to see this movie.
If you don’t know Whitley Strieber, you owe it to yourself to check him out. He’s the author of horror/paranormal classics The Wolfen (werewolves) and The Hunger (vampires) as well as the book behind this movie, Communion. But Communion isn’t a work of fiction, or is it?
Christopher Walken, Haunting in Communion
In Communion, published as non-fiction, Strieber claims he was abducted from his cabin in upstate New York on the evening of December 26, 1985 by non-human beings who may or may not have been of extraterrestrial origin. Although the book is seen as an account of alien abduction, Strieber himself merely refers to the beings as “the visitors,” a name meant to suggest that the beings witnessed as part of these events may exist in reality or only in his own mind—a twist worthy of Philip K. Dick.
The movie is bizarre, disturbing and deeply uncomfortable to watch, which is precisely why you need to see it. If you have even a passing interest in the alien abduction phenomenon or in the permeable veil between sanity and insanity, you will enjoy Communion. Plus, it stars one of the most bizarre and haunting actors of all time, Christopher Walken, in the main role.
Strieber has gone on to be a luminary in the paranormal research world. See his latest at Unknown Country or listen to him at Dreamland.
Fire in the Sky is a completely different look at the UFO abduction phenomenon. Where Communion is cerebral and introspective, Fire in the Sky is grounded in the real world of human jealousy, rivalry and frailty.
In 1975, Travis Walton was driving home from his logging job in the White Mountains of Arizona with some of his co-workers. That evening, they encountered an unidentified object in the sky. Walton gets out of the truck to have a look and is struck by a beam of light from the object, sending him flying backwards with great force. His co-workers flee the scene; when they later return, Walton is missing.
What ensues is a cross between a missing persons investigation and a murder mystery, with back-and-forth between the police and the loggers who stick to their UFO story. Walton finally turns up days later alive—naked, dehydrated and babbling—at a gas station.
We finally learn Walton’s ominous fate in a horrifying flashback to what happened aboard the craft. It is everything that alien abduction nightmares are made of.
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Here's the scientific explanation for that 'alien spaceship' on Mars
Here's the scientific explanation for that 'alien spaceship' on Mars
Mars has lengthy been everybody’s hands-down favourite within the seek for extraterrestrial lifestyles. It has got rocky landscapes, Nationwide Park-worthy canyons, and a basic look that resembles Arizona stripped of crops and comfort retail outlets.
It is no marvel then that newbie explorers have spent years in entrance in their laptops scrutinizing this international for clues to lifestyles. The net footage they find out about — taken via a medley of rovers and orbiters — make up a wealthy corpus of images for those extremely motivated sleuths. However few of them are on the lookout for fungi or different back-burner biology. They hope to search out proof of suave beings that both visited Mars or have been as soon as Pink Planet natives.
Crashed alien spacecraft?
It is a beautiful and intriguing thought. Additionally it is not likely to pan out. Certainly, those homebody detectives simply suffered every other setback. In a paper printed lately within the “Magazine of Geophysical Analysis: Planets,” scientists at Johns Hopkins College be offering a easy reason behind the bizarre topography of an artifact that some mistook for a crashed alien spaceship. They are saying the purported spacecraft is if truth be told one thing just a geologist may love — the handiwork of historic volcanism, no longer Vulcans.
The artifact is situated in a area of Mars referred to as the Medusae Fossae Formation. It is a strange-looking geologic deposit the dimensions of Alaska and Texas mixed. Additionally it is notable for the truth that radar alerts aimed its manner are simplest weakly mirrored, a “stealth” characteristic that some believe to be most likely unnatural. In the end, stealth airplane are engineered to be arduous to peer on radar. Had one thing or any person controlled to do the similar with the terrain of the Medusae Fossae?
The Medusae Fossae Formation is one of the largest sedimentary deposits on Mars. This is an infrared image mosaic generated using Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) images from NASA’s Mars Odyssey orbiter mission; the small colored globe based on the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA). Image credit: NASA.
Geologic map of the MC-23 NW quadrangle on Mars, highlighting MFF units in solid colors. The landing site targeted for the Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity) rover is shown inside Gale crater, at center left. The new mapping reveals MFF materials much closer to Gale crater than had been previously recognized.
(Credit: James R. Zimbelman and Stephen P. Scheidt, Smithsonian)
Uniformly bedded materials visible within western MFF (left) and near the top of the large central mound in Gale crater (right). Portions of two HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) frames.
(NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona)
The purported spaceship is huge in comparison to our personal rockets — concerning the measurement of the Notre Dame soccer stadium. Even so, it is just about misplaced within the corrugated expanse of the Medusae Fossae Formation. But when you’ll be able to in finding it, and if you happen to screw up your eyes, it looks as if a saucer-shaped craft that bungled its touchdown and slid into the Martian filth. Extraterrestrial passengers — assuming there have been any — both phoned house and have been rescued way back or disappeared into the adverse landscapes of the Pink Planet.
Essential, if true. Certainly, it will be as nice a discovery as that of Columbus. However as soon as once more, the eyes and brains of people that wish to imagine that is visible proof for extraterrestrial beings have proven themselves to be at risk of deception. The evidence of that comes from the paintings of the Johns Hopkins researchers, who moderately decided the homes of the “touchdown website online.” They measured the common density of the fabric in Medusae Fossae, and it seems to be low — just one.7 occasions the density of water. That is light-weight in comparison to the common density of Earth’s crust, which is three.zero occasions that of water.
No Klingon cloaking tool
Conclusion? Medusae Fossae isn’t cast rock, however layers of particles — volcanic ash that was once spewed into the Martian skies way back. Its low radar reflectance isn’t some manifestation of Klingon cloaking generation however what you would be expecting from a pile of grainy, volcanic ejecta.
What does this say concerning the saucer artifact? In keeping with Ross Beyer, a analysis scientist on the SETI Institute, the meant spacecraft is “only a hill.” It is some increased topography that was once swamped billions of years in the past via all that volcanic particles, he mentioned, a “lone small hill or knob that existed prior to the ash blanketed numerous actual property. This can be the top of a taller hill that was once buried, and there is also different hills on this area that weren’t as tall and are buried utterly, leaving simplest this one status above the particles.”
In different phrases, similar to an iceberg, lots of the suspected saucer’s bulk is invisible — hidden via a sea of unfastened crud. It is ash, no longer a crash.
However take a look at the intense aspect. You might want to know that Mars isn’t any such bad extraterrestrial vacation spot finally. In all probability we will have to alert the extraterrestrial beings that, somewhat than heading for New Mexico and a crack-up within the wilderness, they will have to steer as an alternative towards the fourth rock from the solar.
And for me and my colleagues — sure, it will be transformational to search out evidence of extraterrestrials, and albeit, attempting to find artifacts is a technique to try this. Simply no longer this one!
Dr. Seth Shostak is senior astronomer on the SETI Institute in Mountain View, California and host of the “Giant Image Science” podcast.
Humanity may be as few as 10 years away from discovering evidence of extraterrestrial life. Once we do, it will only deepen the mystery of where alien intelligence might be hiding.
Enrico Fermi was an architect of the atomic bomb, a father of radioactivity research, and a Nobel Prize–winning scientist who contributed to breakthroughs in quantum mechanics and theoretical physics. But in the popular imagination, his name is most commonly associated with one simple, three-word question, originally meant as a throwaway joke to amuse a group of scientists discussing UFOs at the Los Alamos lab in 1950: Where is everybody?
Fermi wasn’t the first person to ask a variant of this question about alien intelligence. But he owns it. The query is known around the world as the Fermi paradox. It’s typically summarized like this: If the universe is unfathomably large, the probability of intelligent alien life seems almost certain. But since the universe is also 14 billion years old, it would seem to afford plenty of time for these beings to make themselves known to humanity. So, well, where is everybody?
In the seventh episode of Crazy/Genius, a new podcast from The Atlantic on tech, science, and culture, we put the question to several experts, including Ellen Stofan, the former chief scientist of nasa and current director of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum; Adam Frank, a writer and astrophysicist at the University of Rochester; Anders Sandberg, a scientist and futurist at the University of Oxford; and Tim Urban, the science essayist at Wait But Why.
Proposed solutions to Fermi’s Paradox fit into three broad categories.
One: They’re nowhere—and no-when.
Aliens don’t exist, and they never have. This scenario might have seemed more likely in the universe imagined by Aristotle and Ptolemy—a small assortment of celestial orbs spinning around a singular Earth. But that isn’t the universe anybody lives in. After searching the skies for Earthlike planets for centuries, cosmologists have, in the last two decades, broken open the cosmic piñata. Today they estimate as many as 500 billion billion sunlike stars, with 100 billion billion Earthlike planets. The more we learn about the universe, the more absurd it would seem if all but one of those bodies were bereft of life. To my mind, this is both the least likely answer to Fermi’s Paradox and the only one that fits all the evidence currently available to astrophysicists.
Two: Life is out there—but intelligence isn’t.
Ellen Stofan predicts that we’ll find evidence of simple life on Mars or a faraway moon within the next 10 to 30 years. But she’s imagining something more like microbes or algae, not underwater cities in the liquid-methane lakes of Titan. This shifts the question from “Where is everybody?” to a more sophisticated query: Whatprecisely is keeping an infinitude of dumb molecules from assembling to form an abundance of intelligent life?
Think about all the factors that add up to the creation of a human. First the spark of life, followed by the creation of simple cells, then complex multicellular organisms, then the formation of organs like brains. If humanlike intelligence is rare, one of these steps must be quite insurmountable. For example, it’s notable that Earth has several million species of life, but only one has produced a civilization—that we know of. The relative silence of the universe suggests some kind of “Great Filter” that is restricting the creation of more intelligent beings. More ominously, some scientists think it’s possible that this Great Filter isn’t in our distant past, but rather in our future; so, it’s not that intelligent life is rare, but rather that it pops into existence for a few thousand years before getting wiped out of existence for mysterious reasons.
Three: Intelligent life is abundant—but quiet.
This possibility, known as the zoo hypothesis, invites some of the strangest speculation. Maybe humanity is still so basic and primitive that advanced civilizations don’t think we’re worth talking to. Or maybe those other civilizations have learned that broadcasting their existence leads to extermination at the hands of violent, intergalactic colonizers. Or maybe our solar system just happens to be located in a quiet, exurban cul-de-sac of the universe, an accident of cosmic geography. But none of these theories hold a candle to my favorite conjecture of all: slumbering digital aliens. To understand why intelligent life might prefer to be based in a computer or cat-napping through the Anthropocene, check out the episode.
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«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d’un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej
«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d’un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej
Un bolide est passé au-dessus de plusieurs régions du centre-ouest russe, provoquant l’émoi de ses habitants qui partagent les images de l’évènement sur la Toile.
Des habitants de la ville russe de Voronej (centre-ouest) ont eu la chance d’assister à la chute d’un astéroïde. Des vidéos du rare phénomène ont été diffusées sur le réseau social VKontakte:
«Je pensais qu’il y aurait une onde de choc, comme à Tcheliabinsk, et j’ai commencé à filmer, mais il n’y a pas eu d’explosion», écrit un témoin oculaire.
Un autre habitant avoue avoir cru qu’un ovni passait au-dessus de la ville:
«On dirait un ovni, et j’ai eu peur. Ce truc était si lumineux», confie-t-il.
La chute du corps céleste a été également observée dans les régions voisines de Lipetsk, Orel et Toula. Selon la chercheuse Liana Leonova de l’Université d’État de Voronej, il s’agirait d’un météore ou d’un débris spatial qui a brûlé dans l’atmosphère à l’approche de la Terre.
«Il pourrait s’agir de tout ce que vous voulez: par exemple, d’un déchet spatial. Il est pourtant peu probable que ce soit une météorite d’origine naturelle», estime Mme Leonova.
En février 2013, un météore d’un diamètre de 15 à 17 mètres et d’une masse estimée à entre 7.000 et 10.000 tonnes s’est fragmenté au-dessus de Tcheliabinsk (Oural du sud), créant une onde de choc qui a détruit des milliers de vitres et fait plus de 1.600 blessés dans la ville. Source
«On dirait un ovni»: la chute d'un bolide lumineux filmée à Voronej (vidéos)
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