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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...
25-10-2018
Mysterious Green Anomaly spotted on Jupiter
Mysterious Green Anomaly spotted on Jupiter
A NASA image of Jupiter shows a massive unidentified green anomaly just above or on the surface of Jupiter.
The green color probably is the effect of ionizing radiation.
It is said that Jupiter puts out a massive amount of ionizing radiation so any probe or UFO in its vicinity is going to be subject to that radiation.
I don’t think it is an imaging sensor anomaly caused by a high energy particle hitting the sensor since sunlight reflects on the green anomaly.
Is it just a cosmic phenomenon or could it be something in between biological and technological or something else so out of this world that humans have yet to even fathom it?
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
Cigar Shaped UFO appears over Mississippi and Ohio on the same day
A massive cigar-shaped UFO has been spotted by a witness while carrying out some construction work. He noticed the UFO hovering above the ocean and managed to catch it on video from Beach Front House, Pass Christian, Mississippi.
On the same day, October 22, 2018 at 3.40 PM another witness saw the same UFO on the way home in Ohio and he too was able to film the cigar-shaped UFO.
Research Claims UFOs Are Getting More Difficult To Spot
Hollow Sun Theory, How Aliens Have Been Using The Interior Of Our Sun, Oct 2018, UFO Sighting News.
The Hollow Sun Theory. This is a theory that I created back in 2009 when I noticed UFOs going in and out of Earths sun in SOHO/NASA sun photos. The theory is also based upon a world famous alien encounter that lasted three decades in Rocca Pia, Italy, which gave me the idea of how aliens can and do use the interior of suns. The theory states that aliens send a large craft into the suns center. This device does not need to be huge, however the energy it uses is unknown, but can last forever. This device uses beams of focused power that shoot out in all directions at once...pushing.
Imagine a tractor beam reversed. This actually is done fast with land and dirt for making underground bases so large that they have their own weather systems. Well aliens use this device for any place they want to create a city. Underwater, underground, under the surface of a burning star. When aliens decide to leave forever, all they have to do is push a button and the entire hollow area will close back in. Its that easy...for them and their tech...which is millions and sometimes billions of years ahead of our own. I learned all this was 100% possible from evidence I gathered researching the Rocca Pia, Italy Friendship case. You see, the aliens told witnesses that the base below Rocca Pia was 300x300km long and 150km high. So huge it sometimes rained inside. So creating a base or closing it up was a simple task for them. Just something to think about next time a UFO is reported near our sun in NASA/SOHO photos or when dark spots (exits) are reported in the news. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Witness filmed this stationary cigar shaped ufo on the coast of Gulf of Mexico, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Oct 2018 Location of sighting: Gulf of Mexico This UFO was spotted over the ocean at the Gulf of Mexico last week. The UFO appears long, but I believe we are looking at a disk from its side. This UFO is clearly taking its time as it moves and it looks like the lower part of the UFO is semi cloaked, revealing itself ever few seconds. I don't believe they were aware that they could be seen. I think the aliens on that ship thought their cloak was working fully, but if they had recently come out of the ocean...then the water on the ship would cause a disturbance in any cloaking device for a few minutes until the water has dripped off. Scott C. Waring
“I was actually more interested in capturing the A68 iceberg that we were about to fly over, but I thought this rectangular iceberg was visually interesting and fairly photogenic, so on a lark, I just took a couple photos.”
This time, NASA tried to avoid any conspiracy theories by allowing the photographer of the icebergs, senior support scientist Jeremy Harbeck of Operation IceBridge, to comment on what the crew saw as they flew over the northern Antarctic Peninsula on October 16 while surveying the Larsen A, B and C ice shelves for changes in glaciers that would show the impact of climate change. While these tabular icebergs (they could actually be cubes since only 10 percent of their mass is above water) are rare (two together is extremely rare), they’re not unheard of, says Harbeck.
“I thought it was pretty interesting; I often see icebergs with relatively straight edges, but I’ve not really seen one before with two corners at such right angles like this one had.”
Photo of both bergs
(NASA)
Nor had anyone else, judging by the amount of attention the pictures of the first tabular icebergs received on the Internet. As Harbeck pointed out, the berg he was really interested was A68 in the background. That one broke off of the Larsen C Ice Shelf in July 2017, reducing its size by 12 percent. Its surface area has been compared to one Delaware or two Luxembourgs, depending on which side of the Atlantic one lives, and weighed one trillion ton. It’s still close to that size, but that will change as it moves away, melts down and raises coastal waters around the world as it follows its predicted meandering path to South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Of course, big is not as interesting as perfectly rectangular, so the small (possibly a mile across) but boxy bergs get the attention. Since Antarctic scientists rarely get this kind of publicity, Harbeck is undoubtedly looking for more unusual ice as this phase of Operation IceBridge continues through November 18.
Another geometric berg
(NASA)
For those who still refuse to believe NASA, why would aliens spend time cutting ice into geometric shapes? Boredom? Trying out new laser weapons? Video game player busted?
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
Cigar UFO over Pass Christian, Mississippi 22-Oct-2018
New footage of a cigar-shaped object hovering above Pass Christian, MS. This was taken on 22nd October 2018.
Witness report:
An apache helicopter passed by in low altitude, speed from the west in the Gulf Coast’s airspace. Minutes later, grayish oval-shaped elongated form passed by considerably slowly leaving ominous atmospheric anomalies in its wake. Minutes later, another smaller disc-shaped object passed by leaving atmospheric anomally.
Redditor Taste_the__Rainbow said: “That could easily be a bird.”
Another comment, from user lonchbox, attacked the discovery for asserting it is an extraterrestrial object.
The Reddit user said: “You are more certain it’s a metal saucer than a bird?
“So let me ask. How are you positive regarding that?
Google Maps UFO: Some suggested it could have been a bird flying in front of the camera
(Image: GOOGLE MAPS)
“I think that claim warrants a hell of a lot more expanding and clarifying than claiming it’s a bird, which do tend to fly around in the air, in the tropics.”
The supposed UFO discovery is not the first time people have claimed to have found bizarre and unexplained objects on Google Maps.
Google Maps UFO: The object appears to look like a flying saucer
(Image: GOOGLE MAPS)
However, Dr Richard Waller, an expert at British Keele University, dismissed all claims the object is a UFO.
He said: "It looks to me as though this feature is related to a large avalanche from a nearby mountain.
"Part of a hanging glacier appears to have collapsed, you can see the avalanche debris at the foot of the slope, and this could be a large block of ice that has travelled further as a consequence.
“The track shows that it's sliding over a snow-covered glacier before it comes to a rest."
One of the previous UFO sightings spotted above Whiteshill in Stroud.
A MAN from Stonehouse has described his shock after a UFO flew within 50 foot of him and his dog.
The unidentified flying object was spotted at around 2.30pm in September by the resident who claimed they 'had never seen anything like it in their life'.
This is the second sighting reported to the SNJ in just two weeks, with another spotted hovering above the trees just below Rodborough.
He saw the bizarre flying object approach through a clearing in the wood around Hazlewood, but they did not expect it to get so close to their location.
"The UFO was hovering about 50 foot away from me, but we could not smell fuel or anything, I was shocked that it did not hit our house," they explained.
"It seemed like it was trying to fly below the radar, so it could avoid being scanned - at the time my dog was going mental at it."
As they studied the strange object shaped like a 'huge tube with intricate ship style rivets' they described how it made surreal sci-fi style sounds.
"When I came across it coming through the forest I thought it must be a plane or hot air balloon, but it was clearly not and it was making sci-fi like sounds," added the eyewitness.
"Before it shot off into the clouds at immense speed the engines turned bright white, I've never seen anything like it."
Unfortunately, the resident was in shock after the sighting and said they 'did not think to take a photo' of the UFO.
UFO landing tracks? Alien hunters stunned by discovery in Argentina snow
(Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Alien hunters were up in arms when a young man named Rodrigo spotted what looks like a landing print left in the snow in a small village called Moquehue.
Two separate prints were left – one is a swirling shape while the other looks similar to a star on October 15.
What makes UFO investigators believe it was left by an alien spaceship is that the marks are fresh and there are no footprints in the surrounding snow.
Rodrigo told local newspaper LM Neuquén: "Their size and perfection were striking.
After returning to his family, he made them aware where they returned and took photographs of the ‘UFO landing’.
Rodrigo continued: "I was surprised that there were no footprints nearby. This in an area that is rarely visited.
"I believe UFOs exist. Perhaps it was them.”
Two UFO tracks were discovered (Image: UFO SIGHTINGS DAILY)
Many people in Argentina believe aliens are trying to contact them, it would seem.
A UFO ‘landing pad’ was built in the wilderness of Argentina by a man who claims aliens told him to create the site.
The strange monument is believed to have been built by a Swiss man called Werner Jaisli.
The landing pad is a collection of white and brown rocks placed in the shape of an ‘ovniport’ – a monument which resembles a star which conspiracy theorists have linked with extraterrestrial activity.
A UFO landing pad was built in the desert of Argentina
(Image: YOUTUBE)
Mr Jaisli built the monument in the Argentinian desert just outside of the small town of Cachi in the province of Salta.
The larger monuments is surrounded by smaller pieces and can be seen from the skies, which would be handy for any UFO’s driven by aliens as they near Earth.
The site attracts hundreds of visitors a year and Mr Jaisli decided to build it when he claims he received a “telepathic message” from extraterrestrials in which they told him they needed a place to land when they arrive at our planet.
He told Argentine newspaper El Tribuno: “I was in Fuerte Alto with my neighbor Luis. It was midnight on November 24, 2008.
“'It's a UFO night,' I said to Luis. And the sentence was not over, when two luminous objects advanced about 200 meters above the Calchaquí River.
“They were solid, circular and like burnished metal. I do not know why, but mentally I asked them to come closer. And they did it!
“They asked me telepathically to build the airport.”
Secret 'X-FILES' group in US gov believe in UFOs and want TRUTH exposed - shock claim
Secret 'X-FILES' group in US gov believe in UFOs and want TRUTH exposed - shock claim
A GROUP of leading scientists and officials in the US government believe in UFOs and extraterrestrials and want the truth exposed, according to shock claims.
Nick Pope, who investigated the strange phenomena for the Ministry of Defence, compared the believers to the X-Files series character Fox Mulder.
The famous fictional FBI agent, portrayed by David Duchovny, investigated alleged paranormal mysteries alongside his sceptical colleague doctor Dana Scully, played by Gillian Anderson.
The US government has acknowledged a top-secret project at the Pentagon – called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) – ran for four years officially from 2008.
Mr Pope stars in a new documentary called Aliens at the Pentagon, director by Michael Long, which lifts the lid on the Pentagon secret programme.
And Mr Pope claims it is not long before a full disclosure could reveal everything the US government knows about UFOs.
He said: “I identify what I think can best be described as a 'believer faction' within the US government, a maverick group of scientists and defence officials who genuinely think UFOs might be alien, and who are interested in a wide range of other paranormal phenomena.
“These real-life Fox Mulders were thrilled when the Pentagon got money to look at all this, but the government needed to distance itself from these topics, so a lot of the work was contracted out to Robert Bigelow's company, Bigelow Aerospace.
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PENTAGON: A secret group of X-Files types wants to expose UFO truth – it's claimed
“One reason the government wanted to distance itself from this was because interest in UFOs and the paranormal went against the religious beliefs of some senior Pentagon officials, who regarded such things as demonic.
“Aliens at the Pentagon is aimed at reigniting interest in the story of the Pentagon's UFO project at a critical moment in history.
“The US Congress is demanding to know how the millions of dollars pumped into UFO research were spent and what taxpayers got for their money.
“Washington is abuzz with rumours that formal Congressional hearings are imminent, and we may be closer than ever to getting an answer to the question of what the US government knows about UFOs.”
The influential US Armed Services Committee has been investigating the money spent on the top-secret X-Files project.
It emerged that former Nevada Democrat Harry Reid, who pushed for AATIPs creation in 2007, suggested the US military could harvest technology from UFOs to be more powerful than enemies.
Reid wrote "the technological insight and capability gained will provide the US with a distinct advantage over any foreign threats and allow the US to maintain its preeminence as a world leader".
Dobberen er sponzen in ondergrondse meren op Mars? Misschien wel!
Dobberen er sponzen in ondergrondse meren op Mars? Misschien wel!
Tim Kraaijvanger
Onderzoekers beweren in een nieuw paper in Nature dat simpele levensvormen zelfs vandaag de dag nog kunnen overleven op de rode planeet.
Het gaat hierbij om gepekeld water onder het oppervlak van Mars. In dit gepekelde water is nét genoeg moleculair zuurstof aanwezig om aerobe microben in leven te houden. Aeroben zijn organismen die zuurstof gebruiken. Zelfs simpele dieren – zoals sponzen – zouden in theorie op Mars kunnen overleven.
Op aarde kwamen aeroben en fotosynthese tegelijkertijd op, waardoor de hoeveelheid zuurstof aanzienlijk toenam. Op Mars is zuurstof schaars. Er wordt een klein beetje zuurstof geproduceerd door de afbraak van koolstofdioxide door licht. Voorheen gingen wetenschappers ervan uit dat het te weinig zou zijn om organismen in leven te houden.
Zo zien aardse sponzen eruit. Wist je dat de meeste sponzen slechts een paar millimeter per dag verplaatsen?
Onderzoeker Vlada Stamenković en zijn collega’s hebben nu berekend hoeveel moleculair zuurstof kan worden opgelost in gepekeld water onder verschillende specifieke omstandigheden op Mars. Ze ontdekten dat de hoeveelheid moleculaire zuurstof nabij de polen opvallend hoog is. Sommige bronnen van gepekeld water zouden wel eens genoeg moleculair zuurstof kunnen bevatten om organismen in leven te houden. In het verleden vonden Marsrovers verschillende geoxideerde stenen. De bevindingen van de onderzoekers verklaren mogelijk hoe deze stenen zijn ontstaan.
Op 1,5 kilometer diepte En hoe diep moeten rovers boren om mogelijk leven te vinden? In het paper spreken de onderzoekers over gepekelde wateren met een temperatuur van 205 Kelvin (omgerekend -68 graden Celsius) op een diepte van 1,5 kilometer onder het Martiaanse oppervlak. Dat is dus nog best een uitdaging, maar niet onmogelijk. Enkele jaren geleden hebben de Russen wel eens door 3,5 kilometer diep ijs geboord om in het Vostokmeer te kijken. Wellicht dat we in de verre toekomst ook wel een soort boorplatform op Mars kunnen bouwen. Elon Musk, lees je mee?
Geen bewijs dat er ook daadwerkelijk leven is In de conclusie van het paper benadrukken de onderzoekers dat dit niet betekent dat er leven op Mars is. “We weten niet of er leven op Mars is”, schrijft de auteur. “We hebben ons alleen gefocust op de vraag of Mars leefbaar is. (..) Als er een alternatieve bron van zuurstof aanwezig is op een planeet, dan vergroot dit de kans om leven te vinden op andere planetaire lichamen.”
Geen warmtebronnen te vinden nabij vermeende waterpluimen op maan Europa
Geen warmtebronnen te vinden nabij vermeende waterpluimen op maan Europa
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het roept de vraag op of die waterpluimen dan überhaupt wel bestaan.
Onderzoekers weten al langer dat Saturnus’ maan Enceladus waterpluimen genereert. En op de plek waar die waterpluimen ontstaan, vinden we een duidelijke temperatuurverhoging: een hotspot. Aangenomen wordt dat de maan – die opgebouwd is uit een rotsachtige kern met daarboven een oceaan en daar weer boven een ijskorst – over hydrothermale bronnen beschikt die de ijskorst op sommige plekken dunner maakt en zelfs laat scheuren. Door die scheuren zou waterdamp – afkomstig uit die oceaan – ontsnappen (zie afbeelding hieronder).
Hydrothermale bronnen zouden aan de waterpluimen op Enceladus ten grondslag liggen.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Southwest Research Institute.
Europa De laatste jaren vinden onderzoekers steeds meer aanwijzingen dat Enceladus niet de enige maan in ons zonnestelsel is die over dergelijke geisers beschikt. Ook Europa – een maan van Jupiter – zou waterpluimen genereren. Zo maakte Hubble in 2016 foto’s van Europa waarop mogelijk waterpluimen te zien zijn. En recent dachten onderzoekers ook in oude data – verzameld tijdens de Galileo-missie – aanwijzingen te zien voor de aanwezigheid van waterpluimen.
Niets bijzonders Wetenschappers hebben zich nu nog eens over die vermeende waterpluimen op Europa gebogen en gekeken of er ook op de plek waar deze pluimen zouden ontstaan, sprake is van een temperatuurverhoging. Ze bogen zich daartoe opnieuw over data verzameld tijdens de Galileo-missie (Galileo bestudeerde Jupiter en zijn manen tussen december 1995 tot september 2003). “Een nieuwe analyse van de temperatuurgegevens die tijdens de Galileo-missie werden verzameld, laat niets bijzonders zien op de plekken waar de pluimen mogelijk zijn waargenomen,” vertelt onderzoeker Julie Rathbun. “Dat is verrassend, omdat de Enceladus-pluimen duidelijk gepaard gaan met een verhoogde temperatuur.”
Implicaties Maar wat betekent dat dan precies? “Het suggereert dat de pluimen of Europa óf heel anders zijn óf slechts incidenteel opduiken óf dat ze niet bestaan óf dat de lokale temperatuurverhoging zo klein is dat we die in de huidige data niet opmerken.”
Hoe het precies zit? Daarvoor zouden we Europa eigenlijk van wat dichterbij moeten kunnen bekijken. Gelukkig worden daar plannen voor gesmeed. Zo wil ESA in 2022 de JUpiter ICy moons Explorer(kortweg JUICE) lanceren. Deze zou zeven jaar later bij Jupiter arriveren en specifiek onderzoek gaan doen naar Europa, Callisto en Ganymedes. Ondertussen werkt NASA aan de Europa Clipper: een missie die ergens tussen 2022 en 2025 werkelijkheid moet worden en moet uitzoeken of Europa geschikt is voor leven.
Very Large Telescope maakt prachtige foto van een kosmische piraat
Very Large Telescope maakt prachtige foto van een kosmische piraat
Vivian Lammerse
In dit actieve stervormingsgebied gebeurt van alles.
ESO heeft een bijzondere foto vrijgegeven van het actieve stervormingsgebied NGC 2467. Op de foto is goed de grote, grijzende mond van het doodshoofd te zien, waar dit stervormingsgebied bekend om staat. De foto is gemaakt met het FORS-instrument van de Very Large Telescope.
Het actieve stervormingsgebied NGC 2467. Op deze foto is alleen de gapende mond van de Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel te zien.
Afbeelding: ESO
Schedel Het stervormingsgebied heeft de bijnaam ‘Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel’. En op zich is dat niet zo heel verwonderlijk. De jonge, heldere formatie heeft namelijk veel weg van een menselijke schedel; zo is er – in een uitgezoomde weergave – een dreigend hol gezicht met een gapende mond te zien.
Schip NGC 2467 verschuilt zich in het sterrenbeeld Puppis – ofwel Achtersteven – dat verwijst naar het verhoogde achterste deel van een schip. Samen met de sterrenbeelden Carina (Kiel), Pyxis (Kompas) en Vela (zeilen) maakt Puppis deel uit van een groep die aan de zuidelijke hemel te zien is. Samen vormden zij het voormalige sterrenbeeld Argo Navis (Schip Argo). In zekere zin maakt NGC 2467 dus deel uit van een enorm piratenschip, een gepast onderkomen voor de Doodshoofd-met-gekruiste-beenderen-nevel.
Deze kaart toont de locatie van NGC 2467 in het sterrenbeeld Puppis.
Afbeelding: ESO, IAU and Sky & Telescope
Sterrenhopen Hoewel het lijkt alsof er een open sterrenhoop te zien is, bestaat NGC 2467 eigenlijk uit meerdere nevels. Toevallig lijken deze nevels vanuit de aarde gezien op één lijn te staan, waardoor het de illusie wekt dat het om één sterrenhoop gaat. Daarnaast is NGC 2467 erg actief; zo worden er in de kleurrijke nevel talloze nieuwe sterren geboren als gevolg van een overmaat van waterstofgas.
Hoewel de foto voor astronomen niets nieuws vertelt, levert het ons wel een prachtig plaatje op dat zowel onheilspellend als mooi is. Daarnaast krijgen we een bijzonder inkijkje in de kolkende zuidelijke hemel.
NASA ziet ene na andere ruimtemissie in de problemen komen
NASA ziet ene na andere ruimtemissie in de problemen komen
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Na Hubble, Opportunity, Curiosity en Kepler is ook ruimteobservatorium Chandra tijdelijk uit de running.
Het ruimteobservatorium ging eind vorige week opeens in veiligheidsmodus, zo laat NASA in een korte verklaring weten. Onduidelijk is nog waarom.
Veiligheidsmodus Wanneer Chandra in veiligheidsmodus gaat, verandert de oriëntatie van het observatorium, waardoor de zonnepanelen de maximale hoeveelheid zonlicht opvangen. Ook wordt de belangrijkste hardware ontlast. Voor zover we nu weten, is Chandra succesvol in veiligheidsmodus gegaan en functioneren alle systemen zoals men in zo’n situatie zou verwachten.
Gyroscoop Tot zover het goede nieuws. Het slechte nieuws is namelijk dat NASA nog niet weet waarom het observatorium uit de running is gegaan. Mogelijk is het het resultaat van een probleem met een gyroscoop. Vervolgonderzoek moet dat uitwijzen.
Negentien jaar Chandra is in zekere zin al ver over de datum; oorspronkelijk had de missie maar vijf jaar moeten duren. Maar inmiddels is Chandra al negentien jaar actief. Toch verwachtte NASA tot voor kort dat het observatorium zeker nog een aantal jaren mee zou kunnen.
Chandra is niet het enige zorgenkindje van NASA. Al enkele maanden zijn er grote zorgen omtrent Marsrover Opportunity waarvan nog altijd onduidelijk is of deze de heftige stofstorm op Mars heeft overleefd. En ook Marsrover Curiosity is nog herstellende van technische problemen. Ook heeft NASA al enkele maanden de handen vol aan Kepler; de planetenjager loopt op zijn laatste benen en heeft er zo langzamerhand een gewoonte van gemaakt om in slaapstand te gaan. En vorige week werd duidelijk dat ook ruimtetelescoop Hubble met technische mankementen kampt. Eind vorige week was er temidden van al die tegenslagen gelukkig ook een beetje goed nieuws. Zo is het NASA gelukt om Kepler wakker te maken en zover te krijgen dat deze het laatste beetje data dat tijdens de laatste waarneemrun is verzameld, gaat downloaden.
Update (16 oktober) Inmiddels is duidelijk wat er met Chandra aan de hand is: er is inderdaad iets mis met één van de gyroscopen. NASA verwacht in staat te zijn om een andere gyroscoop in te schakelen en het falende exemplaar voorlopig op de reservebank te zetten. Naar verwachting kan Chandra tegen het eind van deze week weer aan de slag.
This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
This Hunk of Metal Fell From Space and Landed in California
By Rafi Letzter, Live Science Staff Writer
What would you do if you saw this thing in your walnut orchard?
Credit: Kings County Sheriff's Office
A walnut farmer in central California found a strange metal object in his orchard on Oct. 13.
He called the local sheriff's office, according to a KGET report. The sheriffs reached out to Vandenberg Air Force Base, and experts there reportedly said the burnt husk was likely a fuel tank from an Iridium communications satellite. Specifically, it came from Iridium 70, which according to the satellite tracking site n2yo.com fell out of its orbit three days earlier, on Oct. 10.
Iridium 70 was part of a constellation of communications satellites first launched in the late 1990s. This one, according to Astronautix.com, rode a Delta 7920-10C rocket into space on May 17, 1998 along with Iridiums 72, 73, 74 and 75. (Coincidentally, the launch site was Vandenberg Air Force Base.) Of those satellites, only Iridium 73 is still in orbit.
Iridium 70 hung in low-Earth orbit for 20 years, 4 months and 23 days; and for its operational lifetime, it supported satellite phone calls on the global Iridium network. According to KGET, this is the first piece recovered from an Iridium satellite after re-entry. As Live Science has previously reported, it's wildly unlikely that any given de-orbiting object will drop significant debris on land, let alone anywhere where the debris might be recognized.
Though photographs may present the barren landscapes of Antarctica as eerily calm and peaceful, at least when no storms are raging, the largely lifeless continent and the ice shelves surrounding it produce a medley of bizarrely beautiful sounds. As noted by Earther, the frozen region’s ambient sounds include the Rice Crispies-like crackle of melting ice releasing long-trapped air bubbles to the steady groans, screeches, and pops of massive floating ice sheets shifting and breaking apart as they buckle under the weight of fresh snow in the winter or melt during the summer.
The only catch is that you might not be able to hear all the notes in this spectacular natural symphony if you’re listening with human ears, because many occur on timescales or at frequencies that are not compatible with our auditory abilities. But if you have the right equipment to first capture and then remix the acoustic waves, a whole new soundtrack can be revealed. On top of being really cool to listen to, these recordings help scientists better understand the climatological and geologic processes that shape the Antarctic.
In an astounding new example, a team led by Julien Chaput of Colorado State University and the University of Texas, have revealed how the "songs" created by vibrations in the Ross Ice Shelf can be used to continuously monitor the changing conditions within the ice mass' top five meters (16.4 feet).
“Deploying sensitive seismographs across Earth’s largest ice shelf (the Ross Ice Shelf) for 2 years, we discovered that the shelf nearly continuously sings at frequencies of five or more cycles per second, excited by local and regional winds blowing across its snow dune-like topography,” they wrote in their paper, now published inGeophysical Research Letters. “We find that the frequencies and other features of this singing change, both as storms alter the snow dunes and during a (January 2016) warming event that resulted in melting in the ice shelf’s near surface.”
The Texas-sized ice shelf floats on the Southern Ocean, fused to the mainland off western Antarctica. From this position, the shelf – itself composed of glacier ice that spilled out from the interior of the landmass – acts as a buttress to lessen the flow of ice melt that occurs each warm season. Climate change-driven increases in temperatures have already caused other ice shelves to thin and recede, resulting in sea level rise from unblocked glacier drainage. Currently holding back enormous glaciers that would contribute 5 meters (16.4 feet) of sea level rise if introduced into the water, researchers are anxious for ways to measure the integrity of the Ross Ice Shelf.
As part of that endeavor, Chaput and his colleagues had buried 34 extremely sensitive seismographs under the snow on the ice’s surface and analyzed the vibrations recorded between late 2014 and early 2017.
Installation of a seismic station near the northern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf, with a solar halo created by fine ice crystals created by spray from the nearby Southern Ocean.
Rick Aster.
Soon into the project, the team realized that the snowy coating on the shelf is, in fact, vibrating nearly constantly from the effects of heating and wind. And, similar to a musical instrument, different tones are created when different forces act upon it.
"It's kind of like you're blowing a flute, constantly, on the ice shelf," Chaput said in a statement. "Either you change the velocity of the snow by heating or cooling it, or you change where you blow on the flute, by adding or destroying dunes," he said. "The response of the ice shelf tells us that we can track extremely sensitive details about it."
Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location
Mercury capsule exhibit to preview Cosmosphere satellite location
The Mercury spacecraft "Liberty Bell 7," seen here on exhibit at the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, Kansas, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit at the museum's satellite location in Overland Park opening in February 2019. µ
(Cosmosphere)
— The historic capsule that carried the second American to fly into space is set to land in the second most populous city in Kansas in early 2019.
"Liberty Bell 7," the Mercury spacecraft that was piloted by NASA astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on a 1961 suborbital spaceflight, will be the early centerpiece of a new exhibit by Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park. The Innovation Space is the planned satellite facility for the Cosmosphere International SciEd Center and Space Museum in Hutchinson, Kansas, which hosts the largest combined collection of U.S. and Russian space artifacts in the world.
Bluhawk is a $750 million, 277-acre mixed-use development that in addition to the Cosmosphere will feature an indoor multi-sport complex, hotel and restaurant and retail marketplace.
"We have an exceptional plan that meets the needs of Cosmosphere, Bluhawk and the public, which is eager to see tremendous exhibits like Liberty Bell 7 as soon as possible," said Jim Remar, president and CEO of the Cosmosphere, in a statement. "Opening a temporary Cosmosphere location in early 2019 is a big win for all parties as we continue forward with the plans for our satellite location."
An artist's concept of Cosmosphere Innovation Space at Bluhawk in Overland Park, Kansas.
(Bluhawk)
Launched on July 21, 1961 on Grissom's 15-minute Mercury-Redstone 4 mission, Liberty Bell 7 sank due to a premature hatch jettison soon after splashing down. It remained on the ocean floor for 38 years until July 1999, when it was recovered by a private expedition organized by Discovery Channel and the Cosmosphere. The museum's SpaceWorks division restored the spacecraft before sending it on a six-year nationwide tour.
Liberty Bell 7 is slated to return from Indiana to the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson in mid-December.
The capsule's new temporary exhibition will give visitors to Bluhawk the chance to learn more about space history and the role the Mercury spaceflights played in the United States winning the space race with the former Soviet Union.
"We are very pleased that Overland Park residents and visitors will have an early look at this historic exhibit and others," said Doug Price, president of Price Brothers, the developer of Bluhawk. "This new exhibition is a great venue for the Cosmosphere to test new ideas while we are developing extensive plans for its new satellite location."
The Liberty Bell 7 exhibit at Bluhawk is scheduled to open in February 2019. It will be followed a few months later by an exhibit devoted to Mission Control, featuring consoles restored by the Cosmosphere and used in the filming of the movie "First Man." Other displays are anticipated to rotate on a regular basis.
A conceptual aerial view of the Bluhawk development in Overland Park, Kansas, including Cosmosphere Innovation Space. (Bluhawk)
Cosmosphere Innovation Space is planned as a 60,000 square foot facility located at 159th Street and U.S. Highway 69 in Overland Park. The Bluhawk site is not intended as a substitute for the Hutchinson museum, but will expose more people to the Cosmosphere brand, allow them to experience the SciEd Center's approach to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education and see artifacts currently not on display due to space limitations.
Cosmosphere Innovation Space is part of the first phase of Bluhawk, scheduled to break ground in 2019 and open the following year.
La NASA cacherait, aux yeux du monde, l’existence de la vie sur Mars. Récemment, une énorme explosion s’est produite sur la planète rouge, ravivant de nombreuses théories …
La NASA a été au centre de nombreuses théorie du complot au cours de ces derniers mois. En septembre, le Rover Curiosity, de l’agence spatiale américaine, a subi une mystérieuse anomalie qui a provoqué une panne complète de son système.
Quant au rover Mars Opportunity, il est hors ligne depuis des mois après qu'une énorme tempête de poussière ait envahi la planète rouge à la fin du printemps.
Après cette multitude de pannes, toutes plus étranges les unes que les autres, une activité étrange a été photographiée à la surface de la planète rouge.
Une série de clichés semble montrer un panache de fumée provenant peut-être d'un volcan à la surface de la planète rouge. Toutefois, aucun rapport de la NASA n’y fait référence.
Les théoriciens du complot pensent que la vérité est soigneusement dissimulée au monde entier.
Tyler Glockner a utilisé sa chaîne YouTube pour informer ses abonnés de cette nouvelle sensationnelle. Sa vidéo a déjà enregistré plus de 320 000 visites.
«Il y a eu une explosion - je ne sais pas s'il s'agissait d'un volcan ou de quelque chosed’autrequi a explosé», a-t-il déclaré sur sa chaîne baptisée secureteam10.
Les internautes qui suivent cet ufologue semblent être d’accord avec lui.
« Le gouvernement doit commencer à dire la vérité sur ce qui se passevraimentdans l'espace », affirme l’un d’eux.
Un autre a ajouté : « Si cela estvéridique, cela pourrait être énorme - je pensais que Marsn’avait aucune activité volcanique. »
Un troisième s'est écrié : « La NASA n'adéfinitivementplus aucune crédibilité ».
Ces images constituent-elles une preuve que Mars est habitée par une quelconque civilisation ? Ce genre d’hypothèse semble difficile à croire et pourtant ces images ne peuvent que nous faire douter …
Conspiracy theorists went into overdrive after spotting a ‘mysterious plume of smoke’ near a dormant Martian volcano, with many claiming this as proof that alien life exists on the red planet and we’re being lied to here on Earth.
Allegations of a NASA-led cover up spread like wildfire online, with popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel secureteam10 producing an eight-minute long exposé entitled, ‘Something MAJOR Happened On Mars.. Are They Hiding It?’
"There was an explosion – I don't know whether it was a volcano or something detonated," Tyler Glockner of secureteam10 told his audience, during a video which has amassed almost 390,000 views since publication on October 20.
One commenter on the video drew upon his welding experience to lay bare the terraforming operations already underway on Mars, citing craters formed by lightning strikes as evidence of alien technology reshaping the planet’s atmosphere. “Too many coincidences here to ignore any more. NASA needs to stop being the police of the scientific community.”
“NASA is a BS agency, staffed by self-sanctimonious liars. Mars is a living planet, as anyone who has studied Mars for the last 50 years [knows],” another commenter agreed.
This secureteam10 video was then picked up by a British tabloid, which fanned the conspiratorial flames while connecting the disparate dots of NASA’s clever ruse: the Mars Curiosity Rover suffered a mysterious glitch, rendering it offline for months after a huge dust storm in late Spring; the Hubble and Chandra telescopes were recently put in “safe mode” allowing for only basic functionality; and NASA was conspicuously silent about the 2,000km-long plume of smoke stretching across Martian skies. Wake up, sheeple!
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Reddit was also abuzz, though the comments were more climatological than conspiratorial, discussing atmospheric conditions that might lead to such cloud formations. To spoil the fun and settle the debate, RT.com contacted the ESA for an explanation of the contentious images of the red planet.
“No ground or space based observations of Mars or its atmosphere have produced any credible evidence for active volcanism occurring in the present day or recent history,” party-pooper and planetary scientist Elliot Sefton-Nash, who works on several ESA projects including Mars Sample Return, ExoMars and Mars Express, told RT.com.
“Observations made on 24th September by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a cloud oriented approximately east-west and around ~2,000km long, as well as the shadow that it cast onto the Martian surface below.”
“Clouds are known to form seasonally in this region, and are associated with the volcanoes because their topography influences atmospheric conditions,” he continues. “This is a well documented phenomenon and several scientific articles exist documenting and explaining the process and highlight the seasonal regularity of the occurrence in this region.”
For comparison, Sefton-Nash highlighted a very similar cloud caused by these topographical forces at Arsia Mons, observed in 2015 (in higher resolution) by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission.
Right now, the ESA is concentrating on Mercury, which is posing some interesting questions about the formation of our Solar System.
"We have a problem with #Mercury..." because it’s falling out of our overall understanding of the Solar System. We don't understand how such a planet could have formed and evolved, so we not only need to send outstanding instruments there: we send a full laboratory #BepiColombo
Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased
Something Big Is Coming! NASA's Planetary Defense Budget Suddenly Increased
Recent developments at NASA have revealed that the proposed budget for NASA’s Planetary Defense Coordination office (PDCO) has increased by 90 million dollars.
Our current political climate consists of a budget that is stretched to its’ maximum. This fact about the current budget makes this significant increase for the PDCO a strange occurrence. The PDCO is only two years old and oversees finding near-Earth objects such as asteroids that could cause harm to the planet. The PDCO is important because one hit from an asteroid could significantly damage Earth and its’ inhabitants. In years past, NASA has consistently stated that there is no serious threat. This significant increase in the budget brings into question this assumption.
Humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event
A recent Politico article stated that the Trump administration increased the PDCO budget because humanity is unprepared for a catastrophic event, such as an asteroid impact. The significant increase is, according to the Trump administration, a defensive measure rather than a reaction to an imminent threat.
According to NASA, there are more than 25,000 asteroids near us of 140 meters in size at a minimum. Additionally, there are plenty of other near-Earth objects that could be a threat to our planet. The PDCO has stated that it plans to be prepared in case an object is threatening.
Russia: Asteroid will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s
The asteroid Apophis was discovered on June 19, 2004.
NASA has insisted there is no current threat to be worried about. The PDCO states that such an event would, however, be devastating, and that preparation is vital to ward off an attack or to prepare government agencies and the public if such a threat cannot be stopped. For example, the head of the Russian space agency has recently stated that a large asteroid named Apophis will surely hit Earth sometime in the 2030s. The PDCO recognizes this and asserts that now is the time to either stop this asteroid from hitting Earth, or to be prepared when it does.
Does the shutdown of multiple satellite telescopes and earthbound telescopes have anything to do with the sudden increase in budget? Do they want to protect humanity from something we don't know yet? Or is this a normal increase because you want gold-plated toillets?
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