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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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...
22-12-2018
Beautiful infrared photo of Saturn like you have never seen it before. UFO Sighting News.
Beautiful infrared photo of Saturn like you have never seen it before. UFO Sighting News.
Here is an amazing photo I found in the NASA index of Saturn. Its an unaltered perfect view of the infrared light hitting Saturn from the sun. The sun produces lots of infrared...thus the shadow behind Saturn, however the human eye cannot see in the infrared spectrum, so only with cameras with special filters can we get these amazing shots. Also IR cameras are great for hunting UFOs in our skies. The infrared filter makes day time hunting easy because anything cloaked from our eyes will be visible in the infrared spectrum. Such a beautiful photo of Saturn. Scott C. Waring
UFO over Australia produces small drones seeding our planet with them on night vision, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO over Australia produces small drones seeding our planet with them on night vision, Dec 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Dec 21, 2018 Location of sighting: Melbourne, Australia This UFO was caught by Youtube UFO Lou who was using a night vision camera. Something that everyone seemed to miss about the video is that it is dropping seeds. What I mean is that at 50 seconds into the video I notice this UFO starts dropping smaller drones across our planet. Its also being protected by a smaller drone that is flying in front of the main UFO. Cool catch. I haven't seen a UFO seeding in a long time. About ten years ago there was a video of a daytime sighting of a UFO large metal orb dropping out similar size orbs over Tokyo, I will include the 2010 video below. Scott C. Waring Eyewitness states:
I've yet to confirm what this could be. Here are the ISS Melbourne flyover times - ISS Melbourne Flyover 22.12.2018 -3.3 (mag) 04.16 - 0420
NASA WEIGERT VERKLARING TE GEVEN VOOR VREEMD OBJECT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
NASA WEIGERT VERKLARING TE GEVEN VOOR VREEMD OBJECT NABIJ DE ZON ( VIDEO )
De afgelopen paar jaar is er via de NASA telescopen al meer dan 50 keer een vreemd object te zien geweest nabij de zon.
Het lijkt op een enorme engel met gespreide armen en ondanks de vele vragen, komt er geen officiële uitleg over wat dit zou kunnen zijn en nu verschijnt het opnieuw.
Er doet zich een vreemd verschijnsel voor in de buurt van onze zon. Een verschijnsel dat regelmatig terugkeert en waar nooit geen officiële verklaring voor is gegeven door NASA.
Het is een object dat regelmatig op afbeeldingen van de NASA ruimtetelescopen verschijnt en eruit ziet als een soort engel met gespreide armen.
Voor de één is het een gigantisch groot moederschip dat regelmatig de zon bezoekt om bijvoorbeeld energie te tanken enanderen denken weer in een heel andere richting. Het zal niemand verbazen dat dit de mening is van ufoloog Scott Waring en ondanks dat NASA weigert om antwoord te geven op de vraag wat dit zou kunnen zijn, waagt Scott opnieuw een poging.
Voor anderen vertoont het veel overeenkomsten met de afbeeldingen van een gevleugelde planeet zoals die voorkomen op de Sumerische kleitabletten.
Ook in april van dit jaar verscheen hetzelfde object en toen schreven wij daarover onder andere het volgende:
Enkele dagen geleden verscheen de volgende afbeelding op de SOHO ruimtetelescoop van NASA. Iets dat heel erg lijkt op een gevleugelde planeet.
Wat opvalt in de laatste foto is dat de rode planeet Nibiru er inderdaad uitziet als een soort gevleugelde planeet. Volgens sommige onderzoekers worden deze “vleugels” veroorzaakt door de magnetosfeer van onze zon, waardoor de passage van Nibiru in de oudheid werd omschreven als een monsterlijke rode vuurbol die het pad van een komeet volgt. De gevleugelde planeet, tevens de thuisbasis van onze verre voorouders.
Een vreemd regelmatig terugkerend object dat eruit ziet zoals onze verre voorouders de planeet Nibiru uitbeeldden en NASA die weigert om enige uitleg te geven.
Wanneer die uitleg dan misschien toch ooit komt, dan zal het waarschijnlijk worden verklaard als een "technisch mankement" aan de camera.
There are some stories that just scream “Wait, what?” This is one of them. A high school biohacker in France claims he created a DNA sequence out of passages from the Bible and the Koran, converted them into previously unknown proteins and injected himself with them. Did he break any commandments?
A biohacker injected himself with DNA sequence made from Bible and Koran verses
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“Since it is possible to convert digital information into DNA, I wondered whether it would be possible to convert a religious text into DNA and to inject it in a living being. It is the first time that someone injects himself [with] macromolecules developed from a text. It is very symbolic even if it does not have much interest.”
Not much interest? Adrien Locatelli of Grenoble, France, has the Internet’s attention with his self-published paper on what has to be the most creative, if not dangerous, experiment of the year. DNA code is represented by a linear, non-overlapping sequence of the nitrogenous bases Adenine (A), Guanine (G), Cytosine (C) and Thymine (T). The four letters are used to create three-letter words strung together to represent a single amino acid in a polypeptide chain. Locatelli claims he created a new DNA sequence using letters he got from the Bible and the Koran.
How? He started at the beginning – Genesis. Locatelli claims he replaced every character in the Hebrew Book of Genesis with a word using the characters AGCT (there are 64 possible combinations). He says he left out Genesis 2:10-14, 5, and 7:1-5 because they were “controversial.” (Genesis 2:10-14 mentions the unknown rivers Pishon and Gihon; Genesis 5 is the family tree from Adam to Noah; and Genesis 7:1-5 is the story of Noah building an ark.) Locatelli then did the same thing with the Arabic letters from the 13th chapter from the Koran, the Surah Ar-Ra’d.
With this new DNA sequence, Locatelli says he used a home gene engineering kit (possibly like this one) to edit the DNA provided into the new proteins (it’s not clear if he created two or one), then inject the proteins into his legs. And the results? Did he see God? Adam? Noah?
“The subcutaneous injection of the vector VB180513-1026kbp in my left thigh only caused at the injection site a minorinflammation which persisted a few day and the subcutaneous injection of the peptide RS27 12-16 in my right thigh provoked nothing.”
Despite that, even with the religious overtones, experts and Internet commenters give Locatelli’s strange experiment a big “Kids – for God’s sake — DON’T try this at home.” Did he take a huge risk? Definitely. Did he break any commandments by taking God’s name in vein? Probably not. (Hopefully that pun doesn’t either.) Did he break any laws of nature? Well, he’s still here.
Will he win the award for the Dumbest Thing Anybody Did in 2018? He’s definitely in the running.
China and Russia are working together to create something similar to the officially-released purpose of the American High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP). Five experiments launched in June with the purpose of modifying the ionosphere above the Earth for both communication and military purposes. They were able to modify a zone more than 310 mile above a small Russian town in Eastern Europe called Vasilsursk, according to Chinese media. During the modification, the small town experienced an electric spike, which carried 10 times more negatively-charged subatomic particles than other regions.
A second experiment heated that portion of the atmosphere – a portion roughly half the size of Great Britain – more than 200 degrees Fahrenheit, due to particle flux. Those particles were shot into the ionosphere from a Soviet-Era atmospheric heating station in the small town called Sura. It was also utilized during the Cold War. This was done by an array of high-power antennae designed to spike the higher levels of the atmosphere with a large amount of microwave radiation. According to the Chinese report, the peak power of these waves was 260 megawatts, which is enough juice to light a small city.
China, which does not make a habit of working on new technology and military projects with other foreign powers, declared the results of the experiment were “satisfactory.” Measurements of it were taken by an orbiting Chinese electromagnetic surveillance satellite called Zhangheng-1. It was able to switch to a “burst mode” to collect data samples every half-second. This was to ensure the data had a high resolution.
While this experiment has raised a lot of controversy, the facility from which it was launched was built in 1981 for this expressed purpose. Control of the ionosphere and for clandestine communications and detection of things ranging from submarines to natural resources, according to a Popular Mechanics article, which called the Chinese chase for a HAARP of their own a chase for weapons instead of science.
High-energy microwaves, such as those recently discharged by Russia and China in Russia allow the controller to manipulate communications. The Soviets used it to enhance submarine communication, the Americans were accused of using it for everything from manufactured earthquakes and tsunamis to weather manipulation – but these claims have been heavily disputed by official sources as “conspiracy theories.” In reality, they can penetrate ground or water as deep as 328 feet and even disrupt satellite communication.
HAARP was likely built by the Americans for the purpose of submarine and satellite communications when it was constructed in the 1990s in Alaska. It was able to produce about one gigawatt of power, which is four times more than the Sura experiment in June.
Not to be outdone, however, China is building its own – and much bigger – facility in Sanya inside the Hainan Province. Critics of this believe such a facility will be disruptive to international air travel from China, Malaysia, the Philippines, Vietnam, and other nations flying over that city.
Tales of what have become known as the Black Eyed Childrenhave now been circulating for a couple of decades. The witnesses are many. The cases are creepy and bizarre. But, it’s fair to say that we still don’t have a solid answer as to what they are or what they want. So, today I’m focusing on the extraterrestrial/UFO theory. It’s worth noting an intriguing UFO connection to the very strange saga of the Black Eyed Children: they have deep parallels to the notorious Men in Black, who have, for decades, terrorized and intimidated into silence numerous witnesses to UFOs. Just like the BECs, the Men in Black have a propensity for knocking on doors late at night. The two mirror each other in other fashions, too: like their child counterparts, the MIB will not enter a home until they are specifically invited to do so (shades of vampire lore, legend and very often movies). Both the MIB and the BEC wear black. Both wear head-gear: hoodies for the Black Eyed Children, and 1950s-era fedoras for the MIB. And there is another intriguing issue: very often the Men in Black wear thick, wraparound, black sunglasses.
I have to wonder if this MIB/sunglasses angle is done not just to provoke a menacing atmosphere, but to mask a pair of emotion-free, solid, black eyes of the type that the Black Eyed Children are described as having. In that sense, and just perhaps, the Men in Black and the Black Eyed Children are one and the same: one in adult form and the other in child form, but both following the same secret agenda – whatever that may really be. So, where does that all leave us? Well, it admittedly leaves us with a lot of questions and not a great deal else. But they are questions that a certain, acclaimed and dedicated researcher of the Black Eyed has done his very best to resolve.
Undoubtedly the leading investigator in this field, and the author of the book, The Black Eyed Children, David Weatherlyhas collected and studied dozens of such cases, demonstrating the sheer scale of these weird and unsettling events. David’s work has addressed a variety of theories for the origins and presence of the BECs: that they might be demonic in nature, or predatory spirits, or possibly even products of the human mind, given some semblance of physical life in the real world. Notably, David has also spent much time researching the theory that the Black Eyed Children have nothing less than an alien lineage. David cites the case of two women, Ann and Marcia, who have both had alien abduction experiences and who have also both encountered the BECs – and, in Marcia’s case, in the now-typical “knocking on the door and demanding to be let in” situation.
Of strange cases such as these, David says: “Why would an alien race want, or need, to create hybrid beings? There are a number of proposed theories to explain why such an experiment may be taking place. These theories range from a dying race that needs an injection of fresh DNA in order to survive, to time travelers attempting to correct a mistake made in their past (which is our present).”
I will leave the final words on this issue UFO-Black Eyed Children controversy to David. They are words that fit comfortably with what we have seen so far: “An even more sinister theory that has followers, postulates that the grays are actually attempting to take over our world by slowly breeding us out and phasing in beings with alien DNA. Over time the human race will fade away to be replaced by the ‘superior’ DNA of the gray aliens, adherents say.”
UFO or Drone shut down Gatwick Airport London - 750 flights being cancelled
UFO or Drone shut down Gatwick Airport London - 750 flights being cancelled
Complete chaos at Gatwick Airport in London since a Drone/UFO flown over the airport. The military have been deployed in the hope of bringing an end to the drone/UFO chaos at Gatwick airport.
One passenger took a video showing what appears to be the Unidentified Flying Object at the airport.
Gatwick airport has been closed since Wednesday night when an unidentified flying object repeatedly flown over the airfield.
Despite several methods they were unable to localize the source from where the unknown flying object came from.
Even they brought in snipers, hight-tech jammers, tracking devices to catch up signals, laser-laded drones to find the source but till now without success which leads to the question whether it is indeed a Drone or could it be a UFO?
The mystery enters the third day (Friday) and still they cannot solve the Drone/UFO incident. The airport remains closed and the chaos is complete. Tens of thousands of travelers have been affected after 750 flights being cancelled.
Update:
Gatwick drone/UFO chaos: Source drone/UFO not yet found but flights resume as airport reopens.
Here is a figure I found int the Carina Nebula. Its a appears male with its short hair and rugged facial features. Its wearing a rob that has a high collar and long sleeves. Its holding up a hand with a single finger sticking up...perhaps giving the bird to the rest of the universe or maybe its a message less angry, like a come hither and meet us finger, or even a...we originated from that planet pointing finger. Whatever its doing, one thing is clear, it was made by a type 5 civilization. If you look carefully at the back of the person, you will see the many creases of the robe he is wearing.
Ever wanted to send a message out into space to aliens? I have...using some three different giant radio telescopes in different parts of the world. My four books and dozens of letters are now shooting across the universe at the speed of light. But that was about 5 years ago, the radio telescopes no longer do that for people. But the aliens that made this are sending a message to the rest of the universe with something so incredibly big that they would have to literally be blind not to notice it...or in early stages of evolution.
Do you remember I was talking about different civilization levels last week? Humanity still has not reached a type 1 civilization level yet, but what we are looking at is an alien figure in a nebula made by a type 5 civilization...which can manipulate space and time, basically, godly in every way.
Triangle UFO filmed over Warren, Michigan 20-Dec-2018
Triangle UFO filmed over Warren, Michigan 20-Dec-2018
This interesting footage of a triangular-shaped UFO was filmed over Warren, MI on 20th December 2018.
Witness report:
Witnessed a slow moving hovering triangular craft with 3 distinct lights at each corner and a red bliinking light in the center. Driving south on Hoover road just south of 11 mile service drive when i witnessed a craft moving slowly in the sky; at first i thought this was a helicopter because of how slow it was moving through the sky. As it hovered slowly i stopped my car and took out my phone to video record what i was actually seeing. It was NOT a helicopter, did not hear any noise. It wasnt fast like a passenger aircraft. At hoover road it appeared to have changed direction and the craft flew towards the western sky. The direction change wasnt sudden or onset. The flight path of the object seemed to match the paths of other jets landing at Detroit Metro Airport but i can say for certain this was not a plane. Look at the video, it’s dark, yes, but you can see that it does not appear to be a plane. This is my second time witnessing a flying triangular craft. The first one was witnessed in Birmingham, MI.
ORIGIN STORY The frigid and radiation-rich conditions in stellar nurseries like the Eagle Nebula, shown here in an image from the European Space Agency’s Herschel Space Telescope, could have created the sugar that makes up DNA.
For the first time, scientists have made 2-deoxyribose, the sugar that makes up the backbone of DNA, under cosmic conditions in the lab by blasting ice with radiation. The result, reported December 18 in Nature Communications, suggests that there are several ways for prebiotic chemistry to take place in space, and supports the idea that the stuff of life could have been delivered to Earth from elsewhere.
“It tells us that this process happens everywhere, at least in our galaxy,” says astrochemist Michel Nuevo of NASA’s Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif.
Nuevo and his colleagues cooled ices of frozen water and methanol to about –260° Celsius inside a vacuum chamber and blasted the ice with ultraviolet light, mimicking the conditions found in interstellar clouds. Warming the irradiated ices simulated what happens when a young star is born. After analyzing the ice’s contents, the team identified 2-deoxyribose, as well as several other kinds of sugars made in similar experiments in the past (SN: 4/30/16, p. 18).
Experiments that had made ribose, the sugar of RNA, suggested that the sugars could be built up from reactions involving the simple molecule formaldehyde, which has been found in comets (SN Online: 10/23/14). But those reactions always lead to sugars with more oxygen molecules than deoxyribose has, Nuevo says. “The fact that we made deoxyribose points to another kind of mechanism.”
Nuevo and his colleagues also found simple deoxy sugars in meteorite samples, but not deoxyribose. That could suggest that, although deoxyribose can form in ices that predate stars, the sugar is not stable in the rocks that ultimately form planets.
Two ongoing asteroid missions might be able to help figure out why. Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission (SN Online: 6/27/18) and NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission (SN Online: 12/10/18) will bring samples back to Earth, where scientists can search them for signs of deoxyribose and other biologically important molecules.
After reports about Ireland UFO sighting, a passenger plane encounters a bright flying object above San Francisco.
Conspiracy theorists think that the glowing unidentified flying object observed in the skies of San Francisco is substantial evidence of extraterrestrial life.
Just a few days after three pilots reported observing a UFO in the skies above Ireland, a passenger airplane has now seemingly spotted a mysterious flying object over San Francisco.
YouTube user Joel Cardoso originally uploaded the clip of the strange sighting to YouTube and the video gained popularity after conspiracy theory YouTube channel Mavi777 shared it.
The video shows a glowing orb hovering in the skies and staying static throughout the running time of the clip. The witness who took the video claimed that it was shot during the journey from Miami to California.
However, experts argue that the UFO in the video could be either reflection from the airplane window or ball lightning.
Extraterrestrial enthusiasts were into a frenzy a few days back when three pilots reported their UFO sightings while in contact with the Shannon Air Traffic Control.
A female British pilot first reported the bizarre event involving a speeding UFO that came up along the left side of the airplane before it quickly moved to the North.
Another pilot claimed to have witnessed somewhat the same thing stating that the UFO was speeding at twice the speed of sound.
The Newest Mars Base Concept Is a Giant Igloo at the Martian North Pole
The Newest Mars Base Concept Is a Giant Igloo at the Martian North Pole
A team of scientists at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne outline plans for a nine-month surface mission to the Martian North.
Image: EPFL
The dream of establishing a human colony on Mars goes back decades, and it will likely be at least many more decades before anything comes to fruition. But the immense technical challenge presented by human exploration of Mars has not deterred scientists from sketching out optimal strategies for long-term habitation on the Red Planet.
The latest iteration of the long tradition of speculative Mars bases is now in development at the Swiss university École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). This concept focuses on constructing an igloo-like structure at the planet’s north pole. Forthcoming research in Acta Astronautica led by Anne-Marlene Rüede, a student at EPFL’s Space Engineering Center (eSpace), describes how ice and dust at Mars’s poles could be harvested to supply water, fuel, and building materials for a future base.
“The poles may pose more challenges in the beginning, but they are the best location for the long term since they harbor natural resources that we may be able to use,” said Rüede in a statement.
The modular structures of the EPFL design—a core, capsules, and a dome—would be constructed in advance by robots from onsite materials. The pressure-sealed dome would be coated in an ice shell three-meters thick for insulation and protection from radiation and meteorite impacts, which are common on the Martian surface.
Image: EPFL
Once living spaces and life support systems are in place, the EPFL team envisions a six-person human crew voyaging to the planet during the six-month-long Martian northern summer, when sunlight is abundant for solar power production (the Martian calendar has longer seasons than Earth’s calendar, because the Martian year lasts 687 Earth days).
The crew would spend around nine months further developing the artificial habitat. Some supplies would have to be sent from Earth, and would be intercepted in Mars orbit by a local base spacecraft fueled by Martian resources.
Much like Lockheed Martin’s Mars Base Camp design or SpaceX’s Mars colony concept, the EPFL habitat aims to anticipate the best procedures to establish a long-term human presence on Mars. Whether any of these concepts will ultimately get road-tested on Mars remains up in the air, however, so don’t get too attached to the idea of kickin’ it like some Martian Santa Claus in an igloo at the planet’s north pole.
The true identity of Arabia Terra’s dark, oasis-like patches.
This morning, the European Space Agency (ESA) releaseda fascinating satellite imageof Mars, taken by the agency's Mars Express orbiter. It depicts the planet's Arabia Terra region, which may ring a bell with fans of Andy Weir's The Martian.
This densely cratered tract of land, which isabout 4,500 kilometers wide, made for a handy plot device in Weir's novel. Now the ESA picture demonstrates that its literary cred is far from the only interesting thing about it.
For instance, take the two bluish patches located in Arabia Terra's craters which, at first glance, look almost like water-rich oases in the Martian desert. Alas, this is only a mirage effect of the orbiter's perspective and image processing—in reality, the spots are windswept accumulations of dark, basalt-rich sediments. These minerals are deposited into the craters by the planet's colossal dust storms, which can enshroud the entire planet for weeks at a time, kicking up massive amounts of debris and eroding Martian surface features.
Arabia Terra is a great place to study the geological fallouts of these stormy ragers, because it is among the most ancient regions on the planet. Billions of years of cumulative dust erosion and sedimentary deposits are laid bare across this battered landscape, providing a comprehensive window into Arabia Terra's tumultuous past.
Wider view of the Mars Express image of Arabia Terra.
The region's more recent craters—like the one created by a meteorite impact about 12 years ago—boast sharper edges than older impact scars that have been sanded down over time. This diverse collection of young and old surface features distinguishes Arabia Terra as one of the most geologically distinct regions on Mars.
According to a 2007 paper published in the journal Icarus, Arabia Terra boasts mysterious outflow channels with no obvious origins, and evidence of a rich paleotectonic history, while more recent studies suggest it was home to supervolcanoessome 3.7 billion years ago, further upping the region's mystique. In short: Arabia Terra is a bizarre jumble of geological oddities that contextualize Mars's past in ways that few other regions can.
As weird as the area is, however, images like this one from Mars Express hit home that alien worlds are subject to much of the same natural processes as Earth, just with altered parameters. Indeed, Mars isn't the only extraterrestrial environment that has been visibly shaped by winds and storms—Saturn's moon Titan is also sculpted by these processes.
While neither of these worlds are hospitable to humans (for now), the fact that scientists continue to observe familiar phenomena in our own solar system bodes well for finding Earthlike environments elsewhere in the universe.
And though at this point, only fictional astronauts have visited Arabia Terra, that may soon change given NASA's recent ambitious commitments to putting a human on Mars in the 2030s. The region is tantalizing enough from the Mars Express's perspective in outer space. Perhaps it's time we took a closer look.
The Martian North Pole Is a 'Winter Wonderland' Right Now, New Photo Shows
The Martian North Pole Is a 'Winter Wonderland' Right Now, New Photo Shows
Korolev crater contains a permanent ice field that stretches over a mile deep.
Mars Express image of Korolev crater.
Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The Mars Express orbiter has sent a festive postcard back to Earth just in time for the holidays. On Thursday, the European Space Agency (ESA)released the spacecraft’s viewof a “winter wonderland” of ice inside Korolev crater.
The crater is located at the Martian north pole, so it may as well be the imaginary headquarters for the Martian Santa Claus. It may also be a not-so-imaginary home for humans one day, asigloo-like domes at the Martian north polehave been floated as one possibility for inhabiting the planet.
The image is especially timely because Mars Express will celebrate its 15th anniversary in Martian orbit on Christmas Day.
Named for the influential Soviet rocket engineer Sergey Korolev, the impact crater is 82 kilometers (50 miles) in diameter and contains a permanent ice field that stretches over a mile deep. Mars Express captured its view with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), creating a composite image out of five orbital passes over the region.
Korolev crater was also recently imaged by the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which is jointly operated by ESA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
Topography of Korolev crater.
Image: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin
The TGO’s Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) instrument captured a topographical view of the formation on April 4, which shows the slope of the crater in blues and purples.
The ice field is chilled by a “cold trap” of air that insulates the crater and keeps it perennially filled with frozen water. It would be a great place to go for a skate, so long as you don’t mind low gravity, unbreathable air, and high doses of radiation.
Cool crater portraits aren’t the only seasonal gifts we’re getting from our Martian robots this week. NASA also announced that its InSight lander, which touched down on Mars on November 26, successfully placed its seismometer on the surface with its robotic arm on Wednesday.
InSight’s seismometer on the Martian surface, December 19, 2018.
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
This marked the first time that a seismometer has been placed on an alien world. This instrument is designed to pick up “Marsquakes” caused by geological faults or asteroid impacts, like the one that formed Korolev crater.
"InSight's timetable of activities on Mars has gone better than we hoped," said InSight project manager Tom Hoffman in a statement. "Getting the seismometer safely on the ground is an awesome Christmas present."
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET De Amerikaanse Marssonde InSight heeft een eerste meetinstrument op de bodem van de rode planeet neergezet. Dat heeft het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartbureau NASA vandaag meegedeeld.
Een robotarm van de stationaire lander zette op zowat 1,6 meter afstand van de sonde een seismograaf neer. Die moet “Marsbevingen” meten, wat meer moet leren over het binnenste van onze buurplaneet.
Er dient nog een en ander te gebeuren vooraleer de metingen echt kunnen beginnen. Van zodra alles volgens plan verloopt, kan eind januari een tweede instrument in positie worden gebracht, zegt de NASA.
De 360 kilo wegende InSight is op 26 november geland. De Koninklijke Belgische Sterrenwacht neemt deel aan het onderzoek.
SEIS Deployed on Mars: NASA's InSight lander placed its seismometer on Mars on Dec. 19, 2018. This was the first time a science instrument had ever been placed onto the surface of another planet. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Full image and caption ›
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Whew – winding down after a long day, but I’ve done it: I’ve placed my seismometer on the surface of Mars! With SEIS, I’ll be able to listen in for marsquakes and help reveal the heartbeat of #Mars. http://go.nasa.gov/2QGBeYX
The curse of the pharaohs is an alleged spell said to be cast upon any person who disturbs the mummy of a powerful Egyptian. This curse, which apparently does not differentiate between thieves and archaeologists, is said to cause bad luck, illness or even death. Since the mid-20th century, many historians have even argued the curse is real, due to the unexplainable circumstances that occur after the ancient coffin.
Soon after the discovery mysterious deaths were reported among the team of archaeologists
Netflix’s Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries
For many years, pharaohs were buried in the Valley of the Kings on the banks of the River Nile in Egypt, with 64 tombs already opened.
However, Netflix documentary series "Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries" series revealed how one discovery left researchers both baffled and terrified.
“The famous tomb of Tutankhamun was discovered in 1922,” the 2017 documentary detailed.
“Soon after the discovery, mysterious deaths were reported among the team of archaeologists who found the tomb.
“The deaths were ascribed to a curse cast by the pharaohs to ward off grave-robbers.
The tomb of Tutankhamun being extracted
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Tutankhamun was discovered in 1920
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The Valley of the Kings has uncovered 64 tombs to date
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“Most of the deaths can be explained medically, however, of the 12 people present during the opening of the sarcophagus, six died mysteriously within a few months.”
Today, archaeologists wear protective masks when entering such resting places.
They are aware that bacteria active in the decomposed organic material can enter open wounds and spread infection.
However, not all deaths can be accredited to this, in addition to the bizarre experiences some researchers still have following the openings.
Some have detailed how they experienced very vivid dreams, claiming to be “haunted” by the mummies they apparently disturbed.
Egyptische vloek? Zes archeologen sterven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden na openen sarcofaag
Egyptische vloek? Zes archeologen sterven onder mysterieuze omstandigheden na openen sarcofaag
Zes archeologen zijn op mysterieuze wijze om het leven gekomen kort nadat ze een oude Egyptische grafkist hadden geopend, zo blijkt uit een documentaire die op Netflix te zien is.
De vloek van de farao is het volksgeloof dat beweert dat diegene die het graf van een farao opent, hiervoor gestraft zal worden.
In graven van vooral de koningen van het Oude Rijk zijn inscripties gevonden die verwijzen naar het afschuwelijke lot dat grafschenders zou treffen bij betreding van de tombes.
Onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen
De vloek zou leiden tot pech, ziekte of zelfs sterfte.
Al sinds halverwege de 20e eeuw zeggen historici dat de vloek echt bestaat. Ze verwijzen naar onverklaarbare gebeurtenissen die soms plaatsvinden nadat tombes worden geopend.
Jarenlang werden farao’s begraven in de Vallei der Koningen aan de Nijl, waar inmiddels 64 tombes geopend zijn.
Toetanchamon
De documentaire ‘Top 10 Secrets and Mysteries’ onthult wat er gebeurde nadat één zo’n tombe werd geopend.
De tombe van Toetanchamon werd in 1922 ontdekt. Kort na de ontdekking werden er mysterieuze sterftegevallen gemeld onder archeologen die de tombe hadden gevonden.
Zeer levendige dromen
Van de 12 mensen die aanwezig waren bij de opening van de sarcofaag, stierven er zes binnen enkele maanden onder mysterieuze omstandigheden.
Sommige onderzoekers maakten na het openen van tombes melding van zeer levendige dromen waarin ze achterna werden gezeten door de mummies die ze hadden gevonden.
Pentagon weet allereerste audit niet te doorstaan, kan 21 biljoen dollar aan uitgaven niet verantwoorden. Wat is er met al dit geld gebeurd?
Pentagon weet allereerste audit niet te doorstaan, kan 21 biljoen dollar aan uitgaven niet verantwoorden. Wat is er met al dit geld gebeurd?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, die op 3 januari aantreedt als jongste vrouwelijke congreslid ooit, kreeg de grote media over zich heen nadat ze op Twitter had geschreven dat het Pentagon 21 biljoen (ja, biljoen) dollar aan uitgaven niet kan verantwoorden.
Alleen al in 2015 lijkt een bedrag van 6,5 biljoen dollar in rook te zijn opgegaan.
Meer dan 16.000 documenten waarin iets zou kunnen staan over de bestemming van al dat geld, waren ‘verwijderd’.
Zwegen in alle toonaarden
Econoom Mark Skidmore kwam tot de ontdekking dat heel, heel, heel veel geld bij het Pentagon in een zwart gat lijkt te belanden en schreef er een artikel over voor Forbes.
Het artikel ging viral, maar het Amerikaanse Congres en de overige mainstream media zwegen in alle toonaarden.
Iets opvallends
Enkele weken geleden gebeurde er iets opvallends. Tijdens een persconferentie in het Pentagon merkte onderminister van Defensie Patrick Shanahan terloops op dat het Pentagon zijn allereerste audit niet heeft doorstaan.
Het was voor het eerst dat het Pentagon werd onderworpen aan een audit, hoewel dit eigenlijk al sinds de jaren negentig wettelijk verplicht is.
Opnieuw bleef het oorverdovend stil. Pas twee weken na de persconferentie schreef de New York Times er iets over.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez✔@Ocasio2018
$21 TRILLION of Pentagon financial transactions “could not be traced, documented, or explained.”
$21T in Pentagon accounting errors. Medicare for All costs ~$32T.
That means 66% of Medicare for All could have been funded already by the Pentagon.
And that’s before our premiums.
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Medicare for All: But how will we pay for it?
Military: We actually have no idea what we’re even paying for
Donald Trump may have launched US Space Force army after learning about America’s UFO secrets, expert claims EXCLUSIVE
Donald Trump may have launched US Space Force army after learning about America’s UFO secrets, expert claims
EXCLUSIVE
By Emma Parry, Digital US Correspondent
PRESIDENT Donald Trump must know America’s UFO secrets - and it may have contributed to his plans for a military Space Force, according to a defence insider.
Nick Pope, who used to run the Ministry of Defence’s UFO project, said it would be “nonsense” to suggest the President is being kept in the dark about potential UFO threats, as some conspiracy theorists believe.
Donald Trump must know about America's UFO secrets, according to Nick Pope
Pope - often dubbed the real-life Fox Mulder for his official UFO research - says Trump must know about the Pentagon’s secret UFO research project - AATIP (Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program), which was uncovered earlier this year.
He will be aware that the influential US Armed Services Committee has been investigating the money spent on the shadowy AATIP project, according to Pope.
Trump will also know that a Senate committee is currently investigating a 2004 incident in which US Navy pilots chased and filmed an unidentifiable white “tic-tac” shaped object which travelled at “balistic missile speed” off the coast of Mexico, Pope said.
Pope believes that this knowledge may have contributed towards the president's plans to create a Space Force, a new military branch dedicated to fighting wars in space.
The Space Force is due to be created by 2020, and has been championed by Trump, who tweeted in August: "Space Force all the way!"
Pope used to run the MoD's UFO programme which was axed in 2009
Pope told Sun Online: “There are conspiracy theories suggesting President Trump's plans for a Space Force reflect a need to protect Earth against hostile aliens. There were similar conspiracy theories about President Reagan's Star Wars plan.
“While there may not be an alien connection, President Trump surely knows all of America's UFO secrets - some of which were released earlier this year as part of the AATIP project - and this may have contributed to his keenness to develop a military Space Force.
“And of course he knows that the two key battlespaces in any future conflict are going to be cyberspace and outer space, so it's vitally important for the US to dominate those battlespaces.
US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
US Navy pilots chased and filmed an unidentifiable white “tic-tac” shaped object in 2004
“In the 2016 Presidential campaign both Hillary Clinton and her campaign chairman John Podesta made some fairly strong 'pro-UFO' statements, but we don't know what President Trump knows or thinks about the issue.
“He'll know that the House Armed Services Committee is taking an interest in the Pentagon's AATIP project, which looked at the UFO phenomenon, and he'll know that the Senate Armed Services Committee is looking into the 2004 incident where US Navy pilots chased and filmed a UFO around the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz.
“But we don't know - for example - whether he supports the move to hold formal Congressional hearings on this.”
Pope says that despite the conspiracy theories it was unbelievable to think that Trump would not know about any UFO secrets the US may be keeping from the public.
And he even suggested that those conspiracy theorists currently waiting for full disclosure of the US government's extra-terrestrial knowledge
“Many people in the UFO community believe in a conspiracy so vast, shadowy and deep that even the president doesn't know,” he said.
“They use phrases like 'need to know' and 'plausible deniability' to suggest POTUS is out of the loop.
“This is nonsense. If the US had proof that aliens have visited Earth, the President would have to know, because in his role as Commander-in-Chief he might have to make immediate top-level strategic decisions, if the situation suddenly became hostile.
Many conspiracy theorist believe that even the US president wouldn't know if aliens had visited earth or not
“The President needs to know all the big, important things, as part of a culture of no surprises. If anyone in the military industrial complex is keeping UFO secrets from President Trump, or suggesting he keep quiet about things, they may be in for a rude awakening.
“He's a particularly forceful and strong-willed president, and won't take kindly to being kept in the dark or told how to play the UFO issue.
“The UFO community fantasize about 'Disclosure' - maybe President Trump will just Tweet it one evening.”
AP:ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donald Trump signing his Space Policy Directive calling on the Pentagon and Department of Defence to begin plans to set up a Space Force
Pope, who ran the UK’s now defunct UFO project from 1991 to 1994 said he hopes the president takes an interest in the issue - and would be happy to use his expertise to help him.
“I hope President Trump takes a personal interest in this and I'd be happy to get involved,” he said.
“The UK government axed its UFO project in 2009, so there's no current subject matter expert, but having done this job in the Nineties I'm happy to help in any presidential briefings and Congressional hearings, to explain what some of us in the MoD concluded about the threats and opportunities that arise from the UFO phenomenon, whatever its true nature.”
The Pentagon and US Department of Defence have been tasked with creating the new force to ensure what Trump called "American dominance" of space.
Trump said he wants to counter Russian and Chinese developments in space tech.
And he said he wants US agencies to "implement a state-of-the-art framework for space traffic management".
Announcing the decision on 18 June 2018, Trump said: "We are going to have the Air Force, but we are going to have the Space Force — separate but equal."
Vice President Mike Pence later said Space Force was needed to ensure America's dominance in space amid heightened competition and threats from China and Russia.
He added that while space was once peaceful and uncontested, it was now crowded and adversarial.
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