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...
12-01-2019
There May Be Creatures on This Planet More Intelligent Than Humans, Study Says
There May Be Creatures on This Planet More Intelligent Than Humans, Study Says
It has long been known that humans are very intelligent, often thought of as the most intelligent. However, could there be something far more intelligent that blows us humans out of the water? Quite a lot of people think the answer to that question is yes. What is it though?
What is more intelligent than humans?
A study from last year (2018) suggests that Dolphins are highly intelligent creatures, so much so that they may surpass human intelligence in some respects. One of those ways being self-awareness. The study used was a mirror-self recognition (MSR) test which basically consists of presenting a mirror to the test subject and seeing how long it takes them or it to recognize themselves.
When presented with a mirror, human infants aren’t usually able to recognize themselves until they are around 12 months old. Bottlenose dolphins, on the other hand, are able to recognize themselves at just seven months old. The experiment was done on both male and female dolphins to get a range of results.
They are capable of far more than anyone had ever realized. They are even able to create personalized whistles which can be seen as their equivalent of names for different members of their pod. They can solve problems as well as communicate with each other with no difficulty whatsoever. Some people actually believe we should treat them as people in a sense because of their high intellect.
What did the report say?
Here is a small extract from the report on the dolphins;
We exposed two young bottlenose dolphins to an underwater mirror and analyzed video recordings of their behavioral responses over a 3-year period. Here we report that both dolphins exhibited MSR, indicated by self-directed behavior at the mirror, at ages earlier than generally reported for children and at ages much earlier than reported for chimpanzees. The early onset of MSR in young dolphins occurs in parallel with their advanced sensorimotor development, complex and reciprocal social interactions, and growing social awareness. Both dolphins passed subsequent mark tests at ages comparable with children. Thus, our findings indicate that dolphins exhibit self-awareness at a mirror at a younger age than previously reported for children or other species tested.
Dolphins have both been here longer than us, and have much larger brains than us. We can learn a lot from these animals whether we seem them as our equals or not. They should be studied and tested further to see what they are really capable of. A TedEd talk video on dolphins can be seen below which explains how smart dolphins really are.
In my opinion, this is really exciting news! I don't think dolphins will be walking out of the water and taking over the human race anytime soon but I do believe there is more to them than we know and they should be treated as such.
What I don't understand is why does it make a turn like a plane, I mean UFOs don't have to do that as they have inertial dampeners or gravity nullifiers with that rotating like that is done because of the ailerons, this object is rotating to make a turn like a plane does and that's illogical, might be something from the Air force new type of plane with that.
Rovers on Mars today are amazing, but slow, and still mostly controlled by humans back on Earth. Europe is testing new self-driving software to help future Marsrovers travel faster and farther each day.
Engineers watch the progress of one of the test rovers in Morocco.
Image via ESA.
Despite the fact that landing on Mars is hard, robotic rovers and landers have now become a regular feature of Mars exploration. These advanced exploratory machines are sending back unprecedented information about this fascinating red world. One limitation, however, has been that rovers and landers are still, for the most part, controlled by human operators back on Earth. On December 18, 2018, the European Space Agency (ESA) announcedthe testing of software for new Mars rovers that’ll help make their future exploration more autonomous – “smarter” and more capable of making their own decisions, such as deciding where to go and how to get there – i.e. self-driving.
Three different rovers – Sherpa, Mana and Minnie – were tested at five locations at the Ibn Battuta Test Centrein Morocco, near Erfoud on the northern edge of the Sahara Desert, in December 2018. With more than 40 engineers involved, this was the end of the first phase of the Strategic Research Cluster on space robotics technologies, a scheme funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme.
As explained by Gianfranco Visentin, head of ESA’s Automation and Robotics section:
This is important for the future, when there will be many more rovers going to Mars and they’ll be moving hundreds of meters [yards] per day. There won’t be schools of analysts to scrutinize every image – intelligent rover systems will be needed to detect what is interesting and send it back to Earth.
Another view of the U.K.’s test rover Sherpa.
Image via Crown copyright.
The Mana and Minnie rovers, during the field test in Morocco in December 2018.
Image via ESA.
The research cluster is coordinated by the PERASPERA Ad Astra (Latin for “to the stars through hardships”) project, which is a partnership of Italy’s ASI space agency, France’s CNES space agency, the DLR German Aerospace Center, Spain’s CDTI technology agency and the U.K. Space Agency, UKSA, coordinated by ESA.
The wind-blown desert environment in Morocco was selected by the EU’s Europlanet Research Infrastructure as a good match for Mars, with its red, rocky and dusty terrain. The location has also been used by Hollywood and Chinese documentary makers. The Ibn Battuta Test Centre is named after the 14th century Islamic explorer of the same name.
A variety of new technologies were tested on the rovers, including data fusion systems, a plug-and-play sensor suite and an open-source operating system for robotic control. More specifically, according to a U.K. Government press release:
The ERGO Autonomy framework: The autonomy framework lets the rover make decisions by itself without the need for human intervention. These decisions could be about the path a rover needs to take to get to its destination. It also means the rover can make decisions about managing its resources, for example shutting down certain functions to conserve power. It will also give the rover the ability to investigate things it deems to be interesting, things which human operators might miss.
The INFUSE Data Fusion: Data fusion is about the fusing together of data from different sensors and sources in order to create useful information such as maps, which the rover can then use to navigate successfully across the difficult Martian landscape. The data will be provided by different types of camera, sensors, trackers and torches to give the rover a full understanding of the Martian world around it.
The I3DS Plug And Play Sensor Suite: The rover needs various sensors to enable it to see, perceive and understand the Martian world. Using a ‘plug-and-play’ approach means that sensors can be installed and removed easily according to the mission requirements. The Sensor suite also has a unique, built-in computer called an ICU (Integration Control Unit) that processes the signals from the sensors into information before passing that information to the Data Fusion system.
The ESROCOS Operating System: Robots need operating systems to function, just like your computer, tablet, phone or laptop at home. The operating system provides the low-level software and libraries required by the robot to undertake basic functions. It also provides the language and framework with which the other software (such as the ERGO Autonomy Framework and the INFUSE Data Fusion) must adhere in order to create a coherent and integrated system. In other words, this is the core software that provides the rules which bind all the other systems and software together.
According to Visentin:
What this kind of field test gives you is the proof of the pudding that your design is working well, even in some of the most challenging environments we can imagine.
Lab testing of the hardware we design doesn’t take account of the variability nature brings, from the light of the sky to the shape of the landscape, the texture and colours of the sand and rock. Operating outdoors in this way proves that our systems work in much more complex and elaborate settings than can ever be simulated.
To give an example during this field test, the very smoothness and homogeneity of some of the big sand dunes proved difficult for computer vision algorithms to navigate, because they are based on identifying features based on difference, so they started to behave in unexpected ways we haven’t seen before.
Our excellent results also included some good successes: the SherpaTT rover managed a 1.3-km [.8 mile] journey on an entirely autonomous basis, while its autonomous science element triggered a scientific acquisition on its own, unprompted: it spotted some strange shaped stones then asked the main planner to move into a better position to take more images.
This is important for the future, when there will be many more rovers going to Mars and they’ll be moving hundreds of meters [yards] per day. There won’t be schools of analysts to scrutinize every image – intelligent rover systems will be needed to detect what is interesting and send it back to Earth.
A drone being used to map the surrounding terrain where the rovers were being tested.
Image via ESA,
The U.K.’s Sherpa rover during the field test in Morocco in December 2018.
Image via ESA.
Before the testing began, ESA also flew a drone to map the location, producing digital elevation models down to a resolution of 4 cm (1.6 inches). This kind of “ground truthing” was needed to compare data from the rovers with observed reality.
Current rovers are limited to driving a few dozen meters (yards) per day, but with the new software, future rovers could travel up to a kilometer (.6 miles) per day, a big improvement which would let rovers investigate a greater number of scientifically interesting locations during their missions.
Various companies and universities in the U.K. also participated in the testing, including Airbus Defence & Space, Thales Alenia Space, Scisys, King’s College London, the University of Strathclyde and GMV-UK.
Illustration of the upcoming ExoMars rover, scheduled to launch in 2020. New rovers like this will be able to use more advanced software to become “self-driving.”
Image via ESA/ATG medialab.
More advanced self-driving technology will be essential for future Mars rovers, so they can navigate the terrain without needing to be so dependent on human engineers uploading commands to them from Earth. NASA’s Curiosity rover does have a certain amount of autonomous capability, but it will need to be improved as new rovers land in potentially even more challenging terrain, including the upcoming Mars 2020 rover (NASA) and ExoMars rover (ESA).
Bottom line: New self-driving rovers being designed and tested by the ESA via Europe’s Horizon 2020 program will help future Mars rovers travel faster and farther without human assistance.
There's something happening in the skies of California in the US because recently there's been a spike in UFO activity and it doesn't seem to be slowing down anytime soon. Because this Mothership (if you like) is releasing all these Orbs is this where other Orb UFO sightings originated, at this particular one?
This is a great example of a UFO releasing orbs or drones all of which are still UFOs in their own right because we just don't know what they are and they're flying around skies that are supposedly protected or at least monitored? Two balls of light come out briefly from the main UFO - before being sucked back in to the main UFO and then it bursts out the Orbs as if it's firing them out in a specific distance?
They must be seeing something on their screens and if the reason they're doing nothing is because they don't have resources then that's terrible. Or are they been directed to do nothing? It makes me wonder... Anyways apparently it's being investigated by Ufos Magazine and hopefully they will share their results straight away? I know they'll share the results but I just hope it's sooner rather than later?
It looks real, it feels real and if it is real then that would make this yet another Mothership (yes it's a Mothership) and there's other Motherships over the USA as we've posted only recently about other ones deploying what appears to be metallic UFOs which can be seen here?
Below is an image of the other UFO Mothership dropping what looks like a metallic UFO drone:
Many times the public have caught some very striking footage of UFOs flying past extremely fast or from a plane in the clouds etc but for a UFO to be filmed actually releasing what looks like Orbs or metallic drones then that must send chills through the government if they know that these are real (they know some things that we don't) and to be privy to top secret information and then see it on film, well it must be weird? What's going on, especially since President Trump announced this Space Force? Has this been the main reason why we're seeing more UFOsover the US?
Will we ever get to know the truth, I believe when the investigation is over we might be closer to the overall truth?
Here's the video:
ufosmagazine:
We are investigating this sighting done in California where a gigantic orb releases a fleet of other smaller orbs the preliminary analysis does not show manipulation of the video.
Astronomers may have just witnessed the first few moments of a black hole's existence.
A weirdly bright and brief blast dubbed "The Cow," which researchers first spotted last June, was likely generated by a newborn black hole or superdense stellar corpse called a neutron star, a new study reports.
"Based on its X-ray and UV [ultraviolet] emission, 'The Cow' may appear to have been caused by a black hole devouring a white dwarf," study lead author Raffaella Margutti, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern University in Illinois, said in a statement. (White dwarfs are the compact cores left over when relatively small stars like our sun die. The most-massive stars die in violent supernova explosions, with their remnants collapsing into denser-still neutron stars or black holes.) [Watch: Did Munching Black Hole Trigger 'Cow’ Explosion in Space?]
"But further observations of other wavelengths across the spectrum led to our interpretation that 'The Cow' is actually the formation of an accreting black hole or neutron star," Margutti added. "We know from theory that black holes and neutron stars form when a star dies, but we've never seen them right after they are born. Never."
This view of The Cow, a mysterious and spectacular outburst 200 million light-years from Earth first observed in June 2018. Scientists say the mysterious blast, which is unlike anything seen before, may show the birth of a black hole.
Credit: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
The Cow was a relatively nearby event: It flared up about 200 million light-years from Earth, in the Hercules constellation. Astronomers discovered the outburst using the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS), a pair of survey telescopes in Hawaii. (The event's nickname stems from its formal designation, AT2018cow, the last three letters of which were produced using a randomized formula.)
The Cow intrigued researchers from the start. It was incredibly bright — 10 to 100 times brighter than typical supernovae — and surprisingly brief, fading away after a mere two weeks or so.
"We knew right away that this source went from inactive to peak luminosity within just a few days," co-author Ryan Chornock, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Ohio University, said in the same statement. "That was enough to get everybody excited, because it was so unusual and, by astronomical standards, it was very close by."
An image of AT2018cow and its host galaxy obtained on Aug. 17, 2018 using a Keck Observatory instrument called the Deep Imaging and Multi-Object Spectrograph.
Credit: R. Margutti/W.M. Keck Observatory
So, researchers around the world soon trained a variety of telescopes on the puzzling light source. For example, Margutti's team studied The Cow in X-ray wavelengths using NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) and XMM-Newton spacecraft; in radio waves using the National Radio Astronomy Observatory's Very Large Array (VLA); and in optical light using the MMT Observatory in Arizona and the Southern Astrophysical Research (SOAR) telescope in Chile.
The above image shows a long exposure of the SOAR telescope with overlaid illustrations of a highly magnetised neutron star (top left) and an accreting black hole (top right). Research has now revealed it was the birth of a new black hole or neutron star, caught at the exact moment of its creation - but experts are unsure which one it is
The scientists also probed The Cow's shape and chemical makeup using instruments installed on the two big telescopes at the Keck Observatory in Hawaii.
This latter work revealed the presence of hydrogen and helium, ruling out Cow scenarios involving dramatic mergers between black holes and neutron stars, the researchers said. So, the light was probably largely generated by the newborn object gobbling up debris from its shattered progenitor.
The cross hairs indicate the location of the AT2018cow. A sky survey telescope in Hawai'i observed the mysteriously bright glow on June 17, 2018
"It took a while for us to realize what we were looking at — I would say months," said co-author Brian Metzger, associate professor of physics at Columbia University in New York. "We tried several possibilities and were forced to go back to the drawing board multiple times. We were finally able to interpret the results, thanks to the hard work of our incredibly dedicated team."
The new study will appear in The Astrophysical Journal. The team also announced its results today (Jan. 10) during a news conference at the 233rd meeting of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) in Seattle — and they were not alone.
Several other research groups presented their Cow findings at the briefing as well, and not all of them agreed with the interpretation laid out above. For example, a team led by Paul Kuin, an astrophysicist at University College London, backs the black-hole-eating-white-dwarf hypothesis.
So, there's still a lot of mystery surrounding this odd light source.
Supermassive black holes are incredibly dense areas in the centre of galaxies with masses that can be billions of times that of the sun. They cause dips in space-time (artist's impression) and even light cannot escape their gravitational pull
"The properties of The Cow strain nearly all models we have tried to devise to explain it," Daniel Perley, an assistant professor of astronomy at Liverpool John Moores University in England, said in a different statement.
Perley led another research team, which deems the supernova-black hole/neutron star hypothesis most compelling. He also presented at the AAS conference today.
"Whatever it is, it must involve some form of energetic and very fast explosion interacting with an extremely dense shell of material very close to the explosion progenitor," Perley said.
Mike Wall's book about the search for alien life, "Out There" (Grand Central Publishing, 2018; illustrated by Karl Tate), is out now.
Asteroid Accompanied By Cigar-Shaped Object Flies Past Earth
Asteroid Accompanied By Cigar-Shaped Object Flies Past Earth
Astronomers at the Giant Arecibo Radar in Puerto Rico have made a strange discovery. On January 7th, Asteroid 2016 AZ8 flew past Earth.
The 430-meter large rock passed the Earth-Moon system at a distance of only 2.8 million miles.
When the radar team took a closer look at the object with a beam of radio energy, they noticed that the spherical asteroid is accompanied by an elongated cigar-shaped object. It is assumed that this is a small moon.
China's far-sidemoon rover Yutu 2has woken up from its nap as planned, according to Chinese media reports.
"China's space engineers care about the reactivation, as the last model [Yutu 1] failed its first awakening in February 2014," China's Global Television Network (CGTN) reported today (Jan. 10). Yutu 1 was the rover on China's Chang'e 3 moon mission, which landed on the near side in December 2013.
China's Yutu 2 rover explores the far side of the moon shortly after its Jan. 2, 2019, touchdown.
Yutu 2's handlers powered the rover down a few days later, in a "noon nap" designed to protect against temporarily high lunar temperatures.
International payloads
Meanwhile, a suite of international payloads carried by Chang'e 4 have started operations.
A neutron radiation detector aboard the lander, developed by Germany, and a neutral atom detector on the rover, developed by Sweden, have both been switched on, according to a statement by the China National Space Administration (CNSA). Both detectors have been booted up and are under testing.
The Swedish device, the Advanced Small Analyzer for Neutrals (ASAN), will study how the solar wind interacts with the lunar surface. ASAN, which was built in collaboration with the Chinese National Space Science Center (NSSC), is the first energetic neutral atom sensor ever deployed on the lunar surface. From a vantage point of only a few decimeters above the regolith surface, ASAN will measure energy spectra of energetic neutral atoms originating from reflected solar wind ions under different solar wind illumination conditions.
"Yes, we have successfully started commissioning of ASAN and expect the first science data before mid-February," ASAN principal investigator Martin Wieser, a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Space Physics, told Inside Outer Space. "It depends on the rover being in a favorable position."
ASAN is mounted on the Yutu 2 rover, allowing the instrument to perform measurements at different locations. These data could shed light on the processes responsible for the formation of water on the moon, researchers have said.
The moon's Von Kármán crater, landing site for China's Chang'e 4 mission. NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter took this mosaic image, over which a 5-degree latitude and longitude grid was added.
Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University
Tricky landing
Chang'e 4's historic landing was tricky, said Yang Yuguang, a professor at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
"The terrain at the far side of the moon is entirely different compared to the near side. There are more highlands, craters, and mountains and the landform is much steeper," Yang told China's state-run Xinhua news agency. (A summary of the geology of the Chang'e 4 landing region can be found in this recent paper.)
Yang also highlighted the importance of a new low-frequency spectrometer carried on the Chang'e 4 mission that will conduct a radio-astronomical study from the far side, an ideal place to conduct such work as there is no radio disturbance from Earth.
Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
Chinese space officials have noted the cooperation offered by NASA, specifically orbital data from the American space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO). The Chinese side has provided its NASA counterparts with information about Chang'e 4's landing timing and location, CNSA officials said.
LRO is slated to fly over the landing area in the coming weeks and may spot the Chang'e 4 hardware on the surface. LRO will be able to scout for the Chang'e 4 lander and Yutu 2 rover at about midnight on Jan. 31, Mark Robinson told Inside Outer Space. Robinson, of Arizona State University, is principal investigator for LRO's LROC camera system.
An artist's illustration of China's Queqiao relay satellite, which launched in May 2018 to relay data between controllers on Earth and China's Chang'e 4 mission on the moon's far side.
Credit: CNSA
More cooperation
An Argentina-based ground station built by China has played an important role in the monitoring and control of the mission. Furthermore, ground stations run by the European Space Agency will also offer support, according to Xinhua reports.
The Chang'e 4 mission also includes a radioisotope heat source, a collaboration between Chinese and Russian scientists, to help deal with the huge temperature swings on the surface of the moon. (One lunar day lasts nearly 30 Earth days, so spacecraft on the moon experience two weeks of perpetual darkness followed by two weeks of sunlight.)
"International cooperation is the future of lunar exploration," Wu Weiren, chief designer of China's lunar exploration program, told Xinhua. "The participating countries would share the costs, risks and achievements, and learn from each other. We hope to have more international cooperation."
Leonard David is author of the forthcoming book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" to be published by National Geographic in May 2019.
A longtime writer for SPACE.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.
Solar systems aremessy places, but the tools astronomers use to understand these systems can re-create that chaos with surprising beauty.
Consider giant impacts, which scientists believe are responsible for our moon, Saturn's rings and Uranus' strange sideways alignment. But scientists have never gotten to see such agiant impact firsthand, and of course they can't replicate the process at a realistic scale. So, they turn to computer simulationslike this one, and as computer technology continues to improve, those models can become ever more detailed.
"It's almost like having a brand-new telescope in the way that it reveals all sorts of new details and exciting topics that we could never study before," Jacob Kegerreis, a doctoral student at Durham University in the U.K., wrote to Space.com in an email. He presented the simulations for a giant impact with Uranus last month at the annual conference of the American Geophysical Union. [Photos of Uranus, the Tilted Giant Planet]
A frame from a high-resolution simulation of what could have happened when the planet Uranus was hit by another large celestial object.
Credit: Jacob Kegerreis, Durham University
Scientists are looking for an impact at the system because Uranus is tilted strangely on its side, with all its moons following at the same steep angle. Kegerreis is part of a project using a technique called smoothed particle hydrodynamics, a specialized technique that allows for better representation of fluids and gases in simulations. He and his colleagues used the approach to simulate what would happen in a wide range of Uranus collision scenarios.
Using the simulations, the team could evaluate the different results given original objects of different sizes colliding at different speeds and angles; the simulations also show how much ejecta an impact creates and how well the planet's atmosphere endures the event. Because the approach can model 1,000 times more particles than previous simulations, Kegerreis said, they're more-accurate representations of how a specific collision would play out.
But science aside, the simulations are also simply entrancing.
The “dark side” of the Moon didn’t get its nickname because it never sees light. Rather, it’s that Earth never sees it. But our lack of visibility changed last week when the Chinese lander Chang’e-4 became the first spacecraft to touch down on the side of the Moon that faces away from our planet. Now Earthlings are the recipients of a consistent stream of unprecedented images sent from the far side, the newest of which was released Friday by officials at the Chinese Lunar Exploration Project (CELP).
CELP, which is overseen by the China National Space Administration, released two stunning images on the Chinese Twitter-like microblogging website Sina Weibo. A topographical camera on the Change’4 lander captured the “ring shot” and the panoramic shot, an incredibly detailed conglomerate of 80 individual photographs.
The huge panoramic shot, broken down in the slideshow below, shows the perspective of the lander. You can see the rover, nicknamed Jade Rabbit 2 (or Yutu-2), exploring the lunar terrain.
A Lunar Panorama
Panorama of the Moon's far side.
According to the Weibo post, the researchers have completed the preliminary analysis of the lunar surface topography seen here around the landing site. Getting these photographs from the far side of the moon to Earth wasn’t easy: The images first had to be sent from the lander to the relay communication satellite Queqia (which translates to “Magpie Bridge”), which in turn sent it to Earth.
As the Jade Rabbit 2 continues its journey, it will measure the chemical composition of the regolith, study cosmic rays, and observe the solar corona. The team behind the mission also hopes that observations of the Moon’s far side will reveal insight about the early days of the solar system. It’s a fresh step in moon science — and we can watch it from the comforts of Earth.
APWetenschappers denken nu te weten waarom de beelden op het Paaseiland geplaatst werden.
WETENSCHAPDe geheimzinnige beelden op het Paaseiland behoren tot de beroemdste sculpturen ter wereld. De beeldhouwwerken uit vulkanisch gesteente maken van het eiland in de Stille Oceaan een van de meest mysterieuze plekken op aarde. Wetenschappers denken nu te weten waarom de beelden op bepaalde plaatsen zoals kustgebieden werden gezet.
Paaseiland ligt bijna 3.700 kilometer ten westen van Chili en meer dan 2.000 kilometer van het meest nabij gelegen bewoonde land, en is daarmee een van de meest afgelegen eilanden ter wereld. Bijna duizend metershoge moai-beelden werden er tussen de 12de en 15de eeuw door de Rapa Nui gebouwd en herinneren aan de bloeiende civilisatie. Op het hoogtepunt van de moai-beschaving woonden er tien- tot twaalfduizend mensen.
Maar het doel van de beelden en bijhorende ceremoniële platforms, ook wel ahu genoemd, bleven grote raadsels voor wetenschappers. Ook vroegen onderzoekers zich af hoe de inwoners op zo’n afgelegen eiland overleefden met schaarse middelen. Zo was het een raadsel waar de inwoners, de Rapa Nui, hun drinkwater haalden. Voor die twee mysteries lijken wetenschappers nu een verklaring te hebben.
Volgens een nieuwe studie die gepubliceerd werd in het wetenschappelijk tijdschrift Plos One, werden de monolieten geplaatst om de weg naar drinkbaar water in de buurt van kustgebieden aan te wijzen.
Brak water
Een team wetenschappers onderzocht de locaties van 93 ahu’s en koppelde die aan drie factoren die de onderlinge strijd tussen nederzettingen bepaalden: landbouw, visgronden en de aanwezigheid van zoetwater. Men kwam tot de vaststelling dat de ahu’s overeen kwamen met locaties waar water naar beneden sijpelde en vervolgens de oceaan bereikte, meer bepaald plaatsen waar poreuze rotsen de oceaan ontmoeten.
Bij laagtij ontstond er vervolgens een zoetwaterstroom in de zee. Het zilte water zou drinkbaar geweest zijn en werd opgevangen door de Rapa Nui. Onderzoek van historische bronnen van Europese toonde immers aan dat de bevolking “grotendeels afhankelijk was van brak water en vrij veel uit de Stille Oceaan dronk”. De beelden zijn dus gepositioneerd op plekken waar zoet water te vinden is.
“Geen rituele plaatsen”
“Wat belangrijk is, is dat het onderzoek laat zien dat de locaties van de beelden geen rituele plaatsen zijn, maar geïntegreerd in het leven van de gemeenschappen”, aldus Carl Lipo, professor antropologie aan de universiteit van Binghamton.
“Op plaatsen waar enorme hoeveelheden zoet water te vinden was, zien we gigantische beelden”, zei Lipo ook nog. Daarmee willen de auteurs van het onderzoek ook suggereren ook dat de grootte van de moai-beelden en ahu de hoeveelheid en de kwaliteit van het water op de locatie aangeven.
RVChinese onderzoekers maakten unieke 360 graden beelden van het maanoppervlak openbaar.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Chinese onderzoekers hebben de allereerste beelden van de achterkant van de maan gelost. Het zijn 360° beelden, die tonen hoe de oppervlakte eruitziet. De omgeving kenmerkt zich door talrijke kraters van uiteenlopende grootte. Een grote uitdaging voor het plannen van de route die robotjeep Yutu-2 moet volgen.
Begin dit jaar landde er voor het eerst in de geschiedenis een onbemande Chinese ruimtesonde op “the dark side of the moon”, meer dan vijftig jaar na de eerste maanlanding.
Chang’e 4 landde op 3 januari in een gigantische inslagkrater aan de zuidpool, met als gevolg een historische landing en een grote technologische doorbraak. Minuten na de landing stuurde de sonde de eerste beelden naar de aarde. Die revolutionaire beelden tonen voor het eerst de structuur van de achterkant van het maanoppervlak.
Chinese experten bestempelden de missie vooraf als zeer veeleisend. De grote moeilijkheid was onder meer de communicatie met de aarde, omdat vanop de achterkant van de maan geen rechtstreekse radioverbinding mogelijk is.
Daarom brachten de Chinezen al in mei de transmissiesatelliet Queqiao (‘Eksterbrug’) in stelling, om signalen uit de radioschaduw door te kunnen sturen. De 360° beelden werden teruggestuurd via dezelfde satelliet, die opereerde op ongeveer 455.000 kilometer van de aarde, waar het zowel de aarde als de verste kant van de maan kan zien.
China noemt zijn missie naar de achterzijde van de Maan een “compleet succes”, zo heeft het staatspersbureau Xinhua vandaag gemeld. De maanmissie moet bewijzen dat China’s ambitieuze ruimtevaartprogramma grote vooruitgang boekt. Een nieuw ruimtestation is een andere belangrijke pijler van dat programma. Onderzoekers gaan alvast nu met de beelden aan de slag om het grondoppervlak grondig te kunnen analyseren en meer achtergrondinformatie te vergaren om zo’n station te kunnen bouwen.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEETEr is iets aan de hand met het magnetisch veld van onze planeet. Onderzoekers hebben ontdekt dat de magnetische noordpool steeds sneller opschuift naar het oosten. Zó snel dat er een dringende correctie nodig is om onze navigatieapparatuur op aarde nog correct te laten werken. Meer nog, sommige wetenschappers zien er zelfs een voorbode in van een ingrijpend verschijnsel.
De magnetische noordpool schuift al langer op van Canada richting Siberië en vorig jaar is hij de datumgrens overgestoken naar de oostelijke hemisfeer. De precieze beweging is niet voorspelbaar en fascineert wetenschappers al sinds de pool voor het eerst gelokaliseerd werd onder Canada, in 1831. In het midden van de jaren 90 van vorige eeuw begon hij opeens sneller te gaan en ging hij van 15 kilometer per jaar naar 55. Tegen 2001 zat hij al daardoor al onder de Noordelijke IJszee.
Normaal gezien zou het ‘World Magnetic Model’ – dat een beschrijving geeft van het magnetisch veld van de aarde en waarop alle moderne navigatietoestellen gebaseerd zijn – in 2020 een update krijgen, vijf jaar na de vorige. Maar het magnetisch veld verandert zó snel dat er een tussentijdse update moet worden gemaakt. Die stond oorspronkelijk gepland voor 15 januari, maar werd door de shutdown in de Verenigde Staten intussen uitgesteld naar 30 januari.
De vorige update in 2015 was onder een slecht gesternte begonnen. Want een jaar later vond een geomagnetische schok plaats diep onder Zuid-Amerika, waardoor het magnetisch veld al meteen aanzienlijk verschoof. Dat werd nog versterkt door de steeds snellere verschuiving van de magnetische noordpool. Begin vorig jaar kwam het ‘World Magnetic Model’ daardoor in de problemen. Het was zo onnauwkeurig geworden dat er een dringende update nodig was. (lees hieronder verder)
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Intussen proberen wetenschappers te achterhalen waarom het magnetisch veld zo drastisch verandert en er zijn verscheidene mogelijke verklaringen. Geomagnetische schokken zoals in 2016 kunnen bijvoorbeeld het gevolg zijn van hydromagnetische golven vanuit het binnenste van onze aarde. En het snel verschuiven van de magnetische noordpool kan gelinkt worden aan een snelle uitbarsting van vloeibaar metaal onder Canada. Die uitbarsting loopt uit en verzwakt het magnetische veld onder Canada, waardoor de pool opschuift naar Siberië.
Voorbode
Sommige wetenschappers zien er echter een voorbode in van het omkeren van de magnetische polen van de aarde. Daardoor zou de magnetische noordpool de magnetische zuidpool worden en omgekeerd. Dat kan verregaande gevolgen hebben, onder meer voor het stroomnet en voor onze communicatiesystemen. Het zou ook het leven aan de aardoppervlakte blootstellen aan hogere dosissen straling van de zon en de ruimte doordat ons magnetisch veld erdoor verzwakt.
Dat omkeren is iets dat normaal gezien om de 200.000 tot 300.000 jaar gebeurt. De recentste ommekeer dateert echter al van 780.000 jaar geleden, waardoor sommige wetenschappers denken dat het niet lang meer zal duren eer er een nieuwe aankomt.
Hoe snel de ommekeer exact gaat? De wetenschap krijgt het voorlopig niet preciezer dan “in een paar duizend jaar”, maar de gevolgen zijn wel de hele tijd te voelen. “Er wordt algemeen aanvaard dat tijdens de ommekeer het magnetische veld verzwakt tot 10 procent van zijn volledige potentieel”, aldus Brad Clement van de Florida International University. “Als het verzwakt is, draaien de polen ongeveer 180 graden, waarna het magnetische veld weer sterker wordt in de omgekeerde richting. En dat kan dus duizenden jaren duren.”
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Advanced Ancient Civilizations That Left Unexplained Ruins Before they Disappeared (Video)
Advanced Ancient Civilizations That Left Unexplained Ruins Before they Disappeared (Video)
The incredible Lost Ruins of Lemuria, the Kings of the Rama Empire, the sunken City of Heracleion in Egypt, and five separate locations where temples, pyramids, a man made bridge hundreds of thousand of years old and statues from Atlantis are once more resurfacing in our world.
Nearly every culture of the world has legends of the great civilization of Atlantis, and the Great Flood that took it down some 12,000 years ago.
For over two hundred years researchers have sought for it, excavating some 40 different locations as they tried to match it with the description given by Plato some 2300 years ago: that Atlantis lay outside of the Straits of Gibraltar, and was larger than North Africa and Asia Minor combined.
But is Atlantis rising in the world today, just as Edgar Cayce predicted?
Linda Moulton Howe: E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth (Video)
Linda Moulton Howe: E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth (Video)
Age Of Truth TV presents a dynamic, eye-opening and intense conversation with investigative reporter, E.T & UFO researcher, author and lecturer, LINDA MOULTON HOWE: “E.T. Experiments & Alien Races On Planet Earth”. Lucas Alexander is interviewing Linda Moulton Howe for Age Of Truth TV in her home in Albuquerque, New Mexico, about her long and fascinating career, as one of the worlds leading top-experts in the field of UFO and Extra-Terrestrial research, and how she began on that controversial path when doing a documentary film in 1979 called “A Strange Harvest”.
Since going through “Alice In Wonderland’s Mirror”, as she calls it, she has worked relentlessly and with a tireless effort, to inform the world about, what she believes, is an alien presence on Planet Earth.
* Who are the alien races on Earth? Where do they come from? * How are governments of the world, especially the American government, involved with these otherworldly entities? * The government cover-up of alien existence! Why? * Are we Human beings (Homo Sapiens) an alien biological experiment made by the alien race, referred to as the EBE´ns?
* What is the truth behind the countless animal mutilations happening all over the world, and the reason why these crimes could not have been done by humans? * The UFO crash in Roswell in 1947. * What happens to us when we die? Is reincarnation a recycling soul trap? These are just some of the mind-blowing and extraordinary topics discussed in this interview with Linda Moulton Howe.
It is a 1 hour 42 minutes in-depth hard-talk table discussion with a true legendary lady in this field. She has given lectures and speeches all over the world, been a researcher for 40 years, and written a list of books. The interview was filmed on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico on January 19, 2018.
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You Won't Believe That These Mysterious Lakes/Rivers Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them
You Won't Believe That These Mysterious Lakes/Rivers Actually Exist on Earth Until You Watch Them
The natural world is an ever changing, ever shifting beast. Mountains rise, valleys form, glaciers meander across the landscape; the face of our planet is malleable, ever moving. But if we asked you to name the strangest natural phenomena on Earth, chances are that nobody would say “lakes”. Bad move. Turns out these placid-seeming bodies of water are home to some of the craziest, weirdest Easter eggs of the natural world. These lakes are unique in their own ways, some even bordering on strange. But we all like a little absurdity in our lives every so often, don’t we? Here are 15 Most Mysterious Lakes On Earth
What Lies Beneath Area 51 + Man Who Spoke Out About Area 51 Has An Invention (Video)
What Lies Beneath Area 51 + Man Who Spoke Out About Area 51 Has An Invention (Video)
MYSTERIOUS crater-shaped hole in the ground near to Area 51 is “unlike anything ever seen” and has prompted theories that the bizarre crater could be an entrance to an underground military base.
A bizarre crater appeared on Google Earth earlier this week close to Area 51 and appears man-made with a strange tower emerging out of the huge ditch. The incredible discovery was revealed by Blake and Brett Cousins – of YouTube channel thirdphaseofmoon – who captioned the footage: “We Found Something Underneath Area 51.” In the footage, a large, thin object can be seen poking out of the middle of a large circular hole in the ground.
The shock revelaton has sparked a frenzy of theories, including that the huge tower inside the vent is the tower of a new top-secret underground military base.
Speaking about his discovery, Blake Cousins says: “Conspiracy theorists are going wild right now.
“This could be some sort of vent or a tower embedded within a crater close to Area 51. This not a natural phenomenon, it is quite a mystery.
He said: “It doesn’t relate to any of the other craters in the area – this one looks like a tower or a vent.
“It is a massive crater – the tower looks like it is dozens of feet tall.
“This crater doesn’t relate to any of the other craters. There is no measuring device coming out of it.
“There might be a base or something underneath. It has been dug out, carved out by humans. You hear about Area 51 as a massive city underneath the ground. This could be linked.
“It shouldn’t be there, it shouldn’t exist.
The crater is just miles from the top-secret military base Area 51, which has previously been linked to various alien experiments.
The Man Who Spoke About Area 51 And Was Ridiculed, Now He Invented A Car That Runs With Water,
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Alien Abductee's Strange Ecounters With Beings Not of This Planet (Video)
Thousands of people have reported the observation of structured craft that maneuver beyond our technological capability or that of any other nation. They appear to have overcome inertia and have their own gravitational field. Non-human figures have been observed both in the craft and on the ground. Sometimes they appear to be collecting samples of our flora and fauna.
They take samples of our wildlife and leave them with highly unusual properties, to the ground. They have been observed entering our oceans and rising from them into the air, departing vertically toward space. Thousands contend they have been kidnapped by non-humans in association with these craft and returned to their natural environment. Others claim that they’ve had a lifetime of friendly contact.
Something very strange is happening to Earth's magnetic North Pole and no one knows why
Earth’s magnetic pole is on the move, fast. And we don’t know why
Earth’s magnetic field is what allows us to exist. It deflects harmful radiation. It keeps our water and atmosphere in place. But now it’s acting up — and nobody knows why.
Planet Earth is alive. Deep beneath its skin, its life blood — rivers of molten iron — pulse around its core. And this mobile iron is what generates the magnetic field that causes auroras — and keeps us alive.
It’s causing the magnetic North Pole to ‘skitter’ away from Canada, towards Siberia.
“The magnetic pole is moving so quickly that it has forced the world’s geomagnetism experts into a rare move,” Nature reports.
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On January 30 (delayed due to the US Government shutdown), the World Magnetic Model — which governs modern navigation systems — is due to undergo an urgent update.
This model is a vital component of systems ranging from geopositioning systems used to navigate ships through to smartphone trackers and maps.
The current model was expected to be valid until 2020. But the magnetic pole began to shift so quickly, it was realised in 2018 that the model had to be fixed — now.
“They realised that it was so inaccurate that it was about to exceed the acceptable (safe) limit for navigational errors,” Nature reports.
FICKLE TIDES
Every year, geophysicists from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey do a check on how the Earth’s magnetic field is varying.
This is necessary as the liquid iron churning in the Earth’s core does not move in a consistent manner.
“In 2016, for instance, part of the magnetic field temporarily accelerated deep under northern South America and the eastern Pacific Ocean,” Nature reports.
This shift was captured by satellites.
Earth has lines of magnetic force looping from North Pole to South Pole, creating Earth's protective magnetosphere. The straight line coming out of the North and South Poles represents Earth's axis of rotation.
But the movement of the north magnetic pole has been the object of study since 1831. Initially, it was tracked moving into the Arctic Ocean at a rate of about 15km each year. But, since the mid 1990s, it has picked up speed.
Why the magnetic field is shifting so dramatically is unknown.
“Geomagnetic pulses, like the one that happened in 2016, might be traced back to ‘hydromagnetic’ waves arising from deep in the core,” Nature reports. “And the fast motion of the north magnetic pole could be linked to a high-speed jet of liquid iron beneath Canada”.
This fast-flowing molten river appears to be weakening the magnetic influence of the iron core beneath North America.
“The location of the north magnetic pole appears to be governed by two large-scale patches of magnetic field, one beneath Canada and one beneath Siberia,” Phil Livermore of the University of Leeds told an American Geophysical Union meeting. “The Siberian patch is winning the competition.”
And, as global warming opens up more shipping lanes to the north of Russia and Canada, this presents a potentially deadly problem.
“The fact that the pole is going fast makes this region more prone to large errors,” says Arnaud Chulliat, a geomagnetist at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA.
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met de magnetische noorpool, en niemand weet waarom
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met de magnetische noorpool, en niemand weet waarom
Er is iets vreemds aan de hand met het aardmagnetisch veld en geologen hebben geen idee waarom, meldt het wetenschappelijke tijdschrift Nature.
De magnetische noordpool blijkt in rap tempo van Canada naar Siberië te verschuiven.
“De magnetische pool verschuift zo snel dat experts op het gebied van geomagnetisme iets moeten doen wat maar zelden gebeurt.”
Update
Op 30 januari krijgt het World Magnetic Model, waar moderne navigatiesystemen op zijn gebaseerd, een update.
Dit model is een belangrijk onderdeel van systemen die worden gebruikt voor onder meer scheepsnavigatie, het volgen van smartphones en kaarten.
Verwacht werd dat het huidige model tot 2020 zou volstaan, maar de magnetische pool begon zo snel te verschuiven dat het nu al toe is aan een update.
Zuid-Amerika
Elk jaar kijken wetenschappers van de Amerikaanse meteorologische dienst NOAA en de British Geological Survey hoe sterk het aardmagnetisch veld varieert.
In 2016 bleek bijvoorbeeld dat een deel van het magnetisch veld onder het noorden van Zuid-Amerika korte tijd verschoof.
Deze verschuiving werd vastgelegd met behulp van satellieten.
Niemand
De magnetische noordpool wordt al sinds 1831 bestudeerd. In eerste instantie bewoog hij met een snelheid van 15 kilometer per jaar richting de Arctische Oceaan.
Sinds de jaren negentig verschuift de magnetische noordpool met een snelheid van liefst 55 kilometer per jaar op.
Niemand weet waarom het magnetisch veld zo drastisch verschuift.
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