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Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.

This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.

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    Gigantische gletsjer twee keer zo groot als België dreigt los te komen van Antarctica: zeeniveau kan tot 3 meter stijgen

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    Een gletsjer die twee keer zo groot is als de oppervlakte van België dreigt te verdwijnen door de opwarming van de aarde. En als dat gebeurt, kunnen de gevolgen catastrofaal zijn. “In het worstcasescenario is er sprake van een stijging van de zeespiegel met 3 meter”, klinkt het.

    De Thwaitse-gletsjer is 600 kilometer lang, 120 kilometer breed en is een van de grootste gletsjers van West-Antarctica. Maar zal die nog lang blijven bestaan? Geavanceerde radars van NASA hebben binnenin de gletsjer een enorme holte waargenomen, waar er al een massa ijs is weggesmolten. Het gaat om een holte van 300 meter hoog, 10 kilometer breed en 4 kilometer lang. Die holte verwarmt de gletsjer van binnenuit, waardoor die verder wegsmelt. Het zeewater binnenin de gletsjer is nu al verantwoordelijk voor 4 procent van de totale stijging van de zeespiegel.

    Maar de gletsjer dreigt dus volledig te verdwijnen, en in dat geval zou het waterpeil met 65 centimeter stijgen. Sommige modellen spreken zelfs van een stijging van het water met 3 meter. Volgens Eric Rignot hoogleraar Earth Science aan Universiteit van Californië is West-Antarctica gedoemd om te verdwijnen. Rignot bestudeerde het fenomeen in de Thwaitse-gletsjer en zegt dat hij denkt dat het publiek niet beseft wat er op Antarcticata en in de poolgebieden echt aan het gebeuren is. “We doen het niet goed. Dit fenomeen is onmogelijk te stoppen”, zegt hij. “Maar het kan wel vertraagd worden, als we de opwarming vertragen. De gletsjer zal zich wellicht blijven terugtrekken, maar door iets aan het klimaatverandering te doen, kunnen we dat proces héél traag laten verlopen.”

    Ook Emmanuel Le Meur, docent aan de Universiteit van Grenoble, bevestigt dat: “De grote vraag is nu of dit het geval is de komende decennia, de volgende paar eeuwen of zelfs volgende millennia. Hoe snel dit zal lopen, hangt af van onze manier van leven en van wat onze besluitvormers zullen doen.”

    Gigantische gletsjer twee keer zo groot als België dreigt los te komen van Antarctica: zeeniveau kan tot 3 meter stijgen

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    Mars: What We Know About the Red Planet

    Mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Befitting the Red Planet's bloody color, the Romans named it after their god of war. In truth, the Romans copied the ancient Greeks, who also named the planet after their god of war, Ares. Other civilizations also typically gave the planet names based on its color — for example, the Egyptians named it "Her Desher," meaning "the red one," while ancient Chinese astronomers dubbed it "the fire star."

    Physical characteristics

    The bright rust color Mars is known for is due to iron-rich minerals in its regolith — the loose dust and rock covering its surface. The soil of Earth is a kind of regolith, too, albeit one loaded with organic content. According to NASA, the iron minerals oxidize, or rust, causing the soil to look red.

    The cold, thin atmosphere means liquid water likely cannot exist on the Martian surface for any length of time. Features called recurring slope lineae may have spurts of briny water flowing on the surface, but this evidence is disputed; some scientists argue the hydrogen spotted from orbit in this region may instead indicate briny salts. This means that although this desert planet is just half the diameter of Earth, it has the same amount of dry land.

    The Red Planet is home to both the highest mountain and the deepest, longest valley in the solar system. Olympus Mons is roughly 17 miles (27 kilometers) high, about three times as tall as Mount Everest, while the Valles Marinerissystem of valleys — named after the Mariner 9 probe that discovered it in 1971 — reaches as deep as 6 miles (10 km) and runs east-west for roughly 2,500 miles (4,000 km), about one-fifth of the distance around Mars and close to the width of Australia.

    Scientists think the Valles Marineris formed mostly by rifting of the crust as it got stretched. Individual canyons within the system are as much as 60 miles (100 km) wide. The canyons merge in the central part of the Valles Marineris in a region as much as 370 miles (600 km) wide. Large channels emerging from the ends of some canyons and layered sediments within suggest the canyons might once have been filled with liquid water.

    Mars also has the largest volcanoes in the solar system, Olympus Mons being one of them. The massive volcano, which is about 370 miles (600 km) in diameter, is wide enough to cover the state of New Mexico. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano, with slopes that rise gradually like those of Hawaiian volcanoes, and was created by eruptions of lavas that flowed for long distances before solidifying. Mars also has many other kinds of volcanic landforms, from small, steep-sided cones to enormous plains coated in hardened lava. Some minor eruptions might still occur on the planet.

    The solar system's largest volcano Olympus Mons on Mars, seen by Viking 1.
    (Image: © NASA/JPL)

    Channels, valleys and gullies are found all over Mars, and suggest that liquid water might have flowed across the planet's surface in recent times. Some channels can be 60 miles (100 km) wide and 1,200 miles (2,000 km) long. Water may still lie in cracks and pores in underground rock. A study by scientists in 2018 suggested that salty water below the Martian surface could hold a considerable amount of oxygen, which would support microbial life. However, the amount of oxygen depends on temperature and pressure; temperature changes on Mars from time to time as the tilt of its rotation axis shifts.

    Many regions of Mars are flat, low-lying plains. The lowest of the northern plains are among the flattest, smoothest places in the solar system, potentially created by water that once flowed across the Martian surface. The northern hemisphere mostly lies at a lower elevation than the southern hemisphere, suggesting the crust may be thinner in the north than in the south. This difference between the north and south might be due to a very large impact shortly after the birth of Mars. 

    The number of craters on Mars varies dramatically from place to place, depending on how old the surface is. Much of the surface of the southern hemisphere is extremely old, and so has many craters — including the planet's largest, 1,400-mile-wide (2,300 km) Hellas Planitia — while that of northern hemisphere is younger and so has fewer craters. Some volcanoes also have a few craters, which suggests they erupted recently, with the resulting lava covering up any old craters. Some craters have unusual-looking deposits of debris around them resembling solidified mudflows, potentially indicating that the impactor hit underground water or ice.

    In 2018, the European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft detected what could be a slurry of water and grains underneath icy Planum Australe. (Some reports describe it as a "lake," but it's unclear how much regolith is inside the water.) This body of water is said to be about 12.4 miles (20 km) across. Its underground location is reminiscent of similar underground lakes in Antarctica, which have been found to host microbes. Late in the year, Mars Express also spied a huge, icy zone in the Red Planet's Korolev Crater.

    Polar caps

    Vast deposits of what appear to be finely layered stacks of water ice and dust extend from the poles to latitudes of about 80 degrees in both hemispheres. These were probably deposited by the atmosphere over long spans of time. On top of much of these layered deposits in both hemispheres are caps of water ice that remain frozen year-round. 

    Additional seasonal caps of frost appear in the wintertime. These are made of solid carbon dioxide, also known as "dry ice," which has condensed from carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere. In the deepest part of the winter, this frost can extend from the poles to latitudes as low as 45 degrees, or halfway to the equator. The dry ice layer appears to have a fluffy texture, like freshly fallen snow, according to a report in the Journal of Geophysical Research-Planets.

    Climate

    Mars is much colder than Earth, in large part due to its greater distance from the sun. The average temperature is about minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 60 degrees Celsius), although it can vary from minus 195 F (minus 125 C) near the poles during the winter to as much as 70 F (20 C) at midday near the equator.

    The carbon-dioxide-rich atmosphere of Mars is also about 100 times less dense than Earth's on average, but it is nevertheless thick enough to support weather, clouds and winds. The density of the atmosphere varies seasonally, as winter forces carbon dioxide to freeze out of the Martian air. In the ancient past, the atmosphere was likely thicker and able to support water flowing on its surface. Over time, lighter molecules in the Martian atmosphere escaped under pressure from the solar wind, which affected the atmosphere because Mars does not have a global magnetic field. This process is being studied today by NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) mission.

    NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter found the first definitive detections of carbon-dioxide snow clouds, making Mars the only body in the solar system known to host such unusual winter weather. The Red Planet also causes water-ice snow to fall from the clouds.

    The dust storms on Mars are the largest in the solar system, capable of blanketing the entire Red Planet and lasting for months. One theory as to why dust storms can grow so big on Mars is because the airborne dust particles absorb sunlight, warming the Martian atmosphere in their vicinity. Warm pockets of air then flow toward colder regions, generating winds. Strong winds lift more dust off the ground, which, in turn, heats the atmosphere, raising more wind and kicking up more dust.

    The elongated cloud above Arsia Mons on Nov. 12, 2018.
    (Image: © ESA - European Space Agency, creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/igo/ CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

    Orbital characteristics

    The axis of Mars, like Earth's, is tilted with relation to the sun. This means that like Earth, the amount of sunlight falling on certain parts of the Red Planet can vary widely during the year, giving Mars seasons.

    However, the seasons that Mars experiences are more extreme than Earth's because the Red Planet's elliptical, oval-shaped orbit around the sun is more elongated than that of any of the other major planets. When Mars is closest to the sun, its southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, giving it a short, very hot summer, while the northern hemisphere experiences a short, cold winter. When Mars is farthest from the sun, the northern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun, giving it a long, mild summer, while the southern hemisphere experiences a long, cold winter.

    The tilt of the Red Planet's axis swings wildly over time because it's not stabilized by a large moon, such as Earth is. This led to different climates on the Martian surface throughout its history. A 2017 study suggests that the changing tilt also influenced the release of methane into Mars' atmosphere, causing temporary warming periods that allowed water to flow. 

    Facts about Mars' orbit:

    • Average distance from the sun: 141,633,260 miles (227,936,640 km). By comparison: 1.524 times that of Earth.
    • Perihelion (closest): 128,400,000 miles (206,600,000 km). By comparison: 1.404 times that of Earth.
    • Aphelion (farthest): 154,900,000 miles (249,200,000 km). By comparison: 1.638 times that of Earth.

    Composition & structure

    • Atmospheric composition (by volume) 

    According to NASA, the atmosphere of Mars is 95.32 percent carbon dioxide, 2.7 percent nitrogen, 1.6 percent argon, 0.13 percent oxygen, 0.08 percent carbon monoxide, with minor amounts of water, nitrogen oxide, neon, hydrogen-deuterium-oxygen, krypton and xenon.

    • Magnetic field
    Mars currently has no global magnetic field, but there are regions of its crust that can be at least 10 times more strongly magnetized than anything measured on Earth, which suggests those regions are remnants of an ancient global magnetic field.
    • Chemical composition

    Mars likely has a solid core composed of iron, nickel and sulfur. The mantle of Mars is probably similar to Earth's in that it is composed mostly of peridotite, which is made up primarily of silicon, oxygen, iron and magnesium. The crust is probably largely made of the volcanic rock basalt, which is also common in the crusts of the Earth and the moon, although some crustal rocks, especially in the northern hemisphere, may be a form of andesite, a volcanic rock that contains more silica than basalt does.

    Internal structure

    Scientists think that on average, the Martian core is between 1,800 and 2,400 miles in diameter (3,000 and 4,000 km), its mantle is about 900 to 1,200 miles (5,400 to 7,200 km) wide and its crust is about 30 miles (50 km) thick.

    This view of the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos comes from a set of photos taken by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Aug. 1, 2013, as Phobos (the larger one) passed in front of Deimos from Curiosity's perspective.
    (Image: © NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems/Texas A&M Univ.)

    The moons of Mars

    The two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos, were discovered by American astronomer Asaph Hall over the course of a week in 1877. Hall had almost given up his search for a moon of Mars, but his wife, Angelina, urged him on. He discovered Deimos the next night, and Phobos six days after that. He named the moons after the sons of the Greek war god Ares — Phobos means "fear," while Deimos means "rout."

    Both Phobos and Deimos are apparently made of carbon-rich rock mixed with ice and are covered in dust and loose rocks. They are tiny next to Earth's moon, and are irregularly shaped, since they lack enough gravity to pull themselves into a more circular form. The widest Phobos gets is about 17 miles (27 km), and the widest Deimos gets is roughly 9 miles (15 km).

    Both moons are pockmarked with craters from meteor impacts. The surface of Phobos also possesses an intricate pattern of grooves, which may be cracks that formed after the impact created the moon's largest crater — a hole about 6 miles (10 km) wide, or nearly half the width of Phobos. They always show the same face to Mars, just as our moon does to Earth.

    It remains uncertain how Phobos and Deimos were born. They may have been asteroids captured by Mars' gravitational pull, or they may have been formed in orbit around Mars the same time the planet came into existence. Ultraviolet light reflected from Phobos provides strong evidence that the moon is a captured asteroid ,according to astronomers at the University of Padova in Italy.

    Phobos is gradually spiraling toward Mars, drawing about 6 feet (1.8 meters) closer to the Red Planet each century. Within 50 million years, Phobos will either smash into Mars or break up and form a ring of debris around the planet.

    Research & exploration

    The first person to watch Mars with a telescope was Galileo Galilei. In the century following, astronomers discovered the planet's polar ice caps. In the 19th and 20th centuries, researchers believed they saw a network of long, straight canals on Mars, that hinted at possible civilization, although later these proved to be mistaken interpretations of dark regions they saw.

    A number of martian rocks have fallen to the surface of Earth over the eons, providing scientists a rare opportunity to study Martian rocks without having to leave our planet. One of the most controversial finds was Allan Hills 84001 (ALH 84001) — a Martian meteorite that in 1996, was said to contain shapes reminiscent of small fossils. The find garnered a lot of media attention at the time, but subsequent studies dismissed the idea. The debate was still ongoing in 2016, the 20th anniversary of the announcement. In 2018, a separate meteorite study found that organic molecules — the building blocks of life, although not necessarily life itself — could have formed on Mars through battery-like chemical reactions.

    Robotic spacecraft began observing Mars in the 1960s, with the United States launching Mariner 4 in 1964 and Mariners 6 and 7 in 1969. The missions revealed Mars to be a barren world, without any signs of the life or civilizations people had imagined there. In 1971, Mariner 9 orbited Mars, mapping about 80 percent of the planet and discovering its volcanoes and canyons.

    The Soviet Union also launched numerous spacecraft in the 1960s and early 1970s, but most of those missions failed. Mars 2 (1971) and Mars 3 (1971) operated successfully, but were unable to map the surface due to dust storms. NASA's Viking 1 lander touched down on the surface of Mars in 1976, the first successful landing on the Red Planet. The lander took the first close-up pictures of the Martian surface but found no strong evidence for life.

    The next two craft to successfully reach Mars were the Mars Pathfinder, a lander, and Mars Global Surveyor, an orbiter, both launched in 1996. A small robot onboard Pathfinder named Sojourner — the first wheeled rover to explore the surface of another planet — ventured over the planet's surface analyzing rocks.

    In 2001, the NASA launched the Mars Odyssey probe, which discovered vast amounts of water ice beneath the Martian surface, mostly in the upper 3 feet (1 meter). It remains uncertain whether more water lies underneath, since the probe cannot see water any deeper.

    Artist's rendition of the InSight lander on the surface of Mars.
    (Image: © NASA)

    In 2003, Mars passed closer to Earth than anytime in that past 60,000 years. That same year, NASA launched two rovers, nicknamed Spirit and Opportunity, which explored different regions of the Martian surface. Both rovers found signs that water once flowed on the planet's surface. 

    In 2008, NASA sent another mission, Phoenix, to land in the northern plains of Mars and search for water which it succeeded in doing

    In 2011, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission sent the Mars Curiosity rover, to investigate Martian rocks and determine the geologic processes that created them. Among the mission's findings was the first meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover has found complex organic molecules on the surface, as well as seasonal fluctuations in methane concentrations in the atmosphere.

    NASA has two other orbiters working around the planet, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution). The European Space Agency (ESA) also has two spacecraft orbiting the planet: Mars Express and the Trace Gas Orbiter.

    In September 2014, India's Mars Orbiter Mission also reached the Red Planet, making it the fourth nation to successfully enter orbit around Mars.

    In November 2018, NASA sent a stationary lander called Mars InSight to the surface. InSight will examine the planet's geologic activity by burrowing a probe underground.

    NASA plans to launch a successor rover mission to Curiosity, called Mars 2020. This mission will search for ancient signs of life and, depending on how promising its samples look, it may "cache" the results in safe spots on the Red Planet for a future rover to pick up.

    ESA is working on its own ExoMars rover that should also launch in 2020, and will include a drill to go deep into the Red Planet, collecting soil samples from about 2 meters (6.5 feet) deep.

    Lost missions

    Mars is far from an easy planet to reach. NASA, Russia, the European Space Agency, China, Japan and the Soviet Union collectively lost many spacecraft in their quest to explore the Red Planet. Notable examples include:

    1992 — NASA's Mars Observer

    1996 — Russia's Mars 96

    1998 — NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter, Japan's Nozomi

    1999 — NASA's Mars Polar Lander

    2003 — ESA's Beagle 2 lander

    2011 — Russia's Fobus-Grunt mission to Phobos with the Chinese Yinghuo-1 orbiter

    2016 — ESA's Schiaparelli test lander

    Human missions to come

    Robots aren't the only ones getting a ticket to Mars. A workshop group of scientists from government agencies, academia and industry have determined that a NASA-led manned mission to Mars should be possible by the 2030s. However, in late 2017, the Trump administration directed NASA to send people back to the moon before going to Mars. NASA is now more focused on a concept called the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway that would be a moon-based space station and headquarters for further space exploration.

    Robotic missions to the Red Planet have seen much success in the past few decades, but it remains a considerable challenge to get people to Mars. With current rocket technology, it would take several months for people to travel to Mars, and that means they would live for several months in microgravity, which has devastating effects on the human body. Performing activities in the moderate gravity on Mars could prove extremely difficult after many months in microgravity. Research on the effects of microgravity continues on the International Space Station.

    NASA isn't the only one with Martian astronaut hopefuls. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, has outlined multiple concepts to bring people to Mars. In November 2018, Musk rebranded SpaceX's future "Big Falcon Rocket" to "Starship". Other nations, including China and Russia, have also announced their goals for sending humans to Mars.

    Additional resources:

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    19-02-2019 om 17:53 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help In Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI)?

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    Can Artificial Intelligence (AI) Help In Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligence (ETI)?

    The existence of intelligent life forms beyond Earth has been speculated on for centuries. However, with the recent advancements in the field of science and technology, this speculation is becoming much more intense. We have already sent Voyagers out into the cosmos to find if anyone is out there and detect any traces of extraterrestrial habitation.

    In our quest for extraterrestrial intelligence (ETI), we have typically looked for empathetic signs of intelligence, physiology, and communication like our own. Many researchers, like Jill Tarter, who specialize in searching for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI), opine that a conventional approach like transmitting electromagnetic signals might be good for detecting technosignatures, but not necessarily intelligence.

    For that reason, scientists are now attempting to use artificial intelligence (AI) to find alien intelligence in ways we as humans cannot achieve. Artificial intelligence (AI) is a specially designed type of software that mimics the way humans learn and solve complex problems. Machines running AI programs learn activities like speech recognition, planning, problem-solving, perception, and planning all by themselves, and can work efficiently without getting lost in the labyrinth of data. You can learn everything you want to know about AI here.

    Understanding ‘Intelligence’

    To earnestly go out and find extraterrestrial intelligence, we must eliminate the dogma of human beings as a supremely intelligent species.

    There are many examples in the wild demonstrating that animals can be incredibly smart in their own ways. For instance, spiders are known to process information through their webs, crows understand analogies, cetaceans like dolphins have their own dialects, and primates like chimpanzees skillfully use tools to complete tasks. In other words, ‘non-human’ forms of intelligence and culture are all around us.

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    A chimpanzee showing off his intelligence

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    Extraterrestrial intelligence might look like a dinosaur, an ant, a shark or a robot—or something radically different from any forms or ideas found on Earth.

    The SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute is toiling day and night to uncover alien intelligence elsewhere in the universe. However, the conventional SETI approach suffers from two limitations: First, they surmise that extraterrestrial creatures are smart and ready to communicate with us or other species; Second is the assumption that we are intelligent enough to recognize the messages if they (aliens) send them to us in some raw or encoded form.

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    However, thanks to recent discoveries in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and deep learning, we can now re-examine existing data to uncover any minute traces of extraterrestrial intelligence. SETI researchers are convinced that artificial intelligence could turn out to be the game changer in the search, as AI algorithms are ideal for spotting differences and forming patterns out of the massive sea of data.

    That is why researchers at the SETI Institute are partnering with the tech giants like Intel, IBM, and others to discuss ways in which AI can be used to solve pertinent space and science problems, including the discovery of extraterrestrial intelligence.

    AI Anomaly Engine

    One of the ways in which the discovery of alien existence could be achieved is by designing an AI anomaly engine. The idea at the heart of this strategy is to scan for anomalous patterns that may not necessarily be communication signals sent by aliens, but rather subtle manifestations of technological advancement that have been achieved in other parts of the universe. The main motive of the AI anomaly engine is to discern a data set that is aberrant to the standard baseline. This strategy helps to curtail futile efforts, such as making vague assumptions about what an extraterrestrial intelligent species would look like, which is inherently filled with our own biases.

    The best part of the AI anomaly engine is that it is often seen as a win-win proposition. Even if an unusual discovery is not related to an extraterrestrial civilization, it demands an explanation that might propel our researchers to understand the universe in an even more profound way.

    Autocorrelator

    That being said, designing an efficient AI anomaly detection engine that ingeniously works with the multivariant data remains a dark art for even the best minds working in the SETI field. Despite the potential it holds, designing an AI anomaly engine continues to be highly challenging. Another approach is to train a deep neural network to be an autocorrelator, capable of finding unusual examples of data.

    For the uninitiated, a deep learning neural network is a paradigm of AI that derives inspiration from the structure of the human brain; it consists of a set of complex units (equivalent to neurons in our brain). Each unit combines a set of input values to generate an output value, which in turn is passed on to other neurons in the deeper layer of the network. In other words, a deep neural network involves the use of neural networks—computer programs that are structurally inspired by the dense network of neurons in the human brain.

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    To successfully implement an autocorrelator, the input data needs to be compressed so that it can flow through a pinch-point in the neural net—like sand flowing through an hourglass.

    By design, AI algorithms are fast learners, so the more they sift through data of a similar nature, the better the AI program becomes at compressing and categorizing that information. Furthermore, if it encounters data that is unusual by set standards, it would notify the researchers about the discovery of this incongruous data.

    The limitation of autocorrelators, at the moment, is that they work best with limited data size and still lack the flexibility needed to correctly spot the outliers that could provide some hint of extraterrestrial intelligence.

    However, research in the niche field of AI is going full steam ahead. It is expected that researchers will come out with many more ways to further enhance the capabilities of AI. AI algorithms could potentially spot anomalies within the huge data repository collected after years of research in space science disciplines.

    It is possible that proof of alien intelligence could be lurking within the petabytes of space data we’ve already gathered, and the sophisticated AI of the future will reveal all the secrets hiding there!

    References:

    1. ScienceDirect
    2. Cornell University
    3. Cambridge University
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    19-02-2019 om 17:32 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.ALERTE AUX ALIENS AU PAYS DE GALLES : Un expert en OVNI affirme que la lumière bleue étrange est liée à une “base extraterrestre souterraine”

    ALERTE AUX ALIENS AU PAYS DE GALLES : Un expert en OVNI affirme que la lumière bleue étrange est liée à une “base extraterrestre souterraine”

    Des images effrayantes d’une mystérieuse lumière bleue et éclatante au-dessus de l’A55 seraient reliées à une “base extraterrestre souterraine” dans le nord du Pays de Galles, a déclaré un enquêteur sur les OVNI.

    Des séquences de l’étrange lumière flottante ont été prises par un membre du Service aérien de la Police nationale, ce qui a déclenché une réaction de l’enquêteur Russ Kellett, qui a dit que c’était un signe d’une forme de vie extraterrestre. Il a dit à North Wales Live : Je pense que la lumière est probablement connectée à une base souterraine. Je ne sais pas ce que c’était, mais c’est peut-être un OVNI qui s’est écrasé, quelque chose qui a atterri dans la région ou même quelque chose qui a été amené dans la région. Ça pourrait être un signe avant-coureur que quelque chose d’autre est sur le point d’arriver.

    La lumière est apparue près de Northop où elle a brillé avant de s’estomper tandis que des chauffeurs de poids lourds et automobilistes affluaient sur la route pour leurs déplacements matinaux.

    La source de la lumière demeure inconnue.

    D’autres théoriciens pensent que la lumière, qui éclairait tout le tronçon de route très fréquentée, pourrait être le résultat d’un phénomène naturel comme la foudre.

    La théorie de M. Kellett n’est cependant pas la première à lier ce type de phénomène aux extraterrestres. En décembre dernier, il a dit qu’il ne doutait pas que quelque part au Pays de Galles, il y avait une base secrète extraterrestre.

    Il a également prétendu avoir été enlevé à plusieurs reprises dans le passé et croyait qu’une opération militaire secrète avait eu lieu dans la mer d’Irlande entre le nord du Pays de Galles et Liverpool le matin de l’incident des montagnes Berwyn, qu’il sonde depuis trois décennies, ce qui est étonnant.

    Il a dit : Le nord du Pays de Galles est considéré comme un point chaud pour les OVNI depuis l’incident des Montagnes Berwyn. J’ai regardé de très près cette zone, et il se passe quelque chose.

    L’incident des Montagnes Berwyn s’est produit en 1974 quand le ciel s’est embrasé avec des lumières vives à la suite d’un tremblement de terre.

    Le tremblement a été enregistré à une magnitude de 3,5 et a été ressenti jusqu’à Liverpool.

    Cela a donné lieu à un certain nombre de théories, dont celle d’un OVNI qui s’est écrasé sur terre. D’autres disent qu’il est possible qu’une météorite se soit écrasée dans la région.

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    19-02-2019 om 17:14 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Could Volcanic Activity Allow Water Beneath the Martian Polar Ice?

    Could Volcanic Activity Allow Water Beneath the Martian Polar Ice?

    Ice at Mars' south pole may hide volcanic activity.

    A view of the south pole of Mars, where ice may hide volcanic activity.
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    If liquid water indeed exists under the south polar ice cap of Mars, it has to be due to volcanic activity, a new study suggests.

    The researchers behind the new work argued that there needs to be an underground source of heat to melt ice under an ice cap — although they didn't weigh in on whether that liquid water (or the volcanic heat, for that matter) actually exists on Mars.

    The new study follows up a controversial finding published in the journal Science last July, in which a European Space Agency orbiter, Mars Express, spotted signs of what could be a slurry or a liquid-water lake under the polar ice. At the time, the idea was that a high concentration of salt could keep the water from freezing despite Mars' chilly temperatures. What's strange about that finding is that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter didn't see any sign of a lake, even though that craft's ground-penetrating radar vision should theoretically be able to spot such a feature. [Photos: Red Planet Views from Europe's Mars Express]

    If the water is indeed there, the new study said, a magma chamber must have formed sometime in the past few hundred thousand years under the Martian surface in order to melt the water; salt wouldn't do the trick. (The scientists also pointed out that if the water does not exist, the magmatic activity would also be absent.)

    "Different people may go different ways with this, and we're really interested to see how the community reacts to it," co-lead author Michael Sori, an associate staff scientist in the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory at the University of Arizona, said in a statement from the American Geophysical Union (publisher of Geophysical Research Letters, the journal in which the new study appeared.)

    If volcanic activity is happening on Mars, scientists say it's a strong sign that Mars is active — and a good omen for finding life on the Red Planet, as well. (A new NASA mission called InSight is examining the possibility of current volcanic activity on the Red Planet, but the instrument only just deployed its seismometer shield and results will be months or years in coming.) Life would require a source of water, a source of energy and some sort of protection from the radiation bathing Mars.

    "We think that if there is any life, it likely has to be protected in the subsurface from the radiation," said Ali Bramson, the paper's other co-lead and a postdoctoral research associate at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, in the same statement. "If there are still magmatic processes active today, maybe they were more common in the recent past and could supply more widespread basal melting. This could provide a more favorable environment for liquid water and thus, perhaps, life."

    On Earth, it's common to see liquid water under ice sheets, but scientists know why this occurs: because our planet produces enough internal heat to melt ice that rubs against the Earth's crust. But Mars is much cooler than Earth; it is farther from the sun and smaller than our planet, so it generates less internal heat. On Mars, it's unclear what phenomenon could melt its two polar ice sheets, which are each a couple of kilometers thick.

    The new study started with the assumption that liquid water could exist under the Martian polar ice, then modeled how much heat is generated in the planet's interior to determine whether there is enough salt at the bottom of the ice cap to melt the ice. Salt lowers the freezing point of water and has been used in Mars modeling before to argue that dark streaks appearing on crater walls came from liquid water. Some scientists say salt allowed a briny water to flow down the crater, while others argue the features represent dry dust flows. [Mars' South Pole May Hide a Large Underground Lake]

    In the new paper, the scientists discovered that salt alone couldn't raise the temperature of water high enough to melt ice if salt is nestled underneath the ice cap. So, an additional heat source is required — hence, the volcanic idea. Perhaps, the paper suggested, magma flowed from the inside of Mars to near the surface roughly 300,000 years ago. The magma didn't erupt, but instead pooled in a chamber just underneath the surface. Over the eons, this magma chamber gradually cooled off and the evaporated heat melted the ice at the bottom of the south polar sheet, this scenario continues.

    Mars hosts numerous old volcanoes, including Olympus Mons, the largest volcano in the solar system. But there's no compelling evidence showing that these volcanoes are active. In fact, many scientists argue that volcanism on Mars could have stopped millions of years ago, according to the journal's statement.

    Jack Holt, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, said the paper does address one reason why water could exist under the south polar ice cap. However, Holt, who talked to the authors before they submitted the new paper for publication but did not take part in the research, added that more research is required to better narrow down the answer.

    "I think it was a great idea to do this type of modeling and analysis, because you have to explain the water, if it's there, and so it's really a critical piece of the puzzle," Holt said in the statement. "The original paper [about the polar water find, in Science] just left it hanging. There could be water there, but you have to explain it, and these guys did a really nice job of saying what is required and that salt is not sufficient."

    The new research is described in a paper published yesterday (Feb. 12) in the journal Geophysical Research Letters.

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    19-02-2019 om 16:38 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Mysterious Flash of Light in Wales Sky Triggers 'Alien Warning' Speculation

    For some of our local followers who also saw a blue flash of light at 6:30am today this was my dashcam view captured on the A55 E/B at Northop

    Mysterious Flash of Light in Wales Sky Triggers 'Alien Warning' Speculation

    Conspiracy theorists claim that a strange bright blue light that emanated in the sky over North Wales earlier this month marked the descent of aliens at a secret underground base.

    The footage that fuelled this alien speculation was filmed by a member of the Hawarden-based National Police Air Service on 7 February, though some commenters suggested that the eerie phenomenon was caused by a ball lightning or power outage.

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    However, UFO investigator Russ claims that the light was connected with an underground facility he believes to be lying beneath the North Wales coast

    "I don't know what it was, but it could have been a UFO that came down, something that landed in the area or even something that was brought to the area," he told North Wales Live.

    "I've not had any reports of any UFO sightings since the flash which is very strange, but it could be a precursor that something else is about to happen — something like a mass sighting or maybe something is preparing to land.

    "We've not had any landings for a while so it would be good to know if anyone sees anything," he said.

    Commenters on social media came up with some more down-to-earth-explanations.

    "That's what happens when a transformer blew up," a user wrote.

    Another added, "I saw that in Chicago a few years ago. No one knew what it was. The cops said it was probably a 'blown transformer'".

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    19-02-2019 om 16:20 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Finally, humanity gets the tools needed to find life on other planets

    Finally, humanity gets the tools needed to find life on other planets

    In the "Star Trek" universe, humans made contact with aliens in 2063. In the real world, scientists could beat that mark by decades, at least when it comes to detecting signs of life beyond this rock.

    Gliese 581d is a potentially habitable planet just 20 light-years away. In 20 years we could know if it delivers on that potential.

    Exactly four centuries ago this year, Galileo sent a letter to the Grand Duchess of Tuscany to implore the powers-that-be of the time to accept the scientific fact that the Earth revolves around the sun and not the reverse.

    It was not a new idea -- the ancient Greek Aristarchus made the same argument almost 2,000 years earlier, as did Copernicus in the 16th century -- but it was Galileo who finally had observations made with the newly invented telescope to prove the case.


    Of course, that didn't save Galileo from persecution and spending the last decade of his life under house arrest, but eventually this fundamental idea became the foundation of astronomy and forever changed our view of the universe and our place in it.

    Just as Galileo's telescope helped prove what had been suspected for centuries, now, exactly 400 years later, many scientists and observers believe a new generation of telescopes -- both under construction on Earth and planned for launch into space in the coming years -- will bring new discoveries that will again fundamentally alter humanity's view of our role in the wider cosmos. Specifically, it's believed these instruments could offer concrete evidence of what many suspect to be near a mathematical certainty: that we are not alone in the universe, that life exists in some form on other distant planets.

    "I expect that in the next 10 to 20 years we might be able to determine with the future ground and space telescopes that some exoplanets are likely habitable or even habitable (not just potentially habitable) but not yet to confirm that any is inhabited; that might take longer than 30 years," Abel Méndez, who directs the Planetary Habitability Laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico at Arecibo, told CNET's Crave blog. "I hope I'm wrong and we do it earlier."

    Méndez, who will appear in a recorded interview on Tuesday's CraveCast at noon PT, convened some of the smartest people involved in humanity's exoplanet search effort Monday at an astrobiology conference in Chicago -- MIT astrophysicist Sara Seager will be among those attending.

    "(We are) embarking on the 'real search for alien life' by being the first generation capable of finding signs of life," Seager said on Twitter last year.

    The new capability that Seager is referring to is the next generation of space telescopes that will succeed the likes of the Hubble, Kepler and Spitzer to better identify smaller, Earth-size planets and search for biosignatures emanating from their surfaces or atmospheres. NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), with a mirror almost three times larger than Hubble's, and the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) are scheduled for launch in 2018 and 2017, respectively, and will team up to identify and then study potentially habitable or even potentially inhabited exoplanets.

    Since the 1990s, there has been a boom in data confirming that our galaxy, our universe and even the unexplored corners of our solar system are utterly littered with planets and other large chunks of rock, some hosting ice, water, lakes, oceans and the building blocks of life.

    Most of these discoveries -- from the possibly warm "soda ocean" beneath the surface of Saturn's moon Enceladus to Kepler 186-f, an Earth-size planet in the constellation Cygnus some 500 light-years away that may hold water -- have been made with telescopes and technology designed and built pre-Facebook and pre-iPhone. The Hubble space telescope, a veteran workhorse of space exploration, was built in the 1980s.

    When it comes to searching the cosmos for signs of life, it's kind of like we're living in the age of Google, but still relying on the microfiche machine in the back of the library to help us find what we're looking for.

    "If we want to study (many more) potentially habitable terrestrial planets around nearby stars, there are a couple of things that we need. First, if we plan to observe them with JWST we need to find planets eclipsing bright, nearby, low-mass stars," Heather Knutson, an assistant professor of planetary science at the California Institute of Technology, told CNET's Crave blog. "TESS is a crucial step in this process because it will find the closest, brightest transiting planet systems that will make ideal targets for JWST to characterize."

    Astrobiologists won't look through the JWST and see real-life Wookiees orKlingons waving back at us, but it will allow distant rocky planets and their characteristics to begin to come into focus, in a manner of speaking. Right now, Hubble has a hard time characterizing smaller planets, so this is an important step toward identifying far-off Earth cousins and their characteristics.

    The next step to ID'ing E.T., even in microscopic form, would be to get a positive hit for biosignature gases -- such as methane, oxygen or carbon dioxide, just to name the familiar ones -- from one of these planets.

    While Knutson believes "we certainly won't be able to detect biosignatures" with JWST, Seager is not quite so pessimistic, having said it could be the telescope's most exciting discovery, but would require good luck.


    Not surprisingly, much of this equipment will be far more powerful than what's been used to make the exciting exoplanet discoveries of the last few years, giving us exponentially more capability than ever before. But even optimists like Seager caution that there's still a scientific process to be performed before we can point to a star in the night sky and tell our children that it hosts life in its solar system (something she does believe she'll be able to do in her lifetime).

    Once biosignatures have been detected on exoplanets, those atmospheres will need to be observed in more detail to eliminate "false positives," and that may require yet another generation of telescope technology.

    Here's the illustration Mendez likes to use in his presentations showing how he expects the search to progress against a timeline of new telescope and satellite launches along the bottom

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    Even if it took more than 40 years, that still puts us ahead of the schedule for first contact used in the "Star Trek" universe, where humans meet aliens for the first time in 2063.

    NASA astronomer Kevin Hand is even more optimistic. Hand said last year that he expects we'll find life elsewhere by 2034. After all, it seems increasingly likely that we may not have to scan all the heavens, using advanced telescopes to intricately discern the molecules floating around on planets light-years away.Curiosity could find bacteria in Martian soil tomorrow. Cassini might spy biosignatures in Enceladus' plumes next week. Our own solar system looks livelier all the time. Perhaps it will turn out that it is literally so.

    In a best-case scenario, the next decade could see near-simultaneous discoveries of life on Europa -- thanks to NASA's planned mission to the Jovian moon -- and on a distant exoplanet emitting oxygen picked up by JWST.

    Even if the most conservative estimates by scientists (and "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry) that we're still decades away from discovering E.T. prove true, these are nonetheless exciting times to be conducting the search. It's the rapid and accelerating pace of discovery since the launch of Hubble in 1990 and the identification of the first exoplanet in the mid-1990s that really capture the imagination.

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    PHL/UPR-Arecibo

    It took almost two centuries for the heliocentric model of the solar system proved by Copernicus and Galileo to be accepted by the powers that be, but these are very different times.

    Consider that in just about two decades, we've gone from a universe in which we could point to not a single other planet like ours to keeping a catalog of them, a catalog it now seems could eventually contain billions of entries. And in just the past two years, we've made discoveries both about those distant planets and about the many fascinating rocks in our own solar system that prove that the building blocks of life, including water, are much more abundant than we might have thought.

    After millennia, we are just beginning to be able to see the true nature of the cosmos and our place within it. We are squinting at the universe right now, and at distant signs of potential life. The blurry visions we're currently grasping at are already pretty amazing, but in the next few years we will turn on telescopes and other technology that will allow us to finally bring this broader picture more clearly into focus.

    19-02-2019 om 16:05 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Dr. John Alexander - UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities

    Dr. John Alexander - UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities

    This is retired Army Col. John Alexander's International UFO Congress lecture from 2011.

    Alexander’s presentation will include an insider’s view of how the U.S. government deals with UFOs and other phenomena with detailed explanation about specific events. While supporting the physical reality of UFOs, he will discuss some of the myths that have been built up over time. Noting that real disclosure has happened yet gone unnoticed, Alexander will examine disclosure and address its actual confirmation.

    John Alexander is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a leading advocate for the development of non-lethal weapons. For the first time anywhere his new book, UFOs: Myths, Conspiracies, and Realities, which provides a government insider’s look at the UFO phenomena, will be available. In his book, Alexander discusses the organization he created while on active duty to explore this topic. Comprised of members across the Department of Defense and aerospace industries, Alexander was surprised at what he learned when he briefed the leaders of many of these agencies. A very important aspect of this book is a description of how government agencies really work, and how an individual’s belief system impacts the organization’s operations.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Er is een nachtelijk spektakel in aantocht. Zet je schrap voor de supersneeuwmaan, de grootste en felste maan van het jaar
    Er is een nachtelijk spektakel in aantocht. Zet je schrap voor de supersneeuwmaan, de grootste en felste maan van het jaar

    Er is een nachtelijk spektakel in aantocht. Zet je schrap voor de supersneeuwmaan, de grootste en felste maan van het jaar

    Als het weer het toelaat is er vanavond een zogenoemde supersneeuwmaan te zien. De volle maan lijkt dan veel groter dan normaal. Ook is het maanlicht feller dan bij een gebruikelijke volle maan.

    Dit komt doordat het hemellichaam dichter bij de aarde staat dan een gemiddelde volle maan.

    Vanwege de elliptische baan van de maan om de aarde verandert de afstand tussen de maan en onze planeet gedurende het jaar.

    Goede kans

    Gemiddeld is de afstand tussen de maan en de aarde 384.000 kilometer, maar bij een supermaan staat de maan ‘slechts’ 357.000 kilometer van ons vandaan.

    Er is een goede kans dat de maan te zien is, want er zijn dinsdag opklaringen. De supermaan lijkt het grootst aan het begin van de avond, wanneer de zon net onder is.

    De tweede volle maan van het jaar wordt de sneeuwmaan genoemd. Volgens de Amerikaanse ruimtevaartorganisatie NASA begon een indianenstam in de Verenigde Staten met die benaming.

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    Possible Neanderthal Footprints Found In Gibraltar

    Scientists have found footprints that could have possibly been made by Neanderthals thousands of years ago. The footprints were discovered in Gibraltar – more specifically, the area of Catalan Bay Sand Dunes – which is located on Spain’s southern coast. The sand sheets from the dunes above Catalan Bay were from the last glacial period when the water levels there were around 120 meters below where they are today.

    An international journal called Quaternary Science Reviewspublished a paper with help from scientists from the Gibraltar National Museum, as well as their colleagues from Japan, Portugal, and Spain. Their work began ten years ago when they discovered footprints that were created by vertebrates that lived in Gibraltar. Those footprints were made from red deer, leopards, ibex, aurochs, and straight-tusked elephants.

    What’s even more exciting is that they discovered footprints of a young human who could very well have been a Neanderthal. This human is said to have been between 106 and 126 cm tall which is between 40 and 50 inches in height. Since it is believed that this human lived around 29,000 years ago, that would mean that he was most likely a Neanderthal from Gorham’s Cave in Gibraltar.

    The researchers used Optically-Stimulated Luminescence (or OSL) to figure out the dates of the sediment deposits that were found on the lower cliff foot dunes above Catalan Bay. OSL was able to date the quartz sediment deposits by figuring out when it was last exposed to sunlight.

    If these footprints are proven to be from a Neanderthal, it would be only the second location on the entire planet that has confirmed footprints made by these ancient human ancestors. The second location is Vartop Cave which is located in Romania. It would also be extremely important information regarding the Gibraltar Pleistocene heritage.

    Discovering ancient footprints of animals and perhaps even a Neanderthal is an incredible find in regards to the history of Gibraltar. “This is extraordinary research and gives us an incredible insight into the wildlife community of Gibraltar’s past. We should all take a moment to imagine the scene when these animals walked across our landscape. It helps us understand the importance of looking after our heritage,” Minister for Heritage John Cortes MP said. He added, “I congratulate the research team on uncovering this fascinating, hidden evidence of our Rock’s past.”

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    19-02-2019 om 14:46 geschreven door peter  

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    UFO Disguised As Comet Slowed Down Rotation When Nearest To Earth, UFO Sighting News.


    Date of sighting: May 2017
    Location of sighting: Near Earths orbit
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    When is a comet a UFO? When it makes impossible changes in short amounts of time. Comet 41P slowed its rotation speed by 3X or 300% when it was closest to Earth. And why you say? Because its not a comet, its an alien probe that was scanning Earth. This is not a comet, but an alien probe sent to pass all the planets and moons in our solar system and scan them for advancements in life, technology, and to detect any changes in those places since it last passed by. You can even see that when I add contrast to the photo of Comet 41P, along the lower edges is seen large rectangular wall of structures. Comets don't have structures, only alien ships would have structures. It sounds like NASA is not telling us the full truth about this one. 
    Scott C. Waring

    NASA states: 

    Observations by NASA's Swift spacecraft, now renamed the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory after the mission’s late principal investigator, have captured an unprecedented change in the rotation of a comet. Images taken in May 2017 reveal that comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresák — 41P for short — was spinning three times slower than it was in March, when it was observed by the Discovery Channel Telescope at Lowell Observatory in Arizona. The abrupt slowdown is the most dramatic change in a comet's rotation ever seen.

     

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    19-02-2019 om 14:24 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Triangle UFO within Disk Recorded By Australian Police During Lightning Storm, Feb 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    Triangle UFO within Disk Recorded By Australian Police During Lightning Storm, Feb 16, 2019, Video, UFO Sighting News.

    Date of sighting: February 16, 2019
    Location of sighting: Broome, Australia
     
    This UFO appeared during a lightning storm over Australia this week and was caught on CCTV cameras in a police car. The glowing white object looks like a disk, but then a bright white triangle appears in its center as it moves away. That is why the camera didn't follow it is that it was a dashboard camera on the police car. At first seeing the disk, I had doubts, but when this object lit up with a triangle within it...I knew it was 100% real. 
     
    I also noticed on their Twitter feed that the police try to downplay the earlier tweet by tweeting again saying it was probably a reflection, but know this, police are not UFO experts. They are just down playing the UFO sighting to keep their jobs, security and some are probably close to retirement and don't want to risk losing the benefits it comes with. Talking about UFOs is still seen as taboo...forbidden among many. I get that, they have families to think of, but know this. Thats a real UFO, and its causing the lightning storm to appear, not the other way around. 
    Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
     
    Eyewitness states: 
    "After reviewing CCTV at town beach of last nights storm, it appears we were not alone," the police's official Twitter feed wrote, followed by a string of UFO emoji.


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    19-02-2019 om 14:19 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Are Aliens Secretly Studying Life on Earth from Afar? The Zoo Hypothesis Says Yes

    Are Aliens Secretly Studying Life on Earth from Afar? The Zoo Hypothesis Says Yes

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    19-02-2019 om 01:18 geschreven door peter  

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    Dwarf Planet Ceres Hosted Near-Surface Water for Millions of Years

    19-02-2019 om 00:27 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.3D Imaging in Space

    3D Imaging in Space

    A View for the Future: Sending an xCT Scanner to Mars

    NASA is digging ever more deeply into understanding the makeup of the surfaces of Mars and our Moon. A lot can be learned by sending instruments to land on these places, but vastly more can be discovered by bringing back samples for analysis here on Earth thanks to increasingly capable laboratory instruments. The only difficulty with that is, “every gram back from Mars will cost millions of dollars to transport,” said James B. Garvin, Chief Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. With that in mind, Dr. Garvin and colleagues have proposed “triaging” the samples in place to decide in advance which would be most valuable to transport back to Earth. Recently, Garvin turned to NASA engineers Justin S. Jones and Ryan Kent to investigate the feasibility of achieving instrumentation to do that on the surfaces of the Moon and Mars. Their solution is to use x-ray Computed Tomography (xCT) to obtain 3D images of the interiors of potential samples as a first step in “high-grading.”

    WILL IT WORK?

    They first needed to demonstrate that xCT could indeed obtain x-ray images of Mars-like or lunar rocks. To investigate whether it could work, Jones used an industrial CT to evaluate volcanic rocks from a newly formed island in the South Pacific as well as other specimens, such as two lunar brecciated meteorites that fell in Northwest Africa. “Even with samples encased in protective glass and metal cases filled with nitrogen, the scanner revealed previously undetected minerals and 3-D arrangements at extremely fine scales,” said Garvin.

    Figure 1. Lunar meteorite ready for xCT scan.

    INDUSTRIAL VS MEDICAL SCANNERS

    CT scanners used for imaging people and for imaging objects are conceptually the same: in both, you're utilizing x-ray beam projections from multiple angles around the sample. The main difference is, in the medical side, the CT technique is what's called a helical CT scan — you're taking a line scan of x-rays through a helical sweep around the body, which is stationary. With an industrial CT, the only moving part is the sample, which rotates; the x-ray source and the detector are stationary. Rather than a helical line scan, the industrial CT uses a planar, full screen digital detector to capture a two-dimensional radiograph from different angles as the sample rotates. The rotation stage is incremented perhaps a tenth or a quarter of a degree, another image is captured, and so on until you get all the way around. The raw data is a series of two-dimensional radiographs that are used to assemble a 3D image through a process known as filtered back-projection reconstruction.

    Figure 2. 3D xCT view of the lunar sample showing the bright, highly x-ray absorbing mineral, believed to be barite (barium sulfate) or possibly Fe-based. (Sample borrowed from the Dr. Jay Piatek Meteorite Collection)

    That wasn't always the case. According to Jones, CT computers have significantly evolved, partly due to the gaming community. The key development was improved graphics processing units (GPU) that can process multiple reconstruction paths simultaneously. This means it is no longer necessary to capture industrial CT data using incremental slice scans, which was very time consuming.

    EXTRATERRESTRIAL CT SCANNING

    So, getting a CT scanner to Mars, or even to the lunar surface, or the International Space Station, would be a good way to determine the most valuable samples to transport. There's just one difficulty with this plan: today's CT scanners are typically large, high-power devices that generally require human assistance for sample setup. To send one into space, it would have to be drastically down-sized — a daunting challenge. “There are some hurdles we would have to encounter, the power source is the big one,” said Jones. But Garvin and Jones think it can be done and are working with experts within and outside of NASA to find workarounds for these hurdles. “And if so, what a tool for future astronauts and robotic rovers to use to select the most compelling samples,” said Garvin.

    Figure 3. Lava sample.

    “Once the CT is in place, picking up the sample and rotating it is achievable,” said Garvin. He explained that “right now, the sample handling system on the Mars Curiosity Rover has all kinds of motions and spinning cells and 'shake and bake’ things to do what it does, so, going the next step: putting marble-sized samples of Mars or the moon or an asteroid for example, into one of these miniaturized X-ray computed tomography devices on another planet is not inconceivable.” All that has to be done is put a little piece of rock into a chamber on a rover spacecraft like Curiosity, align, and rotate it.

    THE ADVANTAGES OF XCT

    As you explore the surface of an extraterrestrial body, it's hard to decide just by the look of things what might be useful to examine further. The trouble is knowing, “is this a useful sample, this gray grungy thing from the Moon or Mars — most rocks kind of look gray and grungy,” said Garvin. So, it would be a great help to have an advance idea of what the sample might have to offer internally.

    Figure 4. 3D/volumetric view of the lava sample. The bulk of the rock has been shaded as translucent. The bright inclusions within this volume are a highly x-ray absorbing phase of material within the rock. The plane intersecting this volume is a “cutting plane” (2D slice). It shows what the rock would look like if you were to cut it open along that plane.

    There are other ways to examine the interior of a sample, so why CT? One option could be to cut open a small sample of a specimen. The trouble with that is that since the sample is just a small part of a larger object, it is impossible to use it to accurately judge the structure of the whole. In one sample that the team recently studied, “The state of the art published data, gleaned through destructive physical cross-sections, says certain features are 100 microns in scale (0.1 mm). Then, when you look at the scale of the whole rock, all of a sudden there are ones that are 100 times that — that changes the interpretation,” Garvin said. Even with samples that have been brought to earth, a CT could be used to precisely locate features you want to study so that you know in advance where to slice.

    WHAT COULD WE LEARN FROM A 3D X-RAY?

    The X-Ray CT is like a three-dimensional picture that can be enhanced by adding pseudo-colors and analyzed with the help of 3D rendering software. “It's not telling us: this is iron, or this is manganese, but it will tell you: this element, or this grain, or this structure in the rock is a higher density than the neighboring grain,” said Jones. It shows relative densities by virtue of the fact that x-rays are absorbed as a function of the atomic number in the periodic table — the higher the atomic number, the higher the absorption. “The chemistry of the way the rock forms, produces 3D signatures that are definitive,” added Garvin.

    THE XCT — ENGINEERING TOOL IN SPACE

    There are other uses for an extraterrestrial CT: inspection and maintenance of equipment. For example, there is now a 3D printer on the International Space Station and there is talk of employing one in a future human habitat on the Moon to create tools and instruments. Computed Tomography is the only practical method for inspecting parts created with 3D printers, due to their inherent complexity. If a part fails, the CT can be used to analyze the fault. It gives you a virtual three-dimensional view, including any pores, inclusions, cracks, or crack-initiators. Especially in a habitat on the moon, resources are very limited so it will be valuable to know whether it is safe to reuse a component from a failed mechanism.

    WHAT IS THE FUTURE FOR 3D CT SCANNING IN SPACE?

    “An exciting step would be to put one of these things into the next generation crew-vehicle we're hoping to send to cislunar orbit as part of the president's new space policy and have samples come to it, but not back to Earth,” Garvin said. He explained that robots and people could go to the Moon and bring the samples back to this orbiting gateway. We would then see a three-dimensional image and triage for the most interesting samples for return to Earth. “This would save the expense of bringing home samples that have mass and need care and feeding to do it right — a big step when you bring something home to earth, particularly if it's with a crew, as we did so well with Apollo,” said Garvin. “xCT and other innovations (e.g. laser confocal microscopes) that permit detailed studies of the interiors or surfaces of samples in 3D, at micrometer scales, could revolutionize planetary sciences in the upcoming decades, especially for the Moon and Mars.”

    • This article was written by Ed Brown, Associate Editor of Photonics & Imaging Technology. For more information, Click Here.

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Printed Sensors Could Simplify NASA’s Extraterretrial Scanning

    Printed Sensors Could Simplify NASA’s Extraterrestrial Scanning

    It’s no secret that remotely scanning extraterrestrial environments requires quite a lot of state-of-the-art technology. Aside from the space travel tech, there is the problem of building the actual sensors that will be picking up light traces of water vapor, gases or temperature changes. Luckily however, NASA is looking to develop 3D printed sensors that are lighter and more compact than ever. The sensors will serve as the basis for a potentially revolutionary, nanomaterial-based detector platform.

    Mahmooda Sultana is the lead technologist for the project, having won funding to advance this concept through a $2 million technology development award. Potentially, the system will be capable of sensing everything from minute concentrations of gases and vapor, atmospheric pressure and temperature. It will then transmit all this data, using a wireless antenna, back to NASA’s ground controllers.

    Printed Sensors Could Simplify NASA's Extraterrestrial Scanning

    What’s most impressive about the project is that it could do all this from a single, self-contained platform. It’s also a marvel that the platform could measure just two-by-three-inches in size. The potential for miniaturisation that printed sensors provide is a major boon to simplifying NASA’s extraterrestrial terrain scanning capabilities.

    Currently, the team is busy measuring which set-up is best for the design. This reequires determining which combination of materials can best measure minute (down to parts-per-billion) concentrations of water, ammonia, methane and hydrogen.

    Miniaturization & Space Exploration

    The miniaturization of technologies is a crucial aspect of modern space travel. Compact and lighter equipment allows for the economisation of space and fuel costs. Thus, it’s been on NASA’s mind for a while and 3D printing is definitely playing a part in multiple ways. The team at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are working with could simplify both the production and the packaging of these essential platforms.

    The project is looking into nanomaterials, like carbon nanotubes, graphene, etc. as the basis. Another unique aspect of the proposed method is that it will print all the necessary sensors on the same substrate using a single process. They are even looking int printing a part of the wireless communication circuitry needed for the platform and the printed sensors to relay the data to ground controllers.

    Nanomaterials, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, molybdenum disulfide and others, possess useful physical properties. They display high sensitivity and can remain stable in extreme conditions, thus they are ideal candidates. As one would imagine, they are also lightweight, resistant against radiation and require less power.

    Once finalised, Northeastern University will use their Nanoscale Offset Printing System to apply the nanomaterials. Sultana’s group, meanwhile, will functionalize individual sensors by depositing additional layers of nanoparticles, enhancing their sensitivity. They will also integrate the sensors with readout electronics and package the entire platform.

    • Featured image courtesy of NASA.
    • About the author |  Rawal Ahmed is a freelance journalist  and politics correspondent with an avid interest in futurism, science and technology.

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    18-02-2019 om 23:46 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Here's the magnificent last view NASA's Kepler Space Telescope ever saw

    Here's the magnificent last view NASA's Kepler Space Telescope ever saw

    The prolific planet finder went to sleep for good last year, but captured one final view before saying goodnight.

    A composite image of Kepler's final view. The missing tiles are due to parts of the camera that failed.

    NASA

    The final thing NASA's Kepler Space Telescope captured was everything, or at least it looks that way.

    NASA ran out of fuel last year and was put into a permanent sleep mode on Oct. 30. The final full-field image it took can be seen in the above mosaic captured Sept. 25. You can see the telescope's full view of the sky and an abundance of stars within. 

    TRAPPIST 1 System Final Kepler Image

    This is Kepler’s view of the TRAPPIST-1 system, an ultra-cool red dwarf star with seven rocky planets, at least three of them believed to be temperate worlds.

    Credits: NASA/Ames Research Center

    Some blocks of the composite image are blacked out due to failures by parts of the camera. Fortunately, the device had a modular design that allowed for other parts of the image to be retained.Kepler's view of K2-138 with its six planets sized between Earth and Neptune. It was the first multi-planet system entirely discovered by citizen scientists.

    Kepler's view of K2-138 with its six planets sized between Earth and Neptune. It was the first multi-planet system entirely discovered by citizen scientists.
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    But it struggled to make some of those discoveries. A few years into its mission, the parts that help it stay pointed at a target began to fail. Engineers had to come up with a work-around that basically used the subtle pressure coming off the sun itself to keep the telescope steady. Kepler went on making more findsfor half a decade before finally running out of gas. 

    To the right is one of the later star systems Kepler helped discover called K2-138. It is believed to host six planets roughly between the sizes of Earth and Neptune. The GIF shows images collected of the system during Kepler's last day of photography.

    The pixelated view might not be much to look at, but Kepler played a pivotal role in pointing the way towards promising systems like this so that future telescopes might provide a clearer view one day, and perhaps even find evidence of alien life. 

    NASA turns 60: The space agency has taken humanity farther than anyone else, and it has plans to go further.

    Crowd Control: A crowdsourced science fiction novel written by CNET readers

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    18-02-2019 om 23:36 geschreven door peter  

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    Klik hier om een link te hebben waarmee u dit artikel later terug kunt lezen.Watch a Satellite Fire a Harpoon in Space in Wild Debris-Catching Test (Video)

    Watch a Satellite Fire a Harpoon in Space in Wild Debris-Catching Test (Video)

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  • The Ciizen Hearing on Disclosure
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  • ufologie -Guillaume Perrot
  • UFOMOTION
  • CENTRE DE RECHERCHE OVNI PARASPYCHOLOGIE SCIENCE - CROPS -
  • SOCIAL PARANORMAL Magazine
  • TJ Morris ACO Associations, Clubs, Organizations - TJ Morris ACO Social Service Club for...
  • C.E.R.P.I. BELGIQUE
  • Attaqued'un Autre Monde - Christian Macé
  • UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • homepage UFOSPOTTINGNEDERLAND
  • PARANORMAL JOURNEY GUIDE

    WELCOME TO THIS BLOG! I HOPE THAT YOU ENJOY THE LECTURE OF ALL ISSUES. If you did see a UFO, you can always mail it to us. Best wishes.

    Beste bezoeker,
    Heb je zelf al ooit een vreemde waarneming gedaan, laat dit dan even weten via email aan Frederick Delaere op
     www.ufomeldpunt.be. Deze onderzoekers behandelen jouw melding in volledige anonimiteit en met alle respect voor jouw privacy. Ze zijn kritisch, objectief  maar open minded aangelegd en zullen jou steeds een verklaring geven voor jouw waarneming!
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    Ik ben een man en woon in Linter (België) en mijn beroep is Ik ben op rust..
    Ik ben geboren op 18/10/1950 en ben nu dus 73 jaar jong.
    Mijn hobby's zijn: Ufologie en andere esoterische onderwerpen.
    Op deze blog vind je onder artikels, werk van mezelf. Mijn dank gaat ook naar André, Ingrid, Oliver, Paul, Vincent, Georges Filer en MUFON voor de bijdragen voor de verschillende categorieën... Veel leesplezier en geef je mening over deze blog.
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    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 1
  • http://www.ufonieuws.nl/
  • http://www.grenswetenschap.nl/
  • http://www.beamsinvestigations.org.uk/
  • http://www.mufon.com/
  • http://www.ufomeldpunt.be/
  • http://www.ufowijzer.nl/
  • http://www.ufoplaza.nl/
  • http://www.ufowereld.nl/
  • http://www.stantonfriedman.com/
  • http://ufo.start.be/

    LINKS NAAR BEKENDE UFO-VERENIGINGEN - DEEL 2
  • www.ufo.be
  • www.caelestia.be
  • ufo.startpagina.nl.
  • www.wszechocean.blogspot.com.
  • AsocCivil Unifa
  • UFO DISCLOSURE PROJECT

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