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...
09-05-2019
NASA and FEMA Warn That a Strike is Coming During Asteroid Impact Drill
NASA and FEMA Warn That a Strike is Coming During Asteroid Impact Drill
The faces of the Earth and all of the other observable celestial bodies make it clear: things that zoom through space tend to bump into one another from time to time. A meteor impact likely killed off the dinosaurs, and there’s no reason to believe that another world-ending impact couldn’t happen again at any moment, particularly given that there have been plenty ofnear-misses andminor impactsin the last decade alone.
Luckily, the U.S. government has begun taking the threat of near-Earth objects seriously over the last several years, releasing asteroid preparedness plans and conducting impact simulation drills. This year’s drills just took place amid dire warnings from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, warnings which add to the gravity of these simulations and what they may foreshadow. During a speech at the 2019 IAA Planetary Defense Conference in Maryland last month, Bridenstine told his audience that major asteroid impacts tend to happen about every 60 years; thus, while we haven’t had any major impacts recently, we’re likely due for one soon. “I wish I could tell you that these events are exceptionally unique,” Bridenstine said, “but they are not. We have to make people understand this is not about Hollywood, it’s not about movies. This is about ultimately protecting the only planet we know, right now, to host life and that is the planet Earth.”
We’ve been lucky so far in recent history, but we’ve had our share of close calls like the Tunguska Event of 1908 and the Chelyabinsk meteor of 2013 just to name a few. If a major impact happened in a heavily populated area, the outcome could be catastrophic. To simulate what would happen in such an impact, NASA and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) held drills this week to test strategies for responding to a potential strike. The test began at the moment a hypothetical asteroid the size of a small skyscraper was detected by astronomers, allowing the asteroid emergency team to calculate risk of impact.
After that, the team simulated an impact in which a 300-meter asteroid enters Earth’s atmosphere on April 29, 2027, producing a massive fireball that released up to 20 megatons of energy in a catastrophic air burst that scorched 32 square miles (68 sq km) of the ground below and anyone who happened to be in them.
Curiously, European Space Agency scientists at this simulation placed “coordinate pre-impact access to the area by scientists placing sensors to monitor the impact” before “prepare for any casualties & recovery” in their list of priorities for pre-strike preparations once a strike location had been determined. Let’s make sure we appoint some experts from the humanities to balance out these teams out whenever the real thing happens.
Every time these drills occur, I can’t help but think back to a paper published in 2018 by theoretical physicist, inventor, and former Chief Technology Officer at Microsoft Nathan Myhrvold. Myhrvold published an article claiming NASA engaged in scientific misconduct by releasing false data about near-Earth objects like asteroids that may have downplayed the risk we currently face. Could there be any truth to his claims? Do any other recent events suggest that someone may already be planning for such an impact and its aftermath?
Think about it: if the government knew that an asteroid was going to wipe us out ten years from now, would they tell us? Would they want the world to devolve into anarchy as people give up any incentive for paying their mortgages, staying in school, wearing pants, obeying the law, etc.? Of course they wouldn’t. They’d want things to go on as planned as long as possible so that the elite have a chance to move into inflatable space station pods where they can safely watch the rest of us burn down below.
I gotta get one of those pods.
Each red dot is a potential path the fictional asteroid might take as it passes the Earth in 2027. Clearly, this would be an asteroid worth worrying about.
After they’ve exhausted all other available means—abduction, engaging military aircraft, shutting off our nuclear missiles—maybe the aliens finally figured out how to get our attention: Facebook live. Everyone and their uncle seems bent on broadcasting themselves into the uncaring void that is the internet, so it’s about time the aliens jumped on board as well.
Daniel Patterson of Liberty, North Carolina was filming one such Facebook live broadcast earlier this year when a UFO briefly flew overhead. According to WMFY 2 News in Greensboro, North Carolina, Patterson didn’t see the object as he was filming, but was made aware of it afterwards. Patterson says:
“I didn’t know it was there it was brought to my attention by someone else that’s on in the video and said, ‘Hey Dan, did you see the UFO?’ and I said no.”
The UFO in question only appears briefly in the video. A bright light appears over Patterson’s head and flies away. It lasts only a couple of frames in the 13-minute video. WMFY slowed the video down and took some screen shots, and it does look like it could be an object. It also looks like it could be a spot of glare. The incident is being investigated by MUFON, but they have not yet released a determination of what the object is.
If it’s actually a UFO in the video, then the closest thing to what it looks like is this bad boy.
For Daniel Patterson, the incident was a spiritual experience. He says:
“For me, the Holy Spirit was present in those moments.”
In the video, Patterson stands on his property and says he doesn’t have much to say but felt compelled by God to film a video. He talks about his love for his family and decries the tendency of people to judge others. It’s a video of a man appreciating his life, giving thanks, and hoping to do good. It’s pretty heartwarming. It’s also fairly interesting that of all the times a UFO could show up on a Facebook live video, it does so when the person felt compelled by a higher power to start filming and talking about that sort of stuff. Of course, that added spiritual weight may have contributed to the interpretation of the object as a UFO. If it was just a guy showing off his property, would the UFO be immediately and automatically written off as a spot of glare?
Considering that the video was filmed with the sun directly behind Patterson’s head, I’m inclined to believe that the UFO is just glare from the sun. But who knows? Maybe if we all just start streaming every waking moment of our lives, we’ll finally have some definitive proof. So get out there, hit record, and maybe a UFO will show up and I’ll grossly misrepresent you as a person.
The original Star Wars Death Star (for any of you just emerging from 35 years in a cave) was a massive moon-like space station armed with a superlaser capable of vaporizing a planet. Could there possibly be a more useful purpose for such a powerful tool? We may find out soon, as engineers in Romania announced the successful test of a 10-Petawatt laser. That’s 10 million billion watts or 1/10th the energy produced by the sun on Earth. We’re still here, so it’s not capable of destroying a planet … yet. But China (uh-oh) is already working on a 100-Petawatt laser. Is life (or death) about to imitate sci-fi again?
“After demonstration of a beam delivering pulses of 7 PW for more than 4 hours continuously, the Thales system generated its first pulses with a record power level of 10 PW on 7 March 2019. Thales has thus achieved an unprecedented level of performance, which means that the Romanian National Institute of Physics and Nuclear Engineering (IFIN-HH) and ELI-NP now have the most powerful laser in the world.”
In a press release that is mysteriously just now getting attention, Thales – a French multinational company that designs and builds electrical systems for the aerospace, defense, transportation and security markets – announced the successful test of the Extreme Light Infrastructure for Nuclear Physics (ELI-NP) at a facility in Măgurele near Bucharest. The 10 PW pulse was the most concentrated power ever generated.
“This laser will support research in nuclear physics and help advance human understanding of the physics of matter.”
Not to mention the physics of vaporizing matter. The ELI project was started in the mid-2000s by French scientist and Gérard Mourou, the 2018 Nobel prize winner for his work on high-energy laser pulses, and was initially funded by the European Commission to build the world’s largest lasers in Romania, Hungary, and the Czech Republic.
“It may help investigating and controlling aging processes in materials under extreme conditions, such as in nuclear reactors, and help protecting the environment by offering new ways to treat nuclear waste.”
Vaporizing nuclear waste sounds like a good thing, until one thinks about what else a power of that magnitude could vaporize. In fact, how did it not vaporize its own lab – or at least the wall it was pointed in the direction of? The answer is somewhat vague. ExtremeTech quotes Dr. Nicolae Zamfir, project director at ELI-NP, saying that “The beam is focused on mm2 only in the interaction [chamber].” We’re still here and there’s no hole in the wall because the pulse was infinitesimally brief.
That will change soon by an order of magnitude. While the ELI project has plans for a fourth lab with a 100 PW laser, is hasn’t even chosen a location for it. Meanwhile, Chinese physicists are said to already be building a 100 PW laser at the Shanghai Superintense Ultrafast Laser Facility (SULF). Using a single cylinder of titanium-doped sapphire about 12 inches wide, the researchers believe it will be long enough (possibly a minute) and powerful enough to break a vacuum and create antimatter. Testing is estimated to begin in 2023.
That’s not all. Laser testing is going on around the world in quests to harness its tremendous power. Are the goals noble or just paths to a real Death Star? Only time will tell.
In the meantime, The Titanium-Doped Sapphires would make a great name for a band.
Something strange is in the skies above New Zealand. Over the last few weeks, multiple eyewitnesses have reported seeing a red or orange glow either in the skies or just on the horizon out at sea. It all began on March 31 when a couple in west Auckland on New Zealand’s North Island had what they described as the “craziest experience.” Reddit user ufomystery123described the experienceto the New Zealand subreddit, writing that the experience left the couple terrified:
We were on the beach, my boyfriend and I, and saw two bright orange/red lights far on the other end of the beach. In a matter of seconds, one of the lights started moving at full speed, in a straight line, no more that 200m above the water until directly in front of us. The UFO had changed from having a red light to a bright white light, somewhat like a torch, shining directly at us. We were lying down looking at the stars for a while and then stood up to leave, before realizing there were five surrounding us in different areas of the beach. One of them was flying up and down and another from side to side. The others were just still switching between red and white spotlights. This was when we decided to leave, scared shitless.
Reddit users were characteristically cynical about the description of the events, arguing that the couple likely saw a balloon or some form of LED toy. However, the New Zealand Herald reports that other witnesses have seen similar lights in recent weeks.
Mysterious lights in the sky are some of the most commonly-reported unidentified aerial phenomena.
Much farther to the south in Dunedin and Oamaru on the South Island, eyewitnesses have described similar lights along the coast. After several reports of a “mysterious red light in the sky” came in early this month, law enforcement and public safety officials were dispatched to the coast to search for stricken boats. Oamaru Police Sergeant Tony Woodbridge says that enough reports came in for police to take the case seriously, although nothing has been found.
The famous Moeraki Boulders on New Zealand’s South Island.
”Through investigation, we’ve had another resident of Kakanui who was out walking and someone from Hampden Beach who have both seen a bright orange-red light in the sky about the same time,” Woodbridge told reporters. “We’ve got no reports of anybody missing, so it’s a bit of a mystery what was seen, but we’ve been out and had a good look.”
So what do we have? Multiple eerily similar reports of red lights in the skies above New Zealand, given weeks apart. Could these reports be related? Is this someone having fun with drones, or might there be something more mysterious afoot? For now, with little else to go on, these reports remain a mystery.
Many people believe UFOs visit Earth from other planets far, far away. A Montana Tech professor believes UFOs are much closer to home.
“The phenomenon may be our own distant descendants coming back through time to study us in their own evolutionary past,” said Michael P. Masters.
Masters writes about this theory in his newly released book, “Identified Flying Objects.” With a doctorate in anthropology from Ohio State University, Masters uses science to explain why people who report close encounters with aliens always describe them the same way.
“The extra-tempestrial are ubiquitously reported as being bipedal, upright-walking, five fingers on each hand and foot, bi-lateral symmetry that they have two eyes, a mouth a nose, they can communicate with us in our own languages,” said Masters.
Masters understands this study may be considered fringe science, but he defends the research in the book.
First likely Marsquake heard by NASA's InSight sounds like an underground high-speed train
First likely Marsquake heard by NASA's InSight sounds like an underground high-speed train
This video and audio illustrates a seismic event detected by NASA's InSight on April 6, 2019, the 128th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Three distinct kinds of sounds can be heard, all of them detected as ground vibrations by the spacecraft's seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS):
There's noise from Martian wind; the seismic event itself; and the spacecraft's robotic arm as it moves to take pictures.
This event is the first likely Marsquake recorded by the InSight team. Several other seismic events have been recorded but are much more ambiguous than this signal.
The audio underscores just how seismically noisy the Martian surface can be and was produced from two sets of sensors included with SEIS.
You can hear sounds from the Very Broad Band sensors from your left speakers and sounds from the Short Period sensors from your right speakers. Audio from both sets of sensors have been sped up by a factor of 60; the actual vibrations on Mars would not have been audible to the human ear.
Listen to the 'Marsquake' that sounds like a high-speed train as used in an underground rail system. Playback on headphones or speaker system recommended for best experience.
Missing 411: The 1600 People who VANISHED from America's National Parks
Missing 411: The 1600 People who VANISHED from America's National Parks
1600 people go missing every year in America's national parks. They seemingly vanish into thin air, some of them return and some are never to been seen or heard from again.
The cases David Paulides, an author and former policeman, found were strange and numerous enough that he has since written six volumes of work documenting the disappearances in his books called the 'Missing 411' series.
Strangeries investigates and documents some of the bizarre missing person's cases that David Paulides has been involved in and the shocking statistics of just how many people disappear without a trace!
Phil Schneider Found Alien Base Under Los Alamos Lab, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News
Phil Schneider Found Alien Base Under Los Alamos Lab, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News
I made this video clip back in 2014 and wanted to move it to my channel. Phil Schneider RIP brother. I dedicated my book Dragons of Asgard to you at the end of it. Philip Schneider was a former US Government Geologist and Engineer, who was involved in producing the underground explosions which were required to facilitate the building of various underground military bases, as well as submarine bases for the United States Government. He was the only person to survive the infamous Alien/Human War at Dulce and Los Alamos, where 66 Government Agents and Workers lost their lives in August of 1979. For the last two years of his life he gave lectures about classified information, including UFO's to the media and general public. Philip Schneider was found dead in his apartment on January 17, 1996. He was murdered, and all documents, photos and videos he had in his possession which he was about to use for a massive disclosure to the public...were gone from his apartment. Scott C. Waring
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Comet P67 Slowed Down Singing. The Alien Message Broadcasted To Our Solar System, UFO Sighting News.
Comet P67 Slowed Down Singing. The Alien Message Broadcasted To Our Solar System, UFO Sighting News.
Now I made. I really feel that it holds an alien message. I took the singing sounds made by comet P67 and slowed them down so that we could hear them better. Fun facts about comet P67:
1. Its makes a radio signal that sounds like a message. 2. Its radio signal has gone non stop since discovery over 25 years ago. 3. 20 years ago when scientist heard comet P67, the decided to build and launch a satellite to investigate it. 4. The satellite finally reached the comet several years ago and recorded this signal from the comet...now called the singing comet. 5. The public was never told about the singing until the Rossetta probe had reached the comet. 6. The comet itself is shaped like an alien head with a neck and shoulders.
So, this is a message that aliens created and placed on the comet to either mark their territory or to test species at a certain level of development to come and investigate. I think its the first. The shape of the entire comet is that of an alien bust. Its to show who made the signal...to be 100% sure those that received it and came, would learn of who sent it and who will enforce it. Scott C. Waring
Location of discovery: Earths moon I found a pyramid in NASA photo PIA13510 yesterday. The object is partly hidden in the shadows so you need to add light to it to see the rest of the structure. I believer this structure can fly from place to place. Its a spaceship but is landed in this location of the moon. There are so many ancient cultures on Earth that built huge pyramids like in Bosnia 25,000 years ago, the Egyptians 3,000 years ago, the mayans, Incas and Aztecs 2,000 years ago and so may more. There must be an alien connection between them all. Scott C. Waring
Hey everyone. I actually found this object last year but never made a video about it, so I decided to have some fun and make one today. This is a white ceramic structure, meaning its reflective like a white ceramic dish would be if enough light his it. I am lucky to have found this one in the shadows so its detail is well pronounced. Behind the white base is another huge black walled structure. Not these are huge. The Apollo 17 photo was taken by an astronaut out the window using a Nikon 35 mm camera and they were 90km above the surface of the moon, yet these structures are still big! It must have really been hard for the astronauts not to be able to talk about these things once they made it back to earth. Please check out my video below I made a few minutes ago. Scott C. Waring
I guess I don't have to tell you I love to look at the sky. Well, I was looking at some live cams and found this interesting photo in its archive. The still photo was just a screen grab of the UFO passing. The cam itself actually records video, not still shots.
I noticed this object in the photo and decided to enlarge it. The object appears to be a metallic disk. Not only that, but the disk is leaving a trail of clouds behind it. UFOs often make clouds around the ship to hide it, but if the ship travels too fast, or the wind picks up the clouds are pulled off as you see is done here.
As I have said before, sunset is the most popular time to see a UFO. If you want to see one, watch a dozens sunsets...I promise you will notice something strange in one.
I was going through some SOHO NASA images of our sun when I found one the just rubbed me the wrong way. This mysterious object shape not even close to being a comet, asteroid, meteor, satellite, space station or anything else I could think of. The only possibility left is that its a alien craft. The design has many right angles and the tail area thins like a planes would. Also it seems to have wings on each side. If you look carefully behind the UFO you will see that there are many smaller ships following it. They follow the big ships for safely reasons. There are a lot of intelligent species in our universe, both kind and cruel. Space is a big empty place that leaves a ship on its own to protect itself. So the small ships follow the big ones when traveling in dangerous territory. You know what bothers me here? Its that Earth is in dangerous territory. How safe will it be for a tiny human craft with no weapons or armor to protect itself out there alone? Scott C. Waring
These photos of rings around the sun where taken by Christine McNaughton on Twitter last week. She posted photos of a sunset from an island in Canada and remains baffled by what could possible be the reason for these rings.
Remember, the sun sets in the west, not north, so northern lights are ruled out. Also since the great lakes sit to the west, I would say this was caused by a over abundance of energy surging over the lake in that area. Now live atomic bombs have been lost in those lakes, but if this wasnst seen from other areas, then it couldn't be a atomic bomb from WWII era. It could hoverer be a massive UFO rising out of the bottom of the great lake. This UFO would have to be driven by a huge amount of energy and would be forced to sit there until after sunset when its safe to fly away under the cloak of darkness. It defiantly sounds like evidence of an underwater alien base in that direction on the lake floor.
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below please. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Black UFO Ring Flying Over Denver, Colorado Makes Local News. April 2019, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Black UFO Ring Flying Over Denver, Colorado Makes Local News. April 2019, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 15, 2019 Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA A possible UFO sighing was seen in Denver two weeks ago. The whole city seemed to see it and the exact explanation of what it is remains a mystery. Many explanations from fireworks to volcanos have been given. However Denver is a UFO hotspot with most of its citizens having seen UFOs in the area. Its totally possible that this ring is actually the outline of an alien cloaked craft that is having difficulties keeping cloaked. Its also possible that a UFO shot off so fast that it left a black ring around it. Lots of white glowing balls have been seen over the Denver area near the Rocky Mountains for decades, so its no surprise to see such oddities in the sky above Denver. Scott C. Waring
Chirs Spears of CBS4 states:
OKAY ... here's an odd one for you. This was caught on our city cam looking due west around 740 pm. We also had a viewer in LoDo film it. His video was more of a perfect circle. I am baffled at how to explain this one. LOL! CRAZY! And creepy.
When NASA launched two rockets studying auroras in Norway recently, the mission created visuals so magnificently beautiful that it had some around the world thinking aliens.
The New York Post reports that some called the police warning that "aliens are coming," and that a UFO sightings message board picked up on the other-worldly visuals saying a ship "entered an underground base."
This post will run through what the U.S. space agency was doing with its two rockets in the arctic and, of course, some of the amazing visuals created in the process:
Benjamin Raven | braven@mlive.com
The space agency's work studying auroras focuses on measuring the atmospheric density and temperature with instruments on the rockets including visible gas tracers. These tracers are said to be trimethyl aluminum and a barium/strontium mixture, which NASA says ionizes once exposed to sunlight.
During the evening launch back on April 5 from the Andoya Space Center in Norway, NASA released the mixture over the Norwegian Sea between 71 and 150 miles altitude.
"These mixtures, using substances similar to those found in fireworks, created colorful clouds that allow researchers to track the flow of neutral and charged particles with the auroral wind," NASA writes on its website. "By tracking the movement of these colorful clouds via ground-based photography and triangulating their moment-by-moment position in three dimensions, AZURE will provide valuable data on the vertical and horizontal flow of particles in two key regions of the ionosphere over a range of different altitudes.
"Many people believe the Earth’s atmosphere “ends” some 20-30 miles above the ground. However, the air we breathe does not abruptly end at some predefined point -- instead, it gradually thins."
The AZURE mission stands for Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment. The space agency says preliminary results from the April 5 launch have left scientists involved "very pleased with the results."
The two rockets flew to an altitude of 200 and 202 miles, as both tracked the movement of the very colorful clouds.
Auroras are defined by the space agency as "energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs. After a trip toward Earth that can last two to three days, the solar particles and magnetic fields cause the release of particles already trapped near Earth, which in turn trigger reactions in the upper atmosphere in which oxygen and nitrogen molecules release photons of light."
The AZURE mission successfully launched back-to-back aboard two sounding rockets in Norway tonight. These colorful clouds created a light show in the sky, helping researchers track the flow of neutral and charged particles in Earth's ionosphere. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/2oJGOtz.
NASA says that AZURE is the first of eight sounding rocket missions with international collaborators scheduled in the next two years. This mission will mainly focus on measuring the winds in the Arctic region, while trying to "better understand the forces at play."
"By tracking the movement of these colorful clouds via ground-based photography and triangulating their moment-by-moment position in three dimensions, AZURE will provide valuable data on the vertical and horizontal flow of particles in two key regions of the ionosphere over a range of different altitudes," NASA reports on its website.
"Such measurements are critical if we are to truly understand the effects of the mysterious yet beautiful aurora. The results will be key to a better understanding of the effects of auroral forcing on the atmosphere, including how and where the auroral energy is deposited."
Ever wondered what auroras look like from space? @ESA@Astro_Alex Gerst gives us his space-based view from aboard the @Space_Station, tweeting that the experience is "[m]ind-blowing, every single time." Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2ODAhei
In 2013, in a big success story, a Mars rover and orbiter made a near-simultaneous observation of methane in Mars’ atmosphere. Now a newer mission orbiting Mars – ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter – has failed to detect methane. Why?
Artist’s concept of ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter, part of the ExoMars mission,
analyzing the Martian atmosphere. Image via ESA/ATG MediaLab.
Ten days ago, we spoke of aJune 2013 detectionof methane in Mars’ atmosphere by both the ground-basedCuriosityrover and theMars Expressorbiter. Scientists were excited about that because, on Earth, methane is generated by living organisms, as well as geological processes. So Mars’ methane might hold clues to possible life on Mars. But now another group of perplexed planetary scientists is asking … where has Mars’ methane gone? The first results from ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) – part of theExoMarsmission, which launched on Mars in 2016 – showed virtually no signs of the gas in the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising, to say the least.
TGO also has some new findings for scientists about dust in Mars’ atmosphere and subsurface deposits of water ice and water-related minerals.
The puzzling methane results were presented at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union last week in Vienna, and a first paper was published on April 10, 2019, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Today. A second paper, also in Nature Today, discusses the impact of the recent global dust storm on water in the Martian atmosphere. A third paper (in Russian), submitted to the Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science, provides the most detailed map ever produced of water ice and hydrated minerals in the shallow subsurface of the planet.
So far, TGO has found an upper limit of methane in the Martian atmosphere 10 to 100 times less than previous detections. Why?
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG MediaLab; data: O. Korablev et al (2019).
These papers indicate an upper limit of 0.05 ppbv (parts per billion by volume), which is 10 to 100 times less methane than all previous reported detections. The most precise detection of 0.012 ppbv, taken by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) spectrometer on TGO, was achieved at an altitude of less than two miles (three km). According to ACS principal investigator Oleg Korablev at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow:
We have beautiful, high-accuracy data tracing signals of water within the range of where we would expect to see methane, but yet we can only report a modest upper limit that suggests a global absence of methane.
Earth-based telescopes had previously found transient measurements of up to 45 ppbv, while Mars Express found a limit of 10 ppbv in 2004. The Curiosity rover found a background level of methane of 0.2 – 0.7 ppbv, with higher periodic peaks. Our story from a week ago reported that Mars Express had confirmed one of Curiosity’s largest peaks in 2013, narrowing down the location of at least one methane plume down to east of Gale Crater.
Diagram of Mars, with spacecraft and their results labeled.
A history of key methane measurements on Mars from 1999 to 2018.
Image via ESA.
The upper limit of 0.05 ppbv amounts to about 500 tons of methane overall, but that is actually a very tiny amount when it is spread throughout the entire atmosphere.
The findings by TGO seem to be quite contradictory to all earlier detections, which poses some difficult questions. Where did the methane go? Is it errors in analysis or – as researchers have suggested – is the methane being actively destroyed somehow soon after it is released into the atmosphere? As Korablev explained:
The TGO’s high-precision measurements seem to be at odds with previous detections; to reconcile the various datasets and match the fast transition from previously reported plumes to the apparently very low background levels, we need to find a method that efficiently destroys methane close to the surface of the planet.
As Håkan Svedhem, TGO project scientist, also noted:
Just as the question of the presence of methane and where it might be coming from has caused so much debate, so the issue of where it is going, and how quickly it can disappear, is equally interesting.
We don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle or see the full picture yet, but that is why we are there with TGO, making a detailed analysis of the atmosphere with the best instruments we have, to better understand how active this planet is – whether geologically or biologically.
Diagram showing the seasonal cycle of methane as detected by the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Methane is of primary interest to scientists studying Mars, since it can originate either geologically or biologically. On Earth, by far most of the gas – about 95 percent – is produced by living organisms, but some also is created by geological activity. We still don’t know the origin of Mars’ methane, but the Curiosity rover did also determine that it is seasonal in nature – increasing in summer and decreasing again in winter – which may explain why it hasn’t been found yet by TGO. Current evidence also points to the methane most likely coming from beneath the surface. That could fit in with either a geological or biological scenario, or perhaps even both.
Methane is not the only thing that TGO has been studying; the orbiter has also been examining how dust in the atmosphere from the recent global dust storm affected water vapor. Two spectrometers – NOMAD and ACS – made the first high-resolution solar occultation measurements of the atmosphere, to see how sunlight is absorbed in the atmosphere as a way to reveal the chemical fingerprints of its ingredients. The vertical distribution of water vapor was measured from close to the surface to over 50 miles (80 km) in altitude. According to Ann Carine Vandaele, principal investigator of NOMAD at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy:
In the northern latitudes [of Mars] we saw features such as dust clouds at altitudes of around 25-40 km [15-25 miles] that were not there before, and in southern latitudes we saw dust layers moving to higher altitudes. The enhancement of water vapor in the atmosphere happened remarkably quickly, over just a few days during the onset of the storm, indicating a swift reaction of the atmosphere to the dust storm.
The results fit with previous global circulation models, Vandaele said:
We see that water … is very sensitive to the presence of ice clouds, preventing it from reaching atmospheric layers higher up. During the storm, water reached much higher altitudes. This was theoretically predicted by models for a long time but this is the first time we have been able to observe it.
TGO observations of how dust from the recent global dust storm has affected water vapor in the Martian atmosphere.
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG MediaLab; data: A-C Vandaele et al (2019).
TGO has also been using its neutron detector called FREND to map the distribution of hydrogen in the uppermost meter of Mars’ surface. It has indicated the presence, either now or in the past, of water. TGO can find minerals that were formed in water millions or billions of years ago, as well as detect current deposits of ice below the surface. As Igor Mitrofanov, principal investigator of the FREND instrument, said:
In just 131 days the instrument had already produced a map that has a higher resolution than that of the 16 years data from its predecessor onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey – and it is set to continue getting better.
The data is continually improving and we will eventually have what will become the reference data for mapping shallow subsurface water-rich materials on Mars, crucial for understanding the overall evolution of Mars and where all the present water is now. It is important for the science on Mars, and it is also valuable for future Mars exploration.
The non-detection of methane so far by TGO presents a conundrum for scientists. If it is there, as multiple Mars missions and telescopes have shown, how does it disappear so fast? If it is seasonal as previously determined, was TGO just looking at the wrong time? Only further observations will help to answer that question. Chris Webster, a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Space.com that he is optimistic TGO will still detect methane:
We need to be more patient with TGO, because one thing we have learned is that the methane story is full of surprises, and there are surely more to come. It would not surprise me if TGO detected methane sometime in the future.
Want more detail? There’s a good overview of the new methane findings in a new article in Nature.
Map of shallow subsurface water (hydrated minerals/ice) distribution on Mars.
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG/medialab; data: I. Mitrofanov et al (2018).
Bottom line: The origin of Mars’ methane is still a mystery, but now its apparent vanishing act is in itself another puzzle for scientists to solve.
Meteoroid impacts regularly liberate puffs of water vapor from the moon, suggesting that minuscule amounts of water may lurk just under the entire lunar surface, a new study finds.
When the Apollo missions brought lunar rocks to Earth, scientists found evidence that the moon was devoid of water. However, in the past decade, data from a bevy of spacecraft — including NASA's Cassini, Deep Impact and Lunar Prospector missions, and India's Chandrayaan-1 probe — revealed trace amounts of water on the surface of the moon. Even more intriguingly, they found water across the moon's surface, not only at the poles, as was previously expected.
But scientists still have many questions about the source and extent of lunar water. To learn more, researchers analyzed data from NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which orbited the moon from October 2013 to April 2014.
The scientists behind the newly published research found that the moon released numerous puffs of water vapor from near its surface into its exosphere, the very tenuous layer of molecules comprising the closest thing that the moon has to an atmosphere. These outbursts coincided with 29 known meteoroid streams that passed near Earth during that eight-month span of time, including the Leonids, Geminids and Quadrantids.
"Most of the geological processes we deal with in planetary science are very slow — we almost never get to see something respond dynamically over the scale of hours like we did here," lead author Mehdi Benna, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told Space.com.
The researchers suggested that meteoroid impacts kicked up these puffs of water from the moon, and said that four of these puffs were apparently caused by previously undetected meteoroid streams.
"One would think we know all of the meteoroid streams that are out there, but apparently we don't," Benna said.
By analyzing the amount of water released by meteoroid streams of different sizes, the scientists estimated that the uppermost 3.15 inches (8 centimeters) of lunar soil is dehydrated — any less, and smaller meteoroids would have excavated more water. Below this desiccated layer, the researchers suggest, water comprises up to about 0.05% of the weight of the rock up to at least 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
"With our measurements, we could see exactly the water extracted from the moon in a very dynamic way by micrometeroid impacts, and by analyzing the data, see how much water was stored in the lunar reservoir and where it was going," Benna said.
The researchers estimated that meteoroid impacts cause the moon to lose as much as 220 tons (200 metric tons) of water annually. To sustain this amount of loss over time, they suggested that this water either was present when the moon formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, or was delivered by cosmic impacts from water-laden rocks soon after the moon was born.
The lunar samples from the Apollo missions may have appeared devoid of water because the water on those rocks was likely not incorporated into the rocks themselves, but only weakly coated them. As such, any water on the rocks was likely fragile and difficult to hold onto during the return trips, Benna said.
Future research can examine how deep water actually extends on the moon, Benna said. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online today (April 15) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Picture a world where rain falls, gathers in lakes and ponds, seeps into the surrounding rock, and evaporates away, only to fall again. There's just one catch: The world is Saturn's moon, Titan, where the rain isn't water; it's liquid methane.
Two new papers explore how this eerily familiar, waterless "water cycle" manifests on Titan's surface. To do so, two separate research teams turned to data from the Cassini mission, which ended its stay at the Saturn system in September 2017. The spacecraft flew past the massive moon more than 100 times, gathering crucial observations of this strange world as it did so.
Some of those observations showed scientists something truly extraordinary: their first glimpse of liquid currently on the landscape, rather than mere ghosts of such liquid features. "Titan is the only world outside the Earth where we see bodies of liquid on the surface," Rosaly Lopes, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the Cassini mission but wasn't involved in either of the new papers. "Some of us like to call Titan the Earth of the outer solar system."
"Titan is the most interesting moon in the solar system. I think that gets me some enemies, but I think it's actually true," Shannon MacKenzie, lead author on one of the new studies and a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, told Space.com. But that doesn't mean the moon is straightforward. "Titan throws us a lot of curveballs," she said.
MacKenzie's study analyzes one potential curveball: three small features that appeared to be liquid-filled lakes when Cassini first spotted them, but seem to have dried up by the time the spacecraft returned to the area. The observations suggest that the liquid either evaporated or seeped into the surrounding planetary surface.
These "phantom lakes" may be evidence of seasonal changes on the moon, MacKenzie and her coauthors believe. (Seven Earth years passed between the spacecraft's two observations of the area, during which the northern hemisphere of the moon transitioned from winter to spring.)
But the situation may not be quite that simple, since the two sets of observations were taken by different instruments. Cassini was built to gather data with either its radar instrument or its visual and infrared light cameras, but not both simultaneously. And during the spacecraft's first pass, the region was too dark to use the cameras.
So MacKenzie and her colleagues had to factor in the change in instruments as a potential variable. But she's still confident that something is different in the two passes, and that it's pretty plausible that liquid was there, then disappeared. Even if the different signals over the two flybys were caused by some other phenomenon, MacKenzie said she's still intrigued by what that could tell us about the strange moon, which is among scientists' plausible candidates for where life may be lurking beyond Earth.
"If we're instead looking at some newly identified materials on the surface, then that's interesting, too, because the sediments on Titan are really important for prebiotic chemistry," MacKenzie said.
But although MacKenzie focused on just three small lakes that seem to have disappeared, plenty of lakes remained visible throughout Cassini's observations of the region. In the second paper published today, scientists used radar data to study a handful of much larger lakes.
During Cassini's very last pass over Titan in April 2017, the spacecraft was programmed to gather a very specific type of data, called altimetry, over the lake region to measure the height of different substances. Marco Mastrogiuseppe, a planetary scientist at Caltech, had already used similar data to measure the depths of some of Titan's seas, much larger bodies of liquids, and the Cassini team hoped he would be able to do the same with lakes.
Mastrogiuseppe and his colleagues did so in their new paper, identifying the bottoms of lakes more than 328 feet (100 meters) deep and establishing that their contents were dominated by liquid methane. "We realized that essentially the composition of the lakes is very, very similar to the one of the mare, of the sea," he said. "We believe that these bodies are fed by local rains and then these basins, they drain liquid."
That suggests that below Titan's surface, the moon may host yet another feature reminiscent of Earth: caves. On Earth, many caves are formed by water dissolving away surrounding rock types like limestone, leaving behind a type of landscape called karst, characterized by springs, aquifers, caves and sinkholes.
Researchers studying Titan's lake region think that they see similar karst-type characteristics. They also haven't spotted channels connecting all these different liquid features, which is why Mastrogiuseppe and others suspect that some of the liquid may be seeping into the surrounding terrain, much like karst systems here on Earth.
"Titan is really this world that geologically is similar to the Earth, and studying the interactions between the liquid bodies and the geology is something that we haven't really been able to do before," Lopes said. The new studies begin to make that happen by seeing those interactions playing out live on another planetary body.
Of course, it's much more difficult to study these interactions so far away, on a world that has never been the primary focus of a mission. "We've been talking about possible missions with robotic explorers that might crawl down into lava tubes and caves on the moon and Mars," Lopes said. "Could we in the future send one of these to sort of crawl down into this terrain and into caves and find out what's underneath there?"
Such a mission likely won't happen any time soon, but NASA is seriously considering a project called Dragonfly that would land a drone on the strange moon. If selected, the mission would launch in 2025 and reach Titan nine years later. And if NASA doesn't choose Dragonfly, chances are good that another mission concept will come along. "Titan's just too cool to not go back to," MacKenzie said.
Both MacKenzie's and Mastrogiuseppe's papers were published today (April 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy.
WETENSCHAPPERS BEVESTIGEN KOMST KOUDE PERIODE ( VIDEO )
WETENSCHAPPERS BEVESTIGEN KOMST KOUDE PERIODE ( VIDEO )
Langzaam maar zeker begint het ook in sommige delen van mainstreamland door te dringen dat we een koude periode tegemoet gaan.
Een periode die decennialang kan duren en wordt veroorzaakt door een zon die in de slaapstand gaat.
Een internationale groep wetenschappers kwam onlangs bij elkaar bij National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) voor een workshop, waarbij ze nogal opzienbarende voorspellingen deden voor de komende zonnecyclus 25.
Tussen de zomer van 2019 en de herfst van 2020 zal het aantal zonnevlekken nog verder verminderen, waardoor we aanzienlijk koudere temperaturen zullen meemaken.
De door hen voorlopig gemaakte voorspelling ziet er zo uit en is identiek aan de voorspelling die wij al heel lang hanteren.
Wij hebben tot nu toe de volgende voorspelling gebruikt, waarin je ziet dat zonnecyclus 25 nog zwakker wordt dan de al zwakke cyclus 24 en dat daarna zonnecyclus 26 nog zwakker zal zijn.
Maar, zo te zien zijn we nog aan de optimistische kant geweest en is het nog maar de vraag of de pieken van cyclus 25 zo hoog zullen komen als op de door ons gebruikte voorspelling.
Hoe dan ook, wat we kunnen verwachten tijdens zonnecyclus 25 is dan een periode die te vergelijken is met het Dalton Minimum.
Het Dalton-minimum was een periode van lage zonneactiviteit, genoemd naar de Engelse meteoroloog John Dalton, die duurde van ongeveer 1790 tot 1830. Zoals het Maunder-minimum en het Spörer-minimum, viel het Dalton-minimum samen met een periode van lager dan gemiddelde wereldtemperatuur. Het Oberlach-station in Duitsland, bijvoorbeeld, mat een 2,0°C afname over 20 jaar.
Tijdens de daarop volgende zonnecyclus wordt het dan nog kouder en krijgen we een periode die te vergelijken is met het Maunder Minimum.
Het Maunder Minimum (ongeveer 1645-1715) betrof een periode waarin er decennia lang opmerkelijk weinig zonnevlekken waargenomen werden, een zogeheten Grand Minimum. Het was een tijdvak in de veel langer durende Kleine IJstijd (16e tot 19e eeuw), waarin de temperaturen onder meer in Europa 1 à 2 graden lager waren dan in de 20e eeuw.
Maar, uiteraard wordt er vastgehouden aan de opwarming van de aarde.
Zo was er deze week te lezen:
De zomer wordt warmer en droger dan gemiddeld. Volgens Weeronline is de kans op een ’bovengemiddeld warm verloop’ in de maand juni zelfs zeventig procent.
Heel goed mogelijk dat iets dergelijks gebeurt, maar vooralsnog is daar heel weinig van te merken.
Vooralsnog hebben we te maken met een stroom koude arctische lucht die onze kant op komt waardoor het in mei net zo koud aanvoelt als rond afgelopen kerst.
Volgens Adept2030 is dit al het derde opeenvolgende jaar waarbij we aan het begin van het jaar een korte warme periode hebben, gevolgd door een langdurige koude periode. Hierdoor zijn volgens hem alleen al in Europa de opbrengsten van de vroege landbouwoogsten zo’n 40 procent minder.
Wanneer we inderdaad een aantal opeenvolgende minima perioden krijgen zoals het Dalton of het Maunder Minimum, dan komt de voedselproductie wereldwijd zwaar onder druk te staan en zullen voedselprijzen astronomisch stijgen vanwege de schaarste.
Zoals we eerder schreven, brak de Franse revolutie uit in een periode van mislukte oogsten en gezien de onvoorstelbaar instabiele situatie in de wereld, zouden voedseltekorten wereldwijd weleens voor de nodige chaos en anarchie kunnen zorgen.
Volgens de klimaatreligie zijn wij als mens verantwoordelijk voor de wereldwijde opwarming.
Kijk hoe deze genadeloos toeslaat in de woestijnen van Saoedi Arabië.
Ook in New Foundland, Canada, keken ze vreemd op toen er op 1 mei nog een pak sneeuw viel. Ze zijn daar wel wat sneeuw gewend, maar dit soort sneeuwval zie je daar normaal gesproken in januari en februari.
En ondertussen gaan de klimaatidioten verder met het kapot maken van ons land door het volledig afhankelijk te maken van het elektriciteitsnet.
Het wordt kouder en kouder en toen kwam er een stroomstoring……
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