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...
01-08-2019
Magnetic Activity in 'Hot Jupiter' Exoplanets Wildly Powerful, Twist and Shape Stars
Magnetic Activity in 'Hot Jupiter' Exoplanets Wildly Powerful, Twist and Shape Stars
Gas-giant planets orbiting close to other stars have powerful magnetic fields, many times stronger than our own Jupiter, according to a new study by a team of astrophysicists. It is the first time the strength of these fields has been calculated from observations.
The team, led by Wilson Cauley of the University of Colorado, also includes associate professor Evgenya Shkolnik of Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration. The other researchers are Joe Llama of Northern Arizona University and Antonino Lanza of the Astrophysical Observatory of Catania in Italy. Their report was published July 22 in Nature Astronomy.
This illustration shows a hot Jupiter orbiting so close to a red dwarf star that the magnetic fields of both interact, triggering activity on the star. Astrophysicists have for the first time used observations of such activity to calculate field strengths in four hot Jupiter star-and-planet systems.
Image credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI)
“Our study is the first to use observed signals to derive exoplanet magnetic field strengths,” said Shkolnik. “These signals appear to come from interactions between the magnetic fields of the star and the tightly orbiting planet.”
Many worlds
More than 3,000 exoplanet systems containing over 4,000 planets have been discovered since 1988. Many of these star systems include what astronomers call “hot Jupiters.” These are massive gaseous planets presumed to be like the sun’s Jupiter but orbiting their stars at close distances, typically about five times the star’s diameter, or roughly 20 times the moon’s distance from Earth.
Such planets travel well inside their star’s magnetic field, where interactions between the planetary field and the stellar one can be continual and strong.
Previous studies, the team says, have placed upper limits on exoplanet magnetic fields, for example from radio observations or derived purely from theory.
“We combined measurements of increased stellar emission from the magnetic star-planet interactions together with physics theory to calculate the magnetic field strengths for four hot Jupiters,” lead author Cauley said.
The magnetic field strengths the team found range from 20 to 120 gauss. For comparison, Jupiter’s magnetic field is 4.3 gauss and Earth’s field strength is only half a gauss, although that is strong enough to orient compasses worldwide.
Hot Jupiters (red dots) are large planets similar to our Jupiter, but orbiting close to their stars. Four hot Jupiters have magnetic field strengths much greater than that of Earth, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune — or even Jupiter itself. The left scale shows field strength in gauss, the bottom scale shows orbital distance from the star in astronomical units; Earth orbits the sun at 1 AU.
Credit: Wilson Cauley/University of Colorado
This simulation shows how a hot Jupiter’s magnetic field would interact with its host star’s magnetic field. The new study found such interactions are enhanced because at least four hot Jupiters have larger calculated magnetic field strengths than previously thought.
Triggering activity
The astrophysicists used telescopes in Hawaii and France to acquire high-resolution observations of emission from ionized calcium (Ca II) in the parent stars of the four hot Jupiters. The emission comes from a star’s hot, magnetically heated chromosphere, a thin layer of gas above the cooler stellar surface. The observations let the team calculate how much energy was being released in the stars’ calcium emission.
Said Shkolnik, “We used the power estimates to calculate magnetic field strengths for the planets using a theory for how the planets’ magnetic fields interact with the stellar magnetic fields.”
Cauley explained, “Magnetic fields like to be in a state of low energy. If you twist or stretch the field like a rubber band, this increases the energy stored in the magnetic field.” Hot Jupiters orbit very close to their parent stars and so the planet’s magnetic field can twist and stretch the star’s magnetic field.
Credit: Antoine Strugarek/CEA Saclay/Université de Montréal
“When this happens,” Cauley said, “energy can be released as the two fields reconnect, and this heats the star’s atmosphere, increasing the calcium emission.” Probing deep
Astrophysicists have suspected that hot Jupiters would, like our own Jupiter, have magnetic fields produced deep inside them. The new observations provide the first probe of the internal dynamics of these massive planets.
“This is the first estimate of the magnetic field strengths for these planets based on observations, so it’s a huge jump in our knowledge,” Shkolnik noted. “It’s giving us a better understanding of what is happening inside these planets.”
She adds that it should also help researchers who model the internal dynamos of hot Jupiters. “We knew nothing about their magnetic fields — or any other exoplanet magnetic fields — and now we have estimates for four actual systems.”
Surprisingly powerful
The field strengths, the team says, are larger than one would expect considering only the rotation and age of the planet. The standard dynamo theory of planetary magnetic fields predicts field strengths for the sampled planets that are much smaller than what the team found.
Instead, the observations support the idea that planetary magnetic fields depend on the amount of heat moving through the planet’s interior. Because they are absorbing a lot of extra energy from their host stars, hot Jupiters should have larger magnetic fields than planets of similar mass and rotation rate.
“We are pleased to see how well the magnitude of the field values corresponded to those predicted by the internal heat flux theory,” Shkolnik said. “This may also help us work toward a clearer understanding of magnetic fields around temperate rocky planets.”
Contacts and sources: Robert Burnham
Arizona State University
Citation: Magnetic field strengths of hot Jupiters from signals of star–planet interactions. P. Wilson Cauley, Evgenya L. Shkolnik, Joe Llama, Antonino F. Lanza.Nature Astronomy, 2019; DOI: 10.1038/s41550-019-0840-x
Occasionally I’m asked if so-called “cattle mutilations” and “animal mutilations” occur in the U.K. Well, yes they do, but the numbers certainly don’t parallel those that have occurred in the United States. I would not be surprised if some genuinely strange attacks in the U.K. might have been caused by so-called “Alien Big Cats.” They are large and predatory creatures that should not be roaming around the countryside – but which apparently seem to be doing exactly that. Then, there are those cases where the attackers were clearly occultists. As for those cases that in some cases mirror those in the United States, I have a few on file. Given that I haven’t lived in the U.K. for around twenty years, it’s not my place to claim to be an expert on the subject on the other side of the pond. I’m certainly not. There is, however, one affair that I still remember from the late 1990s, and which was very difficult to explain. Read on…
Throughout the summer and fall of 1997, the skies of south Devon, England were filled with UFOs, bizarre aerial vehicles, and mystifying lights. Strange creatures – including large black cats resembling mountain lions, flying beasts that had the appearance of huge jellyfish, and ghostly black dogs with blazing, evil-filled eyes – provoked terror in those that encountered them. Unidentified, robed and hooded figures were seen prowling around local woods by moonlight, seemingly engaging in infernal, occult-driven rites and rituals. Animals were found dead, and hideously mutilated, under mysterious circumstances. And trying to make some sense of all this high-strangeness of the very disturbing kind were two dedicated investigators of all things paranormal, Nigel Wright and Jon Downes. Wright is a well-known, long-time investigator of UFOs in England, while Downes is the director of the Devon-based Center for Fortean Zoology – one of the few groups that investigates reports of such things as lake-monsters, Bigfoot, and the Chupacabra on a full-time basis. They’re both good friends to me.
Such was the sheers scale of supernatural activity that descended on ancient Devon in that specific period, Downes and Wright found themselves plunged into a dark and turbulent world, one which closely paralleled the menacing environment that threatened to swallow up John Keel, as he investigated the turbulent Point Pleasant, West Virginia Mothman reports of 1965-1967. And in the same way that Keel had run-ins with the Men in Black, both Downes and Wright experienced something chillingly similar: hang-up phone calls in the middle of the night.
On the issue of whether or not the killing and mutilation of animals on a large scale was, and perhaps still is, the work of extraterrestrials, occult groups, government personnel engaged in biological warfare experimentation, scavengers, shadowy figures with concerns about exotic viruses entering the U.S. food-chain, or a combination of all of the above, very much depends on who you ask. But, less well known, is that such events are not limited to the United States. One particular case stands out for truly memorable and macabre reasons, as will now become apparent. It all began on October 1, 1997, as Nigel Wright’s journals reveal:
“Approximately three weeks ago two young men were swimming in Otter Cove [Lyme Bay, Exmouth, England]. As darkness drew in, they decided to make for the shore and change to go home. As they got changed, one of them looked out to sea. He saw what he described as a ‘greenish’ light under the surface. He called to the other young man and they both watched as this light ‘rose’ to the surface of the water. The next thing they knew there was a very bright light shining into their faces. They turned the scene and fled.”
Meanwhile, on the top of the cliffs, equally strange things were afoot. The two young men raced for the car of a relative and breathlessly explained what had happened. Incredibly, she, too, had seen something highly unusual in precisely the same time frame on the road leading to Otter Cove: a strange animal that she likened to “an enormous cat.” Whatever the origin of the beast, however, she was certain of one thing: it was, to quote her, “all lit up” – glowing almost. On the following day, a dead whale was found washed upon the beach below the cliffs. This did not appear to have been merely a tragic accident, however. Rumors quickly circulated that the culprit was the monstrous-glowing, cat-like thing. On receiving reports that a whale had been found in precisely the area that anomalous lights and a strange creature were seen, Wright launched an investigation:
“The first thing that struck me as I looked on at this scene,” recalls Wright, “was how perfect the carcass was. There was no decay or huge chunks torn from it. Then, as I wandered around it, I noticed that there was only one external wound: in the area of the genitals a round incision, the size of a large dinner plate, was cut right into the internal organs of the mammal. The sides of this incision were perfectly formed, as if some giant apple corer had been inserted and twisted around. From the wound hung some of the internal organs. I quizzed the official from English Heritage, who was responsible for the disposal of the carcass. He informed me that no natural predator or boat strike would have caused this wound. As I looked at this sight, the first thing that came into my mind was how this looked just like the cattle mutilation cases of recent times.”
Wright was told by the captain of the vessel that the night had been “bright and clear” and that if the object had made any noise, it would certainly have been “audible for miles. The light remained stationary for about one and a half hours. Judging by the mast of their vessel, which is twenty-eight feet high, the crew estimated that the light was not much higher than that,” adds Wright. “It then very suddenly disappeared.” The mystery was never solved and the glowing cat-thing was never seen again.
Between the nights of December 26 and 29, 1980, multiple, extraordinary events of the UFO kind occurred within Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England. They were events that involved military personnel from the nearby Royal Air Force stations of Bentwaters and Woodbridge. Since that now long gone period, countless U.S. Air Force personnel, who were stationed in the area at the time, have spoken out regarding their knowledge of a small, triangular-shaped object that was seen maneuvering in the forest. Others described seeing in the dark woods almost ghostly, extraterrestrial-type beings of short size and with eerie, feline-like eyes. Strange and unknown lights were seen dancing around the night skies, circling both the forest and the twin military facilities. There were stories that the amazing movements of the UFOs were caught on radar. And there was even hushed talk of those military personnel involved in the incident being silenced by ominous Men in Black-style characters.
As for the official story, many attempts have been made to suggest that the beam from a local lighthouse – situated at nearby Orford Ness – was the cause of all the fuss of the flying saucer variety! And here’s where we come to something decidedly strange and intriguing. It has nothing to do with the lighthouse per se, but everything to do with the 12th century town of Orford itself. Wondering what I mean by that? Well, read on…
It is truly weird that many of those who are skeptical of the Rendlesham Forest UFO case of December 1980 are so very often keen to suggest that the airmen who were involved merely mistook the illumination from the nearby Orford Lighthouse for something more exotic. Why? Well, Orford itself is a veritable hotbed of weirdness. And that has not just been the case for the last few years, or even since the events at Rendlesham occurred. Rather, Orford has been what the late John Keel would have termed a “window area” for no less than centuries.
Consider – as just one example of what actually amounts to far more than a few – the following account of the single-named Ralph, a monk and an abbot of Coggeshall, Essex, England. Recorded way back in the year 1200 in Chronicon Anglicanum, the story describes the remarkable capture in the area of nothing less than a definitive wild man of the woods-style creature: “In the time of King Henry II, when Bartholomew de Glanville was in charge of the castle at Orford, it happened that some fishermen fishing in the sea there caught in their nets a Wildman. He was naked and was like a man in all his members, covered with hair and with a long shaggy beard. He eagerly ate whatever was brought to him, but if it was raw he pressed it between his hands until all the juice was expelled.”
Ralph continued with his monster-themed account: “He would not talk, even when tortured and hung up by his feet, Brought into church, he showed no sign of reverence or belief. He sought his bed at sunset and always remained there until sunrise. He was allowed to go into the sea, strongly guarded with three lines of nets, but he dived under the nets and came up again and again. Eventually he came back of his own free will. But later on he escaped and was never seen again.”
Orford Castle
Or, maybe the beast-man – or, far more likely, given the large passage of time, one of its offspring – was seen again, albeit hundreds of years further down the line. At some point during the summer of 1968, one Morris Allen – who grew up in the vicinity of Orford – was walking along the coast near, of all places, the town of Orford itself when in the distance he saw someone squatting on the sand and leaning over something.
As he got closer, Morris said, he could see that the man was dressed in what looked like an animal skin and was savagely tearing into the flesh of a dead rabbit. The man was dirt-encrusted, with long, tangled hair and had wild, staring eyes. Morris could only watch with a mixture of fascination and horror. Suddenly the man held his head aloft and quickly looked – or, perhaps, glared would be a far better description – in Morris’ direction, as if he had picked up his scent. The wild man quickly scooped up the rabbit, bounded off into the grass and was forever lost from sight. For a highly traumatized Morris Allen, it was an event destined never to be forgotten.
Perhaps, the wild man of Orford, and its surrounding areas, continues to live on, taunting and tantalizing people with the occasional sighting of its bestial form. And, it can now be said with a high degree of accuracy, in the “weird stakes” there is far more to Orford than just its infamous lighthouse.
Astrophysicist claims ‘Intelligent Aliens won’t be Humanoids’
Astrophysicist claims ‘Intelligent Aliens won’t be Humanoids’
Based on the sheer number of stars in the galaxy alone... The odds that alien life exists out there are high. But how does that affect us here on Earth? RT asked Professor Adam Frank, astronomer, physicist and author.
Professor Adam Frank states “We think we’ve been looking for exo-civilisations for years, but the real search yet to start, there are trillions of planets where life can thrive and develop advanced civilisations.”
We not only know the world well enough to model how planets and civilisations evolve together but we also can estimate how use of different energy sources affects planet by using simulations and climate change shows, from perspective of the universe, humanity is a teenage species.
It’s crazy to expect mass exodus from Earth in immediate future, no plan B planet for us, we can’t hope to live in space before learning how to live in Earth’s ecosystem and it remains to be seen if evolutionary laws work the same under different conditions.
We mustn’t think that intelligent aliens will be humanoid, universe is full of surprises.
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Alien life on Mars PROOF? NASA Spirit Rover spots ‘alien UFO base’ on Red Planet
Alien life on Mars PROOF? NASA Spirit Rover spots ‘alien UFO base’ on Red Planet
AN alien base has been sighted on the surface of Mars in re-examined NASA Spirit rover photographs, an UFO hunter has outlandishly claimed.
One of two rovers sent in 2003 to search for signs of past life on Mars, NASA’s Spirit far outlasted her initial 90-day mission. Among its impressive discoveries, Spirit found evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is today and helped scientists better understand the Martian wind. However a prominentalien lifeconspiracy theorist believes the US space agency’s Spirit Rover may have stumbled upon something even more incredible – evidence of alien life on Mars.
Mars alien base sighting: NASA's Viking-2 surveys the Red Planet
(Image: Getty)
NASA Mars rover sighting: NASA's Curiosity rover examining a location called "Woodland Bay"
(Image: NASA)
And Ross Chamings added: “It doesn’t ‘surprise’ me that NASA chose NOT To Investigate … after all, Mars is ‘Uninhabited’ and only us “Lunatics” would suggest otherwise!!!”
In May 2009, NASA’s Spirit rover became embedded in soft soil at a site called “Troy” with only five working wheels to aid in the rescue effort.
After months of testing and carefully planned manoeuvres, NASA ended efforts to free the rover and eventually ended Spirit’s Mars mission on May 25, 2011.
Looking through the recent Mars Curiosity rover photos from this week I noticed a foundation of a structure that seemed to be built by hand with rocks. You see this in Scotland and upper UK, stone fences stretching across the hills. But here on Mars, its not what I was expecting. I added yellow to the photo above to make it easier to see what I'm talking about. How much evidence do we need to find before NASA comes out and tells the truth about Mars? Honestly I feel that NASAs whole purpose is the opposite of what they say. That they exist only to drop feed the public already known facts in order to control the publics appetite. Don't let them control how you believe or think about space and other planets. Aliens exist or have existed on every moon and planet in our solar system. You get me a photo close up of any heavenly body in our solar system, and I will show you buildings!
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Chinese Area 51 And Top Secret Stealth Spacecraft, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.
Chinese Area 51 And Top Secret Stealth Spacecraft, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.
Jump to 4min into video to see Secret Aircraft.
Google coordinates: 40°25'43.88"N 99°50'47.40"E I found a military base in China that seems to be the equivalent and copy of Area 51. There is even smaller areas, one of which has a black stealth aircraft that could be made from alien technology and be space travel capable. If you don't watch the video, you wont learn how to find it. Its harder to find than you think. This is amazing and may have been created as the Chinese solution to the American Area 51. Scott C. Waring
Getting humans back to the moon — "this time to stay" — will require the exploitation of lunar resources, NASA officials and exploration advocates say.
The most important resource, at least in the short term, is water ice, which is abundant on the floors of permanently shadowed polar craters. The ice found in these "cold traps" is thought to be stable and accessible.
But there may be other spots on the moon that could yield a mother lode of scientific data — as well as the resources needed to sustain human occupation of Earth's celestial next door neighbor.
Researchers have identified "pits" on the moon, which are likely lava-tube "skylights" — geological doorways to underground tunnels that were once filled with lava.
If they do indeed provide access to lava tubes, skylights could be a game-changer for human lunar exploration, said NASA Chief Scientist Jim Green. Lava tubes are protected from the harsh environment of the lunar surface, which is bombarded by radiation and experiences temperature extremes. One lunar day lasts about 29 Earth days, meaning surface locations endure about two straight weeks of daylight followed by two weeks of darkness.
Connective roads
Artist's illustration showing a lunar robot surveying the entranceway to underground lava tubes.
(Image credit: William Whittaker, Carnegie Mellon University)
"There are a number of things on the moon that are going to be surprises," Green said.
"We need to get in there," he added, referring to lunar skylights. "We need to verify. Maybe there's a lot of water in these skylights? We don't know. We're finding them all over the moon."
A lava-tube network would suggest protected corridors, free of temperature swings, bombarding radiation and menacing meteoroids. They also might offer a much larger habitat capability for future moon explorers.
"We could actually build connective roads in them," Green told Space.com. "It could be a whole new world for us. That's another absolute game-changer."
More data needed
NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter images spot the newly discovered lava tube skylight candidates at Philolaus Crater near the moon's north pole.
We don't have enough information yet to ascertain if skylights on the moon represent an interconnected underground roadway, said Pascal Lee, a planetary scientist at the SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Institute. He is also chairman of the Mars Institute and director of the NASA Haughton Mars Project at NASA's Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
"For starters, not all pits on the moon are necessarily lava tube skylights," Lee told Space.com. He said that some might be associated with isolated underground cavities.
"Secondly, not all lava tubes in a given region should be expected to be interconnected," he added. "Indeed, some might have formed at different times, and might run at different levels or depths underground."
Maze of corridors?
Thousands of photos, reconstructed into a 3D model, are helping Purdue University researchers evaluate lava tubes as a potential habitat for humans on the moon or Mars.
(Image credit: Purdue University image/Jongseong Choi)
Lee also said that while some lava tubes on Earth have smooth walls and floors, most have very rough surfaces and debris piles on their floors.
"We don't know how rough lava tubes on the moon might be, but the term underground roadway seems optimistic," Lee said. "In any case, in my view, it's not that pits on the moon would lead to a maze of underground corridors that makes them most interesting — although that is fascinating — but the fact that they give access to an environment that's radically different from the surface, whatever shape that underground environment might have."
Pockets of promise: Underground lava tubes on the moon could be good sites for future lunar habitation quarters. This image shows a lava tube here on Earth.
(Image credit: Purdue University)
Any underground cavity on the moon, after all, would provide shielding — from temperature swings, space radiation, micrometeoritic bombardment and sandblasting from the rocket engines of landing or departing spacecraft.
Water harvesting
Most intriguing to Lee are candidate pits recently identified inside Philolaus Crater near the north pole of the moon.
"They might be skylights associated with a network of lava tubes formed not in volcanic lava flows, but in an impact melt sheet, the temporary pool of molten rock that ponded inside Philolaus Crater following the large impact that created the crater," he said.
Interestingly enough, Lee said, the candidate pits inside Philolaus are located at such a high latitude that sunlight would never enter the underlying caves.
"These would be in perpetual darkness and so cold that ice could be cold-trapped in them, much like it is in the permanently shadowed regions at the actual poles of the moon," Lee said.
Exploring high-latitude pits on the moon might therefore offer an additional opportunity to harvest water on our lunar neighbor, Lee said.
Vital data
The city of Philadelphia is shown inside a theoretical lunar lava tube. A Purdue University team of researchers explored whether lava tubes more than 0.6 miles (1 kilometer) wide could remain structurally stable on the moon.
(Image credit: Purdue University/Courtesy of David Blair)
Meanwhile, researchers have begun assessing the viability of underground lunar habitats.
Anahita Modiriasari, a postdoctoral researcher in Purdue University's Lyles School of Civil Engineering, and her colleagues have been appraising lunar imagery, reconstructed into a 3D model to evaluate lava tubes as a potential habitat for humans on the moon. This is a task that a rover or drone could potentially accomplish on the lunar surface.
The work is part of Purdue's Resilient ExtraTerrestrial Habitats (RETH), a project that investigates the value of future human habitats on the moon or Mars.
"All of this collected data is vital," Modiriasari said. "We are using it to build an advanced model of the size, strength and structural stability of the lava tube," she said. For example, what happens during seismic activity? What would happen if a meteorite strikes?
In another development, the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program recently awarded a Phase 3 contract to researchers developing robotic technologies to enable the exploration of lunar pits.
The "Skylight" concept mission is led by William Whittaker of Carnegie Mellon University. The NIAC award will help Whittaker and his team flesh out ways to explore and model a lunar pit. Doing so will require fast, autonomous micro-roving, which achieves significant exploration in a single lunar daylight period.
According to Whittaker, descent into and exploration of the lunar subsurface will come, but "pit-specific" questions must first be answered from the surface: How navigable are the rims? Are there caves? Are there rappel routes? What is the morphology?
Specifically, a mission of this type would create and downlink the first high-resolution, science-quality, 3D model of a vast planetary pit, Whittaker said.
"This [Skylight] initiative matures and transitions that technology. The technology innovations are exploration autonomy, in-situ 3D modeling, fast, far micro-roving and the aggregate means to achieve mission-in-a-week," Whittaker said.
The unanswered questions of lava-tube exploration aren't just technological. Also looming large, as with all aspects of lunar resource use and settlement, are space-law issues.
"Potentially exciting research areas cannot be claimed by sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means," said Joanne Gabrynowicz, professor emerita of space law at the University of Mississippi and editor-in-chief emerita at the Journal of Space Law.
"Doing things like digging corridors and building roads could easily be interpreted as making a claim by use or other means. This is prohibited by the Outer Space Treaty," Gabrynowicz said. "The U.S. and all spacefaring nations are party to it. A location with high scientific value will require an international agreement regarding its use and who can access it."
Leonard David is author of the recently released book, "Moon Rush: The New Space Race" published by National Geographic in May 2019. A longtime writer for Space.com, David has been reporting on the space industry for more than five decades.Follow us on Twitter@Spacedotcom orFacebook.
Astronomers may have finally figured out what causes the sun's 11-year cycle of activity, and it involves a "tsunami" of magnetic fields.
The sun, like other stars, goes through a cycle marked by a change in magnetic activity, levels of radiation, and the number and size of sunspots. While our sun's 11-year cycle was discovered more than a century ago, predicting exactly when one cycle ends and a new one begins has been an ongoing challenge.
A pair of related studies have mapped out the sun's activity over the course of 140 years, looking for clues about the solar cycle that are visible on the surface. By looking at the way bright flashes of ultraviolet light migrate across the sun's surface, the researchers discovered that the sun's mysterious 11-year cycle may be marked by a "terminator" event that ends one cycle and a "tsunami" of magnetic fields that initiates a new one. Those bright flickers of ultraviolet light and the sun's magnetic fields appear to drive the cycle itself, and monitoring those flashes could help scientists predict when a new cycle will begin.
"We have observed the sunspot cycle for hundreds of years," Mausumi Dikpati, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and lead author of the tsunami study, published in the journal Nature in February, said in a statement. "But it's been a mystery what mechanism could transport a signal from the equator, where the cycle ends, to the sun's midlatitudes, where the next cycle begins, in such a relatively short amount of time."
The first study looked for markers of the end of a solar cycle. Using 140 years of solar observations, the team of scientists studied the movement of so-called coronal bright points, or flickers of extreme ultraviolet light in the sun's corona.
A computer simulation of a "solar tsunami," which causes the birth of a new sunspot cycle.
(Image credit: UCAR)
The light flickers first appear at a higher altitude than the sunspots and move toward the equator, the researchers found. There, the flickers overlap with the sunspots in the midlatitudes before both flickers and sunspots reach the equator and disappear, the study said.
Their disappearance, which the scientists deemed as the "terminator" event, is shortly followed by a large burst of activity in the flickering lights.
These two images of the sun taken in ultraviolet illustrate the changes in solar activity over a period of two years.
(Image credit: NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory)
The second study, published later in July in the journal Solar Physics, built on the findings of the terminator study, suggesting that the bright flickers marked the movement of the sun's magnetic fields. These magnetic fields wrap around the sun like rubber bands on the east and the west, according to the statement, and also move toward the equator near the end of the solar cycle.
Such fields also act as "magnetic dams," trapping plasma behind them as they travel. Once these fields reach the center, the opposing charges of the magnetic fields moving in from the east and the west collide with each other, releasing the fields' pent-up magnetic charge in a fluid-like motion. The researchers called this rush of fluid a "tsunami."
As the tsunami of solar plasma reaches the sun's midlatitudes, it encounters the incoming magnetic fields of the next solar cycle, and this collision results in the bright light flickers, the study said.
The authors of the studies said they plan on using the Parker Solar Probe, the Solar Dynamics Observatory and the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope to observe the current solar cycle. As it comes to an end in the first half of the year 2020 and a new one begins, the researchers will be able to put their results to the test.
"We believe the results … could revolutionize our understanding of the solar interior and the processes that create sunspots and shape the sunspot cycle," Scott McIntosh, a scientist at NCAR and lead author of the "terminator" study, said in the statement.
So long, Progress 72, and thanks for all the stuff.
The Russian-built Progress cargo ship went down in flames (on purpose) on Monday (July 29) and a space station astronaut made sure to capture its fiery doom on camera.
The uncrewed Russian cargo ship Progress 72 burns up and breaks part in Earth's atmosphere in this photo taken July 29, 2019 by NASA astronaut Nick Hague on the International Space Station.
"Said goodbye to Progress 72 today to make room for 73P showing up on Wednesday. Caught this shot of it during reentry," NASA astronaut Nick Hague wrote on Twitter Monday. "It looked like a big firework that lasted minutes — flickering, sparking, and pulsing with brightness before it faded into the darkness."
Hague watched Progress 72's demise from the International Space Station, where he and five other space travelers bid farewell to the uncrewed cargo ship as it undocked itself from the Russian-built Pirs module after four months linked to the orbiting lab.
"It will reenter the Earth's atmosphere loaded with trash and discarded gear for a fiery, but safe disposal over the Pacific Ocean," NASA officials wrote in a status update Monday.
And reenter Progress 72 did.
As Hague's photo shows, the disposable spacecraft broke apart into a shower of bits as it burned up in Earth's atmosphere. The cosmic funeral pyre marked the end of a delivery mission that began with an April 4 launch to the station.
Progress 72 delivered 3.7 tons of supplies and gear to the station during its mission. That haul included 104 lbs. (47 kilograms) of oxygen and air; 926 lbs. (420 kg) of water; 3,117 lbs. (1,413 kg) of spare parts and gear; and 3,375 lbs. (1,530 kg) of propellant. Its departure makes way for a replacement cargo ship, Progress 73.
A Russian Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch Progress 73 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (July 31) at 8:10 a.m. EDT (1210 GMT). The mission comes less than a week after the arrival of a SpaceX Dragon cargo ship at the station. That mission launched into orbit Thursday (July 25) and arrived on Saturday (July 27).
Progress 73 is expected to deliver nearly 3 tons of supplies to the space station at 11:35 a.m. EDT (1535 GMT) after making just two orbits around Earth in a super-fast flight. It will stay at the station until December, when it will also depart to burn up in Earth's atmosphere.
You can watch the Progress 73 launch live here Wednesday, courtesy of NASA TV. NASA's launch webcast will begin at 7:45 a.m. EDT (1145 GMT), with docking coverage to begin at 10:45 a.m. EDT (1445 GMT).
Russia's Progress spacecraft are workhorse vehicles that look similar to the crewed Soyuz vehicles used by Roscosmos, the country's space agency, to ferry crews to and from the International Space Station. But instead of a crew capsule, Progress vehicles carry propellant, experiments and other much-needed supplies to keep astronauts and cosmonauts well stocked.
In just a year’s time, NASA will launch a new robotic rover mission to Mars. The mission, temporarily called “Mars 2020”, will involve the collection and retrieval of rock and soil samples to Earth. This means there’s gonna be quite a bit of heavy lifting involved. Luckily, a recent demonstration showed that the rover is up for the task.
The rover’s arm and turret are some of its most important parts. They must work together to emulate the arm of a geologist that’s examining and collecting samples. Recently, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory’s Spacecraft Assembly Facility in Pasadena, California, NASA engineers instructed the rover’s 88-pound arm to perform a bicep curl as it moved from a deployed to a stowed configuration.
“This was our first opportunity to watch the arm and turret move in concert with each other, making sure that everything worked as advertised — nothing blocking or otherwise hindering smooth operation of the system,” said Dave Levine, an integration engineer for Mars 2020.
“Standing there, watching the arm and turret go through their motions, you can’t help but marvel that the rover will be in space in less than a year from now and performing these exact movements on Mars in less than two.”
In its final configuration, the rover’s arm will have five electrical motors and five joints. The turret will be equipped with cameras, life and chemical element detection instruments, a percussive drill, and a coring mechanism.
The mission’s launch is planned for July 2020 and scheduled to land at Jezero Crater on Mars in February 2021. Although a future return trip to Mars to retrieve the rover’s collected samples hasn’t yet been put in motion, nor is it clear if it’s feasible at this moment, NASA believes that sample collection from Mars merits much attention. NASA also says that many aspects of the upcoming Mars 2020 mission will shape the technology required for human missions on the Red Planet.
This will be NASA’s seventh mission to touch down on Mars, joining the likes of Curiosity, InSight lander, Spirit, and Opportunity. In order to find a cool name as its predecessors, NASA has put out a call for K-12 students in US schools, offering them the chance to name the 2020 rover. This is somewhat of a tradition now. Before it was dubbed Curiosity, the previously-deployed plucky rover was known as the Mars Science Laboratory.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET NASA gaat met commerciële partners in zee. Onder andere de bedrijven van ondernemers Jeff Bezos en Elon Musk gaan in zee met het ruimtevaartagentschap. NASA hoopt met een commerciële samenwerking zijn technologiëen te verbeteren voor ruimtereizen naar planeten zoals Mars en de Maan.
De rijkste man op aarde, Jeff Bezos, heeft drie partnerships met NASA op zak. Het bedrijf wil in de toekomst commerciële reizen naar de Maan aanbieden. Bezos zal met zijn Blue Origin werken aan een nieuw systeem voor ruimtenavigatie en landingen op de Maan. Daarbij krijgt hij hulp van NASA en zal hij nieuwe materialen testen die gebruikt kunnen worden in landingsgestellen voor maanreizen.
De andere grote nieuwe partner van NASA is SpaceX, het ruimtevaartbedrijf van multimiljardair Elon Musk. SpaceX zal zich richten op de ‘Starship raket’, een project dat nog in zijn kinderschoenen staat. Musk hoopt een systeem te bouwen waarmee raketten onderweg hun brandstof kunnen aanvullen om naar bestemmingen op grotere afstand te reizen.
Het project zou zich nog in een beginfase bevinden, maar mocht het Musk lukken, kan dat een revolutie in de ruimtevaart betekenen. En laat dat nu net een specialiteit zijn van de ondernemer die onder meer PayPal en Tesla op de markt bracht.
WETENSCHAP & PLANEET Wetenschappers hebben de oorzaak getraceerd van een nucleaire wolk boven Europa in 2017. Ze wijzen naar een Russische verwerkingsinstallatie in het zuiden van het Oeralgebergte.
In september 2017 trok een wolk ruthenium-106 over Europa. Omdat er weinig gevaar was voor de volksgezondheid, kreeg de wolk weinig aandacht in de media. Toch was de radioactieve vervuiling in de EU honderd keer hoger dan na de kernramp in Fukushima in 2011.
Nu hebben zeventig wetenschappers van verschillende Europese universiteiten dankzij de analyse van 13.000 metingen over heel Europa de oorzaak van het incident kunnen traceren.
Uit hun berekeningen blijkt dat er geen ongeval met een kernreactor aan de oorzaak ligt, maar een probleem in een nucleair verwerkingsbedrijf. De exacte locatie van het incident is moeilijk vast te leggen, maar de data wijzen op een plek in het zuiden van het Oeralgebergte.
Daar ligt de Russische nucleaire installatie Mayak. Die veroorzaakte in 1957 al eens een groot lek toen een tank explodeerde, met een enorme nucleaire vervuiling van de regio tot gevolg. Rusland ontkent dat er drie jaar geleden in Mayak een ongeluk is gebeurd.
Bijzonder
“Deze keer ging het om een korte puls die erg snel was verdwenen”, zegt Georg Steinhauser van de University of Hannover. “We konden aantonen dat het incident is gebeurd in een opwerkingsinstallatie van gebruikte brandstofstaven, in een late fase van het verwerkingsproces. Ook al is er geen officiële verklaring, toch hebben we een erg goed idee van wat er gebeurd kan zijn.”
Een van de opvallende eigenschappen van de wolk was dat ze enkel uit ruthenium-106 bestond. Dat is erg ongewoon, en het feit dat er geen andere radioactieve bestanddelen gemeten werden, was een duidelijke indicatie dat het om een lek uit een verwerkingsinstallatie moest gaan.
Ook de geografische voetafdruk van de wolk was opvallend: de stof werd gevonden in grote delen van Centraal- en Oost-Europa, Azië en het Arabisch schiereiland, zelfs tot in de Caraïben.
WETENSCHAPHet Amerikaanse ruimtevaartagentschap NASA en de Europese Ruimtevaartorganisatie ESA slaan de handen in elkaar om tegen 2031 stukjes van Mars naar de aarde te halen. De strakke planning begint stilaan vorm te krijgen. Gelukkig maar, want timing is cruciaal.
In april 2018 tekenden NASA en ESA alvast een intentieverklaring waarin te lezen staat dat ze bodemmonsters op Mars willen verzamelen. Een eerste stap van het masterplan wordt volgend jaar reeds uitgerold. In 2020 wordt er een nieuwe Marsrover van NASA gelanceerd richting de ruimte. Als alles gaat zoals gepland, zal die rover in februari 2021 landen. Eenmaal daar moet de Marsrover op verkenning gaan en in totaal 38 tubes met bodemmateriaal verzamelen.
Enkele tubes worden gedropt op de rode planeet en later opgehaald, de overige stalen houdt de Marsrover bij zich.
In 2026 volgt de tweede stap. Daarbij wordt de ruimtesonde ‘Sample Retrieval Lander (SRL)’ naar Mars gestuurd. Zijn originele (Engelse) naam spreekt boekdelen: de SRL moet de tubes met monsters ophalen en ze terug naar de aarde brengen. Het proces zal ongeveer acht maanden in beslag nemen, waarvan vijf maanden benut zullen worden om de tubes met monsters te verzamelen. De SRL wacht een heuse uitdaging “want de sonde moet de omgeving en temperaturen overleven op Mars” zegt projectleider Brian Muirhead. Bovendien keerde nog nooit eerder een ruimtesonde van Mars terug naar de aarde.
Als dat in 2026 wél lukt, wordt de lander na acht maanden terug in een baan rond Mars, zo’n 300 kilometer boven de rode planeet, gebracht. Vervolgens zal die daar opgepikt worden door de zogenaamde ‘Earth Return Orbiter’ (ERO). Volgens de planning wordt die ERO gelijktijdig met de SRL gelanceerd om enkele maanden in de ruimte door te brengen totdat zijn ‘vriendje’ terugkeert.
Uiteindelijk zullen de twee in 2031 terug landen op de aarde. Specifiek moet dat gebeuren in de Verenigde Staten, waar de monsters in quarantaine geplaatst kunnen worden.
Details
Alles moet tot in het detail gepland worden, want de timing is cruciaal. Ten eerste zijn de ruimtevaartuigen al zes maanden onderweg voordat ze op de rode planeet arriveren. En men kan niet zomaar vertrekken: de vaartuigen (en/of astronauten) kunnen enkel naar Mars reizen als de planeet aan de dezelfde kant van de zon is gepositioneerd als de aarde. Dit komt slecht om de 26 maanden voor: dus in 2031, 2033, enzovoort.
Loopt er met andere woorden iets mis in de planning, betekent dat dat de SRL en ERO pas in 2028 in plaats van 2026 gelanceerd kunnen worden. Dan zal het automatisch tot 2033 duren voordat er stukjes van Mars op aarde arriveren.
WETENSCHAPDe maan is ongeveer 150 miljoen jaar ouder dan tot nu toe gedacht werd. Dat blijkt uit een analyse van de chemische samenstelling van maangesteente, uitgevoerd door een team van onderzoekers van de ULB en de universiteit van Keulen.
Het gaat om maanstalen die door astronauten van de Apollo-missies tussen 1969 en 1972 werden meegebracht naar de aarde. Het onderzoek, dat gepubliceerd werd in het vaktijdschrift Nature Geoscience, bracht aan het licht dat de maan eigenlijk al 150 miljoen jaar eerder gevormd werd dan gedacht.
Het was Maxwell Thiemens van de universiteit van Keulen die het onderzoek leidde. Hij werkte eraan tijdens zijn doctoraatsstudie.
De maan zou ontstaan zijn na een botsing tussen de vroege aarde en een ander hemellichaam ter grootte van Mars. Over het tijdstip is niet iedereen het eens, maar de theoretische modellen die gebruikt worden en het nieuwe onderzoek op basis van de chemische samenstelling van de stalen, verschillen dus 150 miljoen jaar.
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Misschien is één van de grootste gevaren die ons bedreigen wel dat niemand die asteroïdes ziet aankomen.
Enkele dagen geleden scheerde wederom een zogenaamde “city killer” vlak langs de aarde en niemand had deze opgemerkt.
Wanneer een object uit de ruimte passeert op een afstand van minder dan 100.000 kilometer, dan is dat met recht rakelings te noemen. Een afstand die ongeveer eenvijfde deel is van die naar de maan.
Alan Duffy, hoofdwetenschapper bij het Royal Institution of Australia, zei: “Ik was stomverbaasd, dit was echt schrikken”.
Deze asteroïde was er niet eentje die al lang van te voren door astronomen was ontdekt of werd gevolgd. Het was een asteroïde die als het ware vanuit het niets verscheen. Zo werd het ook omschreven door astronoom Michael Brown uit Melbourne.
We praten hier over een object dat volgens NASA een doorsnee had van ergens tussen de 57 en 130 meter en een koers volgde die het tot op 73.000 kilometer afstand van de aarde bracht.
Ook Michael Brown was stomverbaasd en zei: “Mensen beseffen eigenlijk pas wat er is gebeurd, als het object ons al is gepasseerd”.
Kort voordat de asteroïde de aarde passeerde (enkele uren) werd deze door astronomen in Amerika en Brazilië ontdekt.
Volgens Brown is het de grootste asteroïde die in lange tijd zo dicht bij de aarde is geweest. Als je dan nagaat dat deze asteroïde groot genoeg is om een complete stad te vernietigen, hoe kan het dan dat helemaal niemand deze heeft zien aankomen?
Dit schijnt te komen doordat deze asteroïdes eigenlijk te klein zijn om in de kijker te lopen. Astronomen moeten echt een beetje geluk hebben om dit soort objecten te ontdekken. Vaak gebeurt dit doordat bijvoorbeeld het zonlicht er net op valt of iets dergelijks.
NASA concentreert zich voornamelijk op asteroïdes met een doorsnee van groter dan zo’n 800 meter en zegt daarvan er ongeveer 90 procent te hebben geïdentificeerd.
En dat betekent dat asteroide 2019 OK zoals deze heet, niet in die categorie valt en dus eigenlijk wordt genegeerd, terwijl het groot genoeg is om Amsterdam of Rotterdam compleet te verwoesten.
Dan komt er volgens Brown nog een probleem om de hoek kijken en dat is dat omloopbaan en de koers van dit soort objecten nogal grillig is en heel moeilijk te voorspellen.
Toch maakt dit object lange reizen door de ruimte en gaat in zijn elliptische omloopbaan zelfs voorbij Mars tot in de buurt van Venus. Ook dit betekent weer dat de observatietijd wanneer het in de buurt van de aarde komt, heel erg kort is.
Wanneer het de aarde passeert heeft dit object een snelheid van 24 kilometer per seconde oftewel ruim 86.000 kilometer per uur. Dat is heel erg snel voor een asteroïde, want de meesten doen dit met een snelheid van tussen de 4 en 19 kilometer per seconde.
Brown zegt dat het een kwestie van geluk blijft wanneer een dergelijk object wordt waargenomen en dat dit eigenlijk nooit eerder is dan enkele weken voordat het de aarde passeert of raakt en dan nog moet iemand toevallig de juiste kant op kijken.
Allan Duffy zegt: “Het is iets waar we ons eerlijk gezegd zorgen over moeten maken. Het is geen Hollywood film. Het is een duidelijk en aanwezig gevaar”.
Hij zegt verder dat wanneer een asteroïde zoals 2019 OK de aarde geraakt zou hebben je dit zou kunnen vergelijken met een kernexplosie, genoeg om een grote stad compleet te vernietigen.
Niet alleen NASA doet aan deze simulatie mee, ook het alom bekende FEMA en om een generale repetitie te houden voor wanneer deze ramp werkelijk zal plaatsvinden. Ook andere internationale partners zoals de European Space Agency (ESA) zullen aan deze simulatie deelnemen.
De gevolgen op aarde van een inslag door een asteroïde kunnen heel verschillend zijn, afhankelijk van waar deze zal neerkomen. Feit is dat wij in onze moderne tijd nog nooit een dergelijke ramp hebben meegemaakt, dus bij die oefening zullen er heel veel onbekende factoren meespelen. Desondanks gaat men deze oefening houden om de belangrijkste aspecten van een dergelijke ramp te identificeren.
Het scenario dat gebruikt zal worden is dat op 26 maart er een asteroïde is ontdekt die de codenaam 2019 PDC krijgt. In eerste instantie wordt dan gesteld dat er een kans is van 1 op 50.000 dat deze de aarde zal raken, maar al snel wordt dit bijgesteld naar een kans van 1 op 100.
In bovenstaand scenario spreken we dan alleen over de wat grotere asteroïdes en niet eens over de kleinere zoals 2019 OK die klaarblijkelijk te klein zijn om wat mee te doen.
Als je dan verder bedenkt dat de asteroïde bij Chelyabinsk enkele jaren geleden slechts een doorsnee had van ruim 20 meter, in de lucht ontplofte en al enorme schade veroorzaakte, dan weet je dat ook de kleinere asteroïdes die door NASA en andere instanties worden genegeerd ook letterlijk levensgevaarlijk kunnen zijn.
Nu is er op dit moment misschien weinig dat er gedaan kan worden als een astroïde zoals 2019 OK op een bepaalde plek op aarde af koerst, maar het maakt bijvoorbeeld voor de inwoners van Amsterdam of Rotterdam een heel verschil of ze weten dat een asteroïde hun stad gaat raken over twee weken of twee uur.
Een letterlijk verschil tussen leven en dood en hoog tijd dat al die miljarden dollars die nu weer worden geïnvesteerd in een nieuwe bewapeningswedloop in de ruimte, worden gebruikt om een waarschuwingssysteem voor asteroïdes op te zetten voor de bevolking.
Maar ja, dat is diezelfde bevolking die de elite juist zo graag kwijt wil.
'I WAS SO SCARED' US soldier who witnessed UFO incident dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell’ comes forward
'I WAS SO SCARED'US soldier who witnessed UFO incident dubbed ‘Britain’s Roswell’ comes forward
Patrick Knox
ANOTHER veteran US serviceman has broken his silence about witnessing Britain's most famous UFO encounter nearly 40 years ago.
Ex-sgt Michael Smith has revealed officially for the first time that he also saw the spooky activity in 1980 in the Suffolk countryside.
A drawing of the craft seen during the unexplained incident
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An information board in Rendlesham Forest
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A UFO trail sign at Rendlesham Forest, which has become a tourist hotspotCredit: Getty - Contributor
Back in 2016 Steve Longero, who was a young US Air Force police officer working at bases RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge, came forward about witnessing strange lights while on duty.
Now Mr Smith, then a 19-year-old member of the 81st Airborne Police Squadron at RAF Bentwaters, has come forward to reveal what he says he saw.
He said: "A month before the base was put on alert and I was called out and I got onto as bunker by one of the gates.
“I was having a pee outside when I saw an orange glowing light in the woods — it was a reddish ball.
"It stopped right in front of me — it just stayed there and hovered two feet off the ground and I called for reinforcements I was scared to death."
Ever since the incident theories and rumours have grown only last year there were claims that the Rendlesham Forest Incident because it has become known was in fact a prank played on the US Air Force by the SAS.
A copy of the United States Air Force report on the sighting of a UFO near bases at RAF Woodbridge RAF Bentwaters in SuffolkCredit: Ngn Picture Library
The Rendlesham Forest incident: Britain’s most famous UFO sighting
The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 over a series of at least two nights.
On December 26, 1980, military personnel at the twin bases of RAF Bentwaters and RAF Woodbridge in Suffolk saw a strange light in Rendlesham Forest, which lies between the two bases.
Three men were sent out to investigate where two of them encountered a small, triangularshaped craft.
One man, Jim Penniston, got close enough to touch the side of the object.
He and another of the airmen present, John Burroughs, made sketches of the craft for witness statements.
Two nights later Deputy Base Commander, Lieutenant Colonel Charles Halt and his team then encountered the UFO.
He said later: "Here I am, a senior official who routinely denies this sort of thing and diligently works to debunk them, and I'm involved in the middle of something I can't explain." Despite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained.
Dubbed "Britain's Roswell" the reported sightings and contacts with aliens took place over a series of nights in December 1980 and the incident continues to fascinate UFO enthusiasts and conspiracy theorists.
The Ministry of Defence stated at the time that the event posed no threat to national security, and it therefore was never fully investigated.
Sceptics have explained the sightings as a misinterpretation of a series of nocturnal lights, a fireball, the beam from the Orfordness Lighthouse or even bright stars.
Despite an MOD investigation the Rendlesham Forest incident remains unexplained (stock image)
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Steve Longero has remained tight-lipped for more than three decades
A UFO trail sign at Rendlesham Forest, which has become a tourist hotspotµ
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The Rendlesham Forest incident took place in December 1980 and has been dubbed Britain's Roswell
Het bleef op nog geen meter boven de grond zweven. Amerikaanse soldaat die getuige was van Britse Roswell spreekt zich uit
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Het bleef op nog geen meter boven de grond zweven. Amerikaanse soldaat die getuige was van Britse Roswell spreekt zich uit
Michael Smith was in de jaren tachtig als soldaat gestationeerd op de legerbasis bij Rendlesham Forest in Suffolk, waar indertijd UFO’s werden waargenomen. Dat schrijft The Sun.
In december 1980 werden in de buurt van RAF Woodbridge en RAF Bentwaters, bases die toen werden gebruikt door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht, vreemde objecten in de lucht gezien.
Het incident wordt ook wel het Britse Roswell genoemd, vanwege de overeenkomsten met het Roswellincident in juli 1947.
Oranje licht
Op het moment van het incident was Smith gestationeerd op RAF Bentwaters. Hij is naar eigen zeggen getuige geweest van het vreemde fenomeen.
“Een maand voordat de basis in staat van paraatheid werd gebracht bevond ik me in een bunker bij één van de poorten,” zei hij tegen de krant.
“Ik stond buiten te urineren toen ik een oranje licht in het bos zag,” vervolgde hij. “Het was een roodachtige bol.”
Recht voor mijn neus
“Het [object] stopte recht voor mijn neus,” herinnerde Smith zich. “Het bleef op nog geen meter boven de grond zweven.”
“Ik vroeg om versterking en was doodsbang,” klonk het.
In 2016 zei Steve Longero, die was gestationeerd op RAF Bentwaters en RAF Woodbridge, dat hij indertijd ook vreemde lichten had gezien.
“If you’re standing on the surface of that planet, there are three suns in the sky, but two of them are pretty far away and small-looking. They’re like two red, ominous eyes in the sky.”
That’s the made-for-a-sci-fi-novel description of the otherwise boringly-named planet LTT 1445Ab discovered recently just 22.5 light-years away from Earth. It’s hot – three suns will do that to a planet – but it has an atmosphere, so it’s getting some interest from astronomers. How about a better name first? Ghidorah? Triple Sol? My Three Suns? Ta-three-ine?
“It is the second nearest transiting exoplanet system found to date, and the closest one known for which the primary is an M dwarf.”
Artist’s rendition of the view from a hypothetical moon in orbit around the first known planet to reside in a tight-knit triple-star system.
According to their new report, “Three Red Suns in the Sky: A Transiting, Terrestrial Planet in a Triple M Dwarf System at 6.9 Parsecs,” submitted this week to The Astronomical Journal, astronomers led by Jennifer Winters of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics used data from the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) space telescope launched last year to search for exoplanets using the transit method to locate changes in the light of a star that indicates a planet passing in front of it. While LTT 1445Ab is in a three-star system, it only orbits one of them, and that orbit is a scorchingly-fast once every 5.36 Earth days – extremely speedy for a planet just slightly larger than Earth (1.35 times the size) but much denser (8 times the mass) and hotter (surface temperatures 311 °F (155 °C or 428 Kelvin).
“The presence of a transiting planet in this system raises the possibility that the entire system is co-planar, which implies that the system may have formed from the early fragmentation of an individual protostellar core.”
Spider’s view from LTT 1445Ab?
While the atmosphered planet is interesting, the three suns are more intriguing, and LTT 1445Ab could shed some light (by ironically blocking it) on how these three-sun systems formed. Yes, there’s more – ScienceAlert points out that planet HD 131399Ab, discovered in 2016, orbits three suns 340 light-years away in a very slow 550-year orbit, making it far less suitable for study. The study surmises that the three suns of LTT 1445Ab may be the fragments of a single star that broke apart early in the history of the universe. The astronomers are hoping that the new James Webb Space Telescope, scheduled to be launched in 2021, will help answer the question.
Three Suns and a Rock. Great name for a band or a sci-fi movie. Any other ideas?
The Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities announced this week that a team of divers has made some pretty remarkable discoveries in the ancient sunken city of Heracleion. Because the only thing better than a lost ancient Egyptian city is a lost and sunken ancient Egyptian city.
According to a statement by the Ministry of Antiquities, the team found multiple ancient temples, gold coins, precious jewels, and a sizable ceremonial boat during their two month long excavation of the site. The city of Heracleion rose to prominence during the last days of the Pharaohs, as the Ptolemaic dynasty began their rule over the Egyptian coast. The city was named for the Greek hero of myth Heracles (better known by his Roman name: Hercules) who, according to ancient legend, actually visited the city and was presumably such a cool guy that they changed the name from the original Egyptian name, Thonis, to Heracleion in his muscly honor.
Beyond Heracles, the city was mentioned in many stories, both legendary and historical. Myth holds that Heracleion was one of the last stops of Paris and Helen of Troy fleeing from the jealous King Menelnaus before the Trojan war. Queen Cleopatra was also crowned in a temple in Heracleion. The website of Franck Goddio, the underwater archaeologist who discovered Heracleion, describes the city’s mysterious history:
Thonis-Heracleion (the Egyptian and Greek names of the city) is a city lost between legend and reality. Before the foundation of Alexandria in 331 BC, the city knew glorious times as the obligatory port of entry to Egypt for all ships coming from the Greek world. It had also a religious importance because of the temple of Amun, which played an important role in rites associated with dynasty continuity. The city was founded probably around the 8th century BC, underwent diverse natural catastrophes, and finally sunk entirely into the depths of the Mediterranean in the 8th century AD.
Archaeologist Franck Goddio with an engraving found at Heracleion.
Heracleion was first discovered in 2000 by Franck Goddio, and has slowly been excavated over the past 19 years. Goddio led the latest two-month-long excavation, which proved much more fruitful than previous endeavors thanks to modern technology. The team of European and Egyptian archaeologists used an underwater imaging tool to locate artifacts on the sea floor and those buried beneath.
On the latest expedition, the team discovered the crumbling remains of a large Egyptian temple including the massive stone columns, as well as a smaller Greek temple buried beneath three feet of sediment on the ocean floor. The team also found the missing chunk of a large ceremonial boat. Previous expeditions had uncovered 75 different boats, mostly incomplete. This find completes one of those previously discovered, a 43-foot-long ornate boat stuffed with coins and jewelry that the Ministry of Antiquities says was likely used for ceremonial purposes.
The treasures found inside the boat include gold jewelry and coins that date to the reign of King Ptolemy II, who ruled from 283 to 246 B.C. They also found pottery dating to the fourth century B.C.
The team also surveyed another sunken city, Canopus, and found that the city was half a mile larger than previously thought. They recovered some coins and pottery from Canopus which, according to the Ministry of Antiquities, indicates that this city was also a bustling port town from the fourth century B.C. through the Islamic period.
The number of “lost” cities being found and excavated seems to be increasing exponentially as our ability to image previously unassailable locations gets better and better. There’s no telling how many forgotten places, people, and stories have yet to be discovered.
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