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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...
16-03-2022
Five-Mile-Wide Anomaly Off the Coast of Peru Called a Giant UFO or Atlantis
Five-Mile-Wide Anomaly Off the Coast of Peru Called a Giant UFO or Atlantis
Show a family photo to Scott C. Waring of UFO Sightings Daily and he will probably point out a UFO In the sky, an alien standing next to Uncle Harry and possibly some red eyes signifying your mother-in-law really is possessed by a demon. Waring spends much of his time magnifying NASA images of the Moon and Mars and Google images of Earth and he occasionally finds anomalies that make one go “Hmmm” … while making Waring go “Alien!” That happened this week when a speck on a Google Earth image of water off the coast of Peru had him declaring it was a five-mile-wide UFO on the bottom of the ocean … or the remains of Atlantis.
“Now there is a 7km UFO sitting at the bottom of the ocean. It next to a very mysterious location…Nazca, Peru famous for the giant drawings in the dirt that are hundreds of meters long. Those Nazca lines are said to be drawings to welcome the god. Back then such alien technology flying though the sky could easily be mistaken for gods. Its obvious that the two are connected.”
Obvious? What’s obvious is that Waring can really find the anomalies and that this one is off the coast of Peru … which is home to the mysterious Nazca lines. Does that mean they’re somehow connected? Peru is home to a lot of other things – could this also be an ancient llama corral? One doesn’t need to squint to see a slight resemblance to a UFO (Waring is kind enough to make his photos available to the media) but that doesn’t make it one. He obviously knew you skeptics would think that, so he provides an alternative explanation.
“As I remember, this circular shape is also the right size and shape to be the lost city of Atlantis, which I have long believed to be and alien ship that was floating on the ocean, then later submerged.”
Did Plato say Atlantis was five miles wide, a perfect circle … and located in the Pacific off the coast of South America? Even the esteemed Greek philosopher would facepalm at that broad connection of dots, but that is Waring’s calling card. If you’re not impressed, try spotting the anomaly for yourself on the original Google photo. Even if you manage to find it, does it convince you, as it does Waring, that this is “100% proof of ancient aliens”? Now that you can see it magnified on his site, what do you think it is? An unusual formation on the bottom of the ocean?
Scott C. Waring is a master at locating anomalies and his interpretations of photos and videos are quite entertaining. One of these days, he may be right.
Vlieg binnenkort zelf mee rond de maan met de eerste vlucht van het Artemis-programma
Er altijd al van gedroomd om mee te vliegen naar de maan? Dat kan! Binnenkort kan je meevliegen met de eerste vlucht van het Artemis-programma rond de maan. Althans een boardingpass met jouw naam erop kan mee de ruimte in. Dat meldt NASA op hun website.
Met deze missie gaat het Artemis-programma echt van start. De Verenigde Staten willen daarmee weer met mensen naar de maan, onder wie de eerste vrouw. Deze eerste vlucht zal een onbemande vluchttest zijn van de Space Launch System-raket en het Orion-ruimtevaartuig. Dit is de eerste keer dat dit wordt getest. Het doel van het Artemis-programma is om een langdurige menselijke aanwezigheid op de maan op te bouwen voor de komende decennia.
Al zal de Artemis 1 dus niet volledig ‘onbemand’ vliegen, want via een boardingpass met jouw naam erop kan je meevliegen naar de maan. Via de website van NASA kan je je naam achterlaten, die wordt dan op een flash drive gezet die aan boord van de Artemis 1 zal vliegen.
It’s Springtime on Mars, and the Dunes are Defrosting
It’s Springtime on Mars, and the Dunes are Defrosting
Nothing says springtime on Mars like defrosting dunes.
In Mars’ northern hemisphere, springtime has arrived, and observations from the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Experiment)onboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured partially defrosted dunes on the western slope of dunes inside Kaiser Crater.
In the winter, the dark sand dunes are covered in a blanket of white seasonal ice, which you can see in the image below. But this image actually shows the beginning of Martian springtime, where the sunny side of the dunes had just begun to thaw. The lead image shows even further thawing, with the darker dunes showing through.
Ice covered dunes in Kaiser Crater on Mars. Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.
“Bright patches of frost (white in enhanced color) are clearly visible and are made up of water and carbon dioxide ices,” writes HiRISE team member Susan J. Conway. “Dark streaks of sand have flowed down the dune’s slope that sometimes covers the frost. These flows are caused by the rapid transformation of the frost from ice to gas as the sun heats the dune in the spring.”
Dunes form from Martian winds whipping across the loose regolith inside the crater.
Kaiser Crater is 207 km (129 miles) in diameter and is located in Noachis Terra west of Hellas Planitia in Mars’ northern hemisphere. This sand dune field is one of several regions of sand dunes located in the southern part of the crater floor.
You Won’t Believe What’s Buried Under the Sahara…Hidden Lost Ancient Civilizations via Bright Insight
You Won’t Believe What’s Buried Under the Sahara…Hidden Lost Ancient Civilizations via Bright Insight
The world’s largest non-polar desert, is actually the widespread burial grounds of countless, mysteriously unknown, ancient ruins & civilizations, that have long since been forgotten, having been consumed and hidden by the sands of time, thousands of years ago. And here’s the thing…when I say “thousands of years ago”…that’s the part where things start to get really strange…
I’m Jimmy Corsetti, and my channel is called Bright Insight.
Ancient Alien Pyramid Found On Mars, Measures 10km across! Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Ancient Alien Pyramid Found On Mars, Measures 10km across! Photos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of discovery: March 16, 2022
Location of discovery: Mars, 166km above Dorsa Brevia
Google Map coordinates: 70°55'30.87"S 72°29'54.06"E
Hey guys, check this out. I found a four sided pyramid on Mars using Google Earth map. Each corner edge to top measures 5km long, so thats about 3km tall at least. Go big or go home huh? Aliens often go big. Why? They don't do the work, they have AI robots create the structures they want and the time it takes to finish it means little to the aliens since most species will live forever. We measure days, months, years of time being huge amounts of time...because we measure it to our own lifetime...the amount of time we expect ourselves to live. Thats about 75-85 years on average. But if you were an alien, you might have all the time in the universe.
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Plane passenger films a UFO over Switzerland
Plane passenger films a UFO over Switzerland
Apassenger onboard a commercial flight captured the moment the aircraft came within striking distance of an unidentified flying object (UFO).
The passenger was onboard a Singapore Airlines flight on 17 January, 2022 and began filming the plane’s descent into Zurich, Switzerland, through the window.
At first the video, filmed between 7.20 and 7.50am, simply shows the picturesque landscape, complete with lakes and fields, but after the aircraft tilts to the right, a white object can be seen streaking across the sky just below its flight path.
NASA Claim To Have “Lost” Important Wreckage From The Kecksburg UFO Incident
NASA Claim To Have “Lost” Important Wreckage From The Kecksburg UFO Incident
During an investigation into an UFO crash in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania, Ben Hansen discovers an admission from the US government that NASA “lost” key evidence regarding the case.
A Tiny Asteroid was Discovered Mere Hours Before it Crashed Into the Earth
A Tiny Asteroid was Discovered Mere Hours Before it Crashed Into the Earth
Last week, a small asteroid was detected just two hours before it impacted Earth’s atmosphere. Luckily, it was only about 3 meters (10 feet) wide, and the space rock, now known as 2022 EB5 likely burned up in Earth’s atmosphere near Iceland at 21:22 UTC on March 11.
While it is wonderful that astronomers can detect asteroids of that size heading towards our planet, the last-minute nature of the discovery definitely causes a pause. What if it had been bigger?
While every day, Earth gets bombarded with more than 100 tons of dust, sand-sized particles, those objects never reach the ground – they only give us spectacular ‘shooting stars’ or meteor showers we can safely enjoy.
NASA says about once a year, an asteroid about the size of 2022 EB5 (approximately the size of a car) hits Earth’s atmosphere, creates a really impressive fireball, and burns up before reaching the surface. Any asteroids smaller than about 20 meters (about 65 feet) will most likely burn up as they enter the Earth’s atmosphere and if what survives as smaller meteorites hit the ground, they cause little or no damage. But not always.
The epic airburst over Chelyabinsk as captured via dashcam.
The Chelyabinsk meteor, which broke up over Russia in 2013, was approximately 20 meters (65 feet) across, or the size of a six-story building. Barreling through the atmosphere, it unleashed an intense shock wave that shattered windows and collapsed buildings, leaving about 1,200 people injured.
If a rocky meteoroid larger than 25 meters (82 feet) but smaller than one kilometer (a little more than 1/2 mile) were to hit Earth, it would likely cause local damage to the impact area.
Anything larger could cause significant damage. NASA estimates that every 2,000 years or so, a meteoroid the size of a football (300 feet, 100 meters) field hits Earth. In 2019, there was a close-call, where Asteroid 2019 OK – which was an estimated 57 to 130 meters wide (187 to 427 feet), was detected just hours before it made a close pass by Earth, coming within about 73,000 kilometers (45,000 miles). That’s less than one-fifth of the distance to the Moon and is considered uncomfortably close. If an asteroid that size hit Earth, it could wipe out an entire city.
In the case of the recent small asteroid discovery, Hungarian astronomer Krisztián Sárneczky at the Konkoly Observatory near Budapest spied the car-sized 2022 EB5 on March 11, 2022, just two hours before it hit Earth’s atmosphere. Why so late?
As of now, astronomers primarily rely on ground-based observatories to detect asteroids. Small, dark space rocks are difficult to see, since they need to reflect sunlight in order to be visible. Additionally, any object that has an eccentric orbit or that has the Sun blocking its view as it comes toward us are hard to see from Earth.
Earlier this year, NASA announced the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) had become the first survey capable of searching the entire dark sky every 24 hours for near-Earth objects. The system is comprised of four telescopes, two in the northern hemisphere telescopes on Haleakal? and Maunaloa in Hawai’i, and two additional observatories in South Africa and Chile. This all-sky survey joins other networks of observatories that search the skies, including JPL’s Near Earth Object program, the Catalina Sky Survey and PAN-STARRS.
This chart shows how data from NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has led to revisions in the estimated population of near-Earth asteroids. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
But astronomers know that dedicated space telescopes are needed to track incoming asteroids and comets. The WISE mission, originally an infrared-wavelength astronomical space telescope that launched in 2009, was reassigned a new mission after its coolant was depleted. In 2013 the spacecraft became NEOWISE, with the goal of helping identify and describe near-Earth objects (NEOs). As of March 2021, the mission had made 1,130,000 confirmed infrared observations of approximately 39,100 objects throughout the solar system.
Artist’s impression of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft speeding toward the smaller of the two bodies in the Didymos asteroid system. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Lead image caption: 2022 EB5 captured by Paolo Bacci and Martina Maestripieri from at 21h 10min UT, which is 12 minutes before it entered the atmosphere, while it was only 12 300 km form Earth and its apparent speed close to 65?/sec. Credit: P. Bacci, M. Maestripieri
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Security camera recorded 2 entities descending from the sky, watch the frightened dogs
Security camera recorded 2 entities descending from the sky, watch the frightened dogs
Avideo that was recently released by the Mexican ufologist and journalist Jaime Maussan shows the moment in which two alleged entities descend from the sky in the presence of three dogs that bark at the entities and run frightened by the weird event in San Vicente Chicoloapan, State of Mexico.
“These are two humanoid-shaped entities. They approach a few centimeters from the ground and could possibly have walked ,” narrates the report attributed to journalist Carlos Clemente .
The presumed entities continue moving until they run into a fence and there the recording suffers a cut. "At that moment, the smallest entity is seen completely from the side together with the largest one and it is possible to see them perfectly against the light", explains the narrator and concludes: "It is an extraordinary image that reveals a mysterious aspect of the world that we do not see" reports a local news site.
Shackleton's lost ship is FOUND: Endurance is discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, 107 years after it sank – and it's still in remarkable condition - PART II
Shackleton's lost ship is FOUND: Endurance is discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, 107 years after it sank – and it's still in remarkable condition - PART II
Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica
Sir Ernest Shackleton's wooden ship had not been seen since it sank in Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean in 1915
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said Endurance was discovered at a depth of 9,868 feet (3,008 metres)
Shackleton planned the first land crossing of Antarctica from Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea
Remarkable footage of the wreck shows it has been astonishingly preserved, with the ship's wheel still intact
The Antarctic circumpolar current has acted as barrier to the larvae that could have degraded the ship's wood
The Antarctic circumpolar current — an ocean current that flows clockwise from west to east around Antarctica — has essentially acted as barrier to the larvae of deep-water species that could have eaten away at the ship's wood.
Dr Glover told MailOnline: 'The preservation of Endurance is quite remarkable, but not totally unexpected.
'Tiny "shipworms" — small bivalve molluscs — that normally eat wood in well oxygenated oceans are absent from Antarctica, just as they are absent from the Baltic and Black Seas, other remarkable wooden shipwreck "vaults".
'So the findings from the new discovery are important not just from a historical perspective but also in terms of understanding the ecology and evolution of life in Antarctica. It’s a great day for Antarctic archaeology and science.'
The expedition team has also been filming for a long-form observational documentary chronicling the expedition which has been commissioned by National Geographic to air later this year on Disney+.
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917, which hoped to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic.
Just as the First World War was breaking out in August 1914, the Endurance's crew set out from London with the lofty ambition of becoming the first to cross the Antarctic continent.
Carrying an expedition crew of 28 men, 69 dogs and one cat, the 144-foot-long Endurance was a three-masted schooner barque sturdily built for operations in polar waters.
Aiming to land at Antarctica's Vahsel Bay, the vessel instead became stuck in pack ice on the Weddell Sea on January 18, 1915 — where she and her crew would remain for many months.
In late October, however, a drop in temperature from 42°F to -14°F saw the ice pack begin to steadily crush the Endurance.
Sadly, Shackleton decided that the mission sled dogs and the tomcat, called Mrs Chippy, that were also on board would not survive the rest of their journey, and had them shot on October 29.
Endurance never reached land and became trapped in the dense pack ice and the 28 men on board eventually had no choice but to abandon ship.
Endurance finally sank on November 21, 1915.
After months spent in makeshift camps on the ice floes drifting northwards, the party took to the lifeboats to reach the inhospitable, uninhabited, Elephant Island. The men had allegedly had to resort to eating bodies of some of the youngest dogs that had been on board.
Most of the men remained at Elephant Island while Shackleton and five others then made an extraordinary 800-mile (1,300 km) open-boat journey in the lifeboat, James Caird, to reach South Georgia, an island in the southern Atlantic Ocean.
Shackleton and two others then crossed the mountainous island to the whaling station at Stromness.
On board the steam tug Yelcho — on loan to him from the Chilean Navy — Shackleton was able to return to rescue the rest of his crew on August 30, 1916.
MRS CHIPPY, ENDURANCE'S CAT
Pictured: Mrs Chippy, ship's cat, standing upon the shoulder of stowaway (and later Endurance's steward) Perce Blackburow
When Endurance sailed for the Antarctic, she carried not only Shackleton and his crew of 27 — but also a cat dubbed 'Mrs Chippy'.
The tiger-striped tabby was, despite its name, actually a male — the moniker came from his habit of dotingly following ship's carpenter Harry 'Chippy' McNish everywhere he went.
'Full of character', Mrs Chippy was described by the expedition as being able to climb the rigging exactly in 'the manner of a seaman going aloft'.
Despite this, poor Mrs Chippy accidentally jumped out of one of Endurance's portholes on September 12, 1914 — but was rescued when watch officer Hubert Hudson heard his cries and turned the ship around to rescue the cat from the water.
Sadly, after the Endurance was crushed by the ice, Shackleton decided that Mrs Chippy — and five of the missions sled dogs — would not survive the rest of their journey, and had them shot on October 29.
Mr McNish never forgave Shackleton for having his beloved cat killed.
View from the side of South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, on the expedition to find the wreck of Endurance
100 after Shackleton’s death, Endurance was found at a depth of 3008 metres in the Weddell Sea, within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town, and approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley
It was Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ambition to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica from the Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea. Pictured, expedition team on board S.A. Agulhas II gallery
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917, which hoped to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic. Pictured, expedition team on board S.A. Agulhas II
Pictured is historian Dan Snow on board the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II. Objectives for Endurance22 were to locate, survey and film the wreck
S.A. Agulhas II (pictured) is a South African icebreaking polar supply and research ship owned by the Department of Environmental Affairs
Menson Bound, director of exploration of Endurance22 expedition (left) and John Shears, expedition leader, on the sea ice of Weddell Sea, in the Antarctic with S.A. Agulhas II
Shortly following the Endurance22 expedition setting off in February, SA Agulhas II became stuck in ice at the same spot where Endurance sank over a century ago.
The SA Agulhas II became stuck after the mercury dipped to -18°F (-10°C).
Dan Snow told The Times: 'Clever people did say to me on the way, "How do you know you're not going to get iced in like Shackleton?"
'I said, "Don't worry about that. We've got all the technology." But we are now iced in.'
Fortunately, thanks to technological advances such as mechanical cranes, engine power and a case of aviation fuel, crew members managed to free the vessel.
Left to right: John Shears, expedition leader; Mensun Bound, director of exploration; and Nico Vincent, expedition sub-sea manager, looking at images of Endurance in the control room
Menson Bound, director of exploration of Endurance22 expedition (left) and John Shears, expedition leader, on the sea ice
Following the Endurance22 expedition setting off in February, SA Agulhas II became stuck in ice at same spot where Endurance sank over a century ago. Fortunately, thanks to technological advances such as mechanical cranes, engine power and a case of aviation fuel, crew members managed to free the vessel
Sir Ernest Shackleton: Famed Anglo-Irish Antarctic adventurer
Sir Ernest Shackleton during the 1908 expedition to Antarctica
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton was an Anglo-Irish Antarctic explorer who led three expeditions to the frozen continent.
He was at the heart of a period in history that later came to be known as the 'Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration'.
Born in Ireland, Shackleton moved to London with his family when he was 10 and first experienced polar climates as an officer on Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Discovery expedition of 1901–1904.
He was sent home early from that expedition after work experiencing poor health that had been ascribed to scurvy. New studies suggest he had beriberi.
During the Nimrod expedition of 1907–1909, Shackleton and his companions created a new recorded of farthest south latitude at 88 degrees south.
Disaster struck his next expedition, the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition, 1914–1917, when the ship, the Endurance, became trapped in pack ice.
The crew were able to escape by launching lifeboats and reaching nearby islands, travelling through stormy oceans for 830 miles.
He returned to the Antarctic for one final time in 1921 with the Shackleton–Rowett Expedition, but died of a heart attack on January 5, 1922, while his ship was moored in South Georgia.
While Shackleton is best known for his exploration, his legacy is also one of enabling a considerable amount of scientific research.
His expeditions helped produce comprehensive scientific and geographical surveys — among which were the first surveys of Antarctica's interior and the effective location of the Magnetic South Pole.
'Shackleton is an iconic figure of Antarctic history with the most incredible legacy of courage and endeavour,' noted the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust's CEO, Camilla Nichol.
'But we sometimes overlook the contribution his expeditions made to science.
'To this day Antarctica is an essential barometer for climate change at the heart of climate science.
'We preserve Shackleton's legacy to inspire the next generation of pioneering scientists and explorers.'
Shackleton's lost ship is FOUND: Endurance is discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, 107 years after it sank – and it's still in remarkable condition
Shackleton's lost ship is FOUND: Endurance is discovered at the bottom of Antarctica's Weddell Sea, 107 years after it sank – and it's still in remarkable condition
Endurance has been found 107 years after it became trapped in sea ice and sank off the coast of Antarctica
Sir Ernest Shackleton's wooden ship had not been seen since it sank in Weddell Sea, Southern Ocean in 1915
The Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said Endurance was discovered at a depth of 9,868 feet (3,008 metres)
Shackleton planned the first land crossing of Antarctica from Weddell Sea via the South Pole to the Ross Sea
Remarkable footage of the wreck shows it has been astonishingly preserved, with the ship's wheel still intact
The Antarctic circumpolar current has acted as barrier to the larvae that could have degraded the ship's wood
The Endurance22 Expedition had set off from Cape Town, South Africa in February this year, a month after the 100th anniversary of Sir Ernest's death on a mission to locate it.
Endurance was found approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by the ship's captain Frank Worsley, but within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town.
Back in 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men on board to eventually abandon ship.
Photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust of the stern of the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship which has not been seen since it was crushed by the ice and sank in the Weddell Sea in 1915
The taffrail, ship's wheel and aft well deck on the wreck of Endurance, Sir Ernest Shackleton's ship, which has been found 100 years after Shackleton's death
The standard bow on the wreck of Endurance, which was found at a depth of 9,868 feet (3,008 metres) in the Weddell Sea, within the search area defined by the expedition team before its departure from Cape Town
Photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust of photos, video and laser pictures of Endurance displayed in the control room on board of S.A.Agulhas II during the expedition
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914-1917, whose goal was to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica. Aiming to land at Vahsel Bay, the vessel became stuck in pack ice in the Weddell Sea on January 18, 1915 — where she and her crew would remain until the ship was crushed and ultimately sank on November 21, 1915
File photo of Sir Ernest Shackleton on board the 'Quest'. 100 years after Shackleton's death, Endurance was found in the Weddell Sea approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917, which hoped to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic. Pictured: a photograph of the vessel stuck in pack ice taken in the October of 1915, a few weeks before she sank
Carrying an expedition crew of 28 men, the 144-foot-long Endurance was a three-masted schooner barque sturdily built for operations in polar waters. Pictured: the Endurance, stuck in pack ice, listing heavily to port
Endurance in full sail in the ice side view Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition. It's been announced that the wreck of Endurance has been found and is now designated as a protected historic site and monument under the Antarctic Treaty
ENDURANCE STATS
Type: Three-masted schooner barque
Former name: Polaris*
Builder: Framnæs shipyards, Norway
Launched: December 17, 1912
Crew complement: 28
Length: 144 feet (44 metres)
Beam: 25 feet (7.6 metres)
Tonnage: 348 register tons
Propulsion: Steam and sail
Max. speed: 10.2 knots (11.7 mph)
Sank: Weddell Sea, November 21, 1915
Notable features: Strengthened hull and denser framework custom-designed for operation in polar waters
For the mission, the expedition team worked from the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, assisted by non-intrusive underwater search robots.
The wreck is protected as a Historic Site and Monument under the Antarctic Treaty, ensuring that whilst the wreck is being surveyed and filmed it will not be touched or disturbed in any way, according to the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust.
The expedition's director of exploration said footage of Endurance showed it to be intact and 'by far the finest wooden shipwreck' he has seen.
'We are overwhelmed by our good fortune in having located and captured images of Endurance,' said Mensun Bound, maritime archaeologist and director of the exploration.
'It is upright, well proud of the seabed, intact, and in a brilliant state of preservation. You can even see Endurance arced across the stern, directly below the taffrail.
'This is a milestone in polar history.'
Bound also paid tribute to the navigational skills of Captain Frank Worsley, the Captain of the Endurance, whose detailed records were 'invaluable' in the quest to locate the wreck.
Dr John Shears, the expedition leader, said his team, which was accompanied by historian Dan Snow, had made 'polar history' by completing what he called 'the world's most challenging shipwreck search'.
'In addition, we have undertaken important scientific research in a part of the world that directly affects the global climate and environment,' Dr Shears said.
Dr Adrian Glover, a deep-sea biologist at the Natural History Museum, not involved with the expedition, led a 2013 research paper predicting very good wood preservation for Endurance, based on experimental work.
Back in 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew set out to achieve the first land crossing of Antarctica, but Endurance did not reach land and became trapped in dense pack ice, forcing the 28 men on board to eventually abandon ship
The ship was found approximately four miles south of the position originally recorded by Captain Worsley. Pictured is the the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II
Photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust of the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, on an expedition to find the wreck of Endurance
Bird's eye view shot, taken by drone, of the South African polar research and logistics vessel, S.A. Agulhas II, on the expedition surrounded by ice
Photo issued by Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust of (left to right) John Shears, expedition leader; Mensun Bound, director of exploration; Nico Vincent, expedition sub-sea manager; J.C. Caillens, off-shore manager, holding the first scan of the Endurance wreckage alongside photos from Frank Hurley, the Australian adventurer and official photographer on Sir Ernest Shackleton's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition
Pictured: one of the SAAB Sabertooth autonomous submersibles used by the Endurance22 expedition to search for the wreck of Shackleton's ship
Aiming to land at Vahsel Bay, the vessel became stuck in pack ice on the Weddell Sea on January 18, 1915 — where she and her crew would remain for many months. In late October, however, a drop in temperature from 42°F to -14°F saw the ice pack begin to steadily crush the Endurance — which finally sank on November 21, 1915. Pictured: Anglo-Irish sailor and explorer Frank Wild assessed the wreckage of the Endurance, crushed by tightening pack ice
Endurance was one of two ships used by the Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–1917, whose goal was to make the first land crossing of the Antarctica. Pictured: 20 members of the blighted expedition, seen here during mid-1916, after the loss of the Endurance
Sir Ernest Shackleton's expeditions to cross the ice of Antarctica
Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton led three British expeditions to the Antarctic.
Born in County Kildare, Ireland, his first experience of the polar regions was as third officer on Captain Scott's Discovery expedition from 1901 to 1904.
He had to leave the voyage early for health reasons after the group set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S.
During the second expedition on board the Nimrod, between 1907 to 1909, he and three companions established a new record Farthest South latitude at 88°S - 97 geographical miles from the South Pole.
Shackleton returned in 1914 on board the Endurance and became trapped in the ice trying to travel from sea to sea via the the South Pole.
After being rescued during the ill-fated trip, he later went back again in 1921 but died of a heart attack while his ship was moored in South Georgia.
SCHEEPSWRAK ENDURANCE NA RUIM HONDERD JAAR IN UITSTEKENDE STAAT GEVONDEN
SCHEEPSWRAK ENDURANCE NA RUIM HONDERD JAAR IN UITSTEKENDE STAAT GEVONDEN
Tim Kraaijvanger
Honderd jaar na de dood van de beroemde verkenner Ernest Shackleton is zijn schip de Endurance gevonden. Het wrak ligt op een diepte van ruim drie kilometer op de bodem van de Weddellzee.
Het wrak is in een uitstekende staat gevonden door het Endurance22-expeditieteam. “Dit is verreweg het mooiste houten scheepswrak dat ik ooit heb gezien”, vertelt expeditieleider Mensun Bound. In het ijskoude water zijn geen micro-organismen aanwezig die het hout opeten. “Het is zelfs mogelijk om het woord Endurance te zien op de achtersteven. We hopen dat deze vondst er toe leidt dat jonge mensen geïnspireerd worden door de pioniersgeest, moed en vastberadenheid van degenen die aan boord van de Endurance naar Antarctica vaarden.”
“Het is ons gelukt om het wrak te vinden, te onderzoeken en te filmen”, vertelt Donald Lamont, voorzitter van het Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust. “Ook hebben we belangrijk wetenschappelijk onderzoek uit kunnen voeren.” Tijdens de zoektocht naar de Endurance voerden wetenschappers aan boord van de S.A. Agulhas II honderden uren aan wetenschappelijk onderzoek uit, vooral gericht op de invloed van klimaatverandering op het gebied. Zo is er onderzoek gedaan naar de dikte van het zeeijs, drijfijs en weersomstandigheden in de Weddellzee.
De masten van het schip zijn naar beneden geklapt en er is wat lichte schade aan de boeg, maar verder ziet het wrak er goed uit. Aan boord van het schip zijn zelfs laarzen en serviesgoed gevonden.
Deze onderwaterrobot van Saab – de Sabertooth – werd gebruikt om het wrak te vinden.
Het woord Endurance is duidelijk zichtbaar op de achtersteven.
Het stuurwiel is nog steeds in uitstekende staat. Let vooral op de bijzondere details, zoals de onaangetaste dunne latjes boven de ingang van de kajuit
Shackletons expeditie naar Antarctica In 1914 startte Ernest Shackleton een expeditie naar Antarctica. Hij wilde het continent dwars oversteken. Maar al heel vroeg loopt het mis. Het schip van Shackleton – zijn eigen Endurance – komt in januari 1915 vast te zitten in het ijs en vergaat. Met reddingssloepen weet Shackleton het onbewoonde Elephanteiland te bereiken.
Na een aantal maanden op hulp gewacht te hebben, weet Shackleton maar al te goed dat hij die hulp zelf zal moeten zoeken. Hij vaart samen met enkele van zijn sterkste mannen van Elephanteiland naar Zuid-Georgia. Een reis van bijna 1500 kilometer. Vervolgens wachtte Shackleton en zijn mannen een enorme uitdaging: het oversteken van het heuvelachtige Zuid-Georgia om vervolgens bij Stromness uit te komen en vanuit dit station van Noorse walvisvaarders om hulp te vragen. Shackleton redde het en haalde hulp. Alle bemanningsleden werden gered.
Honderd jaar na het overlijden van Shackleton Het is bijzonder dat het wrak van de Endurance in 2022 is gevonden. Precies honderd jaar geleden stierf Shackleton op 47-jarige leeftijd aan een hartaanval. De onderzoeker had een gaatje in zijn hart. “De detectie en behandeling van een atriumseptumdefect is vandaag de dag vrij eenvoudig, maar was voor Shackleton niet mogelijk,” vertelt onderzoeker Ian Calder.
Wie in de grote stad woont, kan erover meepraten: voor een beetje vertier moet je in het centrum zijn. In het Melkwegstelsel is het net zo.
Onze zon bevindt zich in een rustige buitenwijk, maar in het centrum, op zo’n 27.000 lichtjaar afstand, vindt de meeste activiteit plaats.
Deze spectaculaire opname toont de kosmische lichtshow die zich daar afspeelt. Met gewone telescopen is er niet zoveel van te zien: stofwolken blokkeren het zicht op het Melkwegcentrum. In plaats daarvan zien we hier energierijke röntgenstraling (weergegeven in groene, oranje en paarse tinten) en radiostraling (in grijstinten). De foto combineert metingen van NASA’s röntgensatelliet Chandra met waarnemingen van de MeerKAT-radiosterrenwacht in Zuid-Afrika.
Credit: NASA/CXC/NRF
De meeste röntgenstraling is afkomstig van hete gasbellen, lang geleden uitgeblazen door ontploffende sterren, en van kleine, compacte neutronensterren. Maar ook het exacte centrum van de Melkweg produceert röntgenstraling. Die is afkomstig van heet gas dat zich heeft opgehoopt net buiten de rand van een kolossaal zwart gat. Dat zwarte gat is 4,3 miljoen keer zo zwaar als de zon; er zwieren reuzensterren en gasslierten omheen, en regelmatig slokt het materiaal uit zijn omgeving op.
Dat die röntgenstraling in de loop van een dag snelle flikkeringen vertoont, was al bekend. Maar ook op de langere termijn is er sprake van een sterke variabiliteit. Een team van astronomen onder leiding van de El Salvadoriaanse astronoom Alexis Andrés en Nathalie Degenaar van de Universiteit van Amsterdam heeft nu metingen bestudeerd die in de afgelopen vijftien jaar zijn verricht door de Swift-satelliet. Uit hun onderzoek blijkt dat de röntgenlichtshow in het Melkwegcentrum tussen 2008 en 2012 veel minder variabel was dan daarvoor en daarna. Niemand weet nog hoe dat komt.
Een ander onderzoeksteam, onder leiding van Shuo Zhang van het Bard College in de Amerikaanse staat New York, keek naar de reflectie van röntgenlicht door gaswolken op grotere afstand van het zwarte gat. Uit die ‘röntgenecho’s’ leiden Zhang en haar collega’s af dat er aan het begin van de 20ste eeuw, zo’n 110 jaar geleden, een enorm krachtige uitbarsting plaatsgevonden moet hebben.
Het wachten is nu op een nieuwe explosie. Het röntgenbeeld van het Melkwegcentrum zal er dan compleet anders uitzien. Elk moment kan het gebeuren.
Spacecraft from the United States (left) and Russia (middle, right) docked to the International Space Station.
Credit: NASA
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is redrawing geopolitics not only across the planet, but also in space. International collaborations are being shaken to the core as space agencies and researchers grapple with the ramifications of the war.
Among the biggest questions is the fate of the International Space Station (ISS), the orbiting outpost that is currently home to two Russian cosmonauts, four US astronauts and one European astronaut. Since 2000, when people first moved in, the ISS has generally managed to stay out of Earth-bound politics — but the Ukraine conflict could change that.
“The mood on board is probably similar to here on Planet Earth about this tragic situation,” says John Grunsfeld, a former NASA astronaut. “Keep in mind, the crew does fly over Ukraine and can look down and see the devastation, the fires and the smoke. It must just be very tense.”
Other collaborations in space are also throwing up new challenges, as Russia and Western nations pull out of joint projects. Many that remain face uncertain futures.
The war is ending partnerships that began three decades ago to bridge the divide between Russia and the West. “This will fracture that relationship built after the end of the cold war,” says Asif Siddiqi, a historian at Fordham University in New York City. “When historians look back, it will be 1991 — the collapse of Soviet Union — to 2022.”
Beyond politics?
By design, the ISS relies on Russia working together smoothly with 14 other nations. Part of the station is Russian-built and operated by cosmonauts, and the other part is built and run by the US, European, Japanese and Canadian space agencies. Each is dependent on the other for key services: the NASA-led side of the station provides electrical power to the Russian side, while Russia provides the orbital boosting that is occasionally needed to stop the ISS from falling to lower altitudes and disintegrating in Earth’s atmosphere.
According to NASA, the space station is operating as usual. None of the astronauts or cosmonauts on board has said anything publicly about the invasion of Ukraine. On 9 March, astronaut Matthias Maurer released an upbeat video tour of Europe’s science laboratory on the ISS.
“Astronauts and cosmonauts talk about how human spaceflight is beyond geopolitical tensions, because you can have cooperations that don’t exist on Earth,” says Julie Patarin-Jossec, a sociologist in Paris who has studied the relationships among the ISS partners. But now, “it’s the first time since the cold war that geopolitical tensions on the ground have had a negative impact on human spaceflight”.
Research continues
On Earth, the tensions are more apparent. The head of Russia’s space agency, Dmitry Rogozin, has been posting provocatively on social media, including tweeting a video of technicians taping over the flags of other nations on a Russian-built Soyuz rocket. Meanwhile, a Russian state-owned media organization produced a satirical video showing the Russian components of the ISS detaching from the rest.
Despite this, NASA says that its ISS operations with Russian involvement continue as planned. Three cosmonauts are to launch on a Soyuz rocket to the ISS from Kazakhstan on 18 March, and two cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut will depart the station on a Soyuz and land in Kazakhstan on 30 March.
Research aboard the station seems to be mostly continuing. According to NASA blog posts, astronauts have been working on experiments including into long-term spaceflight health and investigating how flames behave in microgravity. Future experiments continue to be planned, says Douglas Matson, a mechanical engineer at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, who heads an advisory committee for US scientists who want to do research aboard the ISS. “It doesn’t appear that there is any change in the relationships,” he says.
Yet the fate of at least one experiment, the German–Russian plasma crystal laboratory called PK-4, remains uncertain. The project had been co-led by the German Aerospace Center, which has ceased all collaborations with Russia. The European Space Agency (ESA) declined to comment on the status of the experiment.
Partnerships stalled
More broadly, Russia’s space partnerships are fraying along geopolitical lines. The country halted launches from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana and stopped rocket engine sales to the United States. Rogozin announced on 26 February that Russia would no longer work with NASA on a planned mission to Venus called Venera-D (although the two agencies did not have a formal relationship to do so). ESA is looking for a new ride for its ExoMars rover mission, after its launch aboard a Russian rocket this year was cancelled. And a German astronomy team, led by the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching, switched off a German-built instrument on the Russian astronomical observatory Spektr-RG halfway through its planned observations.
NASA does, however, continue to rely on a communications system in Russia to help to relay data from its Mars spacecraft back to Earth. The future of that remains unclear. NASA also has four science missions with Russian-led instrument teams, such as the neutron detector on its Curiosity Mars rover. All continue to operate.
In the years to come, Russia’s space agency will probably align itself more strongly with the rising space power of China, Siddiqi says. The two countries are already collaborating on tentative plans for a Moon base. Western and Russian space agencies had been pulling farther apart in recent years, driven in part by personalities such as Rogozin. “The Ukraine invasion just sort of broke it,” Siddiqi says.
Ukraine itself has a large space industry, known for its post-Soviet work on radars, missiles and rockets. The work is centred near the city of Dnipro — where Russian missile strikes have been reported.
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