Jupiter laat zijn ware gezicht zien

Caroline Kraaijvanger

Rol de planeet op zijn zij en daar verschijnt een heuse smiley!

Dat blijkt uit deze prachtige foto die ruimtesonde Juno van de gasreus heeft gemaakt. Twee ovaalvormige, witte stormen vormen de ogen van Jupiter. En schuin daaronder bevinden zich – in de vorm van een gigantische oranjekleurige verstoring van de atmosfeer – Jupiters opgespoten lippen.

Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Jason Major.

De foto
Juno maakte de foto – die voor de gelegenheid dus wel geroteerd moest worden – halverwege mei. De sonde was op het moment dat deze de foto maakte zo’n 19.433 kilometer van Jupiter verwijderd.

WIST JE DAT…

…onderzoekers onlangs de eerste onderzoeksresultaten van de Juno-missie bekend hebben gemaakt? Lees hier wat ze allemaal ontdekt hebben!

Wetenschap
Juno arriveerde halverwege 2016 bij Jupiter en heeft al verschillende adembenemende foto’s gemaakt (bijvoorbeeld van de noordpool van Jupiter). Maar het maken van foto’s is niet Juno’s kernactiviteit. De sonde is met name naar Jupiter afgereisd om de geheimen van de gasreus te ontrafelen en onder meer de volgende vragen te beantwoorden: hoe steekt de atmosfeer van de gasreus in elkaar, wat gaat er onder het wolkendek van Jupiter schuil en hoe is de gasreus ontstaan?

Om een antwoord op die vragen te vinden, scheert Juno elke 53 dagen rakelings langs Jupiter. De eerstvolgende scheervlucht staat gepland voor 10 juli. Dan zal Juno over misschien wel één van de bekendste fenomenen op Jupiter scheren: Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek. Het levert naar verwachting mooie foto’s op van deze reusachtige storm die al zeker 300 jaar actief is. Daarnaast hopen onderzoekers eindelijk te weten te komen tot hoe diep in de atmosfeer de storm reikt en hoe de storm werkt en stand weet te houden.

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No, NASA isn’t running a child trafficking ring on Mars

Never mind the fact that, as the Washington Post pointed out, the atmosphere on the Red Planet is comprised primarily of carbon dioxide and the average temperature on the planet is 81 degrees below zero – NASA has somehow found a way to establish a child-trafficking ring on Mars.

At least that’s what activist and former Reform Party presidential candidate Robert David Steele said Thursday during an interview on Alex Jones’ radio show, the newspaper reported Saturday. The children involved in the interplanetary trafficking ring, Steele claimed, “were kidnapped and sent into space on a 20-year ride” and had “no alternative but to be slaves on the Mars colony.”

Why smuggling the abducted youngsters to Mars would have taken two decades is unclear, for as Space.com explained, the 33.9-million-mile voyage to the Red Planet takes just 6-9 months using modern-day propulsion technology. Nonetheless, Steele – a “CIA insider,” according to the show – seemed convinced of his claim’s validity, and Jones was not dismissive of the accusations.

“Look, I know that 90 percent of the NASA missions are secret, and I've been told by high-level NASA engineers that you have no idea,” the host, who has claimed that the Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax and who helped spread false allegations that the Clinton campaign had been linked to a child-sex ring at a Washington DC pizzeria, responded. “There is so much stuff going on... clearly, they don’t want us looking into what is happening.”

‘No humans on Mars,’ according to NASA spokesperson

Despite the seemingly ludicrous nature of these claims, Guy Webster, a spokesperson for Mars exploration at the agency, took the time to issue a formal denial, telling the Daily Beast, “There are no humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars... but there are no humans.”

As Space.com pointed out, this is not the first Mars-related conspiracy theory to make the rounds on the Internet – though it may very well be the most unusual. An unusual landform discovered by the Viking 1 mission in 1976 garnered attention due to its resemblance to a face, and images that were recently captured by the Curiosity rover have been said to depict various animals, including crabs, lizards, rats and squirrels, the website added.

The alleged child-trafficking ring is the second wild accusation to be leveled against NASA over the last few weeks. Late last month, a YouTube video posted by an individual claiming to be part of Anonymous accused the agency of hiding evidence proving the existence of alien life.

The video, however, featured out-of-context comments made by NASA science director Thomas Zurbuchen back in April during a public congressional hearing. While Zurbuchen did say that the agency was “on the verge of making one of the most profound, unprecedented discoveries in history” during that hearing, he was actually discussing the recent discovery of distant planets and organic chemicals on Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, not extraterrestrial life.

The Washington Post reached out to NASA following the posting of the video, and was told via email that there was “no pending announcement regarding extraterrestrial life.” Similarly, they reached out to the agency for comment on the Martian child-trafficking ring accusations but had not received a response as of press time.

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Possibility Of Alien Life On Exoplanets Could Be Thwarted By Massive Stellar Eruptions

The Most Interesting Science News Articles of the Week

Each week we uncover the most interesting and informative articles from around the world, here are 10 of the coolest stories in science this week.

Sea pickle invasion

Pyrosomes fished out of the water along the Oregon coast range in size from a few inches to more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) long.

Credit: Hilarie Sorensen/University of Oregon

The waters off the Oregon coast are mysteriously awash with strange, jelly-like creatures that look like translucent slugs, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Each pickle-like creature is, in fact, a colony made up of individual zooids that join to create a hollow, tube-like structure that has one closed end and one open end. (A zooid is a small, multicellular organism that makes up part of a colonial animal, and can arise from another zooid by budding or dividing.) [Read more about the alien invaders.]

Strange deaths

A female great white shark that was missing its liver.

Credit: Marine Dynamics

Orca whales have claimed the life of another great white shark by eating its liver and leaving it for dead, making it the fourth such gristly death in less than two months.

No one saw the sharks' last moments, but their injuries indicate that orcas, also known as killer whales (Orcinus orca), were the culprits, the researchers said. [Read more about the dead sharks.]

Lab-grown parts

A sun-shaped viral replication center within sea turtle skin tissue. Re-creating sea turtle skin in the lab allowed scientists to observe how a tumor-associated herpesvirus replicates in three-dimensional tissue.

Credit: Thierry Work/USGS

Dr. Frankenstein, eat your heart out: Scientists have grown the pebbly green skin of sea turtles in the lab for the first time ever.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature and the U.S. Endangered Species Act list green sea turtles as threatened or endangered throughout their ranges worldwide. [Read more about turtle skin.]

Dangers of fireworks

The image on the left shows the man's left eye shortly after the explosion. The yellowish spots are fragments from the firecracker embedded in his cornea. The image on the right is a CT scan of the man's head. The arrows point to firecracker fragments, which appear as bright white spots, embedded in both eyes.

Credit: The New England Journal of Medicine © 2017

With July Fourth just around the corner, it's important to keep an eye out for eye dangers: A man in India suffered severe eye injuries after a firecracker exploded close to his face, according to a new case report.

The doctors were able to remove the firework fragments from the man's left eye, though Dr. Jagat Ram, a professor of ophthalmology at the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research in India who treated the man, said removing all of the fragments took several sessions. [Read more about firecracker injuries.]

Coffee with a side of what?

How do you take your iced coffee? For some people in the United Kingdom, an investigative report from the BBC has sparked concerns that the drink may come with an unwanted add-in: a dash of fecal bacteria.

The sample size was very small, and all three coffee chains told the BBC that they are looking into the problem. [Read more about the caffeinated scare.]

Carved skulls

Researchers have discovered seven skull fragments from three different skulls, each marked with deep cuts like this one made shortly after death.

Credit: German Archaeological Institute (DAI)

Fragments of three carved human skulls have been uncovered at a mysterious ritual site in Turkey.

Now, Göbekli Tepe has become a little bit more fantastic with the discovery of skull fragments carved with long, deliberate lines from the forehead to the back of the head. These discoveries reveal the existence of a "skull cult" in ancient eastern Anatolia, Gresky told Live Science. The ritual markings on these skulls are unlike those seen in any other civilization, though. [Read more about the ritual skulls.]

Weird creature

An artist's reconstruction shows Macrauchenia patachonica, which lived in South America during the last ice age.

Credit: Jorge Blanco

An odd extinct mammal that lived in South America during the last ice age had a long neck like a llama's, three-toed feet like a rhino's and what may have been a tapir-like trunk. This peculiar combination of traits fueled a mystery lasting nearly two centuries about how to classify the bizarre beast.

Macrauchenia fossils are fairly plentiful, but paleontologists nonetheless struggled to understand the creature because its combination of features was so unusual, said study co-author Ross MacPhee, curator in the mammalogy department at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. [Read more about the ancient mystery.]

Marriage and animals

That "squeee!" you feel when you look at pictures of cute puppies or bunnies might be good for your love life. A new study finds that looking at baby-animal photos may increase couples' levels of satisfaction with their relationships.

In the study, the researchers looked at 144 married couples who had been married for less than five years. The participants' average age was 28. Around 40 percent of the couples had kids, the researchers said. [Read more about animals and matrimony.]

New liquid water

Liquid water exists in two different forms, new research reveals. Here, an illustration of the water molecule in front of an X-ray pattern from high-density amorphous ice, created by creating high pressures and low temperatures.

Credit: Mattias Karlén

Liquid water comes in two forms — low density and high density, scientists have found.

Water is essential for life (at least on Earth). And wherever liquid water exists — whether it's in icebound lakes or scalding hydrothermal vents — tiny microbes have been found. That is why scientists have been excited by the possibility of salty water flows and other evidence of ancient water on Mars — it means there may well have been life early on in the Red Planet's history. [Read more about the strange liquid.]

How eclipses work

The Hinode spacecraft captured this stunning image of the maximum solar eclipse on May 20, 2012, which darkened the sky in parts of the Western United States and Southeast Asia, according to NASA.

Credit: Hinode/XRT

If the sun were just a little bit bigger or the moon a bit farther away, total solar eclipses may never occur. But they do, and it turns out this celestial phenomenon that has changed human history, and our perspective of the universe, may be a sheer coincidence.

Such a nearly perfect match wasn’t always the case, however. Because the distance between the moon and the Earth is slowly changing, solar eclipses looked very different millions of years ago — and they will again, tens of millions of years in the future. [Read more about solar eclipses.]

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Best Space Stories of The Week!

The south pole of Jupiter is seen from an altitude of 32,000 miles (52,000 kilometers) in this enhanced color mosaic of images from NASA's JunoCam. Cyclones up to 600 miles wide (1,000 km) are visible.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Betsy Asher Hall/Gervasio Robles SCOTT BOLTON - 3

Juno gets a first look at Jupiter's marvelous poles, the world's largest (current) aircraft goes for a spin, Earth science loses on the proposed NASA budget and two astronauts perform an urgent spacewalk — it's Space.com's top news stories of the week.

Jupiter whirls

The first science results from NASA's Juno probe reveal huge cyclones raging near Jupiter's north and south poles and the workings of is spectacular auroras. Juno is the first spacecraft to get a close look the planet's beautiful and bizarre poles. [Full Story: Mysteries at Jupiter: NASA's Juno Probe Reveals Cyclones, Auroras & Surprises]

Plus: More Jupiter Weirdness: Giant Planet May Have Huge, 'Fuzzy' Core

Sperm survives space

Astronauts kept freeze-dried mouse sperm on the International Space Station for nine months — and when brought back to Earth it gave rise to healthy pups. [Full Story: Freeze-Dried Space Sperm Gives Rise to Healthy Baby Mice]

See also: Space Babies: Study Suggests Humans May Be Able to Have Healthy Offspring in Orbit

Fix it up

After a computer relay box malfunctioned, NASA astronauts Peggy Whitson and Jack Fischer went out for a quickly-planned spacewalk to replace the failed part. (Don't worry, a backup took over in the meantime.) Whitson built the replacement from spare parts aboard the International Space Station. [Full Story: Astronauts Restore Space Station to Full Health in Quick Repair Spacewalk]

Clash of the dwarfs

New research suggests that most of the Milky Way's antimatter could come from the collision of two special kinds of white dwarfs — the Earth-size cores of dead stars. [Full Story: Supernova Face-Off May Solve 40-Year-Old Antimatter Mystery]

Mammoth flier success

A massive blimp-like aircraft called the Airlander 10 successfully flew for 180 minutes and landed, testing its improved landing technology and handling. It's the third test flight for the world's largest aircraft currently flying, which is designed to stay in the air for up to 5 days at a time with people on board. [World's Largest Aircraft Completes Successful Test Flight]

Earth science nix

The White House's official 2018 budget request curtails five NASA Earth-science missions, including the Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud ocean Ecosystem satellite; the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-3 experiment; the Climate Absolute Radiance and Refractivity Observatory Pathfinder; the Earth-viewing instruments aboard the Deep Space Climate Observatory spacecraft and, now, the Radiation Budget Experiment. [Full Story: Trump's 2018 Budget Request Axes 5 NASA Earth-Science Missions]

Plus: NASA's Proposed 2018 Budget Could Push Europa Mission to Late 2020s

Summer on Saturn

The Cassini spacecraft has seen Saturn through the seasons as the planet has orbited the sun, watching its dramatic changes. Now, it's finally the planet's solstice and the end of the spacecraft's second extended mission — just in time for its Sept. 15 Grand Finale dive into the planet's atmosphere. [Full Story: Saturn Solstice: Cassini Gets 'Ringside Seat' to Dramatic Seasonal Changes]

Listening in

The world's most sensitive dark matter detector, XENON1T, has gone online deep beneath a mountain in Italy, completing a 30-day science run hunting for the minuscule fireworks that could be caused by a certain type of dark matter ramming into a xenon atom inside the detector. [Full Story: The World's Most Sensitive Dark Matter Detector Is Now Up and Running]

It's a Phantom

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected Boeing to build the U.S. military's new XS-1 space plane. The plane, called the Phantom Express, is designed to launch to the edge of space to deploy a second stage rocket, which would deposit a satellite in orbit. [Full Story: US Military's XS-1 Space Plane Will Be Built by Boeing (Video)]

Darkness coming

Get ready for the 2017 total solar eclipse, which will cross the continental United States Aug. 21 — less than three months from now. [Full Story: Countdown to Darkness: Total Solar Eclipse Three Months Away]

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In recent weeks, the release of a trove of once-classified British UFO documents has managed to arouse controversy, both for the information contained therein, as well as the fact that the documents have had a somewhat limited readership: following their release by the Ministry of Defense, the files were not disclosed in an easily-searchable digital format, evoking cries of suppression, and even conspiracy from eager potential readers worldwide.

Fortunately, news agencies in the UK have been following up, with featured articles appearing every few days that detail elements contained within the files, often dealing with hair-raising encounters kept quiet by the MOD for decades.

One of the most recent reports to come to light deals with an unusual, Cold-War era incident that occurred in October 1982. It involved an American RC-135 spy plane that, while monitoring Soviet military operations, came under some kind of surveillance by a large, unidentified and brightly-lit aircraft.

The USAF base detailed in the report was located at RAF Troodos on Cyprus, and discussed an incident involving an unidentified aircraft which lasted close to 90 minutes.

According to the report, two US Navy F-14 fighters were involved, as well as an RAF Phantom, which had been diverted to join the F-14s in pursuit of the aircraft over Cyprus. The object was observed by the pilots of the American crew streaking away toward the African coast; the intercepting pilots did not report seeing the object.

According to the Sun, “Radar film, tapes and transcripts of the distress call were also analysed by intelligence officers – but removed from the files.”

Reports of similar encounters between military aircraft and unidentified objects are rife throughout UFO literature, having been disclosed in government documents by a number of countries around the world. The UK has a long history of similar incidents, which include an event that occurred in 1956 at Lakenheath-Bentwaters (not to be confused with the later RAF Bentwaters incident, otherwise known as the “Rendlesham Forest Incident”).

Apart from the reports themselves, we are left with considerations about what, precisely, these kinds of incidents represent. Within the broader UFO narrative, a number of hypotheses emerge, which range from skeptical interpretations of the incidents as being pure misidentification of prosaic phenomena, to secret military operations and, yes, the long-held idea of alien visitors.

Different theories, ranging from the thought-provoking, to the downright absurd, have emerged over the years pertaining to UFO sightings. A listing of these might include the following; note that these are arranged in no particular order, and taking into full account that some are highly improbable, while some are, at very least, far less likely than others:

• Extraterrestrial visitors
• Unexplained Natural Phenomena
• Secret technologies developed by the U.S. or other world superpowers
• A so-called “Breakaway Civilization”
• Time travelers from the future
• “Cryptoterrestrial” hidden denizens of Earth
• Interdimensional visitors
• Psycho-social phenomenon and misperception/misidentification
• Evidence of a hologram-like “Matrix” reality, in which UFOs are the operators
• A form of artificial intelligence of unknown origin

An open-minded collection of ideas such as this takes into account a number of very creative concepts, borrowed largely from science fiction. Though in truth, this has been the case since the inception of the modern UFO phenomenon beginning shortly after WWII, where such ideas began to be appended to the subject in an effort to try and account for the seemingly unexplainable.

In other words, the fact that no simple explanation exists for the “how, why and what” associated with these alleged aircraft has inspired a lot of imaginative thinking over the years, which, of course, isn’t to say that something like “extraterrestrial visitors” can be ruled out entirely. Rather, it is to drive home the point that in the absence of a clear explanation for UFOs, a division of thought has seemingly occurred, where one end of the broader spectrum favors the otherworldly, while the other proposes that simple things have been blown out of proportion, and that no such “phenomenon” exists at all.

These two “primary arguments” will inevitably continue to be appended to the UFO situation, especially with the release of new material like the MOD’s current batch of files. However, if there is truly anything we can glean from new data like this (even if it is decades old by the time we see it), perhaps it is that between the two extremes, there is something which might logically account for why government agencies have had such a long history of encounters with phenomena they can’t explain… and which, at times, has warranted military responses, like with the 1982 Cyprus incident.

A multitude of reports like these, often involving what are described as being clearly tangible objects, and seemingly of technological origin, do remain unexplained. Beyond any filtration through overt belief or skepticism (which often requires a certain level of illogic in order to bend the phenomena to fit the parameters of the interpreter), we are left with a plethora of data that does suggest that something unusual is occurring… whatever that is. Logically, this would appear to stand, even if only a handful of these reports remain viable after cold, hard, skeptical analysis.

So what is our “estimate of the situation”? As with virtually all rational attempts to draw conclusions about the UFO phenomenon, we are left with too many holes in the data to know anything for certain, apart from the fact that something exists, which is seemingly technological, and which cannot be accounted for based solely on knowledge of technologies and aircraft on the civilian level. In our opinion, evoking the paranormal in order to account for these objects requires a logical leap, whereas overconfidence in the skeptical dismissal of every UFO incident, despite the data, represents equally illogical behavior.

Somewhere in between these two “universes of belief”, a more likely, and logical, solution may exist; these aircraft are obviously capable of operating in Earth’s atmosphere, and are seemingly highly-adaptable to earthly circumstances. In equal measure, these objects appear to display an interest in earthly happenings, often interacting with military aircraft; this would seem to suggest that the technologies in question are being operated with an interest in things of a political nature, rather than the pursuit of scientific knowledge, etc. Perhaps this is a significant clue to the ultimate nature of the more tangible UFO incidents that have turned up over the years.

At the end of the day, the same old conundrums keep turning up: we need more physical evidence to back up the claims of tangible objects. Conversely, if these things are “ours”, then whoever is in-the-know isn’t talking… and the likelihood that those with a “need to know” would (or could) keep so quiet, and for so long, seems almost as unlikely as space aliens, dimensional visitors, or time travelers.

If there is something tangible at work here, then there must be some kind of solution too, right? In the long run, solving the UFO mystery may require some creative thinking, paired with a willingness to keep our ideas in check, and not get ahead of ourselves with our theories.

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SPECTACULAIRE UFO-SHOW MET MOEDRSCHIP BOVEN OOSTENRIJK?  ( VIDEO )

In deze tijd van duizenden nepvideo’s, geproduceerd door mediabedrijven vanwege de reclame-inkomsten, is het een verademing om zo af en toe een echte opname te zien. 

En als er dan ook nog door twee verschillende mensen een prachtige UFO-show boven Oostenrijk wordt gefilmd, compleet met vreemde wolk, dan is dat iets bijzonders. 

Het probleem is dat niemand meer op kijkt van spectaculaire UFO waarnemingen omdat Youtube volstaat met de meest interessante waarnemingen en objecten. 

Helaas is 99,9 procent daarvan totale nep en is het gewoon een media industrie geworden, wat er ook de reden van is dat een UFO specialist Scott Waring met zijn website is gestopt. 

Het gros van de bevolking ziet nauwelijks dat het nep is en daardoor slippen de echte opnames vaak door het net omdat ze niet genoeg opvallen. 

Maar, er zijn nog plekken waar wel echte dingen voor komen en daar vind je dan ook af en toe juweeltjes zoals de volgende. 

In de Oostenrijkse deelstaat Stiermarken ligt de hoofdstad Graz en vanaf die locatie komen twee heel bijzondere opnames. 

De eerste zegt dat deze is gemaakt in Stiermarken, maar noemt niet specifiek de stad Graz. 

De video is gemaakt door een jongeman die samen met een vriend of kennis door het raam naar buiten kijkt en een paar hele bijzondere lichten ziet.

Het begint met twee keer twee lichten en daar komt vervolgens nog een derde bij. Dan op een gegeven moment verdwijnen de lichten om even later weer terug te komen en je hoort de verbaasde commentaren van de mannen in de achtergrond. 

 
De tweede opname dateert van dezelfde tijd zo te zien en deze zegt specifiek te zijn opgenomen in Graz. Beiden opnames lijken ’s morgens heel vroeg gemaakt te zijn, rond het moment dat de zon op komt. 

In die tweede video zien we een prachtig landschap met daarin weer de bekende wolken die er eigenlijk niet in thuis horen. 

Rondom die wolken dartelen enkele UFO’s.

Wanneer de camera wat verder inzoomt, dan zien we dezelfde UFO’s als in de eerste video.

Op een gegeven moment verandert de vreemde wolk/moederschip wel wat van vorm, maar de UFO’s blijven in de buurt van die wolk. 

Dan plotsklaps, alsof iemand een knop omdraait, verdwijnen ze. 

 
Twee verschillende mensen op ongeveer dezelfde locatie, zo te zien op een hele vroege ochtend, filmen identieke UFO’s.

Beide opnames zijn mooi en helder en uit de commentaren is op te maken dat ze echt zijn en de mensen verrast door wat ze zien. 

In het tweede geval zie je zelfs de basis/moederschip/wolk waar ze thuishoren, waardoor deze waarneming in Oostenrijk als heel bijzonder kan worden bestempeld.

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PROJECT BLUE BEAM? Was Nasa test to prepare us for 'alien UFO invasion'?

DRAMATIC video of bizarre bright lights set off in the night sky saw 2,000 terrified reports from stunned onlookers.

NASA TO LAUNCH PLANETARY DEFENSE MISSION

NASA is going to launch a mission for the first time that uses a deflection technique against asteroids for defending the planet.

NASA LAUNCHING DART MISSION TO DEFLECT ASTEROID

The mission is known as DART, Double Asteroid Redirection Test and it will be able to show how any deadly impact due to an asteroid could be averted if one was to be heading towards Earth. It would be able to strike the asteroid with force enough that it would force it to move trajectory away from the Earth, this is a method that is called kinetic impactor technique. 

The mission is at the moment in the preliminary design phase, but the goal of it is to strike Didymos B, which is the smallest of the two binary asteroids that are said to be approaching Earth in 2022 and will make their way around again in 2024. The program scientist, Tom Statler, said that a binary asteroid would be the perfect natural laboratory of a test.

DART WILL HIT DIDYMOS B NINE TIMES THE SPEED OF A BULLET

DART is about the size of a regular fridge, and it has an autonomous targeting system onboard that it will aim at Didymos B and will then proceed to hit it at around nine times faster than a bullet from a gun would hit it. Andy Cheng from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel Maryland in the USA said that the mission is a very critical step in showing how Earth can be protected from a possible impact by an asteroid.

He went on to say that as no one knows very much about the internal composition or internal structure of asteroids, the mission is needed as an experiment on an asteroid that is real. He said that thanks to DART, NASA will be able to show just how Earth can be protected in the event of an asteroid strike with a kinetic impactor as it can knock any objects that are hazardous hard enough to send them onto a different flight path, one that would not be any threat to Earth.

On the website of NASA, it was said that the DART mission is now moving away from the concept development and going into the preliminary design phase after getting approval from NASA on 23 June. NASA said that the target for DART is Didymos B, which is about 530 feet in size; the system has been under the close scrutiny of NASA since 2003.  

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TWO UFOS FILMED BY TWO DIFFERENT WITNESSES IN GRAZ, AUSTRIA, JUNE 30,2017

In this truly rare footage you see two objects flying in what appears to be an 2×2 formation before just vanishing into thin air but what is unique about this footage is that two different people from different parts of the city filmed the same objects. This is what makes this sighting all the more interesting and credible.

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WORLD UFO DAY: Is Donald Trump about to reveal aliens have visited Earth?

WORLD UFO Day has indicated more than ever people believe aliens exist and may even have visited Earth.

Clear Alien UFO Photo From NASA Mars Rover

The internet went into a frenzy with the crystal clear photograph allegedly showing an alien spaceship. The Mars Rover of NASA has photographed what looks like a UFO on the Red Planet’s surface. The rocky landscape of Mars can be seen in the high-definition image along with ripples etched by the wind on the surface.

The interesting part for UFO enthusiasts is the mysterious object in the middle of the picture that looks entirely different. It seems to have a smooth, metallic exterior with visible lights. It looks like a spaceship as people often describe. Moreover, it appears that natural forces have nothing to do with it.

Some UFO enthusiasts have jumped to the conclusion that the image is an undeniable evidence of intelligent alien life. NASA is yet to give a word on the discovery. Extraterrestrial life is possible on Mars as the space agency announced in 2015 that it had found running water on the planet. Hacking group Anonymous made the story more interesting as it said that NASA is about to reveal that it has discovered ETs.

Alien enthusiasts regularly post photos and videos online with claims that they show alien craft. Most of these images are grainy and not very convincing.

The Rover is equipped with powerful lenses, making the images it captured very clear. Conspiracy theorists often accused NASA of covering up extraterrestrial existence. They sometimes post images of so-called alien artefacts from the Moon or Martian surface. Most images involve an oddly shaped rock, but this particular new image is tough to explain.

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Humanoid Alien Valiant Thor Helped Humanity

The exploits of a being named as Valiant Thor has been recently uncovered in top secret documents. Valiant Thor claimed that he was from a portal world in Venus. He further stated that he helped the US Armed Forces throughout the Cold War in procuring advanced extraterrestrial technology in Area 51. Thor appeared to have made frequent appearances in many American military bases and was called as The Stranger at the Pentagon.

According to conspiracy theorists, he seemed to be a Nordic alien in a Caucasian human figure. He reportedly looked like an ordinary person, but both of his hands have six fingers. Thor claimed he scored 1200 when measuring his intelligence using the old Stanford-Binet scale. His internal organs were allegedly different from humans. He was reportedly 500 years old when he left the Earth.

Several reports noted the friendship between Valiant Thor and Former American President Dwight Eisenhower. They apparently discussed matters in technology and geopolitics frequently. He allegedly left the Earth in 1959 and refused to take part in any human activities since then.

Thor’s actions and exploits are featured in a book Stranger at the Pentagon, by Dr Frank E Stranges, published in 1967 (Amazon link).

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RAF Pilots Ignore UFO Over Skegness, British X-File Reveals

A set of files called the Britain’s X-Files had been revealed to the public this week. One incident in 1996 has caught the attention among conspiracy theorists where RAF was told to ignore a UFO sighting on radar.

Several civilians spotted bright lights on the morning of October 5, 1996. Radar signal was also detected, but no response from the RAF.

An unnamed government official wrote to the Ministry  }Defence about the no response from the RAF, which was supposed to be keeping a watchful eye on such incident. The RAF appeared to have no idea about the UFO sighting on radar.

The government official asked the Ministry of Defence about the standard procedure for these incidents. It is noted that the object was on their radar for around seven hours, so the RAF had supposedly enough time to think about it.

However, the case may not be that exciting, according to the UFO Investigations Manual author Nigel Watson. The information is not new, according to Watson, as the case became opened to the public in a batch of MOD files released back in 2010.

In the RAF report about the event, the radar signals were produced by 273 feet tall St Botolph Church. Aviation circles called the church spire as the Boston Stump, which occasionally appears on some radars.

The report further explains that the lights in The Wash area were observed from three separate locations above the horizon and in the same general direction, but with no corroborating radar data. Civil or military radars did not detect associated air vehicle, thus, suggests a distant celestial source.
Royal Greenwich Observatory identified these celestial sources as Venus or could be the stars, Sirius and Vega.

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NASA’S STUNNING BREAKTHROUGH: Its First Warp Drive…Is a TRUE Mindblower!

A few months ago, physicist Harold White shocked the aeronautics industry when he announced that his team at NASA was in the process of developing a faster-than-light warp drive. His design could one day transport a spacecraft to the nearest star in a matter of weeks.

The idea originally came to White while he was considering an equation formulated by physicist Miguel Alcubierre in his 1994 paper titled, “The Warp Drive: Hyper-Fast Travel Within General Relativity. Alcubierre suggested a mechanism by which space-time could be “warped” and behind a spacecraft.

Michio Kaku dubbed Alcubierre’s theory a “passport to the universe,” which harnesses a quirk in the “cosmological code” that allows for the expansion and contraction of space-time. If proven true, it could allow for hyper-fast travel between interstellar destinations. In order to accomplish this, the starship would need able to expand the space behind it rapidly to push it forward. For passengers, it would look like a lack of acceleration.

White believes a drive like that could result in “speeds” that could take us to Alpha Centauri in just a matter of weeks, even though the system is only 4.3 light-years away. Essentially, a bubble would be created that moves space-time around the object, repositioning it.

“Remember, nothing locally exceeds the speed of light, but space can expand and contract at any speed,” White told reporters at io9. “However, space-time is really stiff to create the expansion and contraction effect in a useful manner in order for us to reach interstellar destinations in reasonable time periods would require a lot of energy.”

However,” White added, “based on the analysis I did in the last 18 months, there may be hope.”
“My early results suggested I had discovered something that was in the math all along,” he recalled. “I suddenly realized that if you made the thickness of the negative vacuum energy ring larger — like shifting from a belt shape to a donut shape — and oscillate the warp bubble, you can greatly reduce the energy required — perhaps making the idea plausible.”

The next step for White will be a proof-of-concept. His team are in the lab and working on actual experiments to make that a reality.

Source: iO9

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Facebooker Records A Crystal Clear Video of Multiple UFOs While Driving Through The Desert In Arizona

By: Arjun Walia

Yesterday, a gentleman named Mauricio Morales posted some remarkable pictures on the internet that ended up going fairly viral across social media. They were snaps of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs, which does not mean they are extraterrestrial in origin).

That being said, don’t be fooled, there is a tremendous amount of evidence pointing toward the fact that some of these UFOs, whose presence were officially acknowledged within the mainstream using declassified documents and hundreds of high ranking military/political whistleblowers, are indeed extraterrestrial in origin.

There is ample evidence suggesting that many are ‘ours’ as well.

We’ve written about this quite extensively, and if you want to learn more about that and sift through all of the evidence we’ve accumulated over the past 8 years, please visit the exopolitics section of our website here.  Another great place to start is with UFO researcher Richard Dolan.

Here’s Morales’ statement on what he experienced from his Facebook post:

“As I was driving back to Phoenix this evening, I was a few miles past Parker, AZ when I saw a shooting star with a green hue in the corner of my eye. I kept driving for a few miles and noticed a small orange light far in the distance to my right. At first I thought that maybe a meteor had hit nearby and set a fire in the desert or possibly a distant antenna light.

I didn’t quite think much of it and continued to drive for another three miles. I noticed that the light was gone. I drove another half of a mile and I saw the light appear again. This is when I realized that whatever this was, wasn’t normal.

I was about a quarter of a mile from the crossing between Highway 72 and Highway 95 between Parker and Quartzsite, Arizona.

I immediately pulled over and attached my camera to my tripod. To my SW direction, there were six orange-red lights floating around in the horizon. Some of them would dim out and then brighten back up, others just seemed to float and hover away slowly. They seemed to travel in a parallel pattern with a very bright fiery glisten. I took photos and videos and in less than 15 minutes, the mysterious objects vanished without a trace.

All of the photographs are timestamped and are not edited whatsoever. The video is slightly cropped for better viewing.

Whatever this was, I have never seen anything like this in my life before. Super cool experience.

*UPDATE* 4/11/17 11:22pm
I have noticed that my cameras clock is set 8 minutes ahead. Which means that the time stamps are all 8 minutes ahead. I also saw a video of the same exact thing but from the opposite end in El Centro, CA. That means that whatever this was, it was visible for at least 100 miles.

ABC15 is reporting that the photos were part of the meteor. They were not. The meteor struck about 10 minutes before I pulled over on HWY 95 and got footage of these lights. The difference in lighting you see in the photos is because I was using different settings to get a more visible photo of what they were.”

Below are a few pictures, but you can view the video Timelapse on his Facebook page.

SOME RECENT VIDEO FOOTAGE

Below is some footage from Dr. Steven Greer, founder of The Disclosure Project and the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI). Known to some as the “Father of the Disclosure Movement,” he was instrumental in bringing forth hundreds of military whistleblowers of all ranks, with verified backgrounds, to share their experiences and testify on the UFO/extraterrestrial phenomenon.

He has had high-level meetings within the Pentagon about this issue, and that was confirmed (in his documentary Sirius Disclosure) by Apollo 14 astronaut and the 6th man to walk on the Moon, Dr. Edgar Mitchell.

“Yes there have been crashed craft, and bodies recovered. . . . We are not alone in the universe, they have been coming here for a long time. . . . I happen to be privileged enough to be in on the fact that we have been visited on this planet, and the UFO phenomenon is real.”

– Doctor Edgar Mitchell, 6th man to walk on the moon (source)(source)(source)

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UFO sightings astride the Atlantic

People recently reported UFO sightings in Arizona and United Kingdom, creating a flurry of excitement online. Have extraterrestrial neighbors decided to make contact?
Investigation suggest that the Arizona sightings were of mercury vapor lights and not alien visitors. However, recent sightings above England are not so easily explained away. RT America's Brigida Santos has the story.

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DID ALIEN BEINGS GENETICALLY ENGINEER HUMAN MANKIND?

Could blood types prove that human beings are genetically engineered?

Throughout the years, several scientific studies have searched for this answer.

Many people are unconvinced that evolution alone was capable of taking humanity from its original brute aim form into the only animals on the planet Earth capable of language, writing, and civilization itself. Instead, they look towards the ancient scriptures and the stories from societies from all corners for the world that tell of mysterious visitors, fallen angels, gods or the Anunnaki. While these tales may vary slightly from one another, they all tell the same broad tale. God-like creatures once came from the heavens and brought human beings the tools to create vast and sophisticated civilizations. Versions of these tales can even be found in the Christian Bible in reference to the fallen angels in Genesis, chapter 6.  

The mysteries posed by ancient scripture seem to be supported by the architectural evidence which has been believed to give modern humans their greatest clues about the ancient societies that came before them. For years, archaeologists, historians and engineers alike have been baffled by the supremely intelligent technology apparently available to humanity’s ancient ancestors to build the extraordinary megaliths in regions such as Egypt, Peru, and Mexico. But perhaps an even bigger clue lies in the genetic structure of human beings themselves.

The story of the Anunnaki describes how this powerful alien race created the first humans to work as drone workers in the colonized gold mines of planet Earth. The most compelling evidence to support this theory is the existence of the blood type group Rh Negative.

Human beings fall into four blood types; A, B, AB and O. This classification is determined by the make-up of the person’s immune system, specifically, the proteins present on the surface of the cells which amass to fight bacteria, viruses and other foreign bodies in the human body. The vast majority of human beings exhibit these proteins, but some do not. The people who fall into negative blood groups are perfectly healthy individuals who experience no significant difference in medical outcomes to other people. To this day, scientists have failed to adequately explain why this is the case or indeed, why this discrepancy even exists. Could it be that this is evidence of a holdover from our genetically engineered past?  

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