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Ontdek de Fascinerende Wereld van UFO's en UAP's: Jouw Bron voor Onthullende Informatie! Ben jij ook gefascineerd door het onbekende? Wil je meer weten over UFO's en UAP's, niet alleen in België, maar over de hele wereld? Dan ben je op de juiste plek! België: Het Kloppend Hart van UFO-onderzoek In België is BUFON (Belgisch UFO-Netwerk) dé autoriteit op het gebied van UFO-onderzoek. Voor betrouwbare en objectieve informatie over deze intrigerende fenomenen, bezoek je zeker onze Facebook-pagina en deze blog. Maar dat is nog niet alles! Ontdek ook het Belgisch UFO-meldpunt en Caelestia, twee organisaties die diepgaand onderzoek verrichten, al zijn ze soms kritisch of sceptisch. Nederland: Een Schat aan Informatie Voor onze Nederlandse buren is er de schitterende website www.ufowijzer.nl, beheerd door Paul Harmans. Deze site biedt een schat aan informatie en artikelen die je niet wilt missen! Internationaal: MUFON - De Wereldwijde Autoriteit Neem ook een kijkje bij MUFON (Mutual UFO Network Inc.), een gerenommeerde Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in de VS en wereldwijd. MUFON is toegewijd aan de wetenschappelijke en analytische studie van het UFO-fenomeen, en hun maandelijkse tijdschrift, The MUFON UFO-Journal, is een must-read voor elke UFO-enthousiasteling. Bezoek hun website op www.mufon.com voor meer informatie. Samenwerking en Toekomstvisie Sinds 1 februari 2020 is Pieter niet alleen ex-president van BUFON, maar ook de voormalige nationale directeur van MUFON in Vlaanderen en Nederland. Dit creëert een sterke samenwerking met de Franse MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP, wat ons in staat stelt om nog meer waardevolle inzichten te delen. Let op: Nepprofielen en Nieuwe Groeperingen Pas op voor een nieuwe groepering die zich ook BUFON noemt, maar geen enkele connectie heeft met onze gevestigde organisatie. Hoewel zij de naam geregistreerd hebben, kunnen ze het rijke verleden en de expertise van onze groep niet evenaren. We wensen hen veel succes, maar we blijven de autoriteit in UFO-onderzoek! Blijf Op De Hoogte! Wil jij de laatste nieuwtjes over UFO's, ruimtevaart, archeologie, en meer? Volg ons dan en duik samen met ons in de fascinerende wereld van het onbekende! Sluit je aan bij de gemeenschap van nieuwsgierige geesten die net als jij verlangen naar antwoorden en avonturen in de sterren! Heb je vragen of wil je meer weten? Aarzel dan niet om contact met ons op te nemen! Samen ontrafelen we het mysterie van de lucht en daarbuiten.

Ik zag mensen lopen op Mars. Medewerker NASA doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in radioshow

Ik zag mensen lopen op Mars. Medewerker NASA doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in radioshow

Ik zag mensen lopen op Mars. Medewerker NASA doet opmerkelijke uitspraken in radioshow

Een vrouw die beweert voor de NASA te hebben gewerkt, zegt te beschikken over bewijs van één van de grootste doofpotten in de ruimtevaartgeschiedenis.

In 1979 zag ze naar eigen zeggen twee mensen in ruimtepakken bij de Viking Lander, die zich op dat moment op het Marsoppervlak bevond.

‘Jackie’ belde met het radioprogramma Coast to Coast AM en vroeg de presentator ‘een 27 jaar oud mysterie op te lossen’.

Twee mensen

Ze beweerde dat ze voor NASA had gewerkt en betrokken was bij het Vikingprogramma. Ze zei dat ze twee mensen op het Marsoppervlak had zien lopen.

Ze zei dat ze samen met zes collega’s naar een aantal schermen zat te kijken toen ze plotseling twee mannen in ruimtepakken in de richting van de Viking zag lopen.

“We waren met z’n zessen,” zei Jackie. “We hielden ons bezig met de apparatuur, toen plotseling het beeld op zwart ging.”

Geheime landingen

“We renden naar boven, maar ze hadden de deur op slot gedaan,” ging ze verder. “Ik vraag me af of het onze jongens waren.”

Er gaan geruchten dat er in de jaren zestig ‘geheime’ landingen op Mars zijn geweest en dat de Apollo-landingen bedoeld waren om een veel uitgebreidere verkenning van het zonnestelsel geheim te houden.

Voormalig CIA’er John Lear beweerde bijvoorbeeld dat NASA in 1966 op Mars is geland en dat mensen is geleerd hoe ze er konden wennen aan de dunne atmosfeer.

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Black flying disc UFO with blue lights spotted in New Mexico

Black flying disc UFO with blue lights spotted in New Mexico

A witness in Ruidoso, New Mexico claims to have spotted a black disc-shaped UFO rimmed with blue lights near Ruidoso, New Mexico, according to a report submitted to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON). The witness provided a couple of drawings illustrating what was seen.

The report was submitted on Thanksgiving Day, but was listed as being spotted on August 8, 2013. In the short description, the witness wrote: “Looked up to the sky, saw a black disc with dim blue lights on the edges, moved extremely fast.”

Witness drawing of object seen in New Mexico.

Click to see original. (Credit: MUFON)

The witness elaborated in the long description reproduced here verbatim:

I was looking at the night sky, when suddenly a black disc with dim blue lights on the edges came across the night sky incredibly fast. It made no sound, and it dissapeared [sic] behind the horizon. This UFO was moving extremely fast, as it only took 2 seconds to cross the entire sky.

Second witness drawing of object seen in New Mexico.

Click to original image. (Credit: MUFON)

Satellites and other objects, such as the International Space Station can be very bright and move at a quick steady pace across the sky, but these objects do not appear to be disc-shaped, nor do they have a ring of blue lights around them. If the object did appear the way this witness has described and drawn it, it would be mysterious indeed.

The vast majority of UFO sightings turn out to be mundane objects, but once in awhile there are sightings that are much more difficult to explain. MUFON conducts investigations on sightings submitted to their website, and if they share their conclusions, we will let you all know. Meanwhile, others will likely chime in and we will try to keep you up to date with any discoveries. Please feel free to share your thoughts on this sighting in the comments below.

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Deze “buitenaardse vogels” veroorzaken paniek in India - HLN.be

Deze “buitenaardse vogels” veroorzaken paniek in India - HLN.be

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Bron: The Hans India


In India hebben enkele bouwvakkers een stel vreemde vogels gefilmd tijdens werken op een scheepswerf in havenstad Visakhapatnam. De vogels zaten boven een toilet dat werd opengebroken. Op videobeelden is te zien hoe de dieren rechtop stonden en hen aanstaarden met grote, donkere ogen. De beelden gingen viraal en veroorzaakten paniek in het land, schrijft de krant The Hans India. Sommige kijkers spraken van “humanoïde aliens” omdat de vogels rechtop stonden. De werklui gaven de dieren fruit en groenten, maar de vogels lieten dat eten onaangeroerd. Niet verwonderlijk, want volgens kenners gaat het om jonge kerkuilen. En dat zijn roofdieren.

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Alien hunters in frenzy over white UFO spotted in Nasa space shuttle launch footage

Alien hunters in frenzy over white UFO spotted in Nasa space shuttle launch footage

The clip was filmed by one of the astronauts on board the space shuttle Endeavour after it blasted off in May 2011

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‘I saw humans walking on Mars’ reveals former NASA employee

‘I saw humans walking on Mars’ reveals former NASA employee

A former NASA employee says to have seen two human figures dressed in ‘space suits’ walking towards the Viking Lander on the surface of Mars.

Apparently, the sheer number of images from Mars allegedly showing bones, structures, monuments with carvings, animals, or even rocks that appear as if they are moving, are no longer a surprise to the general public.

Some call it disclosure, while others tag it as a giant conspiracy, but our attention was drawn to a former NASA employee who claims that in 1979 while working at NASA, she and her colleagues observed various ‘silhouettes of people’ on the surface of Mars while monitoring transmission from NASA Viking Rover mission.

The woman, who referred to herself only as “Jackie” revealed her fascinating story speaking to  John Lear a former CIA pilot, ufologist, and popular conspiracy theorist.

Jackie claimed that while working at NASA, she was in charge of managing the downlink telemetry from Viking.

While observing a set of computers from the mission, she and her colleagues observed a number of silhouettes on Mars.

Regrettably, all of this sounds as another Movie about Mars and nothing more, as the woman who claims she saw people on Mars has failed to provide images, recordings or any data for that matter to back up her claims.

Speaking in an interview with Coast-to-Coast AM, Jackie spoke out about humans on Mars, which curiously is something that has been brought up by other former employees by NASA as well.

“I wonder if you could solve a 27-year-old mystery for me,” she asked Coast-to-Coast AM.

“That old Viking rover was running around. Then I saw two people in space suits – not the heavy suits we normally use, but they looked protective. They came over the horizon walking to the Viking Explorer.”

“We ran upstairs – but they locked the door, and taped paper over the door so we couldn’t see,’ she said. ‘My question is – were they our guys?”

According to John Lear, NASA landed on Mars in 1966, possibly to make repairs to the Viking rover.

He claims that space suits were not even necessary because humans can adapt to breathe the Martian atmosphere.

As noted by Metro, Lear also believes that human souls travel to the moon when they die and are ‘processed’ inside a mile-high tower and that the toxic, crushingly dense Venus is actually ‘green and beautiful.’

However, let us not forget the sheer amount of statements that have been made by former astronauts, NASA employees, and military personnel on Mars and alien life.

Senator Daniel K. Inouye said: “There is a shadowy government with its very own Air Force, its own Navy-like structure, its own fundraising mechanism, and has the ability to pursue its own ideas of the national interest, this government is free from all checks and balances, and free from the law itself.”

Paul Hellyer, Former Canadian Defense Minister also claimed that: “Decades ago, visitors from other planets warned us about where we were headed and offered to help. But instead, we, or at least some of us, interpreted their visits as a threat and decided to shoot first and ask questions after… Trillions, and I mean thousands of billions of dollars have been spent on projects about which both the Congress and the Commander in Chief have been kept deliberately in the dark.” (Source)

Lord Admiral Hill-Norton, former Chief of Defense Staff, 5 Star Admiral of the Royal Navy, Chairman of the NATO Military Committee had some interesting things to say about Alien life in the universe:

“There are things in our atmosphere which are technically miles in advance of anything we can build today, that we have no means of stopping them coming here … [and] that there is a serious possibility that we are being visited and have been visited for many years by beings from outer space, by other civilizations. That it behooves us, in case some of these people in the future or now should turn hostile, to find out who they are, where they come from, and what they want. This should be the subject of rigorous scientific investigation and not the subject of ‘rubishing’ by tabloid newspapers.” (Source)

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Black Disk Spotted During Flight to Gibraltar

Black Disk Spotted During Flight to Gibraltar

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Our next story takes us on a flight from Great Britain to Gibraltar. The event took place back on April 4th of this year. The witness to this event, who also submitted the media, says he was taking cloud photos through the aircraft window when he captured a flying black disk in two of the four photos he shot. In the video, you can clearly see the shape of a disk as was described by the shooter. The object looks like it moved from one photo to the next, but that could be movement of the aircraft as well. The witness says he looked through the window again after taking the photos and there was nothing there. The object had disappeared. The only evidence he had are the two photos.

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UFO Hunters Are Closely Monitoring the UFO Sighting Incident Over California

UFO Hunters Are Closely Monitoring the UFO Sighting Incident Over California

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A UFO in the skies apparently above California is being featured in a video uploaded to YouTube channel SuspectSky.

According to the uploader, the video was shot in Rowland Heights, just east of Los Angeles, California. It seemingly shows a small white craft being followed by a larger flying object.

The clip titled “Large Black UFO with Another Leading Object Seen in California” shows the two objects moving over the mountain range. The incident reportedly took place on October 24.

The man behind the camera was apparently taking the footage while driving. He says in the video that if it is an airplane, it is moving very quickly.

He adds that after seeing the UFO, he had to make a U-turn to come back and see it. In his description, the UFO looked like a cigar shape at first, but it eventually looked like a saucer.

Some viewers of the video were convinced it is an unidentified flying object of extraterrestrial origin.

One person wrote that the smaller object in front of the black one is not right and it looks like a UFO.

Another one added the white object might have been a regular passenger plane, but the black one might have been a UFO as it is too fat to be a plane.

However, others have more plausible explanations.

One person said that the scene only involves a plane pulling an advertisement behind it. The commenter added that nothing is suspicious or suspect about it.

Others believed it could be a Chinook helicopter as it appears to have double blades.

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Google Maps ALIEN proof? ‘UFO’ spotted on street view - what is behind mystery?

Google Maps ALIEN proof? ‘UFO’ spotted on street view - what is behind mystery?

GOOGLE MAPS street view captures all sorts of unusual sights, and alien hunters are just one group who comb the images for clues of extraterrestrial life.

Google Maps and Google Earth have photographed something many believe to be a UFO.

A mysterious shape in the middle of a field has sparked questions.

Situated in Australia at coordinates 30°30'38.44"S 115°22'56.03"E is a large triangle with bright lights evenly placed around it.

The triangle has baffled and excited UFO enthusiasts since it was first discovered in 2007.

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Some think it is an antenna that forms part of a nearby remote-controlled wind farm

Many were quick to claim it was a “triangle UFO” which had been captured hovering above Earth.

However, there may be a less spooky explanation for the shape.

Some think it is an antenna that forms part of a nearby remote-controlled wind farm.

With three sets of wires forming the triangle shape, and a tower in the middle, the antenna likely receives and transmits control signals.

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Google Maps alien proof? The mysterious shape has baffled those who have seen it

This is not the only unexplained sighting on Google Maps. The tool appeared to have uncovered a UFO landing site - but it was found to be something else instead.

Eagle-eyed viewers have also spotted something very confusing in Poland.

Many thought it could confirm that aliens exist.

Spotted in Krakow, Poland, a huge base with round domed huts appears next to a road.

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Google Maps alien proof? The unexplained triangle is located in Australia

Some think it may be a UFO landing pad, confirming that aliens do exist.

On closer inspection, it is revealed that it isn’t actually anything to do with aliens at all.

It is instead the Alvernia Studios, used for films, as well as features for video games and music projects.

Whilst no well-known UK films have emerged from the studios, some include US thriller Arbitrage, with Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon, as well as comedy Vamps, with Alicia Silverstone and Krysten Ritter.

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Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn

Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

In a fitting farewell to the planet that had been its home for over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey and snapped a series of images that has been assembled into a new mosaic. 

Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on Sept. 13, 2017. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.

There is much to remember and celebrate in marking the end of the mission. Cassini's exploration of Saturn and its environs was deep, comprehensive and historic.

"Cassini’s scientific bounty has been truly spectacular -- a vast array of new results leading to new insights and surprises, from the tiniest of ring particles to the opening of new landscapes on Titan and Enceladus, to the deep interior of Saturn itself," said Robert West, Cassini's deputy imaging team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

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Annotated version of the farewell photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

The Cassini imaging team had been planning this special farewell view of Saturn for years. For some, when the end finally came, it was a difficult goodbye.

"It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change," said Elizabeth Turtle, an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. "It was hard to say goodbye, but how lucky we were to be able to see it all through Cassini's eyes!"

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NASA’s Voyager 1 probe captured this image of Saturn and its rings on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers). This viewing geometry, which shows Saturn as a crescent, is never achieved from Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

For others, Cassini's farewell to Saturn is reminiscent of another parting from long ago.

"For 37 years, Voyager 1's last view of Saturn has been, for me, one of the most evocative images ever taken in the exploration of the solar system," said Carolyn Porco, former Voyager imaging team member and Cassini's imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "In a similar vein, this 'Farewell to Saturn' will forevermore serve as a reminder of the dramatic conclusion to that wondrous time humankind spent in intimate study of our Sun's most iconic planetary system."

The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life

The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life

Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The mission made numerous dramatic discoveries, including the surprising geologic activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus and liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017, returning unique science data until it lost contact with Earth.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

More information about Cassini:

https://www.nasa.gov/cassini

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

Preston Dyches
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-7013
preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov

Steve Mullins
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
720-974-5859
media@ciclops.org

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Editor: Tony Greicius
 

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Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn

Cassini Image Mosaic: A Farewell to Saturn

After more than 13 years at Saturn, and with its fate sealed, NASA's Cassini spacecraft bid farewell to the Saturnian system by firing the shutters of its wide-angle camera and capturing this last, full mosaic of Saturn and its rings two days before the spacecraft's dramatic plunge into the planet's atmosphere.
Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science Institute

In a fitting farewell to the planet that had been its home for over 13 years, the Cassini spacecraft took one last, lingering look at Saturn and its splendid rings during the final leg of its journey and snapped a series of images that has been assembled into a new mosaic. 

Cassini’s wide-angle camera acquired 42 red, green and blue images, covering the planet and its main rings from one end to the other, on Sept. 13, 2017. Imaging scientists stitched these frames together to make a natural color view. The scene also includes the moons Prometheus, Pandora, Janus, Epimetheus, Mimas and Enceladus.

There is much to remember and celebrate in marking the end of the mission. Cassini's exploration of Saturn and its environs was deep, comprehensive and historic.

"Cassini’s scientific bounty has been truly spectacular -- a vast array of new results leading to new insights and surprises, from the tiniest of ring particles to the opening of new landscapes on Titan and Enceladus, to the deep interior of Saturn itself," said Robert West, Cassini's deputy imaging team leader at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

PIA17218_fig2.jpg?resize=750%2C313&ssl=1

Annotated version of the farewell photo taken by NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Sept. 13, 2017.

NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.

The Cassini imaging team had been planning this special farewell view of Saturn for years. For some, when the end finally came, it was a difficult goodbye.

"It was all too easy to get used to receiving new images from the Saturn system on a daily basis, seeing new sights, watching things change," said Elizabeth Turtle, an imaging team associate at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland. "It was hard to say goodbye, but how lucky we were to be able to see it all through Cassini's eyes!"

MTUxMTI5ODA4Ng==

NASA’s Voyager 1 probe captured this image of Saturn and its rings on Nov. 16, 1980, four days after closest approach to Saturn, from a distance of 3.3 million miles (5.3 million kilometers). This viewing geometry, which shows Saturn as a crescent, is never achieved from Earth.
Credit: NASA/JPL/USGS

For others, Cassini's farewell to Saturn is reminiscent of another parting from long ago.

"For 37 years, Voyager 1's last view of Saturn has been, for me, one of the most evocative images ever taken in the exploration of the solar system," said Carolyn Porco, former Voyager imaging team member and Cassini's imaging team leader at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado. "In a similar vein, this 'Farewell to Saturn' will forevermore serve as a reminder of the dramatic conclusion to that wondrous time humankind spent in intimate study of our Sun's most iconic planetary system."

The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life

The team carefully planned every aspect of its termination, to expend every last bit of its propellant and crash the spacecraft into Saturn itself – where it would burn up in the atmosphere, and ensure it didn’t accidentally contaminate the ‘pristine’ moons Enceladus and Titan, which have shown potential to support microbial life

Launched in 1997, the Cassini spacecraft orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017. The mission made numerous dramatic discoveries, including the surprising geologic activity on Saturn's moon Enceladus and liquid methane seas on Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Cassini ended its journey with a dramatic plunge into Saturn's atmosphere on Sept. 15, 2017, returning unique science data until it lost contact with Earth.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, ESA (European Space Agency) and the Italian Space Agency. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team consists of scientists from the U.S., England, France, and Germany. The imaging operations center and team leader are based at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colorado.

More information about Cassini:

https://www.nasa.gov/cassini

https://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov

Preston Dyches
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
818-354-7013
preston.dyches@jpl.nasa.gov

Steve Mullins
CICLOPS/Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.
720-974-5859
media@ciclops.org

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Editor: Tony Greicius
 

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Met deze foto neemt ruimtesonde Cassini afscheid van Saturnus

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A Birdseye View of Iceberg A-68A

A Birdseye View of Iceberg A-68A

A Birdseye View of Iceberg A-68A
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NASA’s Operation IceBridge—the airborne mission flown annually over both polar regions to map the ice—is now in its ninth year making flights over Antarctica. A few flights during the 2017 campaign took scientists and instruments over the newly reshaped Larsen C ice shelf.

“It takes a long time to process the data from IceBridge instruments that show changes to the ice, and many of these changes are small,” said Nathan Kurtz, IceBridge project scientist. “That’s why we have instruments on the plane, so that we can detect smaller changes than we can see with our eyes.”

But occasionally, big changes are observed. “One of the biggest changes is the calving of an iceberg from the Larsen C ice shelf,” Kurtz said. “We observed the crack across the shelf during the campaign last year; it has since broken through and produced a huge iceberg.”

The iceberg from Larsen C, named A-68A, was photographed during a flight on November 12, 2017. John Sonntag, IceBridge mission scientist, shot the photo from a window of the P-3 research plane. The flight aimed to get a better understanding the Larsen system as a whole, and scientists made gravity measurements to “see” the shape of the seafloor and bedrock below the ice. Read more in this blog post.

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The second image is a photograph acquired by the Digital Mapping System (DMS) during the same flight. The DMS is essentially a downward-looking digital camera pointed out a window on the belly of the aircraft. This image shows part of the giant iceberg’s edge (the side closest to the shelf) and open water.

Estimates indicate that the edges of the shelf and iceberg tower about 30 meters above the surface of the sea. Some mélange appears attached to the iceberg, and blocks of ice have fallen away giving the berg’s edge giving it an angular appearance.

NASA photographs courtesy of NASA/John Sonntag (top) and IceBridge Digital Mapping System (bottom). Story by Kathryn Hansen.

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'Eerste' interstellaire planetoïde `Oumuamua is donkerrood en langwerpig

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Interstellair stof leverde mogelijk kleine aliens af in onze atmosfeer

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NASA fotografeert een dertig meter hoge muur van ijs

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Atlas, The Next Generation

Atlas, The Next Generation

A new version of Atlas, designed to operate outdoors and inside buildings. It is specialized for mobile manipulation. It is electrically powered and hydraulically actuated. It uses sensors in its body and legs to balance and LIDAR and stereo sensors in its head to avoid obstacles, assess the terrain, help with navigation and manipulate objects. This version of Atlas is about 5' 9" tall (about a head shorter than the DRC Atlas) and weighs 180 lbs.

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No Pics? No Problem: Space Artists Draw Alien Worlds

No Pics? No Problem: Space Artists Draw Alien Worlds

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Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / T. Pyle
The asteroid belts around the star Epsilon Eridani.

“It looked too pretty,” says Tim Pyle. And that was a dilemma.

The blue he drew on his artistic rendition of Kepler-186f was too blue—too suggestive of an exoplanet with abundant water. “Too inviting,” he says. “The public might think we discovered another Earth.”

Not quite the statement NASA wanted to send, even though Kepler-186f sure seemed like Earth—about the same size, probably rocky, and yes—possibly holding water.

“But we didn’t want to say that,” says Pyle. “We’re very careful with our messaging. We might imply something that’s not accurate.”

So the deep blue became sky blue—softer, more pastel, less definitive—and the green had to go. Green might translate as trees, flowers, grass. “People interpret green as plant life,” he says. “We try to avoid green.”

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Exoplanet Kepler-186f, 490 light years from Earth.

Drawing that fine line between scientific precision and artistic inspiration is the daily predicament faced by Pyle and his colleague Robert Hurt at their Caltech office in Pasadena, California.

Pyle, a multimedia producer, and Hurt, a visualization scientist, collaborate to create the stunning and ethereal exoplanet images, viewed worldwide by millions via media—television, newspapers, billboards, apps, video games, and online.

“We’re sort of the Yin and Yang,” says Hurt, who has a Ph.D. in astronomy. “I come from the science side, he comes from the art side, and we speak enough of the same language to find the right balance.”

When designing a planet (with off-the-shelf software), the two invariably have little to go on; no detailed photograph of an alien exoworld exists.

But they do know the planet’s size, distance from the host star, whether it’s rocky or gaseous, and perhaps the approximate temperature. “Relatively small pieces of information,” says Hurt. “Beyond that there’s a tremendous amount of science speculation.”

Too much creative overreach, and NASA researchers let them know. “It’s rare we nail it the first time out,” says Pyle, a former visual effects animator for Nickelodeon (Invader Zim,SpongeBob SquarePants). “Almost always we get a change request.”

Often the change seems like minutiae. Just before NASA announced the discovery of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets last February, Pyle encountered an objection to one of his renderings: “It was about the shape of the icebergs. The scientists said those shapes implied an atmospheric model of rain that would not exist. So I had to come up with a different shape.”

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Exoplanet KELT-9b, a hot gas giant orbiting its star.
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Artist's conception of the surface of TRAPPIST-1f.

Neither artist minds the input—and the astronomers, says Pyle, are happy to help. “I think we encountered more resistance years ago than we do now. There’s no real resistance now. Scientists understand how important public communication is.”

Indeed, one of NASA's goals with the space art is coverage—media attention. And facts alone aren’t always enough.

“The quickest way to get a press release ignored is to send it out as a bunch of words on paper, with no illustrations at all,” says Hurt.

Certainly, the lay public won’t care about the shape of icebergs; they only want to see an enchanting otherworldly image. Even so, Pyle says the process is intimidating. “When people think of those planets, they now think of our specific artwork,” he says. “A huge responsibility goes with that. Like, we better get it right.”

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Abstract of the TRAPPIST-1 system.

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New map shows where UFOs have been spotted near you, as sightings triple

New map shows where UFOs have been spotted near you, as sightings triple

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The Buzludzha monument near Kazanluk, Bulgaria looks like a UFO that’s been decaying for centuries, but it’s actually only 36 years old.

Have little green men from outer space been taking an increased interest in our planet over the past twelve months?

UFO sightings near you." data-reactid="32" style="text-align: justify;">A new UFO Stalker map on the MUFON website – which hosts thousands upon thousands of sightings from the general public – lets you see UFO sightings near you.

recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016." data-reactid="33" style="text-align: justify;">The UFO Stalker map shows off recent sightings in British areas such as Lisburn in Northern Ireland and Aberdeenshire, with the site claiming that sightings are up 12% since 2016.

Earlier this year, authors Cheryl Costa and Linda Miller Costa analysed sightings reported to UFO groups such as Mufon and Nuforc.

And contrary to popular myth, UFO sightings are not dying off – in fact, the opposite is true, at least in North America, where sightings rose to 11,868 nationwide in 2015 from 3,479 in 2001.

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New map shows where UFOs have been spotted near you, as sightings triple
Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said, ‘UFO Stalker is a brilliant visual guide to the location of UFO sightings, and shows the sheer scale of this phenomena throughout the country over the last few years.

‘For UFO researchers it can help them identify UFO hot spots, trends and patterns of activity. This is useful for those trying to establish if UFOs follow specific flightpaths, particularly for those who think UFOs are related to geomagnetic and seismic activity.

‘This theory tries to prove that UFOs, especially strange lights or luminous objects, are caused by teutonic strains in the Earth’s crust. The maps could also help show if UFOs follow so-called Ley Lines that criss-cross the planet, or if they cluster around military sites.

‘The downside of such a map is the quality of the sightings in its data base, these should be carefullyfiltered if anyone really wants to establish geomagnetic or other links with UFO activity. Clusters of sightings might for example be caused by increased media activity in an area, or a bright meteor or other mundane phenomena could also trigger a wave of UFO sightings.’

‘Nonetheless, this is a handy way of presenting UFO data and is very helpful in helping pin down the weird things seen in our skies.’

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