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!
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Donderdag 9 mei 2019
MT Tech professor claims UFOs are time machines
MT Tech professor claims UFOs are time machines
Many people believe UFOs visit Earth from other planets far, far away. A Montana Tech professor believes UFOs are much closer to home.
“The phenomenon may be our own distant descendants coming back through time to study us in their own evolutionary past,” said Michael P. Masters.
Masters writes about this theory in his newly released book, “Identified Flying Objects.” With a doctorate in anthropology from Ohio State University, Masters uses science to explain why people who report close encounters with aliens always describe them the same way.
“The extra-tempestrial are ubiquitously reported as being bipedal, upright-walking, five fingers on each hand and foot, bi-lateral symmetry that they have two eyes, a mouth a nose, they can communicate with us in our own languages,” said Masters.
Masters understands this study may be considered fringe science, but he defends the research in the book.
First likely Marsquake heard by NASA's InSight sounds like an underground high-speed train
This video and audio illustrates a seismic event detected by NASA's InSight on April 6, 2019, the 128th Martian day, or sol, of the mission.
Three distinct kinds of sounds can be heard, all of them detected as ground vibrations by the spacecraft's seismometer, called the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure (SEIS):
There's noise from Martian wind; the seismic event itself; and the spacecraft's robotic arm as it moves to take pictures.
This event is the first likely Marsquake recorded by the InSight team. Several other seismic events have been recorded but are much more ambiguous than this signal.
The audio underscores just how seismically noisy the Martian surface can be and was produced from two sets of sensors included with SEIS.
You can hear sounds from the Very Broad Band sensors from your left speakers and sounds from the Short Period sensors from your right speakers. Audio from both sets of sensors have been sped up by a factor of 60; the actual vibrations on Mars would not have been audible to the human ear.
Listen to the 'Marsquake' that sounds like a high-speed train as used in an underground rail system. Playback on headphones or speaker system recommended for best experience.
Missing 411: The 1600 People who VANISHED from America's National Parks
1600 people go missing every year in America's national parks. They seemingly vanish into thin air, some of them return and some are never to been seen or heard from again.
The cases David Paulides, an author and former policeman, found were strange and numerous enough that he has since written six volumes of work documenting the disappearances in his books called the 'Missing 411' series.
Strangeries investigates and documents some of the bizarre missing person's cases that David Paulides has been involved in and the shocking statistics of just how many people disappear without a trace!
Phil Schneider Found Alien Base Under Los Alamos Lab, New Mexico, UFO Sighting News
I made this video clip back in 2014 and wanted to move it to my channel. Phil Schneider RIP brother. I dedicated my book Dragons of Asgard to you at the end of it. Philip Schneider was a former US Government Geologist and Engineer, who was involved in producing the underground explosions which were required to facilitate the building of various underground military bases, as well as submarine bases for the United States Government. He was the only person to survive the infamous Alien/Human War at Dulce and Los Alamos, where 66 Government Agents and Workers lost their lives in August of 1979. For the last two years of his life he gave lectures about classified information, including UFO's to the media and general public. Philip Schneider was found dead in his apartment on January 17, 1996. He was murdered, and all documents, photos and videos he had in his possession which he was about to use for a massive disclosure to the public...were gone from his apartment. Scott C. Waring
Comet P67 Slowed Down Singing. The Alien Message Broadcasted To Our Solar System, UFO Sighting News.
Now I made. I really feel that it holds an alien message. I took the singing sounds made by comet P67 and slowed them down so that we could hear them better. Fun facts about comet P67:
1. Its makes a radio signal that sounds like a message. 2. Its radio signal has gone non stop since discovery over 25 years ago. 3. 20 years ago when scientist heard comet P67, the decided to build and launch a satellite to investigate it. 4. The satellite finally reached the comet several years ago and recorded this signal from the comet...now called the singing comet. 5. The public was never told about the singing until the Rossetta probe had reached the comet. 6. The comet itself is shaped like an alien head with a neck and shoulders.
So, this is a message that aliens created and placed on the comet to either mark their territory or to test species at a certain level of development to come and investigate. I think its the first. The shape of the entire comet is that of an alien bust. Its to show who made the signal...to be 100% sure those that received it and came, would learn of who sent it and who will enforce it. Scott C. Waring
Location of discovery: Earths moon I found a pyramid in NASA photo PIA13510 yesterday. The object is partly hidden in the shadows so you need to add light to it to see the rest of the structure. I believer this structure can fly from place to place. Its a spaceship but is landed in this location of the moon. There are so many ancient cultures on Earth that built huge pyramids like in Bosnia 25,000 years ago, the Egyptians 3,000 years ago, the mayans, Incas and Aztecs 2,000 years ago and so may more. There must be an alien connection between them all. Scott C. Waring
Hey everyone. I actually found this object last year but never made a video about it, so I decided to have some fun and make one today. This is a white ceramic structure, meaning its reflective like a white ceramic dish would be if enough light his it. I am lucky to have found this one in the shadows so its detail is well pronounced. Behind the white base is another huge black walled structure. Not these are huge. The Apollo 17 photo was taken by an astronaut out the window using a Nikon 35 mm camera and they were 90km above the surface of the moon, yet these structures are still big! It must have really been hard for the astronauts not to be able to talk about these things once they made it back to earth. Please check out my video below I made a few minutes ago. Scott C. Waring
I guess I don't have to tell you I love to look at the sky. Well, I was looking at some live cams and found this interesting photo in its archive. The still photo was just a screen grab of the UFO passing. The cam itself actually records video, not still shots.
I noticed this object in the photo and decided to enlarge it. The object appears to be a metallic disk. Not only that, but the disk is leaving a trail of clouds behind it. UFOs often make clouds around the ship to hide it, but if the ship travels too fast, or the wind picks up the clouds are pulled off as you see is done here.
As I have said before, sunset is the most popular time to see a UFO. If you want to see one, watch a dozens sunsets...I promise you will notice something strange in one.
I was going through some SOHO NASA images of our sun when I found one the just rubbed me the wrong way. This mysterious object shape not even close to being a comet, asteroid, meteor, satellite, space station or anything else I could think of. The only possibility left is that its a alien craft. The design has many right angles and the tail area thins like a planes would. Also it seems to have wings on each side. If you look carefully behind the UFO you will see that there are many smaller ships following it. They follow the big ships for safely reasons. There are a lot of intelligent species in our universe, both kind and cruel. Space is a big empty place that leaves a ship on its own to protect itself. So the small ships follow the big ones when traveling in dangerous territory. You know what bothers me here? Its that Earth is in dangerous territory. How safe will it be for a tiny human craft with no weapons or armor to protect itself out there alone? Scott C. Waring
These photos of rings around the sun where taken by Christine McNaughton on Twitter last week. She posted photos of a sunset from an island in Canada and remains baffled by what could possible be the reason for these rings.
Remember, the sun sets in the west, not north, so northern lights are ruled out. Also since the great lakes sit to the west, I would say this was caused by a over abundance of energy surging over the lake in that area. Now live atomic bombs have been lost in those lakes, but if this wasnst seen from other areas, then it couldn't be a atomic bomb from WWII era. It could hoverer be a massive UFO rising out of the bottom of the great lake. This UFO would have to be driven by a huge amount of energy and would be forced to sit there until after sunset when its safe to fly away under the cloak of darkness. It defiantly sounds like evidence of an underwater alien base in that direction on the lake floor.
Tell me your thoughts in the comments below please. Scott C. Waring-Taiwan
Black UFO Ring Flying Over Denver, Colorado Makes Local News. April 2019, Videos, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 15, 2019 Location of sighting: Denver, Colorado, USA A possible UFO sighing was seen in Denver two weeks ago. The whole city seemed to see it and the exact explanation of what it is remains a mystery. Many explanations from fireworks to volcanos have been given. However Denver is a UFO hotspot with most of its citizens having seen UFOs in the area. Its totally possible that this ring is actually the outline of an alien cloaked craft that is having difficulties keeping cloaked. Its also possible that a UFO shot off so fast that it left a black ring around it. Lots of white glowing balls have been seen over the Denver area near the Rocky Mountains for decades, so its no surprise to see such oddities in the sky above Denver. Scott C. Waring
Chirs Spears of CBS4 states:
OKAY ... here's an odd one for you. This was caught on our city cam looking due west around 740 pm. We also had a viewer in LoDo film it. His video was more of a perfect circle. I am baffled at how to explain this one. LOL! CRAZY! And creepy.
When NASA launched two rockets studying auroras in Norway recently, the mission created visuals so magnificently beautiful that it had some around the world thinking aliens.
The New York Post reports that some called the police warning that "aliens are coming," and that a UFO sightings message board picked up on the other-worldly visuals saying a ship "entered an underground base."
This post will run through what the U.S. space agency was doing with its two rockets in the arctic and, of course, some of the amazing visuals created in the process:
Benjamin Raven | braven@mlive.com
The space agency's work studying auroras focuses on measuring the atmospheric density and temperature with instruments on the rockets including visible gas tracers. These tracers are said to be trimethyl aluminum and a barium/strontium mixture, which NASA says ionizes once exposed to sunlight.
During the evening launch back on April 5 from the Andoya Space Center in Norway, NASA released the mixture over the Norwegian Sea between 71 and 150 miles altitude.
"These mixtures, using substances similar to those found in fireworks, created colorful clouds that allow researchers to track the flow of neutral and charged particles with the auroral wind," NASA writes on its website. "By tracking the movement of these colorful clouds via ground-based photography and triangulating their moment-by-moment position in three dimensions, AZURE will provide valuable data on the vertical and horizontal flow of particles in two key regions of the ionosphere over a range of different altitudes.
"Many people believe the Earth’s atmosphere “ends” some 20-30 miles above the ground. However, the air we breathe does not abruptly end at some predefined point -- instead, it gradually thins."
The AZURE mission stands for Auroral Zone Upwelling Rocket Experiment. The space agency says preliminary results from the April 5 launch have left scientists involved "very pleased with the results."
The two rockets flew to an altitude of 200 and 202 miles, as both tracked the movement of the very colorful clouds.
Auroras are defined by the space agency as "energetic particles, which can speed out from the sun both in a steady stream called the solar wind and due to giant eruptions known as coronal mass ejections or CMEs. After a trip toward Earth that can last two to three days, the solar particles and magnetic fields cause the release of particles already trapped near Earth, which in turn trigger reactions in the upper atmosphere in which oxygen and nitrogen molecules release photons of light."
The AZURE mission successfully launched back-to-back aboard two sounding rockets in Norway tonight. These colorful clouds created a light show in the sky, helping researchers track the flow of neutral and charged particles in Earth's ionosphere. Details: https://go.nasa.gov/2oJGOtz.
NASA says that AZURE is the first of eight sounding rocket missions with international collaborators scheduled in the next two years. This mission will mainly focus on measuring the winds in the Arctic region, while trying to "better understand the forces at play."
"By tracking the movement of these colorful clouds via ground-based photography and triangulating their moment-by-moment position in three dimensions, AZURE will provide valuable data on the vertical and horizontal flow of particles in two key regions of the ionosphere over a range of different altitudes," NASA reports on its website.
"Such measurements are critical if we are to truly understand the effects of the mysterious yet beautiful aurora. The results will be key to a better understanding of the effects of auroral forcing on the atmosphere, including how and where the auroral energy is deposited."
Ever wondered what auroras look like from space? @ESA@Astro_Alex Gerst gives us his space-based view from aboard the @Space_Station, tweeting that the experience is "[m]ind-blowing, every single time." Take a look: https://go.nasa.gov/2ODAhei
In 2013, in a big success story, a Mars rover and orbiter made a near-simultaneous observation of methane in Mars’ atmosphere. Now a newer mission orbiting Mars – ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter – has failed to detect methane. Why?
Artist’s concept of ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter, part of the ExoMars mission,
analyzing the Martian atmosphere. Image via ESA/ATG MediaLab.
Ten days ago, we spoke of aJune 2013 detectionof methane in Mars’ atmosphere by both the ground-basedCuriosityrover and theMars Expressorbiter. Scientists were excited about that because, on Earth, methane is generated by living organisms, as well as geological processes. So Mars’ methane might hold clues to possible life on Mars. But now another group of perplexed planetary scientists is asking … where has Mars’ methane gone? The first results from ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) – part of theExoMarsmission, which launched on Mars in 2016 – showed virtually no signs of the gas in the Martian atmosphere. This is surprising, to say the least.
TGO also has some new findings for scientists about dust in Mars’ atmosphere and subsurface deposits of water ice and water-related minerals.
The puzzling methane results were presented at the annual meeting of the European Geosciences Union last week in Vienna, and a first paper was published on April 10, 2019, in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Today. A second paper, also in Nature Today, discusses the impact of the recent global dust storm on water in the Martian atmosphere. A third paper (in Russian), submitted to the Proceedings of the Russian Academy of Science, provides the most detailed map ever produced of water ice and hydrated minerals in the shallow subsurface of the planet.
So far, TGO has found an upper limit of methane in the Martian atmosphere 10 to 100 times less than previous detections. Why?
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG MediaLab; data: O. Korablev et al (2019).
These papers indicate an upper limit of 0.05 ppbv (parts per billion by volume), which is 10 to 100 times less methane than all previous reported detections. The most precise detection of 0.012 ppbv, taken by the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) spectrometer on TGO, was achieved at an altitude of less than two miles (three km). According to ACS principal investigator Oleg Korablev at the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow:
We have beautiful, high-accuracy data tracing signals of water within the range of where we would expect to see methane, but yet we can only report a modest upper limit that suggests a global absence of methane.
Earth-based telescopes had previously found transient measurements of up to 45 ppbv, while Mars Express found a limit of 10 ppbv in 2004. The Curiosity rover found a background level of methane of 0.2 – 0.7 ppbv, with higher periodic peaks. Our story from a week ago reported that Mars Express had confirmed one of Curiosity’s largest peaks in 2013, narrowing down the location of at least one methane plume down to east of Gale Crater.
Diagram of Mars, with spacecraft and their results labeled.
A history of key methane measurements on Mars from 1999 to 2018.
Image via ESA.
The upper limit of 0.05 ppbv amounts to about 500 tons of methane overall, but that is actually a very tiny amount when it is spread throughout the entire atmosphere.
The findings by TGO seem to be quite contradictory to all earlier detections, which poses some difficult questions. Where did the methane go? Is it errors in analysis or – as researchers have suggested – is the methane being actively destroyed somehow soon after it is released into the atmosphere? As Korablev explained:
The TGO’s high-precision measurements seem to be at odds with previous detections; to reconcile the various datasets and match the fast transition from previously reported plumes to the apparently very low background levels, we need to find a method that efficiently destroys methane close to the surface of the planet.
As Håkan Svedhem, TGO project scientist, also noted:
Just as the question of the presence of methane and where it might be coming from has caused so much debate, so the issue of where it is going, and how quickly it can disappear, is equally interesting.
We don’t have all the pieces of the puzzle or see the full picture yet, but that is why we are there with TGO, making a detailed analysis of the atmosphere with the best instruments we have, to better understand how active this planet is – whether geologically or biologically.
Diagram showing the seasonal cycle of methane as detected by the Curiosity rover in Gale Crater.
Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Methane is of primary interest to scientists studying Mars, since it can originate either geologically or biologically. On Earth, by far most of the gas – about 95 percent – is produced by living organisms, but some also is created by geological activity. We still don’t know the origin of Mars’ methane, but the Curiosity rover did also determine that it is seasonal in nature – increasing in summer and decreasing again in winter – which may explain why it hasn’t been found yet by TGO. Current evidence also points to the methane most likely coming from beneath the surface. That could fit in with either a geological or biological scenario, or perhaps even both.
Methane is not the only thing that TGO has been studying; the orbiter has also been examining how dust in the atmosphere from the recent global dust storm affected water vapor. Two spectrometers – NOMAD and ACS – made the first high-resolution solar occultation measurements of the atmosphere, to see how sunlight is absorbed in the atmosphere as a way to reveal the chemical fingerprints of its ingredients. The vertical distribution of water vapor was measured from close to the surface to over 50 miles (80 km) in altitude. According to Ann Carine Vandaele, principal investigator of NOMAD at the Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy:
In the northern latitudes [of Mars] we saw features such as dust clouds at altitudes of around 25-40 km [15-25 miles] that were not there before, and in southern latitudes we saw dust layers moving to higher altitudes. The enhancement of water vapor in the atmosphere happened remarkably quickly, over just a few days during the onset of the storm, indicating a swift reaction of the atmosphere to the dust storm.
The results fit with previous global circulation models, Vandaele said:
We see that water … is very sensitive to the presence of ice clouds, preventing it from reaching atmospheric layers higher up. During the storm, water reached much higher altitudes. This was theoretically predicted by models for a long time but this is the first time we have been able to observe it.
TGO observations of how dust from the recent global dust storm has affected water vapor in the Martian atmosphere.
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG MediaLab; data: A-C Vandaele et al (2019).
TGO has also been using its neutron detector called FREND to map the distribution of hydrogen in the uppermost meter of Mars’ surface. It has indicated the presence, either now or in the past, of water. TGO can find minerals that were formed in water millions or billions of years ago, as well as detect current deposits of ice below the surface. As Igor Mitrofanov, principal investigator of the FREND instrument, said:
In just 131 days the instrument had already produced a map that has a higher resolution than that of the 16 years data from its predecessor onboard NASA’s Mars Odyssey – and it is set to continue getting better.
The data is continually improving and we will eventually have what will become the reference data for mapping shallow subsurface water-rich materials on Mars, crucial for understanding the overall evolution of Mars and where all the present water is now. It is important for the science on Mars, and it is also valuable for future Mars exploration.
The non-detection of methane so far by TGO presents a conundrum for scientists. If it is there, as multiple Mars missions and telescopes have shown, how does it disappear so fast? If it is seasonal as previously determined, was TGO just looking at the wrong time? Only further observations will help to answer that question. Chris Webster, a senior scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Space.com that he is optimistic TGO will still detect methane:
We need to be more patient with TGO, because one thing we have learned is that the methane story is full of surprises, and there are surely more to come. It would not surprise me if TGO detected methane sometime in the future.
Want more detail? There’s a good overview of the new methane findings in a new article in Nature.
Map of shallow subsurface water (hydrated minerals/ice) distribution on Mars.
Image via ESA; spacecraft: ATG/medialab; data: I. Mitrofanov et al (2018).
Bottom line: The origin of Mars’ methane is still a mystery, but now its apparent vanishing act is in itself another puzzle for scientists to solve.
Meteoroid impacts regularly liberate puffs of water vapor from the moon, suggesting that minuscule amounts of water may lurk just under the entire lunar surface, a new study finds.
When the Apollo missions brought lunar rocks to Earth, scientists found evidence that the moon was devoid of water. However, in the past decade, data from a bevy of spacecraft — including NASA's Cassini, Deep Impact and Lunar Prospector missions, and India's Chandrayaan-1 probe — revealed trace amounts of water on the surface of the moon. Even more intriguingly, they found water across the moon's surface, not only at the poles, as was previously expected.
But scientists still have many questions about the source and extent of lunar water. To learn more, researchers analyzed data from NASA's Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE), which orbited the moon from October 2013 to April 2014.
The scientists behind the newly published research found that the moon released numerous puffs of water vapor from near its surface into its exosphere, the very tenuous layer of molecules comprising the closest thing that the moon has to an atmosphere. These outbursts coincided with 29 known meteoroid streams that passed near Earth during that eight-month span of time, including the Leonids, Geminids and Quadrantids.
"Most of the geological processes we deal with in planetary science are very slow — we almost never get to see something respond dynamically over the scale of hours like we did here," lead author Mehdi Benna, a planetary scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, told Space.com.
The researchers suggested that meteoroid impacts kicked up these puffs of water from the moon, and said that four of these puffs were apparently caused by previously undetected meteoroid streams.
"One would think we know all of the meteoroid streams that are out there, but apparently we don't," Benna said.
By analyzing the amount of water released by meteoroid streams of different sizes, the scientists estimated that the uppermost 3.15 inches (8 centimeters) of lunar soil is dehydrated — any less, and smaller meteoroids would have excavated more water. Below this desiccated layer, the researchers suggest, water comprises up to about 0.05% of the weight of the rock up to at least 10 feet (3 meters) deep.
"With our measurements, we could see exactly the water extracted from the moon in a very dynamic way by micrometeroid impacts, and by analyzing the data, see how much water was stored in the lunar reservoir and where it was going," Benna said.
The researchers estimated that meteoroid impacts cause the moon to lose as much as 220 tons (200 metric tons) of water annually. To sustain this amount of loss over time, they suggested that this water either was present when the moon formed, about 4.5 billion years ago, or was delivered by cosmic impacts from water-laden rocks soon after the moon was born.
The lunar samples from the Apollo missions may have appeared devoid of water because the water on those rocks was likely not incorporated into the rocks themselves, but only weakly coated them. As such, any water on the rocks was likely fragile and difficult to hold onto during the return trips, Benna said.
Future research can examine how deep water actually extends on the moon, Benna said. He and his colleagues detailed their findings online today (April 15) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
Picture a world where rain falls, gathers in lakes and ponds, seeps into the surrounding rock, and evaporates away, only to fall again. There's just one catch: The world is Saturn's moon, Titan, where the rain isn't water; it's liquid methane.
Two new papers explore how this eerily familiar, waterless "water cycle" manifests on Titan's surface. To do so, two separate research teams turned to data from the Cassini mission, which ended its stay at the Saturn system in September 2017. The spacecraft flew past the massive moon more than 100 times, gathering crucial observations of this strange world as it did so.
Some of those observations showed scientists something truly extraordinary: their first glimpse of liquid currently on the landscape, rather than mere ghosts of such liquid features. "Titan is the only world outside the Earth where we see bodies of liquid on the surface," Rosaly Lopes, a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory who worked on the Cassini mission but wasn't involved in either of the new papers. "Some of us like to call Titan the Earth of the outer solar system."
"Titan is the most interesting moon in the solar system. I think that gets me some enemies, but I think it's actually true," Shannon MacKenzie, lead author on one of the new studies and a planetary scientist at Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, told Space.com. But that doesn't mean the moon is straightforward. "Titan throws us a lot of curveballs," she said.
MacKenzie's study analyzes one potential curveball: three small features that appeared to be liquid-filled lakes when Cassini first spotted them, but seem to have dried up by the time the spacecraft returned to the area. The observations suggest that the liquid either evaporated or seeped into the surrounding planetary surface.
These "phantom lakes" may be evidence of seasonal changes on the moon, MacKenzie and her coauthors believe. (Seven Earth years passed between the spacecraft's two observations of the area, during which the northern hemisphere of the moon transitioned from winter to spring.)
But the situation may not be quite that simple, since the two sets of observations were taken by different instruments. Cassini was built to gather data with either its radar instrument or its visual and infrared light cameras, but not both simultaneously. And during the spacecraft's first pass, the region was too dark to use the cameras.
So MacKenzie and her colleagues had to factor in the change in instruments as a potential variable. But she's still confident that something is different in the two passes, and that it's pretty plausible that liquid was there, then disappeared. Even if the different signals over the two flybys were caused by some other phenomenon, MacKenzie said she's still intrigued by what that could tell us about the strange moon, which is among scientists' plausible candidates for where life may be lurking beyond Earth.
"If we're instead looking at some newly identified materials on the surface, then that's interesting, too, because the sediments on Titan are really important for prebiotic chemistry," MacKenzie said.
But although MacKenzie focused on just three small lakes that seem to have disappeared, plenty of lakes remained visible throughout Cassini's observations of the region. In the second paper published today, scientists used radar data to study a handful of much larger lakes.
During Cassini's very last pass over Titan in April 2017, the spacecraft was programmed to gather a very specific type of data, called altimetry, over the lake region to measure the height of different substances. Marco Mastrogiuseppe, a planetary scientist at Caltech, had already used similar data to measure the depths of some of Titan's seas, much larger bodies of liquids, and the Cassini team hoped he would be able to do the same with lakes.
Mastrogiuseppe and his colleagues did so in their new paper, identifying the bottoms of lakes more than 328 feet (100 meters) deep and establishing that their contents were dominated by liquid methane. "We realized that essentially the composition of the lakes is very, very similar to the one of the mare, of the sea," he said. "We believe that these bodies are fed by local rains and then these basins, they drain liquid."
That suggests that below Titan's surface, the moon may host yet another feature reminiscent of Earth: caves. On Earth, many caves are formed by water dissolving away surrounding rock types like limestone, leaving behind a type of landscape called karst, characterized by springs, aquifers, caves and sinkholes.
Researchers studying Titan's lake region think that they see similar karst-type characteristics. They also haven't spotted channels connecting all these different liquid features, which is why Mastrogiuseppe and others suspect that some of the liquid may be seeping into the surrounding terrain, much like karst systems here on Earth.
"Titan is really this world that geologically is similar to the Earth, and studying the interactions between the liquid bodies and the geology is something that we haven't really been able to do before," Lopes said. The new studies begin to make that happen by seeing those interactions playing out live on another planetary body.
Of course, it's much more difficult to study these interactions so far away, on a world that has never been the primary focus of a mission. "We've been talking about possible missions with robotic explorers that might crawl down into lava tubes and caves on the moon and Mars," Lopes said. "Could we in the future send one of these to sort of crawl down into this terrain and into caves and find out what's underneath there?"
Such a mission likely won't happen any time soon, but NASA is seriously considering a project called Dragonfly that would land a drone on the strange moon. If selected, the mission would launch in 2025 and reach Titan nine years later. And if NASA doesn't choose Dragonfly, chances are good that another mission concept will come along. "Titan's just too cool to not go back to," MacKenzie said.
Both MacKenzie's and Mastrogiuseppe's papers were published today (April 15) in the journal Nature Astronomy.
WETENSCHAPPERS BEVESTIGEN KOMST KOUDE PERIODE ( VIDEO )
Langzaam maar zeker begint het ook in sommige delen van mainstreamland door te dringen dat we een koude periode tegemoet gaan.
Een periode die decennialang kan duren en wordt veroorzaakt door een zon die in de slaapstand gaat.
Een internationale groep wetenschappers kwam onlangs bij elkaar bij National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) voor een workshop, waarbij ze nogal opzienbarende voorspellingen deden voor de komende zonnecyclus 25.
Tussen de zomer van 2019 en de herfst van 2020 zal het aantal zonnevlekken nog verder verminderen, waardoor we aanzienlijk koudere temperaturen zullen meemaken.
De door hen voorlopig gemaakte voorspelling ziet er zo uit en is identiek aan de voorspelling die wij al heel lang hanteren.
Wij hebben tot nu toe de volgende voorspelling gebruikt, waarin je ziet dat zonnecyclus 25 nog zwakker wordt dan de al zwakke cyclus 24 en dat daarna zonnecyclus 26 nog zwakker zal zijn.
Maar, zo te zien zijn we nog aan de optimistische kant geweest en is het nog maar de vraag of de pieken van cyclus 25 zo hoog zullen komen als op de door ons gebruikte voorspelling.
Hoe dan ook, wat we kunnen verwachten tijdens zonnecyclus 25 is dan een periode die te vergelijken is met het Dalton Minimum.
Het Dalton-minimum was een periode van lage zonneactiviteit, genoemd naar de Engelse meteoroloog John Dalton, die duurde van ongeveer 1790 tot 1830. Zoals het Maunder-minimum en het Spörer-minimum, viel het Dalton-minimum samen met een periode van lager dan gemiddelde wereldtemperatuur. Het Oberlach-station in Duitsland, bijvoorbeeld, mat een 2,0°C afname over 20 jaar.
Tijdens de daarop volgende zonnecyclus wordt het dan nog kouder en krijgen we een periode die te vergelijken is met het Maunder Minimum.
Het Maunder Minimum (ongeveer 1645-1715) betrof een periode waarin er decennia lang opmerkelijk weinig zonnevlekken waargenomen werden, een zogeheten Grand Minimum. Het was een tijdvak in de veel langer durende Kleine IJstijd (16e tot 19e eeuw), waarin de temperaturen onder meer in Europa 1 à 2 graden lager waren dan in de 20e eeuw.
Maar, uiteraard wordt er vastgehouden aan de opwarming van de aarde.
Zo was er deze week te lezen:
De zomer wordt warmer en droger dan gemiddeld. Volgens Weeronline is de kans op een ’bovengemiddeld warm verloop’ in de maand juni zelfs zeventig procent.
Heel goed mogelijk dat iets dergelijks gebeurt, maar vooralsnog is daar heel weinig van te merken.
Vooralsnog hebben we te maken met een stroom koude arctische lucht die onze kant op komt waardoor het in mei net zo koud aanvoelt als rond afgelopen kerst.
Volgens Adept2030 is dit al het derde opeenvolgende jaar waarbij we aan het begin van het jaar een korte warme periode hebben, gevolgd door een langdurige koude periode. Hierdoor zijn volgens hem alleen al in Europa de opbrengsten van de vroege landbouwoogsten zo’n 40 procent minder.
Wanneer we inderdaad een aantal opeenvolgende minima perioden krijgen zoals het Dalton of het Maunder Minimum, dan komt de voedselproductie wereldwijd zwaar onder druk te staan en zullen voedselprijzen astronomisch stijgen vanwege de schaarste.
Zoals we eerder schreven, brak de Franse revolutie uit in een periode van mislukte oogsten en gezien de onvoorstelbaar instabiele situatie in de wereld, zouden voedseltekorten wereldwijd weleens voor de nodige chaos en anarchie kunnen zorgen.
Volgens de klimaatreligie zijn wij als mens verantwoordelijk voor de wereldwijde opwarming.
Kijk hoe deze genadeloos toeslaat in de woestijnen van Saoedi Arabië.
Ook in New Foundland, Canada, keken ze vreemd op toen er op 1 mei nog een pak sneeuw viel. Ze zijn daar wel wat sneeuw gewend, maar dit soort sneeuwval zie je daar normaal gesproken in januari en februari.
En ondertussen gaan de klimaatidioten verder met het kapot maken van ons land door het volledig afhankelijk te maken van het elektriciteitsnet.
Het wordt kouder en kouder en toen kwam er een stroomstoring……
Een draagraket van SpaceX heeft een Dragon-capsule naar de ruimte gebracht, met aan boord voorraden en vracht voor het ruimtestation ISS. De Falcon-9-raket keerde daarna veilig terug naar Aarde en landde verticaal op een onbemand schip op open zee, wat straffe beelden oplevert. De Dragon zal naar verwachting overmorgen aankomen.
Life may have traveled to Earth from afar, aboard an interstellar visitor like the weird, cigar-shaped object 'Oumuamua, researchers say.
'Oumuamua, which zoomed through the inner solar system last fall, is the first confirmed interstellar object ever observed in our neck of the woods. But that doesn't mean it was the first ever to get here — far from it, in fact.
"We think that something like an 'Oumuamua ... there's always one within about 1 AU of the sun at any given time," planetary scientist Bill Bottke said last month during a panel discussion at the Breakthrough Discuss conference at the University of California, Berkeley. (One AU, or astronomical unit, is the average Earth-sun distance — about 93 million miles, or 150 million kilometers.)
"And that actually has some really interesting implications," added Bottke, who directs the Department of Space Studies at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
One such implication centers on the role that 'Oumuamua-like objects could play in the transfer of life from world to world around the cosmos, an idea known as panspermia.
'Oumuamua's exact size is unknown, but researchers think it spans less than 2,600 feet (800 meters) in its longest dimension. The object displayed "nongravitational acceleration" as it cruised away from the sun, spurring speculation that 'Oumuamua could be an alien spacecraft of some kind. But the consensus view is that the interloper is icy and its weird movements were caused by comet-like outgassing.
"This tells us that ices can survive over these interstellar distances," astrobiologist Karen Meech, of the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy, said during the Breakthrough Discuss panel.
Previous research on comets and other small bodies within our own solar system suggests that 'Oumuamua-like objects provide good thermal insulation and radiation shielding, she added. That's good news for any microbes that may be hitching a ride.
"You're probably getting significant protection on the inside, and you're not getting any deeper with the radiation field or heating from supernovae below 10, 20 meters [33 to 66 feet] depth in a body," Meech said. "So, the idea that you could bring some living organism in some state — it could be preserved in a cold deep freeze. So, it would be no different than coming from our outer solar system."
Astronomers have not yet identified 'Oumuamua's natal star system, so we don't know long ago the object was ejected into the dark and frigid wastes. But it may have been traveling through interstellar space for 10 million years or more, Meech said.
It's unclear if any putative critters aboard 'Oumuamua could have survived an impact with Earth. The icy object barreled past us at about 134,000 mph (215,000 km/h) relative to our planet, Meech said.
"That's a very high impact velocity," she said. (And it could have been even higher. 'Oumuamua came from above the plane of our solar system; an interstellar body hitting us more head-on could have an impact velocity of around 225,000 mph, or 360,000 km/h, Meech said.)
But 'Oumuamua and its kin are thought to be quite fluffy, so any that impact Earth are likely to "land" relatively gently and break open when they hit our atmosphere, Steinn Sigurdsson, a professor in the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at Penn State University, said during a different talk at the Breakthrough Discuss meeting.
Previous work by Harvard University astronomer Avi Loeb and others, along with Sigurdsson's own calculations, suggests that about 100 'Oumuamua-like objects have slammed into Earth over our planet's nearly 4.6-billion-year history, Sigurdsson said. (This is assuming these bodies are on random trajectories — that they weren't sent on their way by intelligent aliens, an idea known as directed panspermia.)
"Now, if any of them have biota in them? We don't know," he said. "Maybe we should go catch one and drill into it."
Catching 'Oumuamua is not feasible, said Loeb, who chairs Harvard's astronomy department and recently co-authored a paper speculating that 'Oumuamua might be an alien sailcraft. We don't know exactly where the object is now, so any chase probe would have to be equipped with a powerful (and heavy and expensive) telescope, he said. And gaining enough speed to catch up to 'Oumuamua would require slingshotting around the sun at a dangerously close distance.
"It makes much more sense to search for the next interstellar object," Loeb said during the question-and-answer portion of the Breakthrough Discuss panel. (He was in the audience, not on the dais.)
The powerful Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, which is scheduled to start observing the heavens from Chile next year, will probably spot about one interstellar object per month when it's fully up and running, Loeb added.
"So, just wait a few years and have one per month and just go after those with much less cost," he said. "If you detect them on their approach to us, you can actually meet them halfway at relatively low speeds."
It's also possible, of course, that life took a relatively short leap to Earth long ago. The terrestrial planets in our solar system swap rocks fairly regularly, as the ever-growing collection of Mars meteorites here on Earth attests. Indeed, some researchers think life probably started on the Red Planet and made its way to Earth aboard a rock lofted into space by a powerful impact.
All of this being said, panspermia — interstellar or local, directed or natural — is not the canonical explanation for life's emergence on Earth. There's no evidence for it, after all, so most researchers go with Occam's Razor and presume that we're native to our blue marble.
Very specific language usage here by the media, unthinkable just a few years ago. Putting the words “UFO’s” and “invading” in the same sentence assumes we will make the connection that any such aerial visitors would be both non-human and a ‘threat’. This brings another word to mind – ‘fakery’ – as in: they might know what these things are, but wish to raise a high sense of fear about them, for a reason.
The suspicion is easily raised when you consider a few logical assumptions based around these developments, and how what they want us to believe about them is flawed.
Logical assumption:
#1) If these were aliens, wouldn’t they want to contact humans to ensure we do not mistake them as a threat?
2)Keeping in mind humans have to date only achieved putting a man on a moon, not even on our closest neighbour – Mars; if ET’s were a threat, and they have the technology to traverse vast interstellar distances they would also have mastered the technology to wipe out humans in an instant, without us even knowing it happened.
3)Aerial phenomenon (human engineered drones) filmed over Area 51 in the 1990’s making maneuvers which defied current understanding of physics are logically to blame for some if not all of what has been filmed by US Navy jets in recent times and reported in multiple mainstream media outlets.
4) This act of generating of a fake (ET) threat; has been called ‘the ultimate false flag operation’ for decades. Dr Carol Rosin who worked with the father of rocketry himself Werner Von Braun, said that he told her that there was such a plan in the making (over a number of decades) towards a ‘fake alien invasion’.
Just keep that in mind. The secret technology exists to make your jaw drop. Combine this secret tech with holographic technology of today and we are looking a potential for immense fakery and the realization of objectives which will also remain unknown to us. I understand this looks like paranoid conspiracy talk, but I am not one for conspiracies, and none of this is adding up.
5)At a time of serious planetary threat from human over-consumption, overpopulation.. climate change… what on earth could the system have planned to ‘take care’ of us all? The sums just don’t add up, and they don’t appear to be concerned enough. We have a planet based on false economics, because; Capitalism demands infinite growth and it is impossible to have infinite growth on a planet with finite resources. It makes sense that the elite may have something in place to take care of this peacefully. If they have something non-peaceful they would keep it to themselves.
The question is, if they have something to address the multiple crises – ‘why’ are they keeping any such solution to themselves?
6) Why all this, about UFO’s and non-human intelligences now? Why else now?
Extraterrestrials, take note: The U.S. Navy plans to set up an official reporting and investigative system that will monitor reports from its pilots about unidentified flying objects.
But while this "X-Files"-worthy operation sounds newsy, don't expect to hear details about it anytime soon. The Navy doesn't intend to make the data public, citing the privileged and classified information that these reports usually include,according to The Washington Post.
"Military aviation safety organizations always retain reporting of hazards to aviation as privileged information in order to preserve the free and honest prioritization and discussion of safety among aircrew," Joe Gradisher, a spokesman for the Office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Information Warfare, told The Washington Post. [7 Things Most Often Mistaken for UFOs]
In fact, beyond the announcement that the Navy is setting up this UFO-reporting procedure, "no release of information to the general public is expected," Gradisher said.
The upcoming procedure comes in the wake of other government-related UFO news. In late 2017, word came out that the Pentagon had a secret "UFO" office that spent $22 million over five years to study strange and threatening aeronautical events. Although funding for the venture, called the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP), ended in 2012, the program didn't entirely stop, according to those reports.
When news of AATIP became public in 2017, the Defense Department released two declassified videos, which showed pilots talking about a bizarre aircraft that appeared to accelerate quickly, even though it had no recognizable means of propulsion. These aircraft, which looked like blobs on the video, could allegedly drive thousands of feet in an instant.
By creating this new program, the Navy hopes to destigmatize any reporting associated with incidents that involve UFOs, which could, after all, be militarized aircraft from other parts of the world.
"There have been a number of reports of unauthorized and/or unidentified aircraft entering various military-controlled ranges and designated air space in recent years," the Navy told Politico, which broke the story. "For safety and security concerns, the Navy and the [U.S. Air Force] takes these reports very seriously and investigates each and every report."
The public may get a whiff of these incidents eventually, although the details may be scarce. For instance, perhaps unclassified parts, broad overviews or statistics about the number of sightings could be released, Luis Elizondo, an intelligence officer who ran AATIP before leaving the Pentagon, told The Washington Post.
"If it remains strictly within classified channels, then the 'right person' may not actually get the information," Elizondo said. "The right person doesn't necessarily mean a military leader. It can be a lawmaker. It can be a whole host of different individuals."
The government is making a smart move by announcing its intentions to formally document and analyze these UFOs, said Seth Shostak, a senior astronomer at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute in Mountain View, California.
"It will make everybody happy because it sounds like a move toward transparency," Shostak told Live Science.
With this announcement, the Navy benefits not only because it will formally investigate these strange sightings, which may well be reconnaissance or enemy aircraft from other nations; the Navy is also winning a nod from the roughly two-thirds of Americans who think that the government isn't divulging everything it knows about extraterrestrials and UFOs, said Shostak, citing a 2002 study on attitudes about aliens.
That said, the government probably isn't formalizing this program because it's looking for E.T.
"The military is interested in this stuff not because they think that Klingons are sailing in the skies, but i think because maybe they think the Chinese or the Russians are sailing through the skies," Shostak said.
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