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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Zondag 30 mei 2021
NASA's Mars helicopter safe after navigation glitch leads it on a 'stressful' joyride
NASA's Mars helicopter safe after navigation glitch leads it on a 'stressful' joyride
Engineers say they "did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight."
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter, thefirst powered and controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet, survived a "stressful" navigation glitch that sent it oscillating off-course during a cosmic flight on Mars.
The chopper, which arrived on the red planet strapped to the Perseverance Rover in February, took to the air for its sixth test flight last Saturday when an anomaly occurred that led it on an unexpected flight path, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) said on Thursday.
Ingenuity landed safely but unexpectedly started "adjusting its velocity and tilting back and forth in an oscillating pattern" mid-flight, Havard Grip, the chief pilot for Ingenuity at JPL, said in a statement. The helicopter was at an altitude of some 33 feet when the odd behavior began, which persisted throughout the rest of the flight.
NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
This May 22, 2021 photo made available by NASA shows the surface of Mars from a height of 33 feet captured by the Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight.
Grip said they have since identified what caused the anomaly: A "glitch" about a minute into the flight in the delivery of images by Ingenuity's navigation camera.
"This glitch caused a single image to be lost, but more importantly, it resulted in all later navigation images being delivered with inaccurate timestamps," Grip said. "From this point on, each time the navigation algorithm performed a correction based on a navigation image, it was operating on the basis of incorrect information about when the image was taken."
He estimates that the inconsistencies led the helicopter to a state of "being constantly 'corrected' to account for phantom errors," adding that "large oscillations ensued."
Despite the glitch, the helicopter was able to land safely within about 16 feet of its intended landing spot. Grip credited the landing to Ingenuity's multiple subsystems that ensure stability for kicking in when needed.
NASA/JPL-Caltech via AP
This May 22, 2021 photo made available by NASA shows the surface of Mars from a height of 33 feet captured by the Ingenuity Mars helicopter during its sixth flight.
"In a very real sense, Ingenuity muscled through the situation, and while the flight uncovered a timing vulnerability that will now have to be addressed, it also confirmed the robustness of the system in multiple ways," Grip said.
"While we did not intentionally plan such a stressful flight, NASA now has flight data probing the outer reaches of the helicopter’s performance envelope," Grip added. "That data will be carefully analyzed in the time ahead, expanding our reservoir of knowledge about flying helicopters on Mars."
Ingenuity made history last month when it became the first powered, controlled aircraft to take flight on another planet. The cosmic helicopter pays homage to the Wright brothers' first flight on Earth, carrying with it a small amount of material that covered one of the wings on the brothers' history-making aircraft, according to NASA.
Talking about aliens and UFOs used to get lawmakers into trouble. But now, Washington wants to believe.
In 2017, we (along with the NY Times) broke the news that the Pentagon secretly budgeted $22 million to study UFOs in 2009 – funded by the request of then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
Obviously, one of the biggest challenges here is separating fact from fiction, fantasy and wild theories. But more and more, public officials and private entities are starting to embrace a subject that once would have been fatal to their credibility.
Here’s your guide to understanding what’s going on – and what the U.S. government is doing next.
The US government is actually gearing up to share information about the “reality” of UFOs with the public — and not a moment too soon, says the man who claims to have run the Pentagon’s UFO program for 9 years.
Former President Donald Trump’s $2.3 trillion appropriation bill for 2021 contained a mandate that the Pentagon and spy agencies must file a report about “unidentified aerial phenomena” or UAP. Most of us just call them flying saucers or UFOs.
Whatever the jargon, noted whistleblower Luis Elizondo — former head of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program, which operated out of the secretive fifth floor of the Pentagon’s C Ring — told The Post about the resulting blockbuster document, which is reportedly slated for release in June.
Tied to the mandate, Elizondo said the upcoming report touches down on the unexplainable. Longtime UFO believers are hungry for explanations of the tic-tac-shaped objects the Navy encountered in 2004, the strange “cubes within spheres” seen by Navy pilots in 2014, or the mysterious black triangles continually reported around the world.
Such details promise to come via the much anticipated report — and at least one evolution of belief: “I think the government has acknowledged the reality of UAP,” Elizondo exclusively told The Post, despite signing what he refers to as a “lifelong” NDA before he resigned from the Pentagon in 2017. “I think they all want answers and I think they are all willing to ask the hard questions.”
‘This is not a conversation like fine wine where the longer we keep a cork on it, the better it gets.’
During a press conference this week, Elizondo made clear that UFOs have been observed to have qualities that are nothing less than otherworldly. He described vessels flying at 11,000 miles-per-hour and being able to turn “instantly.”
Providing a comparison, he explained, for our most advanced jets going at the same speed, “if you wanted to make a right-hand turn, it would take you about half the state of Ohio to do it.”
He also detailed Spielberg-worthy operational capabilities that fall into the realm of “transmedium travel.” Elizondo explained that the eye-popping vessels can fly 50-feet above the Earth’s surface or 80,000 feet in the sky and even submerge underwater without a compromise in performance: “When you see that, you recognize you are dealing with a technology more advanced than ours.”
Even the way in which these inexplicable flying-machines manage to lift-off blows away rational engineering. “[These] things have no wings, no cockpits, no control surfaces, no rivets in the skin, no obvious signs of propulsion — and somehow they are able to defy the natural effects of Earth’s gravity,” Elizondo said. “How is that possible?”
Not only that, but Sara Carter reports that the pentagon has been testing alien material from crashes for decades (and we still don’t know what it is):
In another stunning admission the Pentagon has revealed that it has obtained and tested wreckage from Unidentified Flying Objects that have crashed on earth, according to numerous pages declassified in a Freedom of Information letter shared with The Sun media outlet.
According to a report in The Sun, Anthony Bragalia’s FOIA request to the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which requested details of all UFO material was approved for public release. Bragalia shared the information with The Sun, which published the documents. The documents stipulate that the United States DOD has conducted tests on material that had been collected from wreckage that allegedly was not from Earth.
The discovery of advanced life outside of our planet would be the one of the biggest revelations for mankind and would literally change the way we view ourselves and our universe.
I recently interviewed Luis ‘Lue’ Elizondo, a friend and the former director of the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (ATTIP), the secretive Pentagon unit that studied UFOs. Elizondo discussed recent unexplained encounters between the U.S. military and the UFO’s on the The Sara Carter Show. He noted that the Defense Department has been conducting research into the mysteries of what is now more commonly described as Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon, or UAPs. He also discussed the interest of other nations, including the recent admissions of senior Russian military officials who say Moscow is studying the same phenomenon and that there is concern that these crafts are interested in our Earth’s nuclear capabilities.
Extraterrestrial civilizations: “Several have existed in the galaxy” (Video)
A new study reveals that a large number of extraterrestrial civilizations have populated our galaxy for millions of years.
NASA experts assure that the Milky Way may be populated by other civilizations.
It’s strange that NASA reports things related to aliens . However, his new study has yielded an almost definitive conclusion: civilizations existed in our galaxy for billions of years.
The study was conducted by scientists at the California Institute of Technology and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Alien civilizations in the galaxy
According to the results of the study, this event occurred around 8 billion years in the past. After the Milky Way formed.
This means that our galaxy has hosted different extraterrestrial civilizations old that were destroyed or destroyed themselves .
Research published on arxiv.org reveals that the best time for intelligent life to appear in our Milky Way had to be at least 8,000 years after its formation. Experts believe that such a phenomenon occurred about 13 thousand light years from the center of the galaxy .
To reach this conclusion, Xiang Cai, Jonathan H. Jiang, Kristen A. Fahy, and Yuk L. Yung used different statistical models, showing them the best time for intelligent life to be born.
This according to different parameters, which include well-established astrophysical properties of the Milky Way and other factors, which are not commonly taken into account, such as the process of abiogenesis .
Abiogenesis is the creation of life from inanimate substances . This process is considered the most probable path towards the birth of life .
There are 3 parameters to take into account to contemplate life within our Galaxy.
Three main parameters of civilizations
Thanks to mathematical models, where it is assumed that life is possible in stars similar to the Sun, with planets similar to Earth , life could appear through the Poisson Process or abiogenesis.
The different evolutionary time scales and the self – annihilation of the species were also taken into account .
The study revealed that self-annihilation is the main factor in determining the amount of time an alien civilization can exist in our galaxy.
In addition, results were obtained, on a location for intelligent extraterrestrial life in an annular region, approximately 8 billion light years away , with complex life; decreasing temporally and spatially from the peak point. Thus, a high probability of intelligent life is confirmed in the inner disk of the Milky Way.
Obviously, the simulated age distributions also suggest that most intelligent life is young . It is for that reason that it is so difficult to observe or detect it.
Is it possible to assure that we are not the only intelligent civilization that has existed in the Milky Way? This study brings us closer to the truth of our origins and the possibility that other civilizations exist alongside us.
There have been several prehistoric species that have been found recently, so let’s take a look at four of them.
The remains of a 95-million-year-old dinosaur found in Eromanga, Queensland, are believed to be from an entirely new species. Robyn Mackenzie, who is a Director and Palaeontologist for the Eromanga Natural History Museum, told 9News.com.au that “…it’s most probably going to be the nation’s youngest dinosaur.” She went on to say that this presumably new species was a type of plant-eating dinosaur called a sauropod.
So far, the researchers found vertebrae bones but are hoping to find more as they continue to dig around the site. A picture of the bone can be seen here.
Robyn Mackenzie, Director and palaeontologist for the Eromanga Natural History Museum, holds up a dinosaur bone.
(Dan Llewellyn/Eromanga Natural History Museum)
The sauropod dinosaurs of the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods were herbivorous and the largest terrestrial animals to roam the earth. (Supplied)
Dinosaur bone was seen sitting on top of the ground.
(Eromanga Natural History Museum)
Another Eromanga dig site pictured in May, 2019.
(Eromanga Natural History Museum)
(Not the sauropod found in Queensland)
Moving over to an Egyptian desert now, the remains of numerous fish that lived 56 million years ago were able to survive in hot water. The ancient fish lived in waters that reached temperatures of around 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius). The fossils belonged to over 12 groups of bony fish that included percomorph acanthomorphs (this group includes bass, bluegills, and walleye), moonfish from the Mene genus, bonytongues, and hatchetfish.
Over 60 bones belonged to the Mene – a genus that is still around today and lives in certain areas of the Pacific and Indian oceans. To put this into better perspective, the seasonal average water temperature of the Pacific Ocean is anywhere between 43 and 87 degrees Fahrenheit (6 to 31 degrees Celsius) and the Indian Ocean’s seasonal average temperature is between 68.7 and 86.4 degrees Fahrenheit (20.4 to 30.2 degrees Celsius).
The moonfish Mene (pictured) was the most common fossil found at the site, with more than 60 specimens discovered
A modern day Mene, which lives in the Pacific and Indian oceans in tropic and subtropic regions
A percomorph, a member of the same group that includes familiar Michigan species such as walleye and perch, from Ras Gharib A
Paleontologists from Mansoura University Vertebrate Paleontology Center (pictured) helped excavate the area
The fossils were found in dark-gray shale in a site in the Eastern Desert known as Ras Gharib A, roughly 200 miles southeast of Cairo
Now onto a much colder area, the first ever fossil of an amphibian was unearthed in Antarctica. Named Micropholis stowi, this salamander-sized amphibian lived during the Early Triassic Period (around 250 million years ago).
The Micropholis stowi was about the size of a salamander.
The majority of Micropholis stowi fossils have been found in South Africa so the one found in Antarctica is pretty significant in regards to learning how they were able to adapt to high-latitude environments. When this species was alive, Earth had a large landmass called Pangea which brought Antarctica and South Africa much closer together than they are today. Furthermore, it’s possible that they had similar temperatures which would make sense for the amphibian to travel from one place to the other and that it was probably great at adapting to many different types of habitats. A picture of the Micropholis stowi remains can be seen here.
And finally, a rare fossil belonging to an extinct marine reptile was found in the Havarim Stream in Israel’s southern Negev Desert and dates back approximately 70 million years. Researchers uncovered 16 vertebrae, a jawbone, and additional bones beneath a rock in the stream. It is believed that the remains were from a type of Mosasaurus that once inhabited the Tethys Ocean which is no longer present. They became extinct along with the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago.
Het kleurige spektakel is een montage van 370 waarnemingen die in de afgelopen twee decennia zijn gemaakt door het Chandra X-ray Observatory, dat in een baan om de aarde draait. Te zien zijn miljarden sterren en talloze zwarte gaten in het hart van de Melkweg.
Astronoom Daniel Wang van de Universiteit van Massachusetts Amherst meldt op de website van NASA dat hij een jaar lang aan het fantastische panorama heeft gewerkt terwijl hij thuis zat vanwege de coronapandemie.
“Wat we op de foto zien, is een energetisch ecosysteem in het centrum van onze melkweg”, legt Wang uit in een e-mail. “Er zijn daar veel supernovaresten, zwarte gaten en neutronensterren. Elke röntgenstip of kenmerk vertegenwoordigt een energetische bron, waarvan de meeste zich in het midden bevinden.” Het werk van Wang verschijnt in het juninummer van de Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Astronomische waarnemingen
Het Chandra X-ray Observatory werd gelanceerd in 1999 en bevindt zich in een extreme ovale baan rond de aarde. De satelliet doet astronomische waarnemingen die op aarde niet mogelijk zijn omdat röntgenstraling niet door de aardatmosfeer kan dringen. Er worden waarnemingen gedaan van zeer energierijke processen in het heelal zoals neutronensterren, zwarte gaten en overblijfsels van supernova’s.
Alex Jones & Steven Greer: Are Extraterrestrials Fallen Angels?
The work that medical doctor, researcher and author Steven Greer continues to do through the organization CSETI has made some tremendous breakthroughs in establishing contact with an intelligent phenomena, often perceived as UFOs, Light Phenomena and strange looking entities.
Steven demonstrates that there is a conscious connection being established with this phenomena and on many occasions they are being caught on camera.
These Crazy UFO Events Have the World on Edge! 2021
These Crazy UFO Events Have the World On EDGE! BUCKLE-UP 2021
Incredible capture of the craft it’s not a drone love how the guy whistles X-Files South America once again with UFO footage that’s hard 2 debunk keep your eyes in the skies we are not alone great video guys.
At 7:58 Sylvester Stallone sees a UFO ! IT SOUNDS JUST LIKE HIM LOL ! I was expecting him to say ” yo Adrian wake up !!
UFOs Sighted Over Newport, Rhode Island( March 30, 2021 )
STATEMENT :This is my first major event. I had a couple of weird things happen in this area a few times prior, but I never had my phone ready, & I definitely didn't have anything happen like what I witnessed this day There's a lot going on here much of which I didn't even notice until I went back & watched. There were many more crafts than I realized
credit : Shawn Carter :
Submitted : May 29, 2021
UFO Sighted Over Campo Grande, Brazil( May 27, 2021 )
STATEMENT :OVNI na SuperLua em Campo Grande 2021 : OVNI na SUPERLUA 2021 ! : UFO in the SuperLua in Campo Grande 2021 : UFO in SUPERLON 2021!
UFOs Sighted Over Outer Banks, North Carolina ( May 17, 2021 )
STATEMENT :Just after sunset on May 17, 2021 a very large bright white orb of light appeared in the southern sky We were walking away from viewing the sunset on the beach when someone in our party had a strange sensation that caused her to turn back towards the water where she spotted these lights in the sky.
USO Sighted In Miami-Dade, Florida ( May 28, 2021 )
USO : Unidentified submerged object :Miami-Dade County, Florida : May 28, 2021 :This Unidentified Submerged Object : USO : is an Unidentified Object Submerged in water. The term does not necessarily refer to an object of Paranormal origin.
credit : ONLY in DADE
Cylinder Shaped UFO Recorded From Passing Passenger Plane!
Comparison Of two cylinder shaped UFO that were recorded from passing passenger plane!
Dark UFO Over Maderia beach, Florida On May 23, 2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: May 23, 2021
Location of sighting: Maderia Beach, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON report
This short clip was just sent in today. The clip is 1 min and 12 seconds and shows a craft tilting slightly and seems to be a UFO in a thick almost pentagon shaped craft. The object was seen during sunset and flew over the ocean and suddenly disappeared from sight. Its highly likely the UFO took a nose dive into the ocean so that it could better hide from the camera recording it. UFOs can travel under water as easily as they travel in space.
Scott C. Waring - Taiwan
Eyewitness states:
Object flew west to east and disappeared about 500 feet above ocean. Object suddenly appeared flew by for a couple minutes and then disappeared.
7 UFOs Over Palm Beach, Florida, Google Earth Map, UFO Sighting News.
Date of event: December 2002 Location of sighting: Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Now I promised last year that when I get to 50k subscribers on Youtube than I would release something special to me. Something I have been holding back for 19 years. I discovered these seven UFOs many years ago, but decided to archive screenshots, locations and videos of them in case they were deleted. It was 3 years before the invention of Youtube. A few months later the UFOs disappeared from google map. Little did I realize then that in the future Google would place a time button on the map, allowing us to go back and find these objects again. So...here I am...making good with my promise to the public. A man is only as good as his word.
I have said many times over the years that Florida has an alien base that runs from the ocean to under parts of Florida itself. This video of these 7 UFOs are 100% proof of that. I mean two of the UFOs are actually materializing through the ground and have shadows on the from the trees nearby. The UFOs are each 60 meters across and all the same shape, but a few are tilted. All have a myst fuzziness around them, due to the propulsion systems. Most UFO reports from eyewitnesses state that they see a myst or fuzziness around the UFOs. This concurs with those reports.
Wist je dat een dag op aarde steeds langer duurt? En dat maan Charon van Pluto een mega-Grand Canyon heeft van 1600 kilometer lang? 19 fascinerende weetjes over ons eigen zonnestelsel.
#1 Een dag op Venus duurt langer dan een jaar op Venus Onlangs is bekend geworden dat een dag op Venus 243 aardse dagen lang is. Een jaar op Venus duurt 224,6 aardse dagen. Daarnaast varieert de rotatiesnelheid van Venus. De afwijking bedraagt ongeveer twintig minuten. Mogelijk is de variërende rotatiesnelheid te wijten aan de dikke atmosfeer. Terwijl de atmosfeer rond de planeet ‘klotst’, gaat deze een wisselwerking aan met de vaste grond, waardoor de planeet wisselend sneller en langzamer ronddraait. Dit gebeurt trouwens ook op aarde, maar dit leidt slechts tot een variatie van een luttele milliseconde per dag. Het effect is dus vele malen groter op Venus. En dat is ook niet zo gek, aangezien de luchtdruk op Venus negentig keer hoger is dan op aarde.
#2Haaien zijn ouder dan de ringen van Saturnus Haaien zwemmen zo’n 400 miljoen jaar in de oceanen op aarde, terwijl de ringen van Saturnus slechts vijftien tot 150 miljoen jaar oud zijn. De ringen rondom Saturnus zijn waarschijnlijk ontstaan toen een grote maan vernietigd is. Daarom bestaan de ringen van Saturnus uit ontelbaar veel kleine gas- en stofdeeltjes. De ringen zijn overigens ook niet zo ‘zwaar’ als we denken. Alle gas- en stofdeeltjes bij elkaar vormen veertig procent van de massa van het kleine maantje Mimas van Saturnus. Deze maan heeft een diameter van 397 kilometer.
#3 Het grootste schaalmodel van ons zonnestelsel vind je in Zweden Het zonnestelsel is veel leger dan je denkt. Bezoek de Pixelspace van Josh Worth maar eens. In dit digitale schaalmodel is de maan van de aarde precies één pixel groot. Vervolgens kun je horizontaal scrollen om te zien hoe groot de afstanden zijn tussen de verschillende planeten. Of reis naar Zweden, waar je ‘s werelds grootste schaalmodel van het zonnestelsel kunt zien. De schaal is 1 op 20 miljoen. De zon is het grootste object en dat is de Avicii Arena in Stockholm: met een diameter van 110 meter het grootste bolvormige gebouw ter wereld.
De Globe (Avicii Arena) is de zon in het Zweedse schaalmodel van het zonnestelsel.
Neptunus (diameter 2,5 meter) is te vinden bij de rivier Söderhamnsån in Söderhamn op een afstand van 229 kilometer van de Globe.
De dwergplaneet Sedna is 912 km verwijderd van de Globe (de zon) en is te vinden in het stadje Luleå.
#4 Alle planeten passen precies tussen de aarde en de maan Wist je dat alle planeten in ons zonnestelsel precies tussen de aarde en de maan passen? De gemiddelde afstand van de aarde naar de maan is ongeveer 385.000 kilometer. Jupiter heeft een diameter van 139.820 kilometer, Saturnus 120.000 kilometer, Uranus 50.700 kilometer, Neptunus 49.200 kilometer, Venus 12.104 kilometer, Mars 6.779 kilometer en tenslotte Mercurius 4.880 kilometer. Bij elkaar is dat iets meer dan 383.000 kilometer. Je houdt dus nog een klein beetje ruimte over, maar het past net. Benieuwd hoe dat eruit zou zien vanaf het aardoppervlak? Nogal indrukwekkend! Bekijk de video hieronder maar eens.
#5 Venus en Uranus draaien als enige planeten met de klok mee Venus en Uranus draaien met de klok mee om hun as, in plaats van tegen de klok in, zoals alle andere planeten. Stel, je zou op Venus naar een zonsopgang kijken – wat overigens onmogelijk is door het dikke wolkendek – dan gaat de zon in het westen op. Wetenschappers denken dat Venus en Uranus tijdens het ontstaan van het zonnestelsel door een groot object of meerdere kleine objecten zijn geraakt, waardoor de planeten de andere kant op zijn gaan draaien. Dit zou verklaren waarom de manen rondom Uranus wel gewoon tegen de klok in draaien. Een andere verklaring is dat Venus ooit tegen de klok draaide, toen later bijna tot stilstand kwam en daarna de andere kant op draaide. Daarom draait Venus vandaag de dag nog steeds heel langzaam om haar as en duurt een dag op Venus 225 aardse dagen. Als deze theorie klopt, dan komt dit waarschijnlijk doordat de zon aan de dichte atmosfeer aan de warme (dagkant) van Venus trekt en zo atmosferische getijden creëert die de rotatierichting en -snelheid beïnvloeden.
#6 Op Titan zijn er meren van methaan en ethaan De maan Titan van Saturnus heeft meren, rivieren en zelfs regenbuien. Daarmee heeft deze maan wel iets weg van de aarde… toch? Niet helemaal. In plaats van water regent het vloeibaar methaan en ethaan op Titan. Omdat de temperatuur op Titan laag is – de maan bevindt zich op flinke afstand van de zon – kan methaan en ethaan in principe in vloeibare vorm op het oppervlak van de maan voorkomen.
De meren op Titan, gefotografeerd door de Cassini-ruimtesonde.
#7 Een dag op aarde duurt steeds langer De aarde draait steeds langzamer om haar as. Toen de aarde nog geen maan had, waren de dagen op onze planeet slechts twee tot drie uur lang. 600 miljoen jaar geleden duurde een dag op aarde 21 uur, honderd miljoen jaar geleden ongeveer 23 uur en inmiddels dus 24 uur. Dit komt doordat de zwaartekracht van de maan de aarde afremt. De maan en de aarde trekken aan elkaar. En omdat de aarde sneller om de as draait (in 24 uur) dan de maan om de aarde draait (27,3 dagen) schiet dat getrek vanuit het oogpunt van de aarde gezien niet erg op. Vergelijk het met een hardloper die een flinke schildpad met zich mee probeert te trekken. De schildpad kan niet zo hard en zal de hardloper ophouden. Zo houdt ook de maan de aarde op en zorgt ervoor dat onze planeet langzamer gaat draaien. Dat gaat heel geleidelijk. Zo geleidelijk dat we daar in de praktijk niets van zullen merken. Over zo’n honderd jaar is een dag op aarde ongeveer twee milliseconden langer dan nu het geval is. Het afremmen stopt wanneer de lengte van één dag op aarde gelijk is aan één maand op de maan.
#8 Grootste maan is groter dan kleinste planeet De grootste maan in ons zonnestelsel is Ganymedes (Jupiter). Wist je dat Ganymedes groter is dan de kleinste planeet Mercurius? Ganymedes heeft een diameter van 5.262 kilometer. Mercurius is iets kleiner met een diameter van 4.880 kilometer.
Mercurius is kleiner dan de twee grootse manen (Ganymedes en Titan), maar groter dan onze eigen maan.
#9 De zon is 4,6 triljoen keer zwaarder dan alle mensen bij elkaar De zon bevat 99,86% van de massa van het volledige zonnestelsel. De buitenste waterstoflagen van de zon zijn goed voor 70 procent van de totale massa van het zonnestelsel, gevolgd door helium (28 procent). Onze planeet bevat 0,0003% van de massa van het volledige zonnestelsel. De 7,7 miljard mensen op aarde vormen slechts 0,00000000005% van de totale massa van onze planeet. De Britse wetenschapper Peter Makin beweert dat de aarde 14.000 miljard keer zwaarder is dan alle mensen bij elkaar. De zon is 332.946 keer zwaarder dan de aarde, dus de zon is ruwweg 4,6 triljoen (4.661.244.000.000.000.000) keer zwaarder dan alle mensen bij elkaar.
#10 Als de zon stopt met schijnen, merken wij daar (even) niets van Het duurt ongeveer een seconde voordat het licht van de maan je netvlies raakt. Licht reist namelijk met een snelheid van 300.000 kilometer per seconde. De afstand van de zon naar de aarde is acht lichtminuten. Stel, de zon zou nu stoppen met schijnen, dan zouden wij dat pas acht minuten later merken.
#11 Grand Canyon is een lachertje in vergelijking met deze kloof op Charon Grand Canyon? Dat is niets vergeleken met de kloof op de maan Charon van Pluto. Het complete klovensysteem op Charon is meer dan 1600 kilometer(!) lang en op sommige plekken twee keer zo diep als de Grand Canyon op aarde. Dit litteken is duidelijk te zien vanuit de ruimte. Ruimtesonde New Horizons heeft een prachtige foto gemaakt van Charon waarop het enorme klovensysteem van de maan goed zichtbaar is.
Het klovensysteem op de maan Charon van Pluto.
#12 De ringen van Saturnus hebben herders Saturnus heeft herdermanen. De bekendste herdermanen zijn Pan, Daphnis, Prometheus en Pandora. Deze herders houden met hun zwaartekracht de stofdeeltjes in de ringen van Saturnus bij elkaar. Daarnaast zorgen zij voor de scheidingen van de ringen. Ze maken namelijk hun eigen baan stofvrij.
Het maantje Daphnis is te vinden in de Keeler Gap in de A-ring. De zwaartekracht van Daphnis veroorzaakt lichte rimpelingen in de ringen.
Een beter beeld van de rimpelingen die Daphnis veroorzaakt.
#13 Er draait een vliegende schotel om Saturnus Gekkigheid natuurlijk, maar de herdermaan Pan heeft wel iets weg van een vliegende schotel. Deze maan heeft deze bijzondere vorm gekregen door botsingen met andere objecten.
#14 De ringen van Saturnus verdwijnen over honderd miljoen jaar De ringen van Saturnus zullen de komende miljoenen jaren langzaam verdwijnen. De zwaartekracht van Saturnus trekt aan de gas- en stofdeeltjes. Ieder half uur verdwijnt er een olympisch zwembad gevuld met gas- en stofdeeltjes. Dit betekent dat de ringen nog ongeveer honderd miljoen jaar te zien zijn. “We hebben geluk dat we Saturnus met ringen zien, want de ringen zijn maar tijdelijk zichtbaar”, zegt wetenschapper James O’Donoghue van NASA. Daar heeft hij een punt, want Saturnus is al ruim vier miljard jaar oud en heeft dus 98% van haar leven geen ringen gehad.
#15 De aarde heeft meer dan één maan Onze aarde heeft op elk moment minimaal twee manen. Asteroïden komen regelmatig in de buurt van de aarde. En soms komen ze zo dichtbij dat de zwaartekracht van de aarde ze vasthoudt. Ze gaan daarop als een natuurlijke satelliet (of maan) in een baan rondom de aarde draaien. Zo cirkelt het piepkleine maantje 2020 CD3 al vanaf 2017 om de aarde. Gelukkig is de kans dat deze tijdelijke manen inslaan redelijk klein. Slechts 0,1 procent van alle meteorieten die op aarde zijn ingeslagen bevonden zich tijdelijk in een baan rondom de aarde.
#16 Stukjes Mars zijn op aarde gevallen Wist je dat er stukjes Mars op aarde zijn gevallen? Dankzij deze Marsmeteorieten kunnen wetenschappers veel leren over de rode planeet. Maar hoe komen die stukjes Mars eigenlijk hier terecht? Door meteorietinslagen op Mars! Als een grote meteoriet inslaat op Mars, dan worden er brokstukken de ruimte in geslingerd. Deze brokstukken vallen niet altijd terug op de planeet, maar reizen door het zonnestelsel en komen soms in botsing met andere planeten, zoals de aarde. Ieder decennium vallen er honderden maan- en Marsmeteorieten op aarde. De bekendste Marsmeteoriet is ALH84001. Deze meteoriet is in 1984 gevonden op Antarctica. De meteoriet werd wereldberoemd, omdat NASA dacht dat deze meteoriet het bewijs zou zijn voor leven buiten de aarde. Dit bleek later niet te kloppen.
#18 Farfarout is het meest afgelegen bekende object in het zonnestelsel Het Kuipergordelobject Farfarout is 400 kilometer groot en doet duizend jaar over een rondje om de zon. De gemiddelde afstand van Farfarout tot de zon is zo’n 132 AU, oftewel 132 keer de afstand van de aarde naar de zon. Dat komt neer op twintig miljard kilometer. Hiermee is het hemellichaam dus zo’n vier keer verder van de zon verwijderd dan Pluto. Daarnaast volgt Farfarout een zeer langgerekte baan. Op het verste punt is het object grofweg 175 AU van de zon verwijderd, op het dichtstbijzijnde punt bedraagt die afstand ‘slechts’ 27 AU. En dat is interessant, want het betekent dat Farfarout soms dichter bij de zon in de buurt komt dan planeet Neptunus.
De afstanden van de bekende hemellichamen in ons zonnestelsel tot de zon. Zoals je ziet staat Farfarout op een immense afstand van onze moederster.
Afbeelding: NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva
#19 Het zonnestelsel racet om het centrum van de Melkweg De planeten draaien om de zon, maar wist je dat ons zonnestelsel om het centrum van de Melkweg draait met een snelheid van 200 kilometer per seconde? We racen door de Melkweg, waarbij één rondje ongeveer 225 miljoen jaar duurt. Sommige sterren om ons heen reizen sneller of langzamer en dit betekent dat de sterrenhemel continu verandert. Ieder sterrenbeeld ziet er over miljoenen jaren weer anders uit.
Aangezien we niet iedere 225 miljoen jaar een feestje kunnen geven, besloot softwareontwikkelaar David Sneider Galactic Tick Day in het leven te roepen. Op Galactic Tick Day vieren we niet het feit dat we een volledig rondje om de Melkweg afleggen, maar dat we één centi-arcseconde verder zijn. Iedere 633,7 dagen – of 1,7361 jaar – schuift de aarde één centi-arcseconde op. Eén centi-arcseconde is één 129.600.000ste deel van een volledige reis om het centrum van de Melkweg, oftewel 0,0000077 procent. De eerste Galactic Tick Day was op 2 oktober 1608, toen de Nederlandse brillenmaker Hans Lippershey het patent van de eerste telescoop aanvroeg. Op 15 december 2021 vieren we de 238ste Galactic Tick Day.
The US Army has high-powered night vision goggles that provide war fighters with the ability to pick out enemies in the dead of night, regardless of weather conditions.
The military group’s Lancer Brigade shared footage of the new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars in action, which shows glowing figures that some liken to those in the popular ‘Halo’ video game.
The system includes a new, high-resolution display and an embedded soldier wireless personal area network, rapid target acquisition and augmented reality algorithms to interface with the Army’s Nett Warrior.
Using the goggles, soldiers can keep their eyes on their target without looking down to read maps or check radios, as all information is shown on the display.
More than 4,800 of the combat-ready devices are now in the hands of the US Army.
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The military group’s Lancer Brigade shared footage of the new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars in action, which shows glowing figures that some liken to those in the popular ‘Halo’ video game
The footage shows glowing figures that some liken to those in the popular ‘Halo’ video game (pictured)
The US Army has high-powered night vision goggles that provide war fighters with the ability to pick out enemies in the dead of night, regardless of weather conditions
The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binoculars (ENVG-B) was developed by L3Harris Technologies, a global aerospace and defense technology innovator, specifically to be used on the battlefield.
Lynn Bollengier, President, Integrated Vision Solutions, L3Harris, said: ‘The ENVG-B is the most advanced night vision goggle ever developed for and fielded by the US Army, enabling a soldier to see and maneuver in zero and low-light situations.
‘We have delivered more than 4,500 combat-ready systems to the US Army, which meet today’s urgent operational needs of our close combat forces.’
In the tweet shared by Lancer Brigade it says: ‘You have never seen night vision like this.’
The clip posted shows the body of soldiers outlined in a glowing light as they move through the forest, fire guns and rest during missions.
However, one Twitter user commented with ‘I have, actually’ to the statement and included an image from the popular video game Halo.
The video game is a military science fiction franchise that is focused around soldiers going to war with aliens.
And the images seen through the ENVG-B looks similar to those with Halo 3’s Visual Intelligence System, Reconnaissance (VISR).
The clip posted shows the body of soldiers outlined in a glowing light as they move through the forest, fire guns and rest during missions
In the tweet shared by Lancer Brigade it says: ‘You have never seen night vision like this.' One Twitter user commented with ‘I have, actually’ to the statement and included an image from the popular video game Halo
It weighs just 2.5 pounds and attaches to the front of a helmet, allowing users to easily switch between monocular and binocular visioning
VISR provides navigational data and highlights various points of interest in the operational area, along with outlining figures in glowing light.
However, ENVG-B is the real deal that provides soldiers with actionable intelligence through the fusion of Image Intensified (I2) white phosphor tubes and thermal imaging.
The advanced goggles also provide targeting and identification in all battlefield conditions as well as light levels including degraded visual environments such as smoke, fog and debris.
It weighs just 2.5 pounds and attaches to the front of a helmet, allowing users to easily switch between monocular and binocular visioning.
It’s hard to imagine the military without night vision technology to help armed forces see during low-light conditions. The first-night vision device was created in the 1930s by AEG, a German electrical equipment manufacturer. These night vision devices were used in Germany during World War II.
But the night vision technology in present form will soon be the thing of the past
Last week, the U.S. Army released video footage taken from its new Enhanced Night Vision Goggle – Binocular (ENVG-B) …and it’s thrilling!
With these night-vision goggles, The U.S. Army’s troops won’t have any issues seeing in the dark or through the thick mist.
The Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) goggles are the latest in a long line of futuristic war tech being developed by the world’s most powerful army.
The army’s ENVG-B’s are straight out of science-fiction
These Enhanced Night Vision Goggle-Binocular (ENVG-B) goggle vastly improves a soldier’s ability to not only see what is going on all around them in dark but also be able to accurately discern what they’re seeing.
ENVG-B gives clear neon white outlines of people and artillery, all displayed right in front of the soldier’s eyes to easily see-through in fog, dust, and smoke-filled battlefields.
SpaceX’s 22nd Commercial Resupply Mission to Space Station Launches Water Bears, Squid, Solar Panels
The 22nd SpaceXcargo resupply mission carrying scientific research and technology demonstrations launches to the International Space Station from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than June 3. Experiments aboard include studying how water bears tolerate space, whether microgravity affects symbiotic relationships, analyzing the formation of kidney stones, and more.
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Reporters who want to hear more from the researchers behind these studies, sign up now for the SpaceX CRS-22 science media telecon on May 26, 2021.
Highlights of the payloads on this resupply mission include:
Water bears take on space
Tardigrades, known as water bears due to their appearance under a microscope and common habitat in water, are tiny creatures that tolerate environments more extreme than most life forms can. That makes them a model organism for studying biological survival under extreme conditions on Earth and in space. In addition, researchers have sequenced the genome of the tardigrade Hypsibius exemplaris and developed methods for measuring how different environmental conditions affect tardigrade gene expression. Cell Science-04 characterizes the molecular biology of short-term and multigenerational survival of water bears, identifying the genes involved in adaptation and survival in high stress environments.
The results could advance understanding of the stress factors affecting humans in space and support development of countermeasures. “Spaceflight can be a really challenging environment for organisms, including humans, who have evolved to the conditions on Earth,” says principal investigator Thomas Boothby. “One of the things we are really keen to do is understand how tardigrades are surviving and reproducing in these environments and whether we can learn anything about the tricks that they are using and adapt them to safeguard astronauts.”
Cell Science-04 flies tardigrades, or water bears, to the space station for a study seeking to identify the genes involved in its adaptation and survival in high stress environments.
Credits: Thomas Boothby, University of Wyoming
Symbiotic squid and microbes in microgravity
UMAMI examines the effects of spaceflight on the molecular and chemical interactions between beneficial microbes and their animal hosts. Microbes play a significant role in the normal development of animal tissues and in maintaining human health. “Animals, including humans, rely on our microbes to maintain a healthy digestive and immune system,” says UMAMI principal investigator Jamie Foster. “We do not fully understand how spaceflight alters these beneficial interactions. The UMAMI experiment uses a glow-in-the-dark bobtail squid to address these important issues in animal health.”
The bobtail squid, Euprymna scolopes, is an animal model that is used to study symbiotic relationships between two species. This investigation helps determine whether spaceflight alters the mutually beneficial relationship, which could support development of protective measures and mitigation to preserve astronaut health on long-duration space missions. The work also could lead to a better understanding of the complex interactions between animals and beneficial microbes, including new and novel pathways that microbes use to communicate with animal tissues. Such knowledge could help identify ways to protect and enhance these relationships for better human health and well-being on Earth as well.
These immature bobtail squid (Euprymna scolopes) are part of UMAMI, an investigation that examines whether space alters the symbiotic relationship between the squid and the bacterium Vibrio fischeri.
Credits: Jamie S. Foster, University of Florida
On-the-spot ultrasound
Butterfly IQ Ultrasound demonstrates use of a portable ultrasound in conjunction with a mobile computing device in microgravity. The investigation collects crew feedback on ease of handling and quality of the ultrasound images, including image acquisition, display, and storage.
“This type of commercial off-the-shelf technology could provide important medical capabilities for future exploration missions beyond low-Earth orbit, where immediate ground support is not available,” says Kadambari Suri, integration manager for the Butterfly iQ Technology Demonstration “The investigation also examines how effective just-in-time instructions are for autonomous use of the device by the crew.” The technology also has potential applications for medical care in remote and isolated settings on Earth.
A cotton seedling for the TICTOC investigation prepared for flight. TICTOC studies how root system structure affects cotton plant resilience, water-use efficiency, and carbon sequestration during the critical phase of seedling establishment.
Credits: Simon Gilroy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Developing better robot drivers
Pilote, an investigation from the ESA (European Space Agency) and the Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales (CNES), tests the effectiveness of remote operation of robotic arms and space vehicles using virtual reality and interfaces based on haptics, or simulated touch and motion. Testing of the ergonomics for controlling robotic arms and spacecraft must be performed in microgravity, because designs from Earth-based testing would use ergonomic principles that do not fit conditions experienced on a spacecraft in orbit. Pilote compares existing and new technologies, including those recently developed for teleoperation and others used to pilot the Canadarm2 and Soyuz spacecraft. The investigation also compares astronaut performance on the ground and during long-duration space missions. Results could help optimize the ergonomics of workstations on the space station and future space vehicles for missions to the Moon and Mars.
This image shows the planned configuration of six iROSA solar arrays intended to augment power on the International Space Station. The roll-up arrays arrive on the SpaceX-22 resupply mission.
Credits: NASA/Johnson Space Center/Boeing
Protecting kidneys in space and on Earth
Some crew members exhibit an increased susceptibility to kidney stones during flight, which could affect their health and the success of the mission. The Kidney Cells-02 investigation uses a 3D kidney cell model (or tissue chip) to study the effects of microgravity on the formation of microcrystals that can lead to kidney stones. It is part of the Tissue Chips in Space initiative, a partnership between the ISS U.S. National Laboratory and the National Institutes of Health’s National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) to analyze the effects of microgravity on human health and translate that to improvements on Earth. This investigation could reveal critical pathways of kidney disease development and progression, potentially leading to therapies to treat and prevent kidney stones for astronauts and for the 1 in 10 people on Earth who develop them.
“With this study, we hope to identify biomarkers or 'signatures' of cellular changes that occur during the formation of kidney stones,” says principal investigator Ed Kelly. “This may lead to novel therapeutic interventions. The rationale for conducting this study on the space station is that the microcrystals behave in a manner like what happens in our own kidneys, meaning they stay suspended in the kidney chip tubes and do not sink to the bottom, like they do in labs on Earth.”
Producing tougher cotton
Cotton plants that overexpress a certain gene show increased resistance to stressors, such as drought, and yield 20% more cotton fiber than plants without that characteristic under certain stress conditions. This stress resistance has been tentatively linked to having an enhanced root system that can tap into a larger volume of soil for water and nutrients. Targeting Improved Cotton Through On-orbit Cultivation (TICTOC) studies how root system structure affects plant resilience, water-use efficiency, and carbon sequestration during the critical phase of seedling establishment. Root growth patterns depend upon gravity, and TICTOC could help define which environmental factors and genes control root development in the absence of gravity.
Cotton is used in a variety of consumer products from clothing to bed sheets and coffee filters, but the effects of its production include significant water use and intensive use of agricultural chemicals. “We are hoping to reveal features of root system formation that can be targeted by breeders and scientists to improve characteristics such as drought resistance or nutrient uptake, both key factors in the environmental impacts of modern agriculture,” says principal investigator Simon Gilroy. Improved understanding of cotton root systems and associated gene expression could enable development of more robust cotton plants and reduce water and pesticide use.
Bonus power
New solar panels are headed to station to increase the energy available for research and other onboard activities. The ISS Roll-out Solar Array (iROSA) is made up of compact panels, based on technology previously demonstrated on station, that roll open like unrolling a long rug. The Expedition 65 crew is scheduled to begin preparations for supplementing the station’s existing rigid panels this summer with the first pair of six new arrays.
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WASHINGTON — Memorial Day weekend marks the unofficial start of summer.
It also means June is almost here.
June is carrying extra significance this year for those interested in UFOs and life outside earth.
MAJOR REPORT DUE SOON
When former President Donald Trump signed his final stimulus package in December, it included a provision for a publicly available report on UFOs to be published within six months.
For years, however, the military and the federal government have been gradually sounding the alarm about possible UFOs.
Last August, the Department of Defense sent out this press release “Establishment of Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force.”
When John Brennan, the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, appeared on Conversations with Tyler, a podcast with the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, he also hinted more may be out there.
"They are quite eyebrow-raising," Brennan told host Tyler Cowen about the Naval videos.
"Life is defined in many different ways and I think it’s a bit presumptuous, if not arrogant, to believe there is no other form of life anywhere in the entire universe," Brennan added.
WHAT WILL BE IN IT?
What is unclear is what will be in the report.
There is also no firm date for the results to be published.
Members of Congress however are expecting a briefing as are military leaders and President Joe Biden.
“Extraterrestrial self-replicating probes monitor the Earth”, according to astrophysicist
Where are all the aliens? Why hasn’t another civilization contacted us yet? An astrophysicist has a revolutionary answer: “Because the aliens are already here”
Zaza Osmanov of the Free University of Tbilisi in Georgia has suggested in a new study that a race of extraterrestrial beings could be using “self-replicating probes” to explore our galaxy, including Earth.
Osmanov says that a civilization that has reached “Stage 2” on the Kardashev Scale , or what is the same, one level above us, would be fully capable of producing a fleet of “Von Neumann Probes”.
The Von Neumann probes would be “small self-replicating robots that would collect resources from planets and asteroids to build new copies of themselves.”
“All the results indicate that if a foreign object with extremely high values of increased brightness is detected, it may be a good sign to place the object on the candidate list for the von Neumann extraterrestrial probes,” the Russian astrophysicist wrote.
“We consider the scenario in which type 2 civilization must” invade interstellar clouds via self-reproducing robots, “he continued. “And it has been shown that this process will inevitably lead to the consequences of observation.”
But when it comes to explaining why we haven’t seen this fleet of probes, Osmanov has a totally plausible new theory: “the probes are much smaller than the eye can see.”
“Or they are equipped with Stealth shields, invisible to the human eye and a military radar.” In fact, it is no coincidence that in Russia and other parts of the world, UFOs are recorded only thanks to infrared cameras.
The scientist says nanotechnology is the obvious choice for building a probe that moves, builds quickly, and adapts to a wide range of potential landing sites.
“We analyzed the efficiency of Von-Neumann probes at the microscale versus macro robots and found that the former could [reproduce] efficiently in interstellar media.”
“While large-scale automata can only replicate on rocky planets, this requires more maneuvering ..”
“Even if there were billions of these little machines infiltrating the solar system, we would not be able to detect them with our current instrumentation.”
Each would be about one nanometer in size, which is only one billionth of a meter.
But while the micro-machines are nearly invisible due to their size, Osmanov says there may still be a way to detect them.
If by hypothesis these probes are powered by light, they could emit small amounts of light as they travel through space.
If you observe using infrared telescopes, these streams of light would appear as the “trails” left by comets.
According to a new study, Jupiter’s moon Europa may have active volcanoes located deep underwater. There is a lot of evidence that Europa has a gigantic ocean that’s located between its rocky interior and its icy crust. The new study looked closely at the possibility of there being enough heat inside of the moon to melt some of the rocky layer, ultimately helping volcanoes on the floor of the ocean to become active.
The amount of internal heat within the moon depends strongly on how much of Jupiter’s gravitational pull has on Europa. When the moon orbits around the planet, its interior flexes which creates energy and leaks out as heat. A larger amount of heat is created the more the moon’s interior is flexed.
If there is volcanic activity on Europa, they would probably be located close to the moon’s poles where there would be more heat. What’s even more interesting is that if there were active volcanoes there could be life. For example, when seawater reacts with hot magma on Earth, there is a chemical energy reaction that supports life located deep down in our oceans.
Europa
Marie Běhounková from Charles University in the Czech Republic described their study by stating, “Our findings provide additional evidence that Europa’s subsurface ocean may be an environment suitable for the emergence of life.” “Europa is one of the rare planetary bodies that might have maintained volcanic activity over billions of years, and possibly the only one beyond Earth that has large water reservoirs and a long-lived source of energy.”
Jupiter’s moon Io has hundreds of active volcanoes that spew lava, volcanic gas, and dust as high up as 250 miles (400 kilometers). This is caused by the gravitational pull from Jupiter and that’s why the researchers are wondering if the same can happen on Europa. The major difference is that Io orbits the Gas Giant much closer than Europa does.
Scientists will hopefully be able to solve the mystery in the near future when NASA’s Europa Clipper is launched in 2024. The spacecraft will conduct close flybys of the moon and will gather important data that may possibly reveal whether or not Europa has active underwater volcanoes and if life could survive there.
Europa Clipper
Europa Clipper Project Scientist Robert Pappalardo from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California reiterated this by noting, “The prospect for a hot, rocky interior and volcanoes on Europa’s seafloor increases the chance that Europa’s ocean could be a habitable environment.” “We may be able to test this with Europa Clipper’s planned gravity and compositional measurements, which is an exciting prospect.”
Scientists’ findings suggest that the interior of Jupiter’s moon Europa may consist of an iron core, surrounded by a rocky mantle in direct contact with an ocean under the icy crust. New research models how internal heat may fuel volcanoes on the seafloor.
Many custody battles are bitter and eventually the parents end up in court. The battle over custody of the files detailing US government investigations of UFOs is about to enter the court phase. One parent is Luis Elizondo, the former Department of Defense employee who claims to have headed a secret UFO investigation group inside the department known as the Advanced Aerospace Threat Identification Program (AATIP) and knows more about the files than anyone else. The other parent is the Pentagon, which is upset at how Elizondo has treated the files – i.e., talking about them in public, demanding their release on top media platforms — and wants him to cease his quest for custody. Like any custody battle, both sides have made disparaging comments about the other and tried to undermine them. It’s tough to fight City Hall … even tougher to fight the federal government, but Elizondo comes dressed for battle, even if some of his backups no longer have his back. Who will win this custody battle? Who will ultimately win this custody war?
“What he is saying is there are certain individuals in the Defense Department who in fact were attacking him and lying about him publicly, using the color of authority of their offices to disparage him and discredit him and were interfering in his ability to seek and obtain gainful employment out in the world. And also threatening his security clearance.”
Luis Elizondo
According to POLITICO, Daniel Sheehan, Elizondo’s attorney, filed a 64-pafe complaint with the Pentagon’s inspector general claiming a coordinated campaign to discredit him for speaking out — including accusing a top official of threatening to tell people he was “crazy.” How coordinated is it? More coordinated that effort the Defense Department took to bring all of the UFO reports into one investigative location, which is one of the complaints Elizondo gave for leaving the job. And that, according to The Black Vault, leads to one of the disparaging remarks the Pentagon has brought up.
“They (the Pentagon) told The Intercept in June of 2019 that Elizondo had no “responsibilities” on the AATIP (this would later be amended to “no assigned responsibilities”). Armed only with official statements, but offering no supporting documentation, it appeared that the Pentagon had a concerted effort to negate everything that Elizondo had brought forward to the public.”
That sounds like bureaucratic-speak for “He never worked here.” It gets worse. The Black Vault says it requested specific emails concerning Elizondo’s employment and responsibilities on UFO investigations and got this response:
“After thorough searches of the electronic records and files of OUSD (I&S), no records of the kind you described [Elizondo e-mails containing the word “unidentified”] could be identified. Please note that e-mails of former Department of Defense (DoD) employees are not retained unless they are considered historical records and retained by the National Records Center. There are currently no existing e-mail accounts for Mr. Elizondo. We believe that search methods were appropriate and could reasonably be expected to produce the requested records if they existed.”
The Black Vault says the Pentagon later confirmed the emails and backups were destroyed. The Black Vault obtained a letter from former US Senator Harry Reid, a longtime proponent of full disclosure and the government leader responsible for setting up the secret AATIP program, stating the Elizondo did indeed head it, but the Pentagon stuck to its claims that he had no “assigned” responsibilities. It later added that he “has no position in the UAPTF, and the UAPTF has not involved him in its ongoing work.” UAPTF is the current, non-secret version of AATIP.
Former Senator Harry Reid
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It gets worse. While Harry Reid has Elizondo’s back, it appears To The Stars Academy of Arts & Science – which Elizondo was a key member of as a prime UFO data provider – doesn’t. An annual report for the SEC filed by the organization states that, contrary to Elizondo’s claim that he left the group on his own, TTSA said this in the “Personnel changes” section:
“In December 2020, Luis Elizondo, the Company’s Director of Government programs & Services, was laid off with severance.”
POLITCO says the complaint filed with the Pentagon’s IG states that Elizondo emails and documents to support his case that there’s “a coordinated effort to obfuscate the truth from the American people” while the Pentagon separately attacks his reputation as a former intelligence officer there and causes “great personal and professional challenges to me and my family.”
Both the POLITICO and The Black Vault articles (read them here and here) contain much more background information on this UFO files custody battle. Who will win? Who deserves to win? Luis Elizondo has been a tireless fighter for disclosure. His battles and experiences would make a great movie plot. Unfortunately, that may be the only place where this story has a happy ending.
Antarctica Mysterious "Crown-like" Structure in the Lost Tundra Discovered
The “crown” looks like a half buried Stargate. The seals must have a food source to be there. Looks like we have been there more than they tell us. 93′ apart is not a coincidence! Thanks for another interesting video. Pam Ben
That “CROWN” looks like the Statue of Liberty or something like, with an arm on each side, one could possibly have a sword in a hand and it’s under the snow. It will be interesting to see Antarctica without snow. L5thElement
That’s really interesting about the pillars being 93 ft part. In a Occult 93 is Ararita. Love. Life. Freedom. Great information today. AA
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