Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
08-09-2016
Waarom landen UFO’s niet in de voortuin van het Witte Huis?
Waarom landen UFO’s niet in de voortuin van het Witte Huis?
Amerikaanse miljardairs weigeren het UFO-fenomeen serieus te nemen, maar doneren wel aan het SETI-instituut. Er was echter één uitzondering, schrijft directeur van de Indian Society for Extraterrestrial Studies (INSETS) Sabir Hussain voor de krant The New Indian Express.
Filantroop en miljardair Laurence Rockefeller (1910-2004), de vierde zoon van John D. Rockefeller, richtte in 1993 het UFO Disclosure Initiative op. Hij drong er bij president Clinton op aan om alle informatie die de CIA en de luchtmacht sinds de jaren veertig hadden verzameld over UFO’s, vrij te geven.
Bill Clinton en Laurence Rockefeller in 1995
Een jaar later gaf Clinton opdracht miljoenen geheime stukken te openbaren. In Frankrijk resulteerden de inspanningen van Rockefeller in 1999 in het beroemde Cometa-rapport. De miljardair financierde ook het onderzoek van de bekende Harvard-professor dr. John Mack, die een bestseller schreef over buitenaardse ontvoeringen, en het Disclosure Project van dr. Steven Greer.
Systematisch mishandeld
Hussain schrijft dat UFO’s sinds de jaren veertig duizenden individuen hebben benaderd en uitgebreide informatie hebben gegeven over de planetenstelsels waaruit zij afkomstig waren. ‘Contactees’ kregen vooral te horen dat de mensheid de aarde systematisch mishandelt, met ecologische crises tot gevolg.
Iedere keer als mensen over hun ervaringen spreken worden ze voor gek versleten of uitgelachen door de mainstream media, de wetenschappelijke gemeenschap, inlichtingendiensten en de luchtmacht, aldus Hussain.
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En waarom landen ze niet in de voortuin van het Witte Huis? Hij merkt op dat er in 1952 UFO’s zijn verschenen boven het Witte Huis en het Capitool, maar dat de Amerikaanse luchtmacht hierover heeft gelogen door te zeggen dat de waarnemingen waren veroorzaakt door ‘temperatuurinversie’.
De luchtmacht gaf piloten opdracht de objecten uit de lucht te schieten. Frank Feschino schreef er een boek over, getiteld Shoot Them Down – The Flying Saucer Air Wars of 1952.
Belangrijker nog is dat de Amerikaanse president helemaal niet spreekt namens het menselijk ras. Hij spreekt namens de olie-industrie, de wapenindustrie en de multinationals, aldus Hussain. Iedere keer dat ze verschijnen, sturen we onze gevechtstoestellen op ze af.
‘De fout ligt in onszelf’
De UFO’s hebben vervolgens twee mogelijkheden: de straaljagers neerschieten (zoals ze in 1976 boven Teheran hebben gedaan), of het gebied verlaten, wat ze meestal doen.
Shakespeare schreef in Julius Caesar: “De fout, beste Brutus, ligt niet in onze sterren, maar in onszelf.”
“Op dezelfde manier ligt de fout niet in UFO’s, maar in onszelf,” besluit Hussain. “Door onze naïeve, luie, ongeïnteresseerde en schaapachtige houding stellen we een kleine groep mensen in staat om de grootste gebeurtenis in de menselijke geschiedenis verborgen te houden voor de rest van de wereld.”
Bright ORB changing colors over California 7-Sep-2016
Bright ORB changing colors over California 7-Sep-2016
Here’s one new footage of a huge bright orb changing colors. This video was recorded near a place called Marysville in California on Wednesday, 7th September 2016.
Check out this new footage of a multiple unidentified flying objects or orbs flying across the night sky above Los Angeles in California. This was filmed on 7th September 2016.
More than 100 people are said to have seen a UFO fleet make a triangle formation.
Yesterday Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how a female pilot claimed she and her boyfriend were left with a "life-changing" experience after seeing "four UFOs" in the desert during the Contact in the Desert conference in the Joshua Tree National Park, California, which is one of the world's biggest ET conferences.
The woman, who is also a lawyer and has yet to be named, said the possible alien spacecraft appeared on Saturday evening during a special skywatch event in a report to the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) which investigates UFO cases across the globe.
Now a second report about the incident has been filed with MUFON, claiming there were MORE UFOS, and that more than 100 people witnessed the strange triangle formation.
Kristie Cowans has filed a report to MUFON, claiming there was an attempt by the skywatchers known as CE-5 contact, to summon the presence of UFOs through meditation, before the phenomenon.
She said it took place at 10pm local time on Saturday and she had stargazing binoculars and a green laser.
She pointed out there was a small airport to the south and a Marine Base north-east of them, but all the "UFO" activity came from the west going due east.
She wrote: "As we began I was able to spot many stars, planets, planes and satellites as part of the process of really looking at what was above us-then the unexpected happened.
"There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
"The colours of the orbs were bright, but a diffused soft green, diffused soft red, and diffused soft lilac blue, with the blue one being larger than the others."
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Contact in the Desert is attended by 1000s of UFO buffs.
There was a parade of seven orbs/UFOs flying faster than satellites and as high as planes & helicopters from west over the mountains and disappearing to the east.
UFO witness Kristie Cowans
"The type of glow was unlike anything I have ever seen in my research on military drones as my skeptical mind considered this possibility.
"They did not look like drones - I saw no structures connected to the glowing lights, the glowing light floated independent of any structure."
The unnamed pilot previously independently reported seeing five of the coloured UFOs.
She described how the first UFO zipped overhead, followed by a third, fourth and fifth, the three of which then formed a triangle formation.
The woman and her boyfriend said they have been left profoundly affected by what they saw and estimated around 30 people in total would have witnessed the event.
Contact in the Desert is a four-day annual event held in the remote desert with several UFO and alien expert speakers and the opportunity for skywatching.
Their sighting and a short video showing the triangle formation is now being investigated by MUFON.
In her report to MUFON, the woman said: "We are both highly educated, professional people with an interest in UFOs.
"He is a Management Consultant and I am an attorney. I am also a private pilot."
She said the pair queued for about an hour for the "Night Vision Experience" which involved scouring space with military grade night vision goggles from around 10pm local time.
She said: "There was a yell from another participant.
"We swung our goggles to look in the northerly direction. I focused on a white, glowing object which looked like a ball of light with fuzzy edges coming over the horizon rather fast, traveling west to east and then slowly disappearing.
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The formation was said to be similar to this one previously snapped by UFO chasers.The Truth Is Out There: 150 years of UFOs
"Process of elimination set in: Not a plane, helicopter because no blinking lights.
“Fuzzy edges, ball shaped.
“Not a satellite because too low on the horizon and moving too fast. These objects were large enough and bright enough to be seen with the naked eye."
She said as they watched, a second object, blue in colour, "came out of the west and traveled rapidly to the east”.
It was ball shaped, glowing, with fuzzy edges, and slowed down, she said.
She added: "The third object then came from the west, this time green in colour. Same shape, characteristics as above. This one slowed down also.
"The fourth, object, I'm uncertain about the colour as people were now very excited and many thoughts were racing through my mind.
"Now, the second, third and fourth object had slowed to a triangle formation. With the apex of the triangle facing up. They did not stop but kept moving to the east."
"Ever since that evening, my boyfriend and I have been processing this event.
"Since then, we have not stopped thinking about what we saw. We are both logical, sane people.
"Neither one of us has ever experienced anything like it in our lives.
"We cannot stop thinking about what we saw at Joshua Tree."
Sceptics suggest that at events where many people attend, particularly when they want to see something, mass hysteria can kick in, an the memory becomes distorted or embellished.
Others have said that drones could be the cause of the sighting, and with it being a UFO conference taking place, it could have been pranksters flying them overhead at the time of the skywatch.
The Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) has been sent a video clip by a stunned unnamed witness who claims to have recorded the fabled craft flying over a major highway.
TR-3B is alleged by conspiracy theorists to be a secret "black project" spy craft of the US Government that can be flown into space.
The allegations are that these crafts are created at top-secret military bases like Area 51 in Nevada, by reverse engineering alien technology.
Others claim they are actual UFOs flown by aliens visiting Earth.
In the video, which lasts nearly two minutes, an apparent black triangle shape is seen slowly moving silently in the sky. It appears to have large pulsating red and green lights, like many previous alleged TR-3B sightings.
Dude, look at this thing, it is not even f***ing moving. Dude, it's f***ing triangular. Holy s*** dude, that is some wicked s***.
TR-3B witness
In a brief report to MUFON, which is the world's largest UFO investigation organisation based in the US, the witness said: "Triangular UFO hovered over route 45 in Mantua, New Jersey, and turned on its side over the road, and then flew sideways towards Philadelphia."
He described the craft as flying extremely slowly, at just around 10 miles per hour.
He said: "I have never encountered any aircraft like this in my life.
"It made no noise and it seemed to have multicoloured lights rotating inside one light.
"Did anyone else witness this at approximately 9:40 pm on June 10th 2016?"
Conspiracy theorists have long claimed the TR-3B Black Mantra is an alleged stealth reconnaissance nuclear-powered triangular shaped craft.
Previous conspiracists have claimed the Black Mantra was developed by the US under a cloud of secrecy in the 1970s, but its existence has never been proved.
Over the years, there have been dozens of reported sightings of mysterious-shaped aircraft in Antelope Valley in the Californian desert - an area known to attract Black Mantra hunters as it is near several military research and testing zones.
But, until now, no clear video footage had been captured.
Conspiracists believe the TR-3B Black Mantra is not the first of its kind and is, in fact, a successor to an earlier TR-3A craft.
There are longstanding rumours about the existence of reconnaissance airplanes of the US Air Force under so-called "black projects".
According to conspiracy theorists, the TR-3A Black Manta is a subsonic stealth spy plane designed by Northrop Gruman and was allegedly used in the Gulf War to guide F-117A Nighthawk bombers.
However, there is no proof or direct evidence of the existence of any of the alleged spy planes.
Last June YouTube UFO channel Secureteam 10 released a video claiming to have found a Black Mantra craft sitting in a crater on the moon in images obtained from a camera mounted on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) spacecraft.
Earlier that month, Secureteam also posted a video claiming they had found similar craft in NASA images of Dwarf planet Ceres.
But the were widely panned as being an odd-shaped rocks.
MUFON confirmed it is investigating the new footage.
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07-09-2016
Our Universe Is Not A Hologram. Alien or Otherwise. Here Is Why!
Our Universe Is Not A Hologram. Alien or Otherwise. Here Is Why!
Sometimes science gives us mind-blowing results that fundamentally force us to revise our perception of the universe we inhabit. From discovering that Earth is a sphere to the theory of special relativity, science has readjusted our grasp of reality time and again. This is not one of those times.
Over the years I have seen many claims that the Universe is a hologram. Vast bands of pseudoscience enthusiasts think they have worked it all out. They believe that the entire universe is a holographic projection. That it is our thought energy that provides the (laser beam) energy to manifest the holographic image we call reality. We, each and every one of us, is a holographic plate (film). And just like a holographic plate, each of us contains all the information in the universe. Because of this, we are literally connected to everything, and, everything is connected to everything else.
In this vast sea of gibberish, they believe their theory of holography accounts for why prayers, meditations, healing, miracles, and instant communication over unlimited distances actually has the power to influence our reality.
This daffy idea even has some supporters in the halls of academia. Nick Bostrom, professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and the Director of the Future of Humanity Institute has offered the theory that we may not actually be what we think we are. We may, in fact, be a holographic program generated by banks of supercomputers created by an alien species.
Since it is coming from an Oxford professor some people may be fooled into thinking it is a smart hypothesis. Mr. Bostrom is a Philosophy professor. One of the superstars of philosophy is Friedrich Nietzsche. He is known to have said some strikingly dumb things such as ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us stronger.‘ Just think about that for a second. Billions of things don’t kill us that don’t make us stronger.
In pop culture, one influence above all others has fed this idea into our collective consciousness. The Matrix movie trilogy. I blame the Wachowski brothers for ruining more minds than syphilis.
But what is the real story?
That “our Universe is a hologram” is perhaps one of the greatest physics-related misconceptions of recent decades. Let me write a clarification in bold so that it will be absolutely clear:
No, our Universe is NOT a hologram! There is ZERO evidence to support this assertion.
It’s just a metaphor used to describe some property we think the universe might have. It has absolutely nothing to do with actual holograms.
Okay, now that we’ve got this covered, let me explain what the holographic principle actually means.
Get ready for some science… I’m going to science the s**t out of this…
The entropy of a black hole is given by the area of its horizon, divided by 4. Now, imagine that you have some volume of space with some matter in it, not necessary a black hole. Is there a similar limit to the total entropy in that volume?
Well, let’s think about it. Intuitively, you can put more and more matter inside that volume of space, thus increasing the entropy within it. But at some point, there will be so much matter inside that it will inevitably collapse into a black hole. In other words, we cannot increase the entropy of a volume of space indefinitely; we can only increase it until it is equal to the surface area of the volume, divided by 4.
Now, entropy is a measure of information; the more information you have, the more entropy you’ll get. So it appears that there is a principle, the holographic principle, which roughly says that the total amount of information inside a volume of space cannot be larger than the amount of information that can be encoded on the boundary of that volume.
The word “principle” here means that it is a principle that you must follow when you try to formulate a theory of quantum gravity. This means that any potential theory of quantum gravity must either be shown to follow this principle or have a very good reason to violate it, otherwise, it is not compatible with the intuitive picture I gave above.
Note that the holographic principle is just a principle with which to formulate certain scientific theories, and not a scientific theory by itself, so it does not have any predictions that can be tested experimentally. So the mere existence of the principle doesn’t mean that “our universe is a hologram” or that our universe actually obeys the holographic principle.
To be perfectly clear: whether our universe obeys the holographic principle or not is a statement that must be tested empirically, but it cannot be tested until we have an actual theory of quantum gravity, which we do not have.
So if someone tells you that “the universe is a hologram”, you can be sure they don’t know what they’re talking about.
The misleading and incorrect articles that frequently appear in the media citing “evidence” that “the universe is a hologram” are usually talking about something called the AdS/CFT conjecture. Let me first make another very important clarification in bold:
The AdS/CFT conjecture suggests a purely mathematical relation between two completely unrealistic theories, one on the “AdS” side and one on the “CFT” side, and it says absolutely nothing whatsoever about the real universe that we live in.
The AdS/CFT conjecture gives a mathematical model in which the holographic principle seems to work. As I said above, this mathematical model is not a realistic one, and it has nothing to do with our own universe.
Why do we study it if it’s not realistic? There is a concept called a “toy theory”. A toy theory is a theory that we know is not realistic in any way, but we study it mainly for three reasons:
It is a very simple model, so we can perform calculations on it that we can’t do in more realistic models; and/or
We have no realistic model, so we make do with what we have.
Give us a reason to stand in front of our whiteboards and look deep in thought.
Okay, now, what does the AdS/CFT conjecture actually say? Without going too much into the technical details, it basically talks about some object described by string theory called a D3-brane (but the name doesn’t matter).
You can look at this brane from two different “perspectives”. From one perspective it looks like a theory of (quantum) gravity in 5 dimensions (“AdS”), and from the other perspective, it looks like a theory without gravity in 4 dimensions (“CFT”).
But the brane is still a brane, and it should act the same way no matter from which perspective you look at it. In other words, we can perform calculations either in the 5-dimensional theory or in the 4-dimensional theory and we’ll get the same results.
This duality of two different descriptions is extremely useful for doing calculations. This is because if something is too hard to calculate from the gravity perspective you can calculate it from the non-gravity one, or vice versa.
In addition, and more relevantly to the present context, this duality provides a concrete, if unrealistic, model in which the holographic actually works. This is because the 5-dimensional theory “encodes the same information” as the 4-dimensional theory.
I say AdS/CFT is a conjecture because it has not actually been proven. There are many pieces of evidence that the conjecture might be true. These basically come from calculating the same thing from both perspectives and checking that the results agree. But there is still no proof that the results always agree.
So whenever you read an article saying that “physicists found evidence that our universe is a hologram”, what it actually means is that physicists did some more calculations and found that they agree with the AdS/CFT conjecture. But it doesn’t say anything about our universe, only about a very unrealistic model.
Why is the model unrealistic? For many reasons:
The model is built using string theory. Despite the impression you might get from popular media, string theory is really a “toy theory”; it doesn’t actually describe our own universe. It describes an imaginary universe which turns out to be similar to our own universe in some ways, but very different from it in other ways.
The perspective of a theory of gravity is called AdS because it describes a universe which has a special geometry called “Anti de Sitter”. However, our universe does not have this geometry. In fact, it is (asymptotically) described by the exact opposite of Anti de Sitter, which is called “de Sitter”. So the AdS perspective definitely does not describe anything even remotely close to our universe.
The perspective of a theory without gravity is called CFT because it describes a universe which has a special symmetry called “conformal symmetry”. So the theory is called aConformal Field Theory. However, our universe does include gravity and does not have conformal symmetry. So the CFT perspective also definitely does not describe anything even remotely close to our universe.
In conclusion, AdS/CFT is a conjecture offering a model of an imaginary, unrealistic universe which is certainly not our universe, in which the holographic principle is mathematically realized. It’s a very important conjecture and has many applications, but it says absolutely nothing about our own universe, which is neither AdS nor CFT.
However, unlike the specific unrealistic model of AdS/CFT, the holographic principle as a general principleis something that we think should apply to the real universe that we live in.
As I mentioned above, the validity of the holographic principle in our universe is something that must ultimately be determined empirically once we have a working theory of quantum gravity. Don’t hold your breath on that one.
I have full confidence that we will discover the grand unification theory that has been so elusive for over a century. Which the theory of quantum gravity is a huge part of. I am also confident that when all is said and done that the holographic principle will not be a part of it. The true nature of reality obeys laws. Science does not claim to know all the laws and limits imposed on us by the Universe, but we do have a slight inclination. This inclination all points to the falsity of the holographic principle as being any part of the building blocks of reality.
But.. what do I know? I am just an explorer of this thing we call reality. I always at all times reserve the right to be wrong.
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Breakthrough ‘Madala Boson’ Could Unlock the Mysteries of Dark Matter
Breakthrough ‘Madala Boson’ Could Unlock the Mysteries of Dark Matter
CERN
Scientists are seen working on the inside of the ATLAS cryostat.
Credit: Claudia Marcelloni/CERN
IN BRIEF
The Higgs' boson helped us understand known matter, but scientists at the High Energy Physics Group (HEP) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg believe they have the necessary data to discover a new boson, called the Madala boson. Its discovery may help us explore more about what dark matter is and how it interacts with the universe.
This diagram reveals changes in the rate of expansion since the universe's birth 15 billion years ago. The more shallow the curve, the faster the rate of expansion. The curve changes noticeably about 7.5 billion years ago, when objects in the universe began flying apart as a faster rate. Astronomers theorize that the faster expansion rate is due to a mysterious, dark force that is pulling galaxies apart.
NASA/STSci/Ann Feild
DISCOVERING THE MADALA BOSON
Discovery of the Higgs boson in 2012 at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) has contributed heaps to our understanding of modern physics. But theHiggs boson only explains mass that we can see, touch and smell. Known matter only makes up 4% of the Universe’s mass and energy. Scientists predict the discovery of a new boson which interacts with dark matter, which makes up 27% of our universe.
Using the same data that led to Higgs’ discovery, the bright minds at the High Energy Physics Group (HEP) of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg have come up with the Madala hypothesis, which they believe will help them discover the new Madala boson.
The Madala boson team isn’t lacking in scientific minds, as they have around 35 students and researchers to brainstorm and help understand data from the experiments. They also have the support from Wits University, such as theorists Prof. Alan Cornell and Dr. Mukesh Kumar and Prof. Elias Sideras-Haddad’s assistance in detector instrumentation.
Image credit: Taylor L; McCauley T/CERN
DARK MATTER MATTERS
Man’s understanding of physics keeps on evolving. Professor Bruce Mellado, team leader of the HEP group at Wits says we are now at a point similar to when Einstein formulated relativity and to when quantum mechanics came to light. We found classic physics lacking as it failed to make sense of plenty of phenomena. When the Higgs’ boson was discovered, the Standard Model of Physics was completed, but we have still only scratched the surface. Modern physics still can’t explain other phenomena including dark matter.
The discovery of the new Madala boson puts man in a good position to learn more about our universe. Perhaps there are even more particles tobe discovered aside from this new boson. The future of modern physics has never been brighter.
UFOs and giant structures filmed in NIGER by US helicopter !!! Sept 2016
UFOs and giant structures filmed in NIGER by US helicopter !!! Sept 2016
September 2016 - Niger, desert - US forces of USAFRICOM reported mysterious giant structures and UFOs in the desert.
Watch the VIDEO HERE !
Only 8,000 years ago, rocks were sculpted in the Tassili plateau of Sahara, depicting what appeared to be human beings but with strange round heads (helmets ? Or "sun" heads on human bodies ?).
Archeologists usually refer to the paintings at Tassili n-Ajjer in southern Algeria as prehistoric "masked figures". Though there is evidence that the people of the Sahara influenced the cultures of both the Nile Valley and West Africa, there is no stylistic similarity between the "masks" in Tassili and those from West Africa. Scholars are not certain of the meaning of these paintings because they still haven't deciphered the hieroglyphic language engraved on the rocks next to them. Dating these figures is difficult even with radiocarbon techniques, yet they are roughly divided into several periods ranging from the beginning of human occupation at Tassili, around 5500 B.C. when the Sahara was much wetter, continuing sporadically until the fifth century B.C.
The faceless (aniconic) figures are found in both the early and middle periods. The smaller figures engraved in shelters are believed to be contemporary with the oldest paintings in Tassili. Either before or shortly after these cave paintings were made, an enormous "masked" figure was painted on the side of a cliff. This large figure is nearly eighteen feet high, outlined in dark purple and shaded with broad planes of color. It has a helmet-type device that encircles the head and rests directly on the shoulders.
This large figure was dubbed "theGreat God Mars" by critic and art historian André Lhote in his 1950 Treatise on Figure Painting.
FROM TASSILI......SAHARA DÉSERT......NORTH AFRICA.........SOURCE UFO SIGHTING SHOTSPOT.BLOGSPOT.FR.............This cave painting is from Tassili, Sahara Desert in North Africa. It dates back to 6000 B.C. The figures do not look human. Notice the flying disk in the sky.
De ‘onmogelijke’ raketmotor gaat de ruimte in: tijd om de EmDrive te testen
De ‘onmogelijke’ raketmotor gaat de ruimte in: tijd om de EmDrive te testen
Binnenkort wordt voor het eerst een werkende EmDrive gelanceerd. Dan zal blijken of het mogelijk is om een raketmotor aan te drijven zonder enige vorm van brandstof.
De controversiële EmDrive is gebouwd door de Amerikaanse uitvinder en ingenieur Guido Fetta. Hoewel uit diverse experimenten is gebleken dat een dergelijke motor werkt, lijkt het apparaat in strijd te zijn met een fundamentele natuurwet.
Nanosatelliet
De derde wet van Newton zegt namelijk dat krachten altijd in paren optreden. Veel natuurkundigen zeggen dat de EmDrive in strijd is met die wet. De motor lijkt aangedreven te worden zonder brandstof. En dat niet alleen: met zo’n motor kunnen we in slechts 70 dagen naar Mars reizen.
Fetta is de bedenker van de Cannae Drive, een raketmotor die gebaseerd is op het oorspronkelijke ontwerp van de EmDrive. Hij heeft nu aangekondigd dat hij de motor gaat gebruiken om een 6U CubeSat, een nanosatelliet, te lanceren.
Opschieten
Popular Mechanics meldt dat ongeveer een kwart van de satelliet ter grootte van een schoenendoos zal bestaan uit de Cannae Drive, die tenminste zes maanden om de aarde zal draaien. “Hoe langer hij in een baan om de aarde blijft, hoe meer de satelliet zal laten zien dat hij wordt aangedreven zonder brandstof.”
Er is nog geen lanceerdatum bekend, maar verwacht wordt dat de satelliet binnen nu en zes maanden in de ruimte wordt gebracht. Fetta mag wel opschieten, aangezien Chinese ingenieurs en de uitvinder van de oorspronkelijke EmDrive Roger Shawyer ook werken aan lanceerbare EmDrives.
RUSSISCH DORP OPGESCHRIKT DOOR ENORME UFO ( VIDEO )
RUSSISCH DORP OPGESCHRIKT DOOR ENORME UFO ( VIDEO )
Het is een bekend gegeven dat UFO’s zich graag verbergen in/als wolken, want dat is voor hen de manier om onzichtbaar te blijven voor de bevolking.
Keer op keer zijn er nieuwe verhalen en beelden van enorme UFO’s die zich voordoen als een wolk, zoals dat ook onlangs gebeurde in Rusland.
Dat UFO’s zich dikwijls vermommen in de vorm van een wolk, werd al in 1957 vastgelegd door een Amerikaanse soldaat uit Virginia.
Hij zag in eerste instantie een ringvormige ufo, die later stukje bij beetje veranderde in een wolk.
Ook vandaag de dag komen ze in alle soorten en vormen voor, zoals onlangs boven een dorp in Rusland.
Op 27 augustus 2016 schrokken de inwoners van een klein Russische dorpje dan ook behoorlijk, toen ze bovenstaande “wolk” zagen.
Ook hier zien we weer een veel voorkomend kenmerk. Een wolk die eigenlijk niet thuis hoort in het bestaande wolkenlandschap.
UFO’s gebruiken ook dikwijls vulkanen als ingangen naar ondergrondse basis, zoals duidelijk wordt uit de vele beelden uit Mexico, waarbij UFO’s bij de bekende vulkanen af en aan vliegen en soms in de kraters verdwijnen.
Een dergelijke vulkaan is er ook in Japan en dat is Mount Fuji. Volgens Scott Waring is onderstaande opname ook een voorbeeld van hoe buitenaardsen hun UFO’s verbergen en waarschijnlijk in dit geval dit soort wolken gebruiken om het vertrek en de aankomst van UFO’s bij de basis onder de vulkaan wat minder opvallend te maken.
Wolken die er op het eerste gezicht vrij normaal uitzien, maar bij nader inzicht totaal niet in het landschap passen. Wolken die naast vermomming van ruimteschepen, waarschijnlijk ook kunnen fungeren als een soort dimensieportaal, waarbij UFO’s van het ene op het andere moment enorme afstanden kunnen afleggen.
Dit is één van de meest spectaculaire ontdekkingen van de laatste tijd en de wereldpers zwijgt in alle toonaarden.
Het afgelopen jaar is er wat ons betreft veel meer duidelijk geworden over hoe buitenaardsen zich bewegen door ons universum.
Hoe zij in staat zijn om in korte tijd enorme afstanden te overbruggen. Dit heeft alles te maken met dimensies. Wanneer je je van de ene naar de andere dimensie kunt begeven dan zijn de mogelijkheden om door het universum te reizen natuurlijk eindeloos.
Dat is precies wat er lijkt te gebeuren met de UFO’s die wij in grote getale waarnemen.
Het meest spectaculaire bewijs daarvan is de opname uit Mexico waarbij een sigaarvormige UFO met grote snelheid in een wolk verdwijnt en er niet meer uitkomt aan de andere kant. Een wolk wat geen wolk is, maar een soort combinatie van dimensieportaal en moederschip van waaruit de UFO’s die wij op aarde zien, aankomen en vertrekken.
In Nederland zijn we gelukkig genoeg geweest om dit ook mee te mogen maken in Friesland eind vorig jaar en ook ontvingen wij meldingen uit andere landen.
Nu zijn er nieuwe opnames beschikbaar gekomen uit Mexico die het bovenstaande verder ondersteunen.
Er wordt door iemand daar een vreemdsoortige wolk gefilmd die een beetje de vorm heeft van een UFO moederschip. Van daaruit, wat eigenlijk een dimensieportaal is, komen de UFO’s tevoorschijn zoals je kunt zien op de volgende afbeelding.
Aan de linkerkant schiet een witte ronde UFO naar buiten. Op de afbeelding hierna is zichtbaar dat het aan beide kanten van het dimensieportaal gebeurt.
Hiermee zouden politici door mensen bestookt moeten worden. Voor onze ogen zien we UFO’s verschijnen en weer verdwijnen in wat een vreemdsoortige wolk lijkt. Het komt steeds vaker voor en zeker ook in ons land.
Je zou verwachten dat mensen antwoorden zouden willen hebben. Klaarblijkelijk kunnen er zich echter de meest vreemdsoortige taferelen afspelen in het luchtruim en interesseert het het gros van de bevolking niet.
In Noorwegen zijn zeker 320 wilde rendieren gedood door de bliksem. Een jachtopziener vond de dieren, die dicht bij elkaar lagen.
Een groot deel van van de Hardangervidda-hoogvlakte, het gebied waar de dieren werden gevonden, maakt deel uit van een nationaal park. Er leven zo'n 10.000 wilde rendieren. Het is ook een populair wandelgebied.
Bij een paar rendieren zijn de hersenen verwijderd om onderzoek te doen naar CWD, een soort gekkekoeienziekte. Die ziekte komt voornamelijk voor in Amerika, maar is ook bij een paar rendieren in Noorwegen gevonden.
In Noorwegen zelf waren ze wat preciezer met het aantal dode dieren, want daar kwamen ze uit op 322.
Hier hebben we weer zo’n verhaal, waarbij iemand zegt dat die dieren zijn gedood door bliksem en wat dan vervolgens door de hele wereld klakkeloos wordt nageblaat.
Er is helemaal niets dat er op wijst dat deze 322 zijn getroffen door de bliksem. Meer dan 300 dieren getroffen door bliksem en niet één vertoont zelfs maar een schroeiplekje.
Ter vergelijking een foto van een man die door de bliksem is getroffen. Niets van dat alles te zien bij de rendieren.
Dan volgt er nog een vreemd verhaal over de ontbrekende koppen bij een aantal dieren. Volgens staatsomroep NOS zouden bij enkele dieren de hersenen zijn weggehaald om onderzoek te doen naar gekke koeienziekte.
In Noorse publicaties wordt weer een ander verhaal verteld, namelijk dat de koppen van alle volwassen dieren verwijderd zouden zijn voor onderzoek.
Een kenmerk van situaties waarbij men de werkelijkheid verborgen wil houden, is dat de verhalen vaak veranderen. Ze worden aangepast aan de situatie of aan de zich ontwikkelende gebeurtenissen.
Zoals net na de gebeurtenis wordt overal gesproken over een aantal van 322 dieren, toevalligerwijze het getal van de beruchte Skull & Bones society. Nadat dit enkele mensen begint op te vallen, wordt in alle verdere verhalen opeens het aantal dode dieren op 323 gezet.
Aangezien er geen uiterlijke kenmerken zijn van dieren die door de bliksem getroffen zijn, is er wel iets anders dat hun dood zou kunnen verklaren:
Microwave radiation could have caused it. Microwaves cook from the inside out. So maybe a new Russian microwave particle beam weapon was tested....
Dan komen we terecht op het gebied van wapens die dit zouden kunnen veroorzaken. Om aan te tonen dat die wapens wel degelijk bestaan, hieronder een bekende video van de Russische politicus Zjirinovski die daar het één en ander over vertelt.
Echter, wanneer je denkt dat HAARP in Alaska groot is, bedenk dan dat ze op dit moment met een Europese HAARP installatie bezig zijn in hetzelfde land als waar de dode rendieren zijn aangetroffen, Noorwegen.
Deze installatie staat bekend onder de naam EISCAT 3.
Zouden de experimenten die daar worden uitgevoerd, iets te maken kunnen hebben met de mysterieuze dood van meer dan 300 rendieren?
Enkele jaren geleden zagen we volgende bizarre beelden uit Noorwegen.
Precies boven het gebied waar zich de installaties van EISCAT 3 bevinden, verscheen de bizarre spiraalvorm in de nacht van 9 december 2009. De verklaring die door de hele wereld zoet werd geslikt was dat het een mislukte lancering was van een Russische raket.
Een aantal dode rendieren die op vreemde wijze om het leven zijn gekomen, maar absoluut niet door een blikseminslag. Het aantal van 322 wijst naar een donkere occulte club en ook het getal 323 dat later wordt gebruikt, verwijst volgens sommigen naar een soort occulte feestdag.
Verder zijn er bijna complete boekwerken geschreven over de occulte relatie tussen de Skull & Bones club en rendieren, waardoor wat er is gebeurd op die Noorse hoogvlakte weinig meer te maken heeft met een onfortuinlijke natuurlijke gebeurtenis.
Voor de liefhebbers, de volgende video gaat wat dieper in op eventuele numerologische verbanden en andere occulte aanwijzingen.
Four-Minute Clip Shows Strange Flying Objects In The Sky Above Wycombe
Four-Minute Clip Shows Strange Flying Objects In The Sky Above Wycombe
UFO followers have been in a frenzy in social media after a video showing four strange objects floating above High Wycombe surfaced online.
Some Wycombe residents are speculating extraterrestrial beings visited the town. The footage appears to have been shot from West Wycombe Hill, looking towards Downley.
Laura Manser recorded the four-minute clip at around 8:30 pm on Monday night. It shows two bright balls of light hovering in the sky above the town. Moments later, two more become visible just below the first two.
The UFOs then create different patterns while moving around the sky.
After her strange encounter, Ms. Manser then shared it along with the video on Facebook, creating speculations from Wycombe residents as to what the objects could be. Some suggest that they could be war planes, a laser show, Chinese lanterns or alien UFOs.
She said the strange lights remained visible in the sky for about thirty minutes.
At first, she and her friends were joking around that the lights were extraterrestrial UFOs, but as time went on, they were somewhat convinced those were indeed flying objects from other planets.
What do you think the objects in the video could be? Leave your thoughts below.
Giant Triangular UFO Hovers For About Half An Hour
Giant Triangular UFO Hovers For About Half An Hour
Atherton Tablelands, Northern Australia – A young family claimed to have spotted a massive triangular UFO that is allegedly 100 times bigger than a plane. The unidentified flying object emerged on the Tablelands on September 3, 2016, Saturday.
Kyle Mathiot was with his two young boys and partner Deborah Price playing with sparklers in the front yard of their home in Herberton on the weekend about 7:30 pm when they noticed something unusual in the distance.
Mr. Mathiot recalled that he saw one light up in the sky and for him, it was way too large to be a star.
He decided to get his partner’s phone to take pictures of the light. Moments later, he noticed another two lights, making a triangle shape with the first light.
This time, Mr. Mathiot started to realize that it was a triangle UFO with three bright lights. He then snapped multiple photos of the UFO as it hovered in the same spot for around thirty minutes before it disappeared.
He said that it was zipping weird and fast like no drone or plane can ever do. The lights were reportedly about two centimeters apart in the sky. Mr. Mathiot thinks it had to be an enormous aerial object.
A spokesman for Australian Defense Force stated there was no proof of military aircraft at the time of sighting in the Herberton area.
UFO researcher Alec Brimacombe confirmed that Mr. Mathiot’s pictures appeared to show a triangular object. He said that if the witness was telling the truth about the object being spotted with the naked eye, then it could not be just a photographic anomaly.
Rosetta maakt foto van omgevallen komeetlander Philae
Rosetta maakt foto van omgevallen komeetlander Philae
Tim Kraaijvanger
De komeetlander Philae is teruggevonden op de komeet 67P/Churyuov-Gerasimenko. Kort na de landing in november 2014 verbrak Philae het contact, omdat de batterij van de lander leeg was. Nu zien we waarom. Philae is omgevallen.
Het verhaal van Philae zou eigenlijk verfilmd moeten worden. De lander daalde op 12 november 2014 af naar het oppervlak van de komeet 67P/C-G. Kort na de landing weigerden de harpoenen – waarmee Philae zich aan het oppervlak vast moest maken – dienst, waardoor de komeetlander de ruimte in stuiterde. Uit gegevens blijkt dat Philae drie keer landde (en dus twee keer stuiterde), namelijk om 16:33 uur, 18:26 uur en 18:33 uur.
De onfortuinlijke komeetlander kwam uiteindelijk op z’n zij in een kloof terecht. De zonnepanelen kregen niet genoeg stroom, waardoor de accu na 64 uur uitviel. Wetenschappers hoopten dat het tij later zou keren, omdat de komeet de zon naderde en er dus steeds meer zonlicht op de panelen zou vallen. De maanden erna werd er opnieuw contact opgenomen met Philae. Met succes! In juni 2015 vonden er drie contactmomenten plaats.
Komeet 67P. We zoomen in…
Kijk eens naar rechts. Daar ligt Philae!
De lander ligt op z’n kant in een kloof.
Helaas bleef het daarbij. Alle pogingen die in de maanden erna gedaan werden om in contact te komen, liepen op niets uit. In februari 2016 besloten wetenschappers van ESA om geen commando’s meer naar Philae te sturen. “Het zou heel verrassend zijn als we nu nog een signaal ontvangen”, reageerde projectmanager Stephan Ulamec toen.
Eindelijk gevonden Het is fascinerend dat we Philae nu eindelijk zien. De foto is gemaakt op een afstand van 2,7 kilometer van het oppervlak van Rosetta’s komeet. De resolutie bedraagt vijf centimeter per pixel, dus Philae – met een grootte van één meter – is duidelijk te zien.
Vaarwel Rosetta Eind deze maand landt de Rosetta-ruimtesonde op de komeet en daarmee eindigt deze bijzondere missie. Nu Philae terecht is, kan het ruimtevaartuig zich focussen op de crash. Rosetta zal een laatste rustplaats vinden op de kop van het kosmische badeendje. Dit gebied heet Ma’at’. Hier zijn actieve putten te vinden: dieper gelegen gebieden waaruit gaspluimen ontsnappen. Als alles volgens plan verloopt, landt Rosetta om 12:30 uur Nederlandse tijd op het oppervlak.
'Leven op aarde ontstond dankzij botsing met Mercurius-achtige planeet'
'Leven op aarde ontstond dankzij botsing met Mercurius-achtige planeet'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
De botsing trakteerde de aarde op een flinke hoeveelheid koolstof en maakte de weg vrij voor het leven zoals wij dat kennen.
Dat stellen onderzoekers in het blad Nature Geoscience. Het is een hypothese die wellicht een eind maakt aan een groot mysterie. Dat mysterie draait om: koolstof. Eén van de zes scheikundige elementen waaruit alle levensvormen op aarde zijn opgebouwd.
Mysterie De aarde bestaat uit een kern, mantel, korst en atmosfeer. De mantel, atmosfeer en korst wisselen voortdurend elementen uit, waaronder de elementen – zoals koolstof – die nodig zijn voor leven. En dat is eigenlijk een beetje vreemd. Want hoe komt koolstof in de mantel, korst en atmosfeer terecht? Talloze onderzoeken hebben namelijk aangetoond dat het grootste deel van de oorspronkelijke hoeveelheid koolstof op aarde al vroeg in de geschiedenis van onze planeet in de kern werd opgenomen of in de ruimte verdween. “De uitdaging is om de oorsprong van vluchtige elementen zoals koolstof, die zich buiten de kern, in de mantel van onze planeet bevinden, te verklaren,” stelt onderzoeker Rajdeep Dasgupta. Want als de oorspronkelijke hoeveelheid koolstof op aarde in de ruimte verdween of in de ijzeren kern werd opgeslagen, waar komt dan de koolstof in de mantel en biosfeer vandaan?
Botsing Die hoeveelheid koolstof moet later op aarde zijn beland. En wel door toedoen van een enorme botsing, zo denken Dasgupta en collega’s. Zo’n 4,4 miljard jaar geleden zou een Mercurius-achtige planeet met een koostofrijke buitenlaag op onze aarde zijn geklapt. “Een scenario dat de verhouding tussen koolstof en zwavel en de grote hoeveelheid koolstof (op aarde, red.) kan verklaren, is een scenario waarin een jonge Mercurius-achtige planeet die reeds een siliciumrijke kern had in botsing kwam en geabsorbeerd werd door de aarde,” stelt Dasgupta. “De kern van die planeet zou direct in de kern van onze planeet verdwijnen en de koolstofrijke mantel zou zich mengen met de mantel van de aarde.”
Een schematische weergave van de botsing met een Mercurius-achtige protoplaneet. Afbeelding: Rajdeep Dasgupta.
Afgaand op de hoeveelheid koolstof en zwavel op aarde lijkt het scenario aannemelijk. In de toekomst zal echter moeten blijken of het scenario ook overeenkomt met de verhouding waarin andere elementen vandaag de dag op aarde voorkomen.
Bronmateriaal:
"Earth’s carbon points to planetary smashup" - Rice University De afbeelding bovenaan dit artikel is gemaakt door A. Passwaters / Rice University, gebaseerd op beelden van NASA / JPL-Caltech.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid-Sampling Mission Ready to Launch Thursday
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid-Sampling Mission Ready to Launch Thursday
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return Mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.— NASA's first-ever asteroid-sampling spacecraft is poised for an on-time liftoff Thursday evening (Sept. 8), and mission team members said they can't wait.
There are no issues with the OSIRIS-REx probe's United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket or the range at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, just down the road from here, NASA officials said today (Sept. 6).
"The Atlas V rocket and range equipment are ready, and the combined government and contractor launch team is prepared to launch this fantastic asteroid sample-retrieval mission, OSIRIS-REx," Tim Dunn, NASA launch manager at Kennedy Space Center, said during a news conference today. [Osiris-Rex: NASA's Asteroid Sample-Return Mission in Pictures]
Mother Nature should cooperate as well; Air Force weather forecasters are predicting an 80 percent chance of good conditions. Furthermore, there is no foreseen fallout from the dramatic explosion of SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket at a neighboring Cape Canaveral pad. That accident occurred Sept. 1 during a routine test ahead of the planned Sept. 3 launch of a communications satellite.
"Our Atlas V vehicle, as well as OSIRIS-REx, are safely buttoned up and secure inside the VIF," said Scott Messer, program manager for NASA missions at ULA, referring to the Vertical Integration Facility, where rockets are stacked ahead of launch. "We haven't identified any damage or any concerns as a result of the incident last week."
The $800 million OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security, Regolith Explorer) mission is scheduled to lift off Thursday at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT). There is some margin for error in case of a delay; the launch window is 115 minutes long.
If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with a 1,640-foot-wide (500 meters) asteroid named Bennu in August 2018, grab a sample of space rock material two years later and return that material to Earth in September 2023.
Bennu is thought to harbor carbon-containing organic molecules, the building blocks of life as we know it. So the mission should shed light on the role space rocks like Bennu may have played in helping life get a foothold on Earth, NASA officials have said.
The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, enclosed in a payload fairing, is positioned atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Aug. 29, 2016.
Credit: NASA/Dimitri Gerondidakis
That's the primary goal. But OSIRIS-REx's observations should also help scientists better understand the threat the potentially dangerous Bennu poses to Earth. The mission should also clarify the forces acting on asteroids in deep space, leading to improved orbit predictions for space rocks in general, mission team members have said.
Principal investigator Dante Lauretta, who's based at the University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, has been working on OSIRIS-REx since 2004, when the mission was just a concept. He said he can hardly believe the spacecraft is finally about to get off the ground.
"It's something I've dreamed about since I was a little kid," Lauretta said. "To be able to climb around on the Vertical Integration Facility and see a rocket getting stacked that's got my spacecraft on top of it that we're about to send off to an asteroid — sometimes I have to just pinch myself to convince myself that I'm not dreaming all of this."
Ice Volcanoes and More: Dwarf Planet Ceres Continues to Surprise
Ice Volcanoes and More: Dwarf Planet Ceres Continues to Surprise
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Icy Volcanoes Speculated To Be The Source Of Ceres’ Bright Spots
Lecture: Unveiling Dwarf Planet Ceres
Flight Over Dwarf Planet Ceres
The dwarf planet Ceres is a complex and active world unlike any other place in the solar system, new research suggests.
Observations by NASA's Ceres-orbiting Dawn spacecraft indicate that "ice volcanos" have erupted on the dwarf planet in the recent past and that Ceres' crust is an odd ice-rock mixture that has never been observed before, scientists reported in a series of six new studies published online today (Sept. 1) in the journal Science.
"When we got to Ceres, we were expecting to be surprised, and we have been in many ways," Dawn principal investigator Chris Russell, a professor of geophysics and space physics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), told Space.com. [Watch: An Ice Volcano on Ceres]
"Ceres has been active during its history inside; the interior has been changing, evolving, much like the Earth's interior changes with time," added Russell, lead author of one of the new Science papers and co-author on the other five. "It's in the transition between the smaller asteroids and the Earth, in that it changes, and has changed, over the years from the time that the material initially came together."
NASA's Dawn probe captured this high-resolution image of the Ceres mountain Ahuna Mons. Image width is 19 miles (30 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
Eyeing the queen of the asteroid belt
Dawn launched in September 2007 on a $467 million mission to study the two largest objects in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter — the 330-mile-wide (530 kilometers) protoplanet Vesta and Ceres, which is about 590 miles (950 km) across.
Dawn orbited Vesta from July 2011 through September 2012, when the probe departed for Ceres. The spacecraft arrived at the dwarf planet in March 2015, in the process becoming the first probe ever to orbit two different bodies beyond the Earth-moon system.
Scientists already knew a bit about Vesta, based on analyses of rocks that were blasted off the object long ago and have fallen to Earth as meteorites. Dawn's work confirmed suspicions that Vesta is basically "frozen in time," Russell said.
"It formed early and cooled off rapidly, and has just been a very solid body that was battered by impacts," he said.
Ceres was more mysterious, because no meteorite "family" is associated with the dwarf planet. But Dawn has discovered that Ceres is an altogether different beast than its asteroid belt neighbor, as the six new Science papersshow.
Perspective view of the Ceres mountain Ahuna Mons in false color derived from Dawn’s framing-camera data. The bluish color of the mountain’s flanks probably represents a compositional change. Ahuna Mons is 2.5 miles tall and 10.5 miles wide (4 by 17 kilometers).
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UCLA/MPS/DLR/IDA
An active world
For example, the surface of Ceres is much more diverse and complex than that of Vesta, possessing extensive linear structures, lobed features caused by flowing material and a 2.5-mile-high (4 km) mountain (in addition to numerous craters).
This massif, known as Ahuna Mons, resembles the dome-shaped mountains created by volcanism here on Earth, researchers reported in one of the new studies. And Dawn team members said they think Ahuna Mons was indeed created by a volcano, but one that spewed out cold, molten ice rather than hot, liquid rock.
The researchers — led by Ottaviano Ruesch, of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland — said they aren't sure exactly what Ceres' "cryomagma" is made of, but they suggested it could be a mix of chlorine salts and water ice.
Furthermore, Ahuna Mons appears to be quite young, the researchers said. Analyses of crater counts suggest that the mountain formed in the last 200 million years or so, study team members said. (Like the rest of the solar system, Ceres itself formed about 4.56 billion years ago.)
In another one of the new studies, a team led by Debra Buczkowski,,of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, identified other dome-shaped features that also appear to be products of cryovolcanism (though not all of it as recent as the activity responsible for Ahuna Mons). Buczkowski and her colleagues also concluded that some of Ceres' linear features likely represent subsurface faults.
Ceres doesn't experience tidal heating; its insides are never churned and heated by another object's powerful gravitational pull, because Ceres never gets close enough to a giant planet. So the energy driving geological activity such as cryovolcanism must come from the dwarf planet's internal heat, Russell said — primarily the heat left over from the object's long-ago formation, with some contribution from radioactive decay processes.
"Ceres is cooling down, but it hasn't cooled down yet," he said.
Ceres is probably similar in this respect to Pluto, another dwarf planet that hasremained geologically active into the recent past. (The powerful ice geysers that blast from the south polar region of the Saturn moon Enceladus, on the other hand, are driven by tidal heating.)
Astronomers know, based on Ceres' measured density, that the dwarf planet harbors a large amount of water. Over the years, there's been some speculation that a subsurface ocean such as the one on Enceladus may exist on Ceres.
If Ceres ever had such an ocean, it's probably gone now, Russell said. But the dwarf planet may still be able to support life as we know it, he added.
"We now know that there is water, and there is enough heat in the interior that that water can be in liquid form," Russell said. "There's certainly water, or brine, that can flow through the system and reach the surface." [Dwarf Planet Ceres' Intriguing Features Seen in New Detail (Video)]
Perspective view of the Ceres mountain Ahuna Mons in false color derived from Dawn’s framing-camera data. The bluish color of the mountain’s flanks probably represents a compositional change. Ahuna Mons is 2.5 miles tall and 10.5 miles wide (4 by 17 kilometers).
Credit: Ruesch et al Science (2016)
Ceres' odd crust
Before Dawn got to Ceres, most astronomers thought the dwarf planet's crust consists primarily of water ice. But another one of the new Science studies, which is based on a detailed analysis of Ceres' many craters, suggested that's not the case.
Water ice is fairly soft, at least compared to rock. So if Ceres had a primarily icy shell, the dwarf planet's craters would tend to "relax," or flatten out, on relatively short timescales: 10 million to 100 million years or so, the researchers said. But study leader Harald Hiesinger, of the University of Munster in Germany, and his colleagues didn't find the expected relaxation.
Instead, Ceres' crater morphology suggests that the dwarf planet's crust is a strange mix of perhaps 60 percent rock and 40 percent ice, Russell said.
"This is something that we haven't seen before," he said.
"It's a new material to us — something that, if you hit it really hard, it will melt and flow, but you don't have to warm it up to the temperature of lava," Russell added. "We have many, many different areas where the material has flowed across the surface after having been hit by perhaps a meteorite or something of that nature." [Take a Trippy Trip Over Dwarf Planet Ceres (Video)]
Another of the new studies, this one led by Russell, suggested that Ceres may possess a thin atmosphere; such an "exosphere" could explain Dawn's observations of the solar wind interacting with the dwarf planet, the researchers wrote.
One of the other Science papers reported the probable detection of water ice, likely unearthed by an impact or landslide, at the bottom of a crater named Oxo. Another paper concluded that Ceres' surface was likely substantially altered by water at some point in the past, based on the widespread distribution of clay minerals (which only form in water).
These two studies were led by Jean-Philippe Combe (of the Bear Fight Institute in Winthrop, Washington) and Eleonora Ammannito (of UCLA), respectively.
(The new papers don't touch much on Ceres' famous bright spots, which appear to be composed largely of carbonates, Dawn team members recently reported.)
More discoveries to come
Dawn should help astronomers refine their understanding of Ceres even more in the future; NASA recently extended the spacecraft's mission by an additional two years.
For the past eight months or so, Dawn has been studying Ceres from an altitude of just 240 miles (385 km). But on Friday (Sept. 2), the probe will begin spiraling out to a higher orbit, one that lies 910 miles (1,460 km) above the dwarf planet's surface.
The move will allow Dawn to save fuel, NASA officials said. In addition, Dawn should be able to make better targeted observations from the more distant orbit, Russell told Space.com.
During the remainder of the mission, the Dawn team will look hard for changes in Ceres' surface over time, to get a better handle on the dwarf planet's geological activity and processes, Russell said.
The team is particularly interested in better understanding how often material makes it from Ceres' subsurface onto the surface, he added.
"We know that there is liquid inside Ceres," Russell . "Does it come out on a regular basis, or does it just leak out as vapor? Or are there outgassing events?"
A possible outgassing event occurred several years ago on Ceres: In January 2014, researchers reported that Europe's Herschel Space Observatory had detected a transient cloud of water vapor around the dwarf planet. Dawn is not equipped to detect water vapor directly, but the probe may be able to spot a plume by indirect means, Russell said.
The Herschel detection "suggested that there were times when there was more atmosphere than others," he said. "We would love to be able to check that out."
NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission Next Week
NASA to Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission Next Week
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
NASA's asteroid-sampling OSIRIS-REx spacecraft being prepared for encapsulation in its payload fairing inside the Payload Hazardous Servicing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Credit: NASA/Glenn Benson
The launch of NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission is less than a week away and won't be affected by a nearby SpaceX rocket explosion that occurred yesterday (Sept. 1), space agency officials say.
On Thursday, Sept. 8, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is scheduled to launch from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, kicking off a two-year journey to a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu. Lift off of the probe's Atlas V rocket is set for 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) and remains on track despite the explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at a nearby launchpad yesterday.
"@OSIRIS-Rex remains on Sep. 8," NASA officials wrote on Twitter after the rocket explosion yesterday. "Initial assessments show @ulalaunch rocket & spacecraft healthy and secure, 1.1 miles from @SpaceX's pad," SpaceX is investigating the cause of the explosion yesterday. Meanwhile, launch provider United Launch Alliance is preparing its own Atlas V booster for the OSIRIS-Rex launch. [Osiris-Rex: NASA's Asteroid Sample-Return Mission in Pictures]
If all goes according to plan, OSIRIS-REx will rendezvous with the 1,650-foot-wide (500 meters) Bennu in July 2018, grab a hefty chunk of asteroid material two years later and return that sample to Earth in September 2023.
The main goal of the $800 million mission — whose name is short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer — involves better understanding of the role carbon-rich asteroids such as Bennu may have played in delivering the building blocks of life to Earth, OSIRIS-REx team members have said.
"Bennu has what we believe to be some of the most primitive, organic-rich material that exists in our solar system," Daniel Scheeres, leader of the mission's radio-science team, said in a statement.
"We think it was initially distilled out of gas during the dawn of the solar system, which is the main reason it was chosen for the mission," added Scheeres, an aerospace engineering professor at the University of Colorado Boulder.
NASA Set To Launch Asteroid-Sampling Mission
This Week @ NASA, August 19, 2016
OSIRIS-REx's observations will also help scientists refine their understanding of the threat Bennu poses to Earth. (There's a slight chance the space rock could hit the planet in the late 22nd century.)
"By visiting Bennu, we can very precisely determine its orbit, determine the physical forces affecting it and do a much better job of predicting where it will be in the next couple of hundred years," Scheeres said. "By then we should know if we need to start building a giant space tugboat."
The mission will also investigate the resources Bennu possesses, providing information that may prove useful to future asteroid miners, NASA officials have said.
OSIRIS-REx is NASA's first asteroid-sampling mission, but it's not the first one in history. Japan's Hayabusa mission sent home tiny pieces of the asteroid Itokawa in 2010, and Hayabusa 2 launched in December 2014 to snag samples from a different space rock.
NASA has mounted other types of sample-return missions in the past. The Apollo astronauts brought hundreds of pounds of rocks home from the moon, for example, and the robotic Genesis and Stardust spacecraft grabbed particles from the solar wind and a comet, respectively.
The possibility of life in outer space has always been a popular topic in science and science fiction alike. Now, a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt suggests that we may need to play a more active role in the creation of this life.
FINDING LIFE
It is no secret that one of the projects that has kept space agencies the most busy is the search for the existence of life beyond Earth. This has largely been done through the search for exoplanets (planets that exist outside of our solar system) that fit the basic requirements for life as we know it.
Success on this front is not lacking. We have found a universe full of worlds both great and small. However, one scientist from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt thinks that simply being “Earth-like” may not be enough.
Dr. Claudius Gros’ theory appears in a paper published at the scientific journal Astrophysics and Space Science.
In short, Gros asserts that many seemingly habitable exoplanets may not be capable of sustaining life in the long run.”It is therefore certain that we will discover a large number of exoplanets that are inhabitable intermittently but not permanently. Life would, indeed, be possible on these planets, but it would not have the time to grow and develop independently,” the physicist argues.
NASA
“MAKING” LIFE
So, what to do? How to get complex alien life?
In his research, Gros proposes that we provide what is necessary to jump-start life on these habitable planets, and then work as we can to sustain this life. Gros aptly calls this effort The Genesis Project (Star Trek, anyone?).
The necessary conditions to make life happen can be recreated (via terraforming), but the Genesis Project proposes to take this further by creating these conditions on discovered exoplanets that are already suitable for life as we know it. This means taking a shortcut of…well, billions of years.
Technologically, Gros argues that it can be done with current technologies, using small, unmanned interstellar ships that will build automated gene laboratories to engineer single-celled organisms on the target exoplanet. This ecosphere would, ideally, develop into more complex life, similar to the Earth’s experience. The only difference is, this time, we would have a hand on it.
Contributing to life in space would be an achievement unparalleled in space exploration.
The possibility of life in outer space has always been a popular topic in science and science fiction alike. Now, a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt suggests that we may need to play a more active role in the creation of this life.
FINDING LIFE
It is no secret that one of the projects that has kept space agencies the most busy is the search for the existence of life beyond Earth. This has largely been done through the search for exoplanets (planets that exist outside of our solar system) that fit the basic requirements for life as we know it.
Success on this front is not lacking. We have found a universe full of worlds both great and small. However, one scientist from the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt thinks that simply being “Earth-like” may not be enough.
Dr. Claudius Gros’ theory appears in a paper published at the scientific journal Astrophysics and Space Science.
In short, Gros asserts that many seemingly habitable exoplanets may not be capable of sustaining life in the long run.”It is therefore certain that we will discover a large number of exoplanets that are inhabitable intermittently but not permanently. Life would, indeed, be possible on these planets, but it would not have the time to grow and develop independently,” the physicist argues.
NASA
“MAKING” LIFE
So, what to do? How to get complex alien life?
In his research, Gros proposes that we provide what is necessary to jump-start life on these habitable planets, and then work as we can to sustain this life. Gros aptly calls this effort The Genesis Project (Star Trek, anyone?).
The necessary conditions to make life happen can be recreated (via terraforming), but the Genesis Project proposes to take this further by creating these conditions on discovered exoplanets that are already suitable for life as we know it. This means taking a shortcut of…well, billions of years.
Technologically, Gros argues that it can be done with current technologies, using small, unmanned interstellar ships that will build automated gene laboratories to engineer single-celled organisms on the target exoplanet. This ecosphere would, ideally, develop into more complex life, similar to the Earth’s experience. The only difference is, this time, we would have a hand on it.
Contributing to life in space would be an achievement unparalleled in space exploration.
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