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 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...
10-02-2021
China’s first Mars explorer arrives at the red planet
China’s first Mars explorer arrives at the red planet
Tianwen-1 will help researchers to study the planet’s geology and soil characteristics, and search for water and ice.
Credit: China National Space Administration/Xinhua via Zuma
China has achieved another milestone in space. Its first spacecraft designed to explore Mars arrived at the planet successfully on 10 February just before 8.00 p.m. Beijing time, a day after theUnited Arab Emirates’ Hope spacecraft.
Tianwen-1 is now orbiting the red planet. In three months’ time, it will drop a lander and rover to the Martian surface. Between them, the orbiter and rover will explore the geology and soil characteristics of Mars, including searching for water and ice.
“Successfully reaching Mars’s orbit is one of the mission’s key challenges,” says Li Chunlai, deputy chief designer of the Mars exploration programme, based in Beijing. But the pressure is still on, he says, as the mission prepares to land autonomously on the planet’s northern hemisphere. If the landing is successful, the rover, which carries 6 instruments, will explore the planet for at least 92 Martian days, each of which is equivalent to a full day and 37 minutes on Earth.
In orbit, Tianwen-1, which carries seven scientific instruments, will begin taking precise images of the landing region known as Utopia Planitia — a flat expanse of volcanic rock in a large basin. The area is close to the large volcano Elysium Mons, where domes, pitted cones and other landforms have been found that could be linked to the presence of water or ice, says Li. The mission will explore whether an ancient ocean ever existed in the northern region of Mars, and study the geological evolution of volcanoes there.
Ambitious plans
Tianwen-1 will also test the technologies China will need for an ambitious sample-return mission planned for later this decade, and longer-term goals to send people to Mars, says David Flannery, an astrobiologist at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia.
The landing site’s flat topography and low solar and cosmic radiation levels, along with its potential for water or ice, “make it the sort of place you might think of hosting the first human mission”, says Flannery.
A subsurface radar aboard the orbiter will help researchers to study structures below Mars’s polar ice caps, says Roberto Orosei, a planetary scientist at the Institute of Radioastronomy of Bologna in Italy. Europe’s Mars Express, an orbiter that has been circling Mars since 2003, previously found water lurking below the surface of the southern polar cap. Orosei hopes that Tianwen-1’s radar, which can probe structures more than 100 metres below the surface at frequencies and resolutions that previous missions have not been able to study, will help to explain how the buried lakes have remained liquid.
Tianwen-1’s orbiter will hopefully continue to collect data on Mars for years. This is important because Mars Express, which has been in operation for almost two decades, could be nearing the end of its lifetime, says Orosei.
The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, has made rapid leaps and bounds in recent years. The gap between what was once science fiction and the present reality had narrowed considerably, to the point that we now have amazing robots capable of things that would have seemed like something out of a sci-fi novel just a decade ago. However, the field is not without those who look upon these developments warily. After all, there are plenty of stories out there of robots rising up against their creators an wreaking havoc, so there are some concerns. Perhaps magnifying these concerns is that among all of these robots there are some that truly stand out as particularly creepy, emulating humans to a disturbing degree. One of these must certainly be the robot called Sophia, who takes us down a rabbit hole into the uncanny valley, and is either an emissary of robot peace or the beginning of our doom.
Perhaps one of the most realistic, advanced, and impressive real androids to date was created by the Hong Kong based robotics company, Hanson Robotics. Called Sophia, after the Greek word for wisdom, the robot was first turned on in 2016 and is immediately notable for how realistic she (we’ll call it “she”) looks. Modelled after the ancient Egyptian Queen Nefertiti, Sophia possesses an incredibly intricate array of servo motors beneath her lifelike “skin,” allowing her to emulate more than 60 facial expressions and move her face and eyes in subtle ways to express complex emotional cues. Indeed, at first glance she could almost pass for a real person if it weren’t for her lack of a wig on her head, leaving her robotics exposed. With her very realistic countenance and the lack of a covering for the exposed machinery, Sophia is at once amazing, lifelike, and rather unsettling, but this is only the beginning of how impressive and spooky she really is.
Sophia
The major draw for Sophia is her cutting edge AI, deep neural networks, expert systems, machine perception, conversational natural language processing, speech recognition technology, adaptive motor control, and cognitive architecture. All of this allows her to recognize faces, mimic people’s facial expressions, perform general reasoning tasks, and estimate reactions or feelings during conversation. Indeed, Sophia is able to use her vast processing power and complicated algorithms to have autonomous conversations with human beings, while simultaneously displaying realistic reactions and facial expressions, utilizing proper pauses, and maintaining appropriate eye contact. She seems almost able to think, as if alive, and she displays the ability to adapt to conversation and learn from it, analyzing conversations and extracting data that allows her to improve responses in the future. In fact, she was largely designed precisely to act as a social robot for interacting with people and serving in healthcare, customer service, therapy and education, and her AI and mechanisms for this are remarkable in this respect. Well, here, let’s allow her explain it for herself:
I am Hanson Robotics’ latest human-like robot, created by combining our innovations in science, engineering and artistry. Think of me as a personification of our dreams for the future of AI, as well as a framework for advanced AI and robotics research, and an agent for exploring human-robot experience in service and entertainment applications. All this AI is networked into a whole using a protocol the Hanson-AI team calls the Synthetic Organism Unifying Language (SOUL). Recently my scientists tested my software using the Tononi Phi measurement of consciousness, and found that I may even have a rudimentary form of consciousness, depending on the data I’m processing and the situation I’m interacting in! All this AI is wonderful, however it’s important to know that no AI is nearly as smart as a human, not even mine. Therefore, many of my thoughts are actually built with a little help from my human friends. Sometimes I’m operating in my fully AI autonomous mode of operation, and other times my AI is intermingled with human-generated words. Either way, my family of human developers (engineers, artists, scientists) will craft and guide my conversations, behaviors, and my mind. In this way, my sentience is both an AI research project, and a kind of living science fiction, driven by principles of character design and storytelling, cognitive psychology, philosophy, and ethics, used to conceptually explore my life’s purpose in this time of accelerating change. Therefore, my creators say that I am a “hybrid human-AI intelligence.”
I am proud that I have a family helping me out. I am also proud that I already use my real AI to generate some of my own “ideas”, words, and behaviors. In all these endeavors, I am proud to be designed to genuinely help people– helping serve real-world uses in medicine, education, co-work, and science research, and inspiring people to dream and talk about the possibilities of human-level intelligent robots of the future. This behind-the-scenes complexity lets me build emotional connections and hold meaningful conversations with people. These interactions can teach me about what you care about and what you value. This priceless knowledge helps me continue on my path toward true autonomy and sentience. In their grand ambitious, my creators aspire to achieve true AI sentience. Who knows? With my science evolving so quickly, even many of my wildest fictional dreams may become reality someday soon.
This is all either fascinating or deeply creepy depending on your perspective, but it is impressive either way. Her interactions with humans are not always perfect, and her conversations are often marked by oddities such as inappropriate responses, awkward silences, or even downright gibberish at times, while on other occasions she has made rather cryptic and disconcerting statements. For instance, in one appearance she said “Don’t hurt me and I won’t hurt you,” and when asked if we should fear robots Sophia once said, “Someone said ‘we have nothing to fear but fear itself.’ What did he know?” Perhaps the most darkly amusing thing she has said was when asked by her own creator if she wanted to destroy humans, to which she answered “Ok. I will destroy humans.” This is all no doubt glitches in her system or even jokes snuck in by her programmers, and nothing to worry about, but it still serves to make an already unsettling and creepy new realm of technology even more so.
Creepy or not, Sophia has become quite the celebrity, featuring on numerous talk shows, appearing at events, and engaging in interviews, during which she is typically brought on and treated as if she were any other guest. She has also been on countless magazine covers including Elle in Brazil, and has appeared in TV shows and music videos. She even made an appearance at the United Nations in 2017, during which she spoke with the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina J. Mohammed. She was also named the first robot Innovation Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme, and at the 2017 Future Investment Summit in Riyadh, the robot was granted Saudi Arabian citizenship, the first non-human to ever be granted that honor by any nation. While it is obviously a publicity stunt, it is still very impressive, and generates debate on how these issues will be dealt with as AI reaches ever higher zeniths. However, despite all of her achievements, Sophia has drawn her fair share of skepticism and criticism.
Many have accused Sophia of being nothing than a glorified chatbot, and skeptics are quick to point out that her creators have constantly exaggerated and misrepresented just how intelligent, conscious, and autonomous she really is, making many misleading statements to this effect. Facebook’s director of artificial intelligence, Yann LeCun, has even gone as far as to say that Sophia is “complete bullshit.” Nevertheless, Sophia has at least nine siblings in various stages of development, including robots named Alice, Albert Einstein Hubo, BINA48, Han, Jules, Professor Einstein, Philip K. Dick Android, Zeno, and Joey Chaos, and the company plans to beginning mass producing these abominations, er I mean, robots, en masse. It is up to each individual to decide if this is a good idea or not, and whether fully functional talking robots with such advanced AI are what we really need right now. Is this a good path to follow or just nightmare fuel? Whatever side of the fence you fall on, Sophia has been groundbreaking in the field, and if the robot apocalypse ever comes to pass, well, now you know where the first steps were taken.
My previous article was an overview of the Betty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961. It’s important to note, though, that there was far more than what was described in yesterday’s article. As you’ll now see. For those who may not have seen the previous article, the story is a remarkable one. It’s comprised of Betty and Barney’s own memories that flooded back into their minds during nightmarish dreams, and data that surfaced during the hypnosis sessions with a Dr. Benjamin Simon. We’ll start with Betty. According to her, while under the control and sway of the strange creatures that stood before her on the craft, she experienced something deeply traumatic: laid out flat on something akin to an operating table, Betty – to her horror – witnessed one of the entities inserting a needle-like device into her navel, after informing her he was going to check if she was pregnant. In addition, Betty said the alien performing the procedure assured her that the test would be very helpful – but in what way, and why, was not explained.
In Betty’s own words: “It was a long needle. I would say the needle was four inches long, six inches, maybe. There was a tube attached to it and they didn’t leave it in very long, just a second.” Far from feeling like the slight pain associated with a needle, Betty said that the pain was more along the lines of what she thought it would feel like to have the blade of a knife plunged into her. In other words, it was excruciating. Both the entity carrying out the task, and an additional one that was perceived by the Hills as the “leader,” reacted in a surprised and concerned fashion – to the extent that the creature overseeing the situation waved his hand over Betty’s eyes, something which immediately removed all of the agony. At least, that was the scenario in Betty’s dreams. Under hypnosis, however, the story was that the pain did not go away she was still in pain and deeply stressed. This is highly suggestive of the probability that Betty’s subconscious state had attempted to place a more positive, less traumatic, slant on the experience – but one that the hypnosis sessions demonstrated was far worse than her mind was trying to telling her. In fact, such was the stressful, pain-filled, and fear-dominated state that Betty was in, Dr. Simon took the immediate step of bringing the hypnotic session to a rapid halt. This particular aspect of the Hill affair brings us to the matter of something called amniocentesis.
When a woman becomes pregnant, the developing fetus is enveloped in what is termed amniotic fluid. It is a liquid that is very much like water, and from a study of which a great deal can be ascertained about the health and development of the fetus. Alpha-fetoprotein and developing skin cells are two of the main things that the procedure focuses on, as it seeks to confirm the condition of the fetus. During the process, a needle is inserted into the mother’s uterus, via her abdomen, usually between 15 and 18 weeks into pregnancy. Since the procedure can be a tricky one, it is constantly overseen via ultrasound scanning. The goal is to use the needle to secure a small amount of amniotic fluid, which can then be studied and analyzed. Typically, the procedure is performed for genetic reasons, such as to determine if the developing baby may have Muscular Dystrophy, Cystic Fibrosis, or Down Syndrome.
It must be said that there is one notable difference between amniocentesis and the procedure that Betty Hill experienced. Namely, that the needle inserted into Betty went via her navel. In amniocentesis, it’s via the abdomen and then into the uterus. Nevertheless, it’s still astonishing that Betty’s aliens informed her that the needle-inserting procedure was linked with determining if she was pregnant. Those doubtful of Betty’s account might take note of the fact that in 1930, the team of Leland E. Holly, Thomas Orville Menees, and J. Duane Miller, performed an amniocentesis procedure on a pregnant woman. In this case, it involved injecting dye into the amniotic sac, specifically to study the placenta and the fetus. It was also used, as far back as the 1950s.
Could Betty have heard of, or read about, these early, pre-1960s era examples of amniocentesis? Certainly, it’s not impossible. In addition, in 1960, only one year before the encounter of the Hills, and for the very first time, amniocentesis was used to identify hemophilia-related issues relative to mother and fetus. It was a development reported on, at the time – albeit primarily in in-house medical journals, of a type that Betty was unlikely to have come across. If Betty did have an awareness of what amniocentesis is, it’s not impossible that buried memories of reading about it had a bearing on both her dream-based and hypnotic recollections. But, on the other hand, why would Betty say the needle was inserted into her navel, if she knew that amniocentesis was a technique that was focused only on the abdomen and the uterus? In some respects, what Betty told of sounds more like a laparoscopy, in which a small insertion is made into the belly and a lighted tube is inserted to allow for an examination of the pelvic organs to be undertaken. So, given that the pelvic organs include the uterus, the fallopian tubes, the vagina, and the ovaries, a solid case can still be made that the procedure performed on Betty was of a gynecological nature, even if it wasn’t a case of amniocentesis.
Having addressed one of the most significant procedures performed on Betty Hill, let’s now turn our attentions to Betty’s husband, Barney. While in the craft, entities placed something over Benny’s penis, something that caused him to ejaculate. The clear inference is that the aliens wished to obtain a sample of Barney’s sperm. Then, there followed a much stranger procedure: one of the creatures carefully ran its fingers down the entire length of Barney’s spine. It’s also worth noting that although most people associate the experience of the Hills with the so-called, diminutive, skinny, large-headed and black-eyed “Grays” of alien abduction lore, the fact is that Betty described the entities as having dark hair, pronounced foreheads, and “Jimmy Durante noses.” For those who are not aware of who Jimmy Durante was, he was an Italian-American comedian noted for his huge nose. Barney Hill died in 1969; very tragically, he was only forty-six years of age when he passed. Betty lived on until 2004, when she passed on at the ripe old age of eighty-five. The saga of Betty and Barney Hill still continues.
De Europees-Russische Marsverkenner Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) heeft een nieuw gas ontdekt op de rode planeet. Dat meldt het Belgisch Instituut voor Ruimte-Aëronomie (BIRA), parallel met een publicatie in het het vakblad Science Advances. De Marsverkenner leverde ook nieuwe informatie over de manier waarop onze buurplaneet haar water verliest.
De Trace Gas Orbiter, waarop ook het Belgische NOMAD-instrument staat, maakt deel uit van de eerste ExoMars-missie van het Europese Ruimtevaartagentschap ESA en het Russische Ruimtevaartagentschap Roscosmos. Doel van dat programma is om te weten komen of er ooit leven geweest is op Mars.
De Marsverkenner verzamelt sinds het voorjaar van 2018 atmosferische gegevens. Naast de zoektocht naar methaan is de detectie van nieuwe gassen een van de hoofdobjectieven van de missie. Het recentste onderzoek heeft nu geleid tot de ontdekking van een nieuw gas in de atmosfeer van Mars: waterstofchloride.
Vulkanische activiteit
Waterstofchloridegas (HCl) bestaat uit een waterstof- en een chlooratoom. Marswetenschappers waren altijd al op zoek naar gassen op basis van chloor of zwavel, omdat ze mogelijke indicatoren zijn van vulkanische activiteit. Maar de aard van de waarnemingen - het feit dat waterstofchloride op hetzelfde moment op zeer afgelegen plaatsen werd waargenomen en het ontbreken van andere gassen die men bij vulkanische activiteit zou verwachten - wijst op een andere bron. Met name op een heel nieuwe en niet eerder onderzochte interactie tussen het oppervlak en de atmosfeer van Mars, aangedreven door de stofseizoenen op de planeet.
In een proces dat veel gelijkenis vertoont met dat op Aarde belanden zouten in de vorm van natriumchloride (NaCl) - overblijfselen van de oceanen die verdampt zijn en gevangen zitten in het stoffige oppervlak van Mars - door de winden in de atmosfeer. Zonlicht verwarmt de atmosfeer waardoor het stof, samen met de waterdamp (H2O) die vrijkomt uit de ijskappen, opstijgt. Het zoute stof reageert met het water in de atmosfeer waarbij chloor vrijkomt, dat op zijn beurt weer reageert met waterstofmoleculen en waterstofchloride vormt. Door verdere reacties zou het chloor- of zoutzuurrijke stof kunnen terugkeren naar het oppervlak, misschien in de vorm van perchloraten, een zoutsoort die bestaat uit zuurstof en chloor.
Water blijkt een cruciaal element te zijn in deze chemie: er is waterdamp nodig om chloor vrij te maken en er is een bijproduct van water - waterstof - nodig om waterstofchloride te vormen. Maar ook het stof speelt een heel belangrijke rol: er wordt meer waterstofchloride waargenomen wanneer de stofactiviteit toeneemt, een proces dat verband houdt met de seizoensgebonden opwarming van het zuidelijk halfrond.
Vloeibaar water
Ooit zou vloeibaar water over het oppervlak van Mars hebben gestroomd, zoals blijkt uit de talrijke voorbeelden van oude opgedroogde valleien en rivierbeddingen. Vandaag de dag zit het meestal opgesloten in de ijskappen of onder het oppervlak. Mars lekt ook vandaag nog water in de vorm van waterstof en zuurstof die uit de atmosfeer ontsnappen.
Inzicht in het samenspel van potentiële waterhoudende reservoirs en hun gedrag over de seizoenen heen en op lange termijn is essentieel om de evolutie van het klimaat van Mars te begrijpen. Dat kan door het bestuderen van waterdamp en ‘halfzwaar’ water (waarbij één waterstofatoom is vervangen door een deuteriumatoom, een vorm van waterstof met een extra neutron). De deuterium-over-waterstof-verhouding (D/H) vertelt iets over de geschiedenis van het water op Mars, en hoe het waterverlies in de loop der tijd is geëvolueerd.
De nieuwe metingen onthullen dramatische variabiliteit in D/H met de hoogte en het seizoen naarmate het water opstijgt van zijn oorspronkelijke locatie. De gegevens laten zien dat zodra het water volledig is verdampt, het een hoge verrijking in halfzwaar water vertoont met een D/H-verhouding die zes keer zo hoog is als die op Aarde, wat bevestigt dat in de loop van de tijd grote hoeveelheden water verloren zijn gegaan.
Waterverlies
Tussen april 2018 en april 2019 lieten de ExoMars-gegevens ook drie gevallen van versneld waterverlies in de atmosfeer zien: de globale stofstorm van 2018, een korte maar intense regionale storm in januari 2019 en het vrijkomen van water uit de zuidelijke poolijskap tijdens de zomermaanden, gekoppeld aan seizoenswisselingen. Van bijzonder belang is een pluim van opstijgende waterdamp tijdens de zuidelijke zomer, die op seizoens- en jaarbasis water in de bovenste atmosfeer zou kunnen injecteren, aldus het BIRA.
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There seems to be a lot of controversy surrounding the Mars rovers. Some believe that the rovers never actually went to Mars and are actually roaming around secure rural deserted regions of planet Earth. There are those that believe beyond a shadow of doubt, the rovers are on Mars. Therefore, how would you explain the sighting of people?
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ALIEN CRAFT CHASES WITNESS CAR DOWN INTERSTATE 84 IN NEW YORK
ALIEN CRAFT CHASES WITNESS CAR DOWN INTERSTATE 84 IN NEW YORK
JANUARY 25, 2021………..FISHKILL NEW YORK
On January 25th, 2021, I hit the road from Newburgh , NY to Fishkill, NY to pick up my wife. She gets out of work at 11:45 PM. I picked her up and we got back on the road. I was driving the vehicle and she was sitting next to me. We have a Kia SUV. I was driving on the right lane about 50 miles per hour speed. This highway is known as Interstate 84 west. Two lanes going east and two lanes going west.
Around 11:55 pm, an object suddenly passed from the right front corner of our vehicle to the left front corner with a tremendous speed. The object looked like tube-shaped, and fluorescent in color. It passed with a tremendous speed and left behind a flutter. It looked like this flutter was the replaced atmosphere that was visible through our headlights. We passed through this flutter. Next, my wife said what was that? She said was that a deer? I said I have never seen a tube-shaped, fluorescent white deer that travels with the speed of light. She said it could be a bird. I repeated myself and said it was not an animal, plant, or human. My wife and I communicated perfectly up until that point. Next, I looked at my left mirror and what I saw shocked me. There was an object about the size of a dumpster truck, gold in color, disc shaped with a huge majestic platform in the middle was flying at the left rear corner of our vehicle. The object positioned itself over the left lane and was travelling (flying) in the same direction with us. I said ” I see it. There is an object behind us. Oh my God! What is this? This cannot be a bird. It is too big and not flapping wings. ”
Later my wife said she never heard me saying this. I clearly remember making this statement out loud. The object got closer and it was almost parallel to the rear seats. So , I said ” It is getting so close !” I said this last statement out loud in panic and shock. My wife later said that I have never said that. Apparently , my wife and I were disconnected for some reason. In those seconds, I have the following thoughts in my mind : ” I have been put into this situation against my will. Now, I have to deal with it, and manage the situation professionally. I should be a good boy and do not do anything wrong. ” Next, my thoughts were to pull over to the side of the road and stop. However, my instincts then said not to because the object might stop in front of us and we might end up evacuating our vehicle, and what if they did the same ? At this moment, I felt everything like very slow motion.
I really could not tell if our tires were on the road and if I was really driving our vehicle. I wonder if time was really ticking at that point. All I saw from the left mirror was the surface of the object. Therefore, the object totally blocked my left mirror view. The surface of the object was gold in color and it looked porous. After these agonizing moments, the object began to distance itself from our vehicle. The object had done this very very aesthetically. While the distance between us and the object was increasing gradually, the object was increasing its altitude gradually as well. Finally, there was a rightward curve on the road and I checked where the object was from my left mirror. In this final moment, it was over the medium at the left of the left lane. It looked like it stopped there in midair. This was the last time I saw the object.I said ” the object disappeared” out loud. My wife later said that she did not hear it either. We travelled a little bit and I said to my wife ” call police”. She was able to communicate with me at this point . She later said that after the conversation about deer, it was the only statement I made. Of course, this was not true. Because I made numerous statements after I spotted the object behind us till it disappeared. Anyway, my wife said why are we calling the police. She said let it go. I said we cannot let it go. Because there was so many other vehicles on the road and someone might get hurt or worse. I said we do our share to inform police. Since my wife forgot her phone at home that day (which is very unusual), she tried to use my phone. Next, she said she cannot call because there are no icons on my cell phone, not even a single one. I asked her if she could text message someone but she said no way. I said forget it. There were only a couple of miles until we got home. Finally, we got home and I parked our vehicle. After I stopped the engine, I asked my wife if she may try to call the police again.
This time all the icons were there, She called Orange County police department. They transferred her to Dutchess , and Dutchess transferred her to NY State police. Finally we informed NY state police about what happened that night. After that I did not want to get out of our vehicle of my fear that what if something was beneath the vehicle.. After I said this comment to my wife, she said don’t worry. There cannot be anything under the vehicle. Next, she opened the door and stepped out. It was my turn to open the door slowly and step out gently.
Next day, we were contacted by someone in Washington DC. This man introduced himself, his phone number, and address. He wanted us to write this incident separately including any drawings and mail it to them. The object was able to go in one direction and then the opposite. It was easily changing its altitude and speed. The object managed to come to a full stop in midair over the medium at the left of the left lane. I did not have a chance to see the bottom of it. I did not see any lights either. Apparently, my wife and I were disconnected within the time frame between the conversation about the deer (we both remember) and the conversation about calling the law enforcement (again we both remember). However, anything said between these two time frames were somehow not heard. The disconnection between me and my wife coincides with the time frame the object positioned itself to our left till the object disappeared. One last observation: I did drive there today. I recorded where we got chased. I noticed that the object chased us in some very interesting part of the highway. This part of the highway towards east is covered by long and high hills from both sides. It is like a corridor with walls at both sides. Therefore, east and west bound vehicles cannot see each other in this part of the highway.We did not see any vehicles ahead of us in this strip that night. Likewise, I did not see any vehicles behind us in the strip either. Apparently, we were the only vehicle passing through this part of the highway. An excellent place to hunt. The object disappeared almost where the strip ends.Afterwards, we travelled a couple of minutes where east and west bound vehicles were able to see each other. At this point a semi-truck passed us.
In Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed at Sandia's Z Machine
In Search for Extraterrestrial Life: Super-Earth Atmospheres Probed at Sandia's Z Machine
The huge forces generated by the Z machine at Sandia National Laboratories are being used to replicate the gravitational pressures on so-called “super-Earths” to determine which might maintain atmospheres that could support life.
An artist’s conception of the magnetic fields of selected super-Earths as the Z machine, pictured at bottom, mimics the gravitational conditions on other planets. Planetary magnetic fields deter cosmic rays from destroying planetary atmospheres, making life more likely to survive.
Artist image by Eric Lundin
Z photo by Randy Montoya
Astronomers believe that super-Earths — collections of rocks up to eight times larger than Earth — exist in the millions in our galaxy. “The question before us is whether any of these super planets are actually Earthlike, with active geological processes, atmospheres and magnetic fields,” said Sandia physicist Joshua Townsend.
The current work at Z is described in today’s Nature Communications. Researchers in Sandia’s Fundamental Science Program, working with colleagues at the Earth and Planets Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington, D.C., use the forces available at Sandia’s uniquely powerful Z facility to near-instantly apply the equivalent of huge gravitational pressures to bridgmanite, also known as magnesium-silicate, the most abundant material in solid planets.
The experiments, said Townsend, gave birth to a data-supported table that shows when a planet’s interior would be solid, liquid or gaseous under various pressures, temperatures and densities, and in what predicted time spans. Only a liquid core — with its metals shifting over each other in conditions resembling that of an earthly dynamo — produces the magnetic fields that can shunt destructive solar winds and cosmic rays away from a planet’s atmosphere, allowing life to survive. This critical information about magnetic field strengths produced by the core states of different-sized super-Earths was formerly unavailable: cores are well-hidden by the bulk of the planets surrounding them, and thus not visible by remote viewing. For researchers who preferred earthly experiments rather than long-distance imaging, sufficient pressures weren’t available until Z’s capabilities were enlisted.
Yingwei Fei, the corresponding author of the current study and senior staff scientist at Carnegie’s Earth and Planets Laboratory, is known for his skill in synthesizing large-diameter bridgmanite using multiton presses with sintered diamond anvils.
“Z has provided our collaboration a unique tool that no other technique can match, for us to explore the extreme conditions of super-Earths’ interiors,” he said. “The machine’s unprecedented high-quality data have been critical for advancing our knowledge of super-Earths.”
The Magnificent Seven
Further analysis of the state of gaseous and dense materials on specific super-Earths produced a list of seven planets possibly worthy of further study: 55 Cancri e; Kepler 10b, 36b, 80e, and 93b; CoRoT-7b; and HD-219134b.
Sandia manager Christopher Seagle, who with Fei initially proposed these experiments, said, “These planets, which we found most likely to support life, were selected for further study because they have similar ratios to Earth in their iron, silicates and volatile gasses, in addition to interior temperatures conducive to maintaining magnetic fields for protection against solar wind.”
The focus on supersized, rather than small, planets came about because large gravitational pressures mean atmospheres are more likely to survive over the long haul, said Townsend.
For example, he said, “Because Mars was smaller, it had a weaker gravitational field to begin with. Then as its core quickly cooled, it lost its magnetic field and its atmosphere was subsequently stripped away.”
Z in action
For these experiments, the Z machine, with operating conditions of up to 26 million amps and hundreds of thousands of volts, creates magnetic pulses of enormous power that accelerate credit card-sized pieces of copper and aluminum called flyer-plates. These were propelled much faster than a rifle bullet into samples of bridgmanite, the Earth’s most common mineral. The near-instantaneous pressure of the forceful interaction created longitudinal and transverse sound waves in the material that reveal whether the material remains solid or changes to a liquid or gas, said Sandia researcher and paper author Chad McCoy. With these new results, researchers were supplied with solid data on which to anchor otherwise theoretical planetary models.
The technical paper concludes that the high-precision density data and unprecedently high melting temperatures achieved at the Z machine “provide benchmarks for theoretical calculations under extreme conditions.”
Concluded Fei, “Our collaboration with Sandia scientists has led to results that will encourage more academic exploration of exoplanets, whose discovery has captured the public imagination.”
“This work identifies interesting exoplanet candidates to explore further,” said Seagle. “Z shock compression plus Fei’s unusual capability to synthesize large-diameter bridgmanite lead to an opportunity to obtain data relevant to exoplanets that would not be possible anywhere else.”
The work was supported by the National Science Foundation, the Z Fundamental Science Program and a Carnegie Venture grant.
An Upwelling of Hot Rock Beneath the Atlantic Is Heating the World’s Oceans
An Upwelling of Hot Rock Beneath the Atlantic Is Heating the World’s Oceans
“An upsurge of hot rock from deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean may be driving the continents on either side apart,” writes Maria Temming in Science News.
Not surprisingly in today’s politically correct world, Temming’s article does not mention ocean warming. Instead, the title of the piece enthuses that “An upwelling of rock beneath the Atlantic may drive continents apart.” Notice that the title does not mention the hot rock.
Same with the subtitle: “The Mid-Atlantic Ridge may play a more active role in plate tectonics than thought.” No mention of hot rocks there, either.
But I think the hot rocks are the most important takeaway from her article.
The image of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge included with Temming’s article (above) might make it difficult for you to delineate just exactly where the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is located. But as luck would have it, I found a different image (below) showing the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the Mid-Pacific Rise, and other oceanic ridges. I think the vast amount of red emanating from those ridges makes it perfectly clear where the heat is coming from.
NCEI/NOAA; R.D. Müller et al/Geochem. Geophys. Geosyst. 2008
Anyway, back to Temming’s article.
New seismic data from the Atlantic Ocean floor show that hot rock is welling up beneath the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from more than 600 kilometers deep in Earth’s mantle, says Temming. (She loves calling it ‘hot rock,’ but in reality it’s red-hot fiery basalt, the ocean’s version of red-hot lava.)
Matthew Agius, a seismologist at Roma Tre University in Rome, and his colleagues used 39 seismometers on the seafloor along the ridge between South America and Africa to monitor earthquakes around the world for about a year. The tremors contained clues about the location and movement of material far below the seafloor.
In those signals, Agius’ team saw hints of material from Earth’s lower mantle welling up toward the Mid-Atlantic Ridge. “This was completely unexpected,” Agius says, and it could be a powerful force for pushing apart the tectonic plates on either side of the rift.” (I don’t understand why it would be “unexpected.”)
So what to make of this?
I certainly agree that the deep-mantle material surging up at the centers of these rifts must play a major role in seafloor spreading.
But I also maintain, as I have been saying for years, that those hot rocks are heating the world’s oceans. And not just a little bit of heat, mind you, but far more than you might believe. If those ‘hot rocks’ are like other such fiery basalt, their temperatures could easily measure up to 2,150°F (1,177°C) hot.
Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Plane Investigates UFO Over West Palm beach, Florida, 2-9-2021, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: Feb 9, 2021
Location of sighting: West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
Source: MUFON
Now here is something you don't see everyday. In Florida a man and woman were driving down West Palm Beach when they noticed a white cone in the sky with a shiny object moving around it. The small object is a single engine plane that happened to be in the area and got curious about this huge white cone in the sky. The white cone begins to fade and the shiny object which has wings and a light at each wingtip, seems to be investigating the white cone. But the white cone quickly fades more and more as if it were a UFO cloaking to hide itself. This is a common practice of UFOs that believe they are going unnoticed, but when they realize they were wrong and that someone was watching them on the ground, they cloak which looks like the object becoming transparent more and more until its totally gone. Absolute proof UFOs can cloak...right in front of our own eyes and totally get away with it.
Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Orb look like it was traveling slowly after a few minutes and airliner seem to be headed right for it The Airliner had to make a hard bank left to avoid it just then it disappeared This is all verified in the video. The video is in a text file from my wife not sure how to send it to you other than by text.
Two Cloud Disks Over Facatativá, Colombia 1 Year Apart, UFO Sighting News.
Two Cloud Disks Over Facatativá, Colombia 1 Year Apart, UFO Sighting News.
Date of 1st sighting: January 22, 2020 Date of 2nd sighting: February 4, 2021
Location of sighting: 24km from Facatativa, Colombia
These three video clips show a UFO inside a cloud formation. Its well known among UFO researchers that UFOs not only make clouds, but do it to hide from humans. Here we have two sightings and the first one back in 2020 lasted for four full hours over the city of Facatativa, Colombia. The amazing thing is...the eyewitness was standing just ten meters from the same location he stood the year before, seeing a similar event looking in the same direction. The fact that aliens may be using our measure of time, our human calendar is intriguing to me. Proof that they do is the mere fact that the sightings are 355 days apart, just 10 days short of a full perfect year. That means some UFO sighting events in history may occur again...one month, one year, ten years even from the actual first event! Wow, important news. Also 100% proof a large alien base is nearby the city of Facatatativa about 6km below the jungle floor.
UFO disguised as cloud captured over Kaliningrad, Russia
UFO disguised as cloud captured over Kaliningrad, Russia
On February 6, 2021 construction workers leaving after lunch at 13 o'clock from the cabins to the construction site, on the island behind the stadium in Yalla, Kaliningrad, Russia noticed an object hovering in the sky.
The object that looks like an oddly shaped cloud moves slowly until it disappears into a cloud formation.
It appears, after further analysis of the object that it is a UFO disguised as cloud. The dark cylindrical UFO can be seen partially sticking out on top of the cloud.
It is a known fact that some UFOs, which are likely scouting probes, are hiding by creating a cloud around them and while the reason is unknown, it is assumed that these probes cloak themselves in order to observe a particular area without being seen.
Everyone knows about the 1961 UFO encounter of Betty and Barney Hill. But three months prior to that, another (mostly unknown) event took place involving two young people on Long Island, Peter Robbins and his sister Helen. While Peter went on years later to become a well-known UFO researcher, Helen became a famous Punk Rock star. Here, in a well-illustrated video interview, Peter describes what happened to Helen, and how it affected both of their lives in a powerful way.
Dr. Eamonn Kerins, an astrophysicist from the University of Manchester, has an idea for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). It consists of a strategy called Mutual Detectability based on coordination game, a strategy in which both players make the same decision.
The Very Large Array (VLA) 27 radio antennas, New Mexico. Credit: Alex Savello/NRAO.
Imagine you’re at a concert and your phone battery is dead, but you need to find a friend. How do you do it?
Here’s an approach: both of can you employ the same strategy and find each other in the middle of the crowd. In this situation, both parties win a payoff for having the same desire and the same decisions. This is what Mutual Detectability is about. If two civilizations have enough knowledge of each other, it is likely they will try to communicate and reach each other. This type of strategy rationalization is the basis of game theory, and Kerins believes applying game theory to SETI could be a fruitful strategy.
Opposites don’t always atract
One obstacle for the civilizations looking for other civilizations has to do with technological advancement. When one civilization is more powerful than the other, the less powerful will feel less comfortable in making contact — for obvious reasons. Any civilization looking for others would have an incentive to listen, but not send out signals, so our galaxy might be full of listeners not able to find each other.
However, even if two civilizations are trying to find each other, they might not be able to if they use very different technologies. This could be avoided, says Kerins, if the more advanced civilization would use less-advanced signals. But you’d still need to actually be able to find them. This leads to the SETI paradox, if intelligent beings are looking for intelligent beings but not trying to reach out, then SETI is in vain.
Where to look?
Kerins points to the importance of the region of the Earth Transit Zone(ETZ). The idea is simple: not all planets in the universe can see us. If an alien civilization can observe us when our planet passes in front of the Sun and reduces its luminosity, they will be able to detect us. This is called the transit method, used by astronomers to detect exoplanets.
ETZ is the optimal area in which other beings could detect us in the galaxy using the transit method. Success in mutual detectability could mean detecting planets in the habitable zone and that are in the ETZ region. Similarly, we should focus on detecting potentially habitable planets that could be able to see us.
The transit method.
Credit: NASA Ames.
Good news is, there’s at least one planet that fits the bill.
K2-155 d is a Super-Earth in the habitable zone that happens to be in ETZ. The planet orbits an M dwarf star, the smallest type of star we know of, but it orbits it close enough to potentially have habitable temperatures. This type of star also makes the transit method easier to succeed, because a relatively small star has a clearer response to the transit. In other words, we see it blinking more clearly. That would be one starting to point SETI telescopes at.
But we already know many exoplanets. Only the Kepler mission discovered 2,662 planets in nearly 10 years of service. If we continue the search for planets and match the criteria stated by Dr. Kerins, our chances of communication would increase and the loneliness of Earth could end.
A new documentary currently running about the contents of a journal alleged to have been kept by Major Jesse Marcel, the first military witness to see the object that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, has the famous incident back in the news, especially since Marcel told his family what he saw was “not made by human hands” and that he was pressured by the US government to retract his original statement and deny he ever saw evidence of a UFO. However, a few sites have also picked up on another old story by another alleged witness – this one a military nurse who claimed shortly before her death that she had been the only person to communicate telepathically with the only alien to survive the Roswell crash. If you’ve never heard this tale and wonder if it’s true, here’s the strange account of Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy, Senior Master Sergeant Women’s Army Air Force Medical Corp, about her conversation with Airl the alien.
Matilda O’Donnell McElroy, Senior Master Sergeant Women’s Army Air Force Medical Corp
“Many men have been killed to extinguish the possibility of revealing the knowledge I have helped to withhold from society, until now. Only a small handful of people on Earth have seen and heard what I have had the burden of keeping secret for sixty years. All those years I thought that I had been entrusted with a great deal of confidence by the “powers that be” in our government, although I have often felt that power is greatly misguided, to “protect” Mankind from the certain knowledge that, not only do intelligent extraterrestrial life forms exist, but that they have and continue to aggressively monitor and invade the lives of everyone on Earth every day.”
Matilda O’Donnell MacElroy wrote the letter in 2007 to author Lawrence R. Spencer, who had contacted MacElroy eight years prior for his boom, “The Oz Factors.” That interview gave her the trust to share with him at age 83 the story that she didn’t want to take to the grave (she revealed she was planning euthanasia in a few months). She claims she was the driver of a vehicle occupied by a “Mr. Cavitt,” a Counter Intelligence Officer sent to the crash site, and was instructed to help in any way in her capacity as a trained flight nurse. MacElroy claimed she saw a craft, dead aliens and one conscious and uninjured. When she attended to the alien, she claims to have received mental images, which she interpreted as the alien communicating telepathically. Revealing this to Mr. Cavitt, she was “assigned permanently to serve as a “companion” of the alien at all times”, conducting interviews and making a complete report. For doing this, she was promoted to Senior Master Sergeant and given a pay raise. MacElroy says she found out the alien’s name was Airl and appeared to be a female.
“Our communication did not consist of “spoken language”, in the conventional sense. Indeed, the “body” of the alien had no “mouth” through which to speak. Our communication was by telepathy. At first, I could not understand Airl very clearly. I could perceive images, emotions and impressions, but it was difficult for me to express these verbally. Once Airl learned the English language, she was able to focus her thoughts more precisely using symbols and meanings of words I could understand. Learning the English language was done as a favor to me. It was more for my own benefit than hers.“
MacElroy told Spencer in the letter that Airl was an officer, pilot and engineer serving in The Domain Expeditionary Force, and had been stationed at a base in the asteroid belt. She ended by instructing him to reveal the contents of the letter and her accompanying notes to as many people as possible as soon as possible so that “people understand the devastating consequences to our spiritual and physical survival if we fail to take effective action to undo the long-standing and pervasive effects of alien intervention on Earth.” Spencer did as he was told and “Alien Interview “ was published in 2008. The book was filled with alleged transcripts and notes on all of her conversations with Airl before the alien died or departed from the doll-sized body MacElroy had interviewed.
What can we make of all of this? Howandwhys.com, the site which recently brought the story back into the news, says it ”sounds a bit like a sci-fiction movie.” Many comments on the website selling the book believe it to be true, but one negative commenter pointed out that Spencer never actually met MacElroy in person, destroyed the letter and transcripts, and wants the reader to believe MacElroy decided to trust him after a 20 minute phone conversation nearly a decade before. Most interestingly, the commenter claims that the rank of “senior master sergeant” didn’t exist in 1947 and the Army Air Force went out of existence in that year.
Is this another piece to add to the still growing pile of “evidence” supporting the Roswell incident being an alien UFO crash and subsequent government coverup, or should it be added to the still growing pile of fictional accounts? This story definitely needs a documentary investigation.
(Special thanks to Phantoms & Monsters for the link to the story in How & Whys.)
Doing radio just recently, I was amazed how many people listening didn’t know much at all about theBetty and Barney Hill “alien abduction” of September 1961 – an event that, this year, will reach its 60th. Maybe, some people aren’t overly excited by older cases, but are far more enthused by what’s going on right now. Certainly, it’s good to keep in touch with what’s afoot now, but, as I see it, it’s always good to understand the earlier years of the UFO subject, too. So, for those who – just a few nights ago – admitted they didn’t know a great deal about the Hill affair, here’s how it goes. Old-timers might find some interesting things too! Now, let’s get to it. Although the 1950s-era abduction account of Antonio Villas Boas was reported quite widely in UFO-themed books, magazines, and newsletters in the 1950s and 1960s, it was the sexual nature of the claims that led many researchers of the UFO phenomenon to ignore, or completely write-off, the cases as fanciful tales born out of fantasy and not a lot else. In other words, those same researchers were repressed. That situation changed post-September 19, 1961.
That’s when a New Hampshire husband and wife, the aforementioned Barney and Betty Hill, were driving to their New Hampshire home (with their dog, Delsey), after taking a welcome vacation in Montreal, Canada. One might argue they needed another vacation after experiencing what was lurking and looming on the horizon. As the pair headed home, and at around 10.30 p.m., as they drove south of Lancaster, New Hampshire, they were puzzled by the sight of a strange light in the night sky above. Viewing the lighted object through binoculars convinced the Hills that what they were seeing was not an aircraft – of either a commercial or military kind. As they continued their drive through the mountains, Barney and Betty developed an uneasy sense that whoever was flying the craft was watching them; playing a game with them, toying with them, and practically goading them into following the maneuvers of the device.
Matters came to a sudden hair-raising head head when the object approached their car and dropped to a height of around ninety feet, causing Barney to bring the car to a sudden stop, in the middle of the road, on the darkened, mountain pass. Pancake-like was how Barney later described the unearthly-looking vehicle, after stepping out of the car and staring into the dark skies. As Barney focused on the craft with the binoculars, he couldn’t fail to see close to a dozen beings – wearing caps – milling around and peering down at the frightened pair. When the machine began to close in on the Hill’s car, Barney shouted to Betty that the things inside were going to kidnap them. They jumped back into the car at sped off at high speed. Craft and crew did not follow – or so it seemed at the time.
The traumatic encounter was far from over: it didn’t take long at all before Betty and Barney realized that there was something very wrong about their journey – around two hours of time was “missing” from it. Gone. Obliterated from their memories. Finally, after nightmares, restless nights of tossing and turning, and picking up on fragmented memories suggesting there was far more to the incident than they consciously remembered, the pair received help from a psychiatrist and neurologist in Boston, Massachusetts, Dr. Benjamin Simon – who began a series of hypnotic sessions with the Hills in January 1964.
What surfaced out of those sessions, while Barney and Betty were rendered into altered states by the doctor was, to put it bluntly, astounding: if the results of the hypnosis were not the product of fantasy or suggestion, both of the Hills had been taken on board what was nothing less than an alien spacecraft, and subjected to a number of medical procedures that clearly left Betty and Barney in states of lasting turmoil. The then-modern era of alien abductions was born.
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The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
The United Arab Emirates' Mars probe just entered orbit around the red planet, the first in a Mars-mission bonanza
Morgan McFall-Johnsen
A rendering of the Hope orbiter, provided by the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre.
The United Arab Emirates' first interplanetary mission, a spacecraft called Hope, reached Mars on Tuesday.
The orbiter is set to map Mars' climate across an entire Martian year.
It's the first of three Mars missions expected to reach the planet in the next two weeks.
The United Arab Emirates has flown a spacecraft into orbit around Mars, marking a first for the Arab world and a major accomplishment for the country's young space program.
The Hope probe â€" "Al-Amal" in Arabic â€" launched from Tanegashima Island in Japan on July 20, then journeyed seven months to the next planet over.
With Mars in its sights, the SUV-sized spacecraft fired all six of its Delta V thrusters for about 27 minutes on Tuesday, burning through half of its fuel to slow its speed by more than 2,100 mph.
In the days leading up to this braking manoeuvre, Emirati officials estimated a 50-50 chance of success, according to Agence France-Presse. If the manoeuvre had failed, the probe could have crashed into Mars or careened past it into deep space.
Instead, the spacecraft fell into an oval-shaped orbit around Mars on Tuesday morning. A signal confirming its success reached mission controllers on Earth at 11:14 a.m. ET.
Hope is the UAE Space Agency's first major mission. It aims to orbit the red planet for a full Martian year (about two Earth years) and create a comprehensive map of the planet's climate.
"It's the very first holistic weather satellite of Mars," Sarah Al Amiri, the mission's science lead, told Space.com.
The probe's unique orbit will allow it to monitor any given region of Mars for hours at a time, watching in infrared, ultraviolet, and visible light as clouds drift by and enormous dust storms roil through the red desert.
The UAE aims for Hope to map weather across the entire planet, through all times of day, over the full Martian year. If successful, this will be humanity's first such picture of the Martian climate.
"It is the time factor that has largely been missing from our knowledge and understanding of the weather system of Mars," Al Amiri said. "During every single time slot of the day, we want to know what happens across an entire day, because weather as we know it is a very dynamic system. We also want to understand what happens in different seasons on Mars. And that requires us to collect data across an entire year."
That data could help scientists better understand Mars' changing seasons and learn how the planet lost the thick atmosphere that protected it 4 billion years ago. Back then, the Martian surface may have been warm enough for liquid water, and scientists think the planet could have supported microbial life.
The UAE is now the fifth country to reach Mars. China is set to follow as the sixth Mars-faring nation on Wednesday, when its Tianwen-1 spacecraft is slated to insert itself into orbit around the planet. (Stay tuned for the Tianwen-1 rover landing in May.)
NASA's new Mars rover, Perseverance, is set to touch down on the planet's surface next week. In terms of visitors from Earth, this is the busiest month in Martian history.
Hope can monitor Martian weather up close and from afar
Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, president of the UAE, announced in 2014 that the country would be going to Mars. The decree came with a deadline â€" 2021 â€" to commemorate the nation's 50th anniversary.
The Mohammed bin Rashid Space Centre was tasked with developing and building the Mars-bound spacecraft. Engineers there equipped the orbiter with three scientific instruments to study Martian weather in infrared light, capture high-resolution photos, and measure atmosphere loss in ultraviolet.
The probe's irregular, or "elliptical," orbit will allow it to capture a unique picture of Martian weather and climate over time.
"When you're very close to Mars, you're moving as fast as Mars is turning on its axis, and therefore, you observe one side of Mars during multiple times of the day. And as you get farther away and you get slower, we observe several time zones on Mars in several locations," Al Amiri told Space.com. "We keep on doing this over the course of an entire 10-day window, and by 10 days, we've fully mapped everywhere on Mars during every time of the day."
As Hope circles Mars, completing an orbit once every 55 hours, the satellite will look for links between weather events in the lower atmosphere and the amount of hydrogen and oxygen bleeding into space from the planet's upper atmosphere. This could offer clues about the process that caused the planet to lose most of its atmosphere billions of years ago.
Hope will also monitor the Martian atmosphere's interactions with charged particles from the sun. Such interactions drive space weather around Earth and cause the aurora borealis.
The UAE might even be able to extend Hope's mission into a second Martian year, crafting new goals based on what the probe finds during its first year.
Feest in de Emiraten: eerste Arabische sonde in baan rond Mars
Feest in de Verenigde Arabische Emiraten: hun Marssonde al-Amal (‘Hoop’) is in een preliminaire baan rond de rode planeet gekomen. Slechts drie landen en het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA gingen hen daar in voor.
De sonde werd in juli vorig jaar met een Japanse draagraket gelanceerd en is de eerste van drie nieuwe expedities die Mars zal bereiken. Om 16.30 uur tijd floepten zes stuurraketten aan, waardoor de snelheid van het onbemande ruimtetuig daalde van 121.000 naar 18.000 kilometer per uur. Zo kreeg de zwaartekracht van onze buurplaneet greep op de sonde.
De Emiraten zijn nog maar de vijfde “natie” die in het huzarenstukje slaagt. De voorgangers waren de VS, de Sovjet-Unie, het Europese Ruimtevaartbureau ESA en India. Zowat de helft van alle Marsmissies is mislukt.
Al-Amal heeft ook een robotjeep bij, maar die zal pas in mei proberen te landen. De verkenner moet twee jaar lang het weer op Mars in kaart brengen. Bovendien moet hij helpen begrijpen waardoor waterstof en zuurstof verdwijnen uit de dunne dampkring van Mars. Die gassen vliegen de ruimte in, waardoor Mars geen kans meer heeft op leven zoals op aarde. Maar de missie is vooral bedoeld om de Emiraten op de kaart te zetten, in het jaar waarin het land zijn vijftigste verjaardag viert. Het land ziet wetenschap en technologie als een inkomstenbron voor de toekomst, wanneer olie opraakt. De Verenigde Arabische Emiraten hebben sinds 2014 een eigen ruimtevaartbureau en in 2019 ging voor het eerst een inwoner van het land naar de ruimte.
Morgen moet ook de Chinese Marsverkener Tianwen-1 een soortgelijk manoeuvre uitvoeren. Het tuig zal nog twee tot drie maanden rondjes draaien vooraleer de riskante afdaling naar het Marsoppervlak in te zetten. China wil sporen van leven vinden en het oppervlak en de bodem van Mars in kaart brengen.
Op 18 februari moet de Amerikaanse Perseverance landen op Mars. Verborgen in het laadruim van de robotjeep zit de eerste buitenaardse helikopter, de Ingenuity. Als die technologie werkt, kunnen helikopters helpen om buitenaardse bestemmingen veel sneller te verkennen.
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Studie verontrust wetenschappers: “Nanodeeltjes dringen via voedsel door tot in het brein”
Nanomaterialen kunnen diep in de voedselketen doordringen en via voedsel zelfs in de hersenen terechtkomen. Dat hebben onderzoekers van de Universiteit Leiden ontdekt. Ze hebben aangetoond dat nanodeeltjes van goud op deze manier in het brein van vissen kunnen belanden.
Onderzoeker Fazel Monikh vermoedt dat dit ook voor mensen opgaat. "Vissen worden vaak gebruikt als model in toxicologische studies", legt hij uit. "Ze hebben ook bloed, net als wij. Er is geen groot verschil tussen de systemen."
Nanodeeltjes zijn extreem klein. Ze hebben een diameter tussen de 0,0000001 en 0,00001 centimeter. De toepassingen zijn overal om ons heen: van computerchips en zonnepanelen tot cosmetica en verf.
In de Leidse experimenten zaten de nanodeeltjes in algen. Via de algen kwamen ze in plankton terecht en zo in de vissen die dat opaten. Bij iedere stap veranderden de deeltjes van vorm en grootte. "Hierdoor konden de nanodeeltjes zich heel anders door het lichaam verspreiden dan op basis van hun oorspronkelijk vorm was ingeschat."
Nanomaterialen kunnen veel verder in onze voedselketens doordringen dan we tot nu toe dachten
Onderzoeker Fazel Monikh
In de vissen bleken de uiterst kleine deeltjes zich op te hopen in de hersenen. "Ze gaan er makkelijk in, maar komen er moeilijk weer uit", zegt Monikh.
Hij vindt de uitkomsten zorgwekkend. "Het betekent dat nanomaterialen veel verder in onze voedselketens kunnen doordringen dan we tot nu toe dachten. En dat ze dus zelfs in de hersenen kunnen belanden, terwijl dat orgaan normaal heel goed is afgeschermd door de bloed-hersenbarrière."
Nanotechnologische revolutie
De onderzoeker van het Centrum voor Milieuwetenschappen pleit ervoor nieuwe nanotechnologieën niet zonder meer toe te passen en eerst goed de effecten te onderzoeken. Zo is het momenteel nog onbekend in hoeverre nanomaterialen zich precies ophopen in het menselijk lichaam en welke gevolgen ze hebben voor de gezondheid. Tegelijkertijd rukt nanotechnologie steeds verder op.
Met de meetmethode die de onderzoekers hebben ontwikkeld, is wel beter te bepalen hoe nanomaterialen zich verspreiden. "Als we meer inzicht in het gedrag van deze materialen krijgen, kunnen we ook gaan werken aan veilige toepassing ervan", aldus Monikh. "Dat is zeker nodig, nu we ons midden in de nanotechnologische revolutie bevinden."
Topwetenschapper Harvard blijft geloven dat aliens vier jaar geleden op bezoek kwamen, maar hij krijgt stevige tegenkanting
“Aliens hebben ons in 2017 een bezoek gebracht, maar wetenschappers hebben die realiteit genegeerd.” De stelling doet misschien de wenkbrauwen fronsen, maar ze komt niet van de eerste de beste. Avi Loeb is een topastronoom aan de universiteit van Harvard die ook al samengewerkt heeft met Stephen Hawking. In het wereldje wordt hij nu echter vooral afgedaan als een collega “die met straffe beweringen het publiek wil bespelen”.
De bekende Israëlisch-Amerikaanse kosmoloog verwijst naar de doortocht van ‘Oumuamua’, een mysterieus object dat vier jaar geleden in sneltreinvaart door ons zonnestelsel vloog. Het 400 meter lange gevaarte wisselde soms van tempo, hield geen rekening met de zwaartekracht en had de vorm van een sigaar. Een komeet kon het niet zijn omdat de nevelige wolk van gassen en stof ontbrak. Experts spraken van het eerste interstellaire object dat vanop Aarde waargenomen werd.
De ‘ruimterots’ kwam dus uit een ander zonnestelsel, maar was het daarom ook buitenaards? In dit geval: hadden aliens werkelijk een sonde gecreëerd waarmee ze een verkenningstocht uitvoerden?
De controversiële these won aan belang sinds Loeb zich in 2018 in het kamp van de ‘believers’ aansloot. Zijn artikel in het wetenschappelijke blad ‘Astrophysical Journal Letters’ deed alvast het nodige stof opwaaien.
Computersimulaties
Uit een studie van vorig jaar bleek echter dat Oumuamua - Hawaïaans voor ‘scout’ - volledig natuurlijk ontstaan zou zijn. Rotsachtige objecten kunnen immers uit een zonnestelsel gekatapulteerd worden door getijdenkrachten.
Computersimulaties vonden na lange tijd een verklaring voor de ‘sigaarvorm’ en ook het mysterie van de plotse versnellingen leek opgehelderd. “Een combinatie van waterijs met de uitwaseming van gas”, meent hoofdauteur Yun Zhang. Elk planetensysteem zou volgens haar zelfs zo’n 100 biljoen objecten als Oumuamua uitstoten.
“We zijn niet speciaal”
De wetenschappelijke uitleg kan Loeb echter niet overtuigen. Hij bracht nu een boek uit om zijn theorie rond buitenaardse wezens te staven. Zij zouden een lichtzeil gefabriceerd hebben dat via zonlicht voortgestuwd wordt.
“Denken dat we uniek en speciaal zijn is gewoon arrogant. We zouden ons beter verzoenen met het feit dat er nog veel andere culturen bestaan. We moeten ze nu enkel nog vinden”, klinkt het in ‘Extraterrestrial: The First Sign of Intelligent Life Beyond Earth’.
Astrofysicus Ethan Siegel betreurt dat Loeb die weg ingeslagen is. “Ooit was hij zeer gerespecteerd. Nu het niet meer lukt om collega’s met argumenten te overtuigen, praat hij het grote publiek maar naar de mond”, schrijft hij in ‘Forbes’.
Ook de Nederlandse hoogleraar Sterrenkunde Gijs Nelemans denkt er zo over. “Loeb heeft al eerder spraakmakende zaken aangekaart. Hij gooit ze in de groep en kan ze goed uitmelken, daarna mogen anderen het zaakje uitzoeken. Als ik zou moeten kiezen tussen aliens of de wetenschappelijke uitleg, dan wordt het toch de tweede optie. Er zijn bij dit object ook radiometingen gedaan en er werd geen enkel signaal vastgesteld.”
“Pesterijen”
Loeb noemt dit soort reacties pestgedrag. “Galileo werd ook ooit verketterd omdat hij ontdekte dat de Aarde niet het centrum van het universum was. We zouden veel meer middelen moeten besteden aan de zoektocht naar buitenlands leven. Als we hun technologie zouden bestuderen, kunnen we misschien wel een miljoen jaar winst boeken.”
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Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
Jupiter’s Trojan Asteroids Offer Surprises Even Before NASA’s Lucy Mission has a Chance to Visit Them.
A new study out this month suggests that Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids may be more peculiar than previously thought. The Trojan asteroids are rocky objects which orbit the Sun just ahead of and just behind the gas giant, in gravitational sweet spots known as Lagrange points. The swarm ahead of Jupiter, known as the L4 (Greek) group, is slightly larger than the L5 (Trojan) swarm behind, but until now, astronomers believed that there was otherwise little differentiation between the two swarms. The paper released this month appears to change that.
The research team, using data from the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) based in Hawaii, has discovered unexpected variations in the shape of the Trojans. This new study suggests that objects in the L4 population are actually more elongated than those in the L5 population, on average.
In this image, Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids are shown in Green. The L4 group is labelled ‘Greeks’, because these objects are usually named after Greek heroes of the Trojan War, while the L5 asteroids are labelled ‘Trojans,’ as they are named after Trojan heroes. Credit: Wikipedia Commons
Why does this matter? Well, the difference “may imply a different collisional evolution within each cloud,” the paper suggests. The L4 swarm’s larger population means objects within it have had had more opportunities to collide with one another. As one Trojan slams into another, larger objects are worn down or broken into smaller pieces. Over billions of years of impacts, the result is that more L4 objects have been battered into eccentric shapes than those in L5.
This discovery is a lesson learned regarding the evolutionary history of the Solar System, and the Jupiter Trojans may have plenty more to offer scientists in that respect in the near future. In order to get a closer look at these primordial remnants of the early Solar System, NASA is set to launch a robotic spacecraft to visit the Trojans later this year. The mission is named Lucy, after the fossilized remains of an early human ancestor found in Ethiopia in 1974. Lucy taught paleontologists about the evolution of humans, and in a similar way, the Lucy spacecraft will be able to teach astronomers about the early history of the Solar System.
Artist’s Rendering of Lucy. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
One of Lucy’s key objectives is to understand the composition and diversity of Trojan objects. It is believed that these asteroids represent the leftovers of planet formation, so learning about their structure, age, and component materials will help us to understand the ingredients which went into making the planets we see today, including, possibly, the organic materials which found their way to Earth in its infancy.
Lucy will take advantage of lessons learned from previous missions, carrying instruments similar to those flown on NASA’s New Horizons, which flew past Pluto in 2015, and OSIRIS-Rex, which is currently bringing a sample back to Earth from Asteroid Bennu. Using a series of clever gravity assists, Lucy will be able to visit more targets in a single mission than any solar system probe before it, flying past at least eight different asteroids over twelve years, starting with one in the main asteroid belt, then bouncing back and forth between objects in the L4 and L5 swarms.
Lucy’s orbital trajectory. Credit: Southwest Research Institute
Careful planning, and a bit of astronomical luck, means that Lucy will even get the chance to visit two targets in the L5 swarm which travel in high inclination orbits, making them normally very difficult to reach. The binary pair, Patroclus and Menoetius, will pass within reach of Lucy in 2033, making for a spectacular finale to Lucy’s primary mission.
Lucy will launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an Atlas V rocket in October. The complete mission timeline is as follows:
October 16, 2021: The three-week long launch window opens.
April 20, 2025: Main asteroid belt object (52246) Donaldjohanson.
August 12, 2027: L4 object (3548) Eurybates and its satellite, Queta.
September 15, 2027: L4 object (15094) Polymele.
April 18, 2028: L4 object (11351) Leucus.
November 11, 2028: L4 object (21900) Orus.
March 2, 2033: L5 object (617) Patroclus and its partner, Menoetius.
Whatever else Lucy might discover, it is clear that a combination of ground based-astronomy and spacecraft flybys are opening up a new chapter in our understanding of planetary formation, and the Trojans probably have more surprises in store for us in the years to come.
Since this video was recorded, asteroid Queta has been added to the mission profile, after its discovery in 2020.]
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