Showing posts with label spacecraft. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spacecraft. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 December 2014
Is Nasa To Change The Color Of Blue Sky On Mars Photo
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Thursday, 23 October 2014
Red Colored Lights In The Sky Over Upstate New York And Into Ontario Canada
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Sunday, 5 October 2014
Nasa Spacecraft Completes 40 000 Mars Orbits
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter passed a mission milestone of 40,000 orbits on Feb. 7, 2015, in its ninth year of returning information about the atmosphere, surface and subsurface of Mars, from equatorial to polar latitudes.
The mission's potent science instruments and extended lifespan have revealed that Mars is a world more dynamic and diverse than was previously realized. Now in its fourth mission extension after a two-year prime mission, the orbiter is investigating seasonal and longer-term changes, including some warm-season flows that are the strongest evidence so far for liquid water on Mars today.
The orbiter has returned 247 terabits of data, which is more than the combined total from every other mission that has ever departed Earth to visit another planet.
It circles Mars at an altitude of about 186 miles (300 kilometers), on a near-polar pattern, about 12 times a day. In its 40,000 orbits, the spacecraft has flown nearly twice as far as the 310 million miles (500 million kilometers) it flew during its 2006 journey from Earth to Mars.
The mission has illuminated three very different periods of Mars history. Its observations of the heavily cratered terrains of Mars, the oldest on the planet, show that different types of ancient watery environments formed water-related minerals. Some of these environments would have been more favorable for life than others.
Artist illustration of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/JPL
In more recent times, water appears to have cycled as a gas between polar ice deposits and lower-latitude deposits of ice and snow. Extensive layering in ice or rock probably took at least hundreds of thousands, and possibly millions of years to form. Like ice ages on Earth, the layering is linked to cyclic changes in the tilt of the planet's rotation axis and the changing intensity of sunlight near the poles.
Mars' present climate is also dynamic, with volatile carbon dioxide and, just possibly, summertime liquid water modifying gullies and forming new streaks. With observations of new craters, avalanches and dust storms, the orbiter has shown a partially frozen world, but not frozen in time, as change continues today.
In addition to accomplishing its own science achievements, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission provides communication relay for missions on the surface of Mars and evaluates potential landing site candidates for surface missions.
Two other active NASA spacecraft are currently orbiting Mars -- Mars Odyssey since 2001, and MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) since last year. Two NASA rovers -- Opportunity and Curiosity -- are active on the surface. These robotic missions and others in development are paving the way for human-crew Mars missions in the 2030s and beyond as part of NASA's Journey to Mars strategy.
The post NASA Spacecraft Completes 40,000 Mars Orbits appeared first on Astrobiology Magazine.
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Sunday, 28 September 2014
Ufo Port In Ares France Gets Its First Visitor Maybe Ufo Pictures
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Monday, 22 September 2014
Haunted Skies Project 9Th April 2012
Hi everybody, I have finally completed working on the index of Volume 5, which although you could say is boring and tedious, does allow the opportunity to check that we haven't repeated ourselves. On a task such as this you have to take into consideration that you sometimes have different sources of the same information and repetition can so easily occur.
I've been asked to give at talk at theAMMACH (The Anomalous Mind Management Abductee and Contactee) Helpline 07951752813)) conference in Septemberthis year.
Here is a self explanatory cutting from the "Sun", and I was very impressed with the attitude taken by Joanna Summerscales (head of AMMACH), who chose to turn down an offer by someone who would have probably denigrated the whole idea of what Joanna and Miles are all about.
UFOS SEEN OVER BEXLEY AREA
"In our News-shopper just the other week there was an article relating to a lady claiming tohave seen UFOs. I think it was 6 cigar-shaped objects in the skies over the Bexley area, and saying that in theblue sky they were only visible when the sun shone on them and they glinted alittle. The News shopper has asked for any other witnesses, or for anyone whohas seen anything unexplained recently in the skies over the borough of Bexleyto contact them, so as soon as there's a follow up on this I will scan you it,as any sightings are definitely of interest."
MIKE HALLOWELL -EMAIL IN RESPONSE TOFINDING HIS ORIGINAL UFO REPORT
Hi John,
"Sorry about the delay in replying. My e-mail is down so I have to use webmail. I'm amazed! After over thirty years of searching I've found that old article and I can't thank you enough. I'm amazed, and so grateful! "
"With deepest thanks, Mike Hallowell "
"Kevin Goodman "
Congratulations to Kevin - Jon Downes is reissuing his book soon, and we are looking forward to seeing it available for sale again in the near future.
Coincidently,while Kevin supped a gallon of tea and pontificated on the trials andtribulations of life and UFOs in general (before I was bitten by a dammedhorsefly), our friend Peter turned upwith members of his family.
One of them was Carl's son who told of having sighted a triangular shaped object: "Likea durrito [sic] crossing the sky over Birmingham recently while outside"
"BUFORA Poster sent to us from Matt Lyons "
JAMES BENSON IRWIN
James Benson Irwin(March 17, 1930 - August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut and engineer. Heserved as lunar module pilot for Apollo 15, which was the fourth human lunarlanding mission. He was, in fact, theeighth human to walk on the Moon. However, once the rendezvous procedure wascompleted between Falcon and the Endeavour CSM, it was while both Irwin andScott were busy moving items like rock samples into the CM and preparing the lunarmodule for final separation that the earliestsymptoms appeared regarding his heart condition.
Both Scott and Irwin were working with no sleep for 23hours, during which they conducted a final moonwalk, performed the ascent fromthe lunar surface, rendezvoused with "Endeavour",and encountered the problems that delayed the lunar module jettison manoeuvre. The astronauts' physiological vital signs were being monitored back on Earth, and the flight surgeons noticed some irregularities in Irwin's heart rhythms. Irwin's heart had developed bigeminy (the occurrence of two beats of the pulse in rapid succession.).
Dr. Charles Berrystated to Chris Kraft, deputy director of the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) atthe time: "It's serious, [i]f hewere on Earth. I'd have him in ICU being treated for a heart attack."
"Endeavour's" cabin atmosphere was 100%oxygen (when in space), so it was decided that he was in no serious danger byDr. Charles Berry.
Specifically: "Intruth, he's in an ICU. He's getting one hundred percent oxygen, he's beingcontinuously monitored and best of all, he's in zero g. Whatever strain his heart is under, well, we can't do betterthan zero g.
During the post-Trans Earth Injection (TEI) phase of themission there wasn't much more for Irwin to do other than provide help with AlWorden's EVA to retrieve film magazines from the CSM's SIM bay, by donning apressure suit and monitoring him. He was able to rest and apparently recoverduring the rest of the mission. The flight surgeons continued to monitor hisEKG until splashdown, but his heart rhythm was normal. This incident apparentlywas not discussed during the mission debriefing sessions, and the condition didnot appear when he returned to Earth. A few months later he suffered a heart attack.
A patch cut by Irwin from the backpack abandoned on the Moon during the Apollo 15 mission was auctioned at Christie's in 2001 for 310,500 in a consignment of material from Irwin's estate thatgarnered "a combined 500,000".
Stamp incident
After the return of Apollo 15 to Earth, it was discovered that, without authority, the crew had taken 398 commemorative first day coversto the moon, of which a hundred were then sold to a German stamp dealer. The profits of the sale were intended to be used to establish trust funds for theApollo 15 crew's children. Although their action was not in any way illegal,and despite the fact that NASA had turned a blind eye to similar activities on earlier flights, the administration decided to reassign the Apollo15 crew to non-flight positions. "CREDITWIKIPEDIA "
"Photographed at HQ recently, theginger cat Spider McGraw, who keeps Jon and Corinna sane. "
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Monday, 25 August 2014
Russian Progress Cargo Spacecraft Successfully Launches From Baikonur And Docks To Space Station
Event M-24M docked to the ISS after a shortcut six-hour flight. The first such flight (in which the ship makes recently four orbit passes) was tested in August 2012 on the Event M-16M encumber spacecraft that in February 2013 was sunk in the Pacific. Ahead that, all resupply vehicles of this series took a two-day flight to the ISS.
Late the ISS astronauts prepared a leak list at the bank along with the Event and Pirs, Run away Engineers Alexander Skvortsov and Max Suraev opened the protect Thursday begin to instigate receipt encumber from the resupply vehicle. The new Event is overloaded next 1,764 pounds of propellant, 48 pounds of oxygen, 57 pounds of air, 926 pounds of water and 2,910 pounds of spare parts, try hardware and other provisions for the Cross 40 troop.
The encumber ship has as well delivered to the ISS letters and gifts for the troop from their families. In reap to standard requirements, the astronauts as stock ghost get young fruits and vegetables, as well as sweets and candies from their people and psychologists.
Event M-24M replaced space freighter Event M-23M, which undocked from the ISS on July 22. Ahead the spacecraft ghost be veiled in the Pacific Deep-sea, Event M-23 ghost haulage out try Radar-Progress to consider possess bite the bullet of ionosphere.
The ISS Event encumber ship approaches the Inclusive Leeway Existence for docking. Depict Credit: NASA TV
Russia's Progress-family space freighters consider been plateful the ISS for decades and are second hand not recently to enchantment encumber and food to the station but to alter the orbit of the ISS as well. The station's orbit is accustomed homogeneously to glimpse help docking of the freighters and manned spacecraft as well as to elude elective fail next space refuse.
Late gratifying their missions, Event space freighters are broadly deorbited and overcooked in the disposition on their way to the Hangout. Remnant of the spacecraft, which did not destroy, are broadly veiled in the remote area of the Pacific Deep-sea.
Credit: ITAR-TASS, NASA
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Wednesday, 23 July 2014
Gallup Obama Lowest Rated 1St Year President In History
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Tuesday, 15 July 2014
Nasa Mars Weathercam Helps Find Big New Crater
The darkened spot appears in images occupied by the orbiter's weather-monitoring camera, the Mars Color Imager (MARCI). Images of the site from MARCI and from the two telescopic cameras on MRO are at: http://go.usa.gov/8KgJ
Like the orbiter began its reasoned sight of Mars in 2006, scientist Bruce Cantor has examined MARCI's newspaper transnational increase, looking for evidence of orderly storms and other discernible weather actions in the images. Cantor is this camera's reserve manager investigator at Malin Gap Science Systems, the San Diego unit that built and operates MARCI and the orbiter's telescopic Context Camera (CTX). Ended his thorough report of the images, he helps operators of NASA's solar-powered Mars rover, Disruption, plan for weather actions that may hurt the rover's turn. He furthermore posts rag Mars weather reports.
Gruffly two months ago, Cantor noticed an discreet blue-black dot near the equator in one of the images.
"It wasn't what I was looking for," Cantor believed. "I was perform my frequent weather monitoring and everything caught my eye. It looked frequent, after that daylight emanating from a central spot."
This April 6, 2014, image from the Skeletal Resolve Imaging Science Investigation (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a mixture of landslides in the sphere of where on earth an change fissure was excavated in Homeless person 2012. Public relations Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Univ. of Arizona
He began investigative aforementioned images, skipping annul a month or first-class at a time. The images disallowed that the blue-black spot was build a engagement ago, but not five being ago. He homed in likewise, checking images from about 40 substitute dates, and pinned down the date the change event occurred; the spot was not display up stopping at Homeless person 27, 2012, and consequently appeared next to the newspaper imaging on Homeless person 28, 2012.
Once the blue-black spot was verified as new, it was targeted last month by CTX and the orbiter's sharpest-sighted camera, the Skeletal Resolve Imaging Science Investigation (HiRISE). Of the about 400 wash crater-causing impacts on Mars that sustain been documented after that before-and-after images, this is the clearly one naked through a MARCI image, sooner than an image from a higher-resolution camera.
CTX has imaged brusquely the distinguished beauty of Mars at nominal subsequent to all the way through the orbiter's seven-plus being of interpretation. It had photographed the site of this newly-discovered fissure in January 2012, past to the change. Two craters activate in the April 2014 CTX image that were not build in the aforementioned one, confirming the blue-black spot disallowed by MARCI is related to a new change fissure.
HiRISE reveals first-class than a dozen minor craters near the two larger ones seen in the CTX image, perhaps fashioned by chunks of the explosion asteroid or low-ranking impacts of stow homeless from the outstanding craters all the way through change. It furthermore reveals heaps landslides that darkened slopes in the 5-mile in this area area. A small HiRISE image in May 2014 added three-dimensional information.
These two images occupied one day aloof by the MARCI weather camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter portion when an asteroid change prepared the harm seen in the right-hand image. The left image was occupied all the way through Martian afternoon on Homeless person 27, 2012; the well one on the afternoon of Homeless person 28, 2012. Public relations Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
"The prime fissure is multihued, moderately rise compared to other wash craters we sustain observed," believed HiRISE Start Researcher Alfred McEwen of the Academe of Arizona, Tucson.
The largest fissure is remotely prolonged and spans 159 by 143 feet (48.5 by 43.5 meters).
McEwen estimates the change object dim about 10 to 18 feet (3 to 5 meters) hunger, which is less than than a third the fancied scope of the asteroid that hit Earth's reaction near Chelyabinsk. Being Mars has a long way less than reaction than Earth, space rocks of the same distinction are first-class ordinary to come in to the beauty of Mars and budge larger craters.
"Studies of wash change craters on Mars products foremost information about change impose and about subsurface stow indiscreet by the excavations," believed Leslie Tamppari, reserve project scientist for the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter order at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. "The amalgamation of HiRISE and CTX has found and examined heaps of them, and now MARCI's newspaper increase has subject great fancy about when a determined change occurred."
NASA is fresh concepts for its asteroid clue to presumptuous a near-Earth asteroid -- perhaps about the distinction of the rock that hit Mars on Homeless person 27 or 28, 2012 -- but a long way more rapidly to Earth's gap from the sun. The project would allude to a solar-powered spacecraft capturing a trifling asteroid or removing a segment of a larger asteroid, and redirecting it wearing a similar area re Earth's moon.
Astronauts donate relocate to the asteroid aboard NASA's Orion spacecraft, launched on the agency's Gap Admittance Track rise, to commitment after that the captured asteroid. Once display, they would store samples to mull over to Earth for remark. This suspect in human spaceflight ultra low-Earth area donate handle NASA test new systems and capabilities required to road astronauts to Mars in the 2030s.
Malin Gap Science Systems, San Diego, built and operates MARCI and CTX. The Academe of Arizona, Tucson, operates HiRISE, which was built by Bead Aerospace ">
Credit: NASA
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Tuesday, 8 July 2014
Mars Odyssey Spacecraft Completes Maneuver To Prepare For Comet Flyby
The Tuesday power did not spin the shape of Odyssey's command, but tweaked the timing. The spacecraft is in a near-polar command, gyratory Mars about what time every two hours. The power recycled four trajectory-correction thrusters, which each deliver about 5 pounds (22 newtons) of force. It departed lower than than one percent of the orbiter's persistent add to.
Mars Odyssey has worked at the Red Mud longer than any other Mars fill in in history. NASA launched the spacecraft on April 7, 2001, and Odyssey appearing in at Mars Oct. 24, 2001. Extremely conducting its own expert remarks, the fill in provides a address conduct for robots on the Martian end.
Odyssey is managed by JPL for NASA's Science Pitch Directorate in Washington. Lockheed Martin Expose Systems in Denver built the spacecraft. JPL and Lockheed Martin connive on practicing the spacecraft. The California Found of Gear in Pasadena manages JPL for NASA.
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Sunday, 15 June 2014
Ufos Engaged By Iranian Air Force Jets Spacing Out Episode 60
Stories discussed in this episode:
- Is southern India's 'alien rain' proof of extraterrestrial life?
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- The campaign to store a message to aliens on a NASA spacecraft
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- Curiosity rover discovers substantial water on Mars
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- Military magazine highlights Iranian air force encounters with UFOs
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Directed by Tom Ruffin
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Monday, 12 May 2014
How Ufos Work
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Friday, 9 May 2014
Recorded Figure On Mars Is It An Alien
The emergence of the image is immediately received many responses and trigger a variety of speculation by posting blogs and forums on the Internet. Some bloggers assess the figure is just a camera trick, while others remain unsure as evidence of the existence of aliens.
There is a judge looks like a dwarf, some are convinced as a figure of the Virgin Mary. People who believe in the mysterious creature believes it is the figure of Bigfoot, mountain creatures walk upright and bushy that sparked many legends around the world.
However, on average many are agreed that the shape is very similar to the statue of the Little Mermaid, Mermaid characters that exist in the Danish capital, Copenhagen. "It might be an alien civilization that then leave Mars and live in Denmark," wrote one comment on the Internet.
However, opinions are written in Badastromy.com provide feedback from other perspectives. "A human being? He is just a small-sized stones a few inches tall. It was only a few feet from these probes. "
Regardless of the debate, NASA might not think there is something strange in this photo. Humans could not live on the surface of Mars with current conditions, except for microscopic organisms that are resistant to extreme environments. Nevertheless, the evidence of life on Mars continues to look for.
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Sunday, 27 April 2014
Nasa Grail Mission 24 Hours Away From Moon
Named Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL), the spacecraft are scheduled to be placed in orbit beginning at 1:21 p.m. PST for GRAIL-A on Dec. 31, and 2:05 p.m. PST for GRAIL-B on New Years Day.
During their final approaches to the moon, both orbiters move toward it from the south, flying nearly directly over the lunar south pole. The lunar orbit insertion burn for GRAIL-A will take approximately 40 minutes and change the spacecraft's velocity by about 427 mph (688 kilometers per hour). GRAIL-B's insertion burn 25 hours later will last about 39 minutes and is expected to change the probe's velocity by 430 mph (691 kilometers per hour).
The insertion maneuvers will place each orbiter into a near-polar, elliptical orbit with a period of 11.5 hours. Over the following weeks, the GRAIL team will execute a series of burns with each spacecraft to reduce their orbital period from 11.5 hours down to just under two hours. At the start of the science phase in March 2012, the two GRAILs will be in a near-polar, near-circular orbit with an altitude of about 55 kilometers.
Mission Objectives
GRAIL's engineering objectives are to enable the science objectives of mapping lunar gravity and using that information to increase understanding of the Moon's interior and thermal history. Getting the two spacecraft where they need to be, when they need to be there, requires an extremely challenging set of maneuvers never before carried out in solar system exploration missions.
Mission design
The two GRAIL spacecraft were launched together and then flew similar but separate trajectories to the Moon after separation from the launch vehicle, taking about 3 to 4 months to get there. They spent about two months reshaping and merging their orbits until one spacecraft was following the other in the same low-altitude, near-circular, near-polar orbit, and they begin formation-flying. The next 82 days will constitute the science phase, during which the spacecraft will map the Moon's GRAVITATIONAL FIELD.
Spacecraft and payload
The two GRAIL spacecraft are near-twins, each about the size of a washing machine, with minor differences resulting from the need for one specific spacecraft (GRAIL-A) to follow the other (GRAIL-B) as they circle the Moon.
The science payload on each spacecraft is the Lunar Gravity Ranging System, which will measure changes in the distance between the two spacecraft down to a few microns -- about the diameter of a red blood cell. Each spacecraft will also carry a set of cameras for MoonKAM, marking the first time a NASA planetary mission has carried instruments expressly for an education and public outreach project.
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Monday, 31 March 2014
Kepler Discovers 11 New Planetary Systems And How Viruses Evolve
g ABODES - NASA's Kepler mission has discovered 11 new planetary systems hosting 26 confirmed planets. The discoveries nearly double the number of verified planets and provide new data in the search for habitable, extrasolar worlds. See article.
g LIFE - Researchers at Michigan State University (MSU) have demonstrated how a new virus evolves, shedding light on how easy it can be for diseases to gain dangerous mutations. The findings appear in the current issue of the journal Science. See article.
g COSMICUS - Physicists have built an accurate model of part of the Solar System inside a single atom. See article.
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Tuesday, 25 March 2014
United States Air Force Encounters Ufos Over Korea
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Tuesday, 7 January 2014
Data Net Addendum
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Sunday, 10 November 2013
Scientists Discover Water Ice On Mercury
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Perspective view of Mercury's north polar region with the radar-bright regions shown in yellow [Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Carnegie Institution of Washington]"
Now researchers from NASA, MIT, the University of California at Los Angeles and elsewhere have discovered evidence that the scorching planet may harbor pockets of water ice, along with organic material, in several permanently shadowed craters near Mercury's north pole.
The surprising discovery suggests to scientists that both ice and organic material, such as carbon, may have been deposited on Mercury's surface by impacts from comets or asteroids. Over time, this volatile material could then have migrated to the planet's poles.
"We thought the most exciting finding could be that this really was water ice," says Maria Zuber, the E.A. Griswold Professor of Geophysics in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, and a member of the research team. "But the identification of darker, insulating material that may indicate complex organics makes the story even more thrilling."
Zuber and her colleagues published their results this week in the journal Science.
MOUNTING EVIDENCE FOR ICE
The possibility that water ice might exist on Mercury is not new: In the 1990s, radar observations detected bright regions near Mercury's poles that scientists believed could be signs of either water ice or a rough planetary surface. However, the evidence was inconclusive for either scenario.
To get a clearer picture of Mercury's polar regions, Zuber and her colleagues analyzed observations taken by NASA's MESSENGER (MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry and Ranging) mission, a probe that has been orbiting the planet and mapping its topography since April 2011.
Mapping the planet's surface is a challenging task, as the craft must weather the sun's intense radiation, which can "play havoc with electronics," Zuber says. What's more, the probe moves from pole to pole in an elliptical orbit, making for an extremely tricky mapping mission, both dynamically and thermally. Despite these challenges, MESSENGER's onboard laser altimeter has amassed more than 10 laser pulses that have been used to map topography and measure the near-infrared reflectance of the surface.
Last year, researchers analyzed the probe's topographic observations and created a high-resolution map of Mercury; they then overlaid previous radar observations. They found that the bright regions detected in radar lined up with permanently shadowed craters at the planet's north pole -- regions that never see the sun, and which are potentially ideal places for ice to survive. This finding was one more piece of evidence that Mercury might harbor water ice.
REVEALING SHADOWS
In this latest analysis of MESSENGER's observations, scientists believe they have found conclusive evidence for water ice on Mercury, although the data was at first puzzling.
The team found that the probe's reflectance measurements, taken via laser altimetry, matched up well with previously mapped radar-bright regions in Mercury's high northern latitudes. Two craters in particular were bright, both in radar and at laser wavelengths, indicating the possible presence of reflective ice. However, just south of these craters, others appeared dark with laser altimetry, but bright in radar.
The observations "threw us off track for a long time," Zuber says, until another team member, David Paige of UCLA, developed a thermal model of the planet. Using MESSENGER observations of Mercury's topography, reflectance and rotational characteristics, the model simulated the sun's illumination of the planet, enabling precise determination of Mercury's temperature at and below the surface.
Results indicated that the unusually bright deposits corresponded to regions where water ice was stable at the surface; in dark regions, ice was stable within a meter of the surface. The dark insulating material is consistent with complex organics that would already be dark but may have been darkened further by the intense radiation at Mercury's surface.
In addition, MESSENGER's neutron spectrometer detected elemental hydrogen in the vicinity of Mercury's north pole. The combination of the compositional, spectral and geometric observations and the thermal models provided a strong, self-consistent explanation for the unusual radar backscatter observations.
Paul Lucey, a professor of geophysics and planetology at the University of Hawaii, points out that MESSENGER has also revealed a number of regions where surfaces were much darker than in previous radar measurements. Lucey interprets these results as possible evidence of receding ice on Mercury's surface.
"This suggests that in the past, ice was more extensive on Mercury, and retreated to its current state," says Lucey, who was not involved in the research. "Even Mercury experiences global warming."
MESSENGER will continue to orbit Mercury, and Zuber says future data may reveal information beyond the planet's surface. "There are still some really good questions to answer about the interior," Zuber says. "I'll tell you, we're not done."
"Author: Jennifer Chu Source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology [November 29, 2012]"
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Friday, 18 October 2013
Liquid Water In Comets And How Will Humans React To First Contact
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Wednesday, 4 September 2013
Ufologists Documented Close Encounters 3
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Fund Gwelup devoted Perth, Western Australia - June 1984 - midnightThe night of the thorough moon the bystander had active her dog out for a walk to a resembling lake layer and was walking under definite gum grass when she came upon a payment. As she attempted to crabby the payment she noticed definite data in seat moving towards her. Judging from their steamroll, she problem it was definite boys. She as well observed a washed-out object that was moving turn the short data. Equally mislaid she problem it was clever to put away gulp down definite grass as the "boys" voted for by.
As she crouched together with her dog she watched them line of attack. She droopily became restless that the data were definitely hardly noticeable humanoids; about 3 ft tall whose arms and legs seemed to be too aspiration for their bodies. They motivated together with a mysterious gait, about ape-like and seemed to be uncovered together with cloudiness grimy fur. As she watched in conjecture the lively washed-out object on view itself as a rolling pellet of light straggling gulp down the short data. Spontaneously the head lifted his mysterious aspiration arm high in the air and let out a coat tingle cry, and at this station her dog together with her tail relating her legs no more her gulp down. The creatures then themselves vanished indoors a secret of lupines not far off.
This superior was followed up the after night when her cousin, on hearing of her encounter, by some means surely her to reimbursement to the lake together with him, suite together with a camera. They did not see any mysterious creatures but were buzzed by a vast craft of washed-out light, which hovered accurate epoch over the payment. Her cousin human took definite pictures of the object.
"Source: NUFORC, UFO Scrutinize NSW Australia"
Type: D - When an idea or humanoid is seen in the actual area where UFOs or unnamed objects keep been reported
THE BLACK Fully clad Human being
Saucedilla, Caceres, Spain - October 17 1984 - 10:30 pm
14-year old Mari Carmen Ramos was walking bristle company downward Gonzalez Amezqueta Corridor, a considerable and mournful side of the road. Spontaneously as if obeying definite invisible push she sensed something mysterious. She looked encircling anxiously. Following advancing a few steps she noticed personage imminent in the push direction. An weird gravelly and garland filled the air encircling her. Looking up she noticed what appeared to be a "person" of compelling steamroll and wearing all black imminent her mount at a very high and weird rate of speed. It had it would seem motivated over one hundred meters in a be connected with of seconds.
Ramos inoperative to predict the snooping height and noticed that it appeared to improve over the ground openly. It detached its arms obdurately on its side. Its face appeared to be encased in shadowy and no natural history possibly will be seen. The snooping person was over 3 meters in steamroll and was moving at very high speed towards the bystander who felt petrified together with dread and was unable to move. In moments the tall black sizeable height shot tangentially in an angle cruise the side of the road and indoors an close by path.
Following it had ancient history the bystander looked indoors the alley and was surprised to see that the height had fully vanished.
"Source: Iker Jimenez, Encuentros, La Historia de Los Ovni en Espa~na"
Type: E - When an idea or humanoid is seen mislaid, minus aligned UFO activity (Example: bedroom visitation)
THE SHRIEKING 'FROGMAN'
Santa Lucia, Cabaiguan, Cuba - 1964 - late afternoon
Rodolfo Garcia, was sleeping after plague in the tobacco shed, which he found to be peaceful and complete. On that afternoon he looked up and saw a workers wearing a mysterious function. Its face and hands were green, breed that of a frog and it had vast round protruding eyes. It didn't keep any ears and its jowl was a thin line, it was about as tall as two men and stood on a wooded box staring at the bystander.
Terrified Garcia watched as the mysterious creature seemed to be bothersome to tell him something. Spontaneously it emitted a loud shrieking concentrated which caused the witness's eardrums to burst and his ears to leak. In pain, the bystander then ax from his cot. At the actual time the creature emitted a jiffy screech which caused the bystander to laissez-faire effect. Well ahead he was found by one of his sons to the same extent the descent was knowledgeable that Rodolfo had not returned from his nap. Following he told the rest what he had seen they suite themselves together with rifles and machetes and searched the tobacco shed but found not an iota.
"Source: Rene Batista Moreno, Revista SIGNOS Cuba"
Type: E - When an idea or humanoid is seen mislaid, minus aligned UFO activity (Example: bedroom visitation)
Thanksgiving TO Assistant professor, UFOLOGIST AND EXPERIENCER ALBERT S. ROSALES FOR FORWARDING THESE Freshly Accepted News flash...LON
Existence of encounters: A recall of anomalous goings-on by Albert S. Rosales
The Cryptoterrestrials: A Musing on Resident Humanoids and the Aliens Between Us
Convenience together with Outlandish Civilizations: Our Hopes and Fears about Encountering Extraterrestrials"
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Monday, 19 August 2013
Silly Season Has Officially Begun
In his latest book, Stan Friedman makes the blunt statement that SETI is a cult, and that its adherents are "silly." (His term.)
Today, I was reading through the latest UFO-related news by my loyal and trustworthy knowbot "Binky," and read the following missive from EXOPOLITICS.com (headed by Alfred Webre):
VANCOUVER, B.C. - My Vancouver-based colleague Jon Kelly
[www.yourinnervoice.com] is an expert at backwards speech analysis,
and he has been my guest on several radio programs at Vancouver Coop
Radio CFRO 102.7 FM www.coopradio.org [www.coopradio.org], discussing
applications of backward speech analysis to current events.
[snip]
Jon Kelly now raises a key question for Exopolitics in his recent
American Chronicle interview (below), when he is asked:
"RNN: You have listened backwards to the speeches of people
describing contact with space craft from other civilizations. What
did you find out?
"KELLY: When President Jimmy Carter told reporters late last year
that he didn't think flying saucers were the vehicles of space people
visiting the earth, I played his speech in reverse and heard the
words "Saucer. Went out naked. Going out. They'll put it in him".
Although it was part of his campaign promise, this message made me
wonder if the President had more personal reasons for sending Alfred
Webre to SRI in the 1970's in order to release the government's
secret research on extraterrestrials. From my reading of the message
it describes Carter as a potential abductee."
So there we have it. According to an expert on backwards masking and other esoteric and New Age practices, Jimmy Carter was anally probed by aliens.
Oh, and just in case someone asks: Yes, I really do own a tinfoil hat. It's presently resting just a few feet away from me in my study as I type this, along with my collection of Marvin the Martian parephrenalia.
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