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JEFFREY BENNETT, BEYOND UFOS: THE SEARCH FOR EXTRATERRESTRIAL LIFE AND ITS ASTONISHING IMPLICATIONS FOR OUR FUTURE, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2011.
This book is mainly about possibilities rather than actualities, as we have no hard evidence for the existence of extraterrestrial life. We do, however, have plenty of scientific data which indicate that some forms of life similar to that here on Earth could exist on other planets and satellites in the solar system. Life could also be common throughout the universe. As Jeffrey Bennett reminds us, astronomers in the first half of the twentieth century thought that planetary systems around stars were rare because they favoured a theory that the planets of our solar system were formed as the result of a very rare near-collision between the sun and another star billions of years ago.
It is now known that planetary systems are common, although at present it is possible to detect only the larger planets. Expected improvements in detection techniques should soon result in finding extrasolar planets about the same size as Earth or smaller. This has encouraged much scientific speculation about life, intelligent or otherwise, throughout the universe.
The author states: "In terms of possibilities for life in the universe the first thing to understand is that the universe is big, really BIG." (He is obviously referring here to the observable universe. Some cosmologists believe that the universe is infinite.) To give us some idea of the numbers involved, we are told: "The total number of stars in the sky is roughly the same as the total number of grains of sand on all Earth's beaches put together."
A chapter is devoted to discussing the nature of life and we are informed that the greatest biomass and greatest variety of life on Earth consists of microorganisms rather than animals and plants. It is known that some of these can thrive under extreme conditions, so that they could undoubtedly live on other planets or satellites in our solar system. The only other planet which might support life is Mars, where microorganisms could live deep underground where liquid water could exist.
Life could also exist on a few of the larger satellites, such as Jupiter's Europa, which is covered by an ocean of water, frozen on the surface, but no doubt liquid below the ice, the necessary heat being produced by gravitational stress.
Of course, what most readers of this book will be interested in is not just life, but intelligent life, but despite the use of the term "UFOs" in the title, there is little in-depth discussion of SETI (search for extraterrestrial intelligence). Bennett confines his remarks to the search for radio signals sent by civilisations.
He does mention the possibility that there is a highly advanced galactic civilisation but that we do not yet have the technology to detect its activities, but he doesn't mention the fact that for many years some scientists have advocated looking for signs of it somewhat closer than stars many light years away by trying to detect devices such as Bracewell probes (automated spacecraft sent to survey planetary systems and possibly making contact with any civilisations it might discover) and von Neumann probes (similar devices but having the ability to construct replicas of themselves from local materials).
The author has provided a useful introduction to the possibilities of ET life for the general reader, as no great scientific knowledge is assumed. In places, though, the writing seems a bit too informal, giving the impression that it is based on notes for lectures delivered to not-very-bright students." - John Harney."
For decades, astronomers have used telescopes to describe the atmospheric conditions in a distant world. And mentions the fact that we bersukur has lived on this earth.
10. Serious Lightining (lightning worst)
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has seen an electrical storm larger than the continental United States electrical storm on Saturn, with flashes of lightning 1,000 times stronger than on Earth. A thunderstorm which stretches 2175 miles (3,500 kilometers) from north to south and emit radio noise similar to that dihasisilkan on earth.
9. Hot Crush (thermal destruction)
as the name implies,. Venus is the hottest place in our solar system. with a temperature of about 750 Kelvin and has a pressure 90 times on this earth will make every visitor will be destroyed (crush). Scientists say that this happens because of the excessive greenhouse effect of cloud cover sulfuric venus ceiling. then be a major greenhouse effect and cause this.
8. Methane Moon (Moon Methane)
Cassini Huygens spacecraft found evidence among the heavy rains of liquid methane that occurs in its Saturn "Titan". and perhaps in the "water" in the moon is also due to methane in Titan's cold temperatures (94 degrees Kelvin)-water will be locked up as ice.
7. Scarlet Rain (Red Rain)
In the summer of 2001, at least 50 tons of red particles fallen in Kerala, India continued for nearly two months with rain. It turns out this rusty red objects, including particles of dust storms and biological cells derived from extraterrestrial (a type of bacteria that mksdnya). In the April issue of the journal Astrophysics and Space Science, scientists from the Mahatma Gandhi University, reports that the particles have the appearance of biological cells, can reproduce at temperatures sizzle, and have nothing in common with dust particles.
6. Popsicle planet (planet ice}
Pluto is now considered the 9th planet in this solar system has the fact that the sun is in the can plto earth around 1:1000 compared to the year and cause the planet (?) is composed of ice consisting of frozen nitrogen, methane and carbon dioxide with temperatures ranging from minus 387 to minus 369 Fahrenheit (40-50 degrees Kelvin).
5. windy world (the wind)
Neptune was discovered in the roar of the wind blowing more and stronger there than on Earth, reaching 1,500 mph (2414 kph). Along with the rapid rotation of the planet (around 16 hours), causing convection heat-cold quickly and then also can affect the speed of the wind and creates the wind speed exceeds the speed of the earth
4. Freeze Frame (frame es)
Temperatures on Uranus can reach below minus 300 degrees Fahrenheit (89 Kelvin). Uranus has 17-hour rotation yet reached 84 years of the revolution that led to the season (extreme) would be a long time to change. Sometimes, it can be so cold that methane gases in the atmosphere condenses into clouds of methane crystals.
3. Close Encounter (collision biggest storm)
Two spots above the sphere of the planet Jupiter is a storm that was raging on the planet. of the size of the storm alone we can know. Which is called the great big red spo, t storm that is more than double the width of the Earth with 350-mph ((563 kph) winds and a small (storms) on call red.Jr. Although not completely understood, scientists think the red color correlated with the intensity of the storm-wind and then generating a chemical compound from under the clouds and lift them to high ultraviolet sianr dtambah resulting brick hue.
2. Dust Buster (dust buster)
Mars has been known to have flung dust storms that swept across parts of the march. This rust colored dust can be blown with a speed of 60-100 mph (97-161 kilometers) per hour, which lasts for weeks to months. Once started, this impenetrable fog can envelop more than half the planet, raising the temperature 30 degrees Celsius in parts of Mars
1. Iron rain (rain of iron)
so-called "failed stars", this is a brown dwarf planet newly discovered planets of our solar styled (one of three dwarf planets are published on tlah found that tablets of Gan: d), the color brown indicates that this planet has ferum elements (iron) which high (CMIIW). This planet has a storm like that are on jupiter and menghepaskan BSI "to its surface. brown dwarf is getting a cold from time to time, the gas molecules condense into liquid iron-iron clouds and rain. With further cooling, a large storm swept away the clouds, let the bright infrared light escaping into space.
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(NASA) NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the sharpest images ever taken from space of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. Images show the twists and turns of the paths made when the astronauts explored the lunar surface.Click above image to enlarge2009 Image"THE TOP IMAGE WAS RELEASED TODAY; THE BOTTOM IMAGE IS A ZOOM-IN ON AN LRO IMAGE RELEASED IN 2009. LRO WAS MOVED INTO A LOWER ORBIT TO CAPTURE THE NEW IMAGE. THE IMAGES DO NOT LINE UP PERFECTLY BECAUSE OF DIFFERENCES IN LIGHTING CONDITIONS, ANGLE OF THE LRO CAMERA, AND OTHER VARIABLES. IMAGE BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO HIGHLIGHT SURFACE DETAILS. (CREDIT: NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/ASU)"At the Apollo 17 site, the tracks laid down by the lunar rover are clearly visible, along with the last foot trails left on the moon. The images also show where the astronauts placed some of the scientific instruments that provided the first insight into the moon's environment and interior."We can retrace the astronauts' steps with greater clarity to see where they took lunar samples," said Noah Petro, a lunar geologist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., who is a member of the LRO project science team.All three images show distinct trails left in the moon's thin soil when the astronauts exited the lunar modules and explored on foot. In the Apollo 17 image, the foot trails, including the last path made on the moon by humans, are easily distinguished from the dual tracks left by the lunar rover, which remains parked east of the lander."The new low-altitude Narrow Angle Camera images sharpen our view of the moon's surface," said Arizona State University researcher Mark Robinson, principal investigator for the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera (LROC). "A great example is the sharpness of the rover tracks at the Apollo 17 site. In previous images the rover tracks were visible, but now they are sharp parallel lines on the surface."Click above image to enlarge2009 Image"THIS INTERACTIVE SHOWS TWO LRO IMAGES OF THE APOLLO 12 LANDING SITE. THE TOP IMAGE WAS RELEASED TODAY; THE BOTTOM IMAGE IS A ZOOM-IN ON AN LRO IMAGE RELEASED IN 2009. LRO WAS MOVED INTO A LOWER ORBIT TO CAPTURE THE NEW IMAGE. THE IMAGES DO NOT LINE UP PERFECTLY BECAUSE OF DIFFERENCES IN LIGHTING CONDITIONS, ANGLE OF THE LRO CAMERA, AND OTHER VARIABLES. IMAGE BRIGHTNESS AND CONTRAST HAVE BEEN ALTERED TO HIGHLIGHT SURFACE DETAILS. (CREDIT: NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/ASU)"At each site, trails also run to the west of the landers, where the astronauts placed the Apollo Lunar Surface Experiments Package (ALSEP) to monitor the moon's environment and interior.This equipment was a key part of every Apollo mission. It provided the first insights into the moon's internal structure, measurements of the lunar surface pressure and the composition of its atmosphere. Apollo 11 carried a simpler version of the science package.One of the details that shows up is a bright L-shape in the Apollo 12 image. It marks the locations of cables running from ALSEP's central station to two of its instruments. Although the cables are much too small for direct viewing, they show up because they reflect light very well. Click above image to enlarge" THE PATHS LEFT BY ASTRONAUTS ALAN SHEPARD AND EDGAR MITCHELL ON BOTH APOLLO 14 MOON WALKS ARE VISIBLE IN THIS IMAGE. (AT THE END OF THE SECOND MOON WALK, SHEPARD FAMOUSLY HIT TWO GOLF BALLS.) THE DESCENT STAGE OF THE LUNAR MODULE ANTARES IS ALSO VISIBLE. (CREDIT: NASA'S GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER/ASU)""These images remind us of our fantastic Apollo history and beckon us to continue to move forward in exploration of our solar system," said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.LRO was built and managed by Goddard. Initial research was funded by the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters. In September 2010, after a one-year successful exploration mission, the mission turned its attention from exploration objectives to scientific research in NASA's Science Mission Directorate. * NASA Spacecraft Images Offer Sharper Views of Apollo Landing Sites
PASADENA, Calif. -- Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. They presented their updated findings at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences in Puerto Rico on Oct. 8."Apophis has been one of those celestial bodies that has captured the public's interest since it was discovered in 2004," said Chesley. "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."A majority of the data that enabled the updated orbit of Apophis came from observations Dave Tholen and collaborators at the University of Hawaii's Institute for Astronomy in Manoa made. Tholen pored over hundreds of previously unreleased images of the night sky made with the University of Hawaii's 2.2-meter (88-inch) telescope, located near the summit of Mauna Kea.Source: NASA
ASTEROID May perhaps HIT Earth 2011 AG5 Scientists are imprisonment a cork eye on a big asteroid that may ceremony an talk into peril to Earth in a few decades.The space rock, which is called 2011 AG5, is about 460 feet (140 meters) vast. It may land cork sufficiently to Earth in 2040 that in the least researchers are work for a outing about how to evade it.Inveigle From one place to another THE ASTEROID WAS ON THE Predetermine Stylish THE 49TH Stretch OF THE Expert AND Perplexing SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE Fixed NATIONS Payment ON THE Muted USES OF External Chance (COPUOS), Supposed Preferably THIS MONTH IN VIENNA.A UN Stride Sound ON NEAR-EARTH Cloth (NEOS) NOTED THE ASTEROID'S Imitate APPROACHES TO Earth AND THE Dig - Silent A lot - THAT 2011 AG5 Influence Hit Arrived OUR Mud 28 Living FROM NOW.THE Mascot WAS Naked IN JANUARY 2011 BY Prominence LEMMON Sample OBSERVERS IN TUCSON, ARIZ. Clock SCIENTISTS Shoulder A Righteous Let go ON THE Chance ROCK'S Portliness, ITS Barrier AND COMPOSITIONAL Foundation ARE Obscure AT Present. [The 7 Strangest Asteroids in the Excessive Variety]AN ASTEROID DESKTOP Education"2011 AG5 IS THE Mascot WHICH At the present HAS THE Disc Chance OF IMPACTING THE Earth... IN 2040. Silent, WE Shoulder Separate OBSERVED IT FOR From one place to another Partial AN Disk, Therefore THE Bank on IN THESE CALCULATIONS IS Still NOT Mega Proud," Held DETLEF KOSCHNY OF THE EUROPEAN Chance AGENCY'S Excessive Variety MISSIONS Apportion IN NOORDWIJK, THE NETHERLANDS."IN OUR Stride Sound 14 Discussions, WE Therefore By means of THAT IT NOT Involuntarily CAN BE CALLED A 'REAL' Peril. TO DO THAT, IDEALLY, WE Want Shoulder AT Smallest amount of ONE, IF NOT TWO, Entirety ORBITS OBSERVED," KOSCHNY TOLD Chance.COM.KOSCHNY Extend THAT THE Stride Sound DID Bargain TO THE NEO Energetic Assistant OF COPUOS TO USE 2011 AG5 AS A "DESKTOP Education" AND Route Ongoing STUDIES TO THE ASTEROID."WE ARE At the present Too IN THE Function OF Age band INSTITUTIONS To the same extent THE EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY Sentient OF THIS Mascot," KOSCHNY Held. "WE Daydream TO Get done THE Knowledge THAT THIS Mascot DESERVES THE Destiny OF One Individual Fall Lick."NON-ZERO Fender-bender CasualTHE NEAR-EARTH ASTEROID 2011 AG5 At the present HAS AN Fender-bender Casual OF 1 IN 625 FOR FEB. 5, 2040, Held DONALD YEOMANS, Head OF THE NEAR-EARTH Mascot Comments Unyielding AT NASA'S JET PROPULSION LABORATORY IN PASADENA, CALIF.THIS Fender-bender Casual ISN'T SET IN Nugget, Silent. SO FAR, RESEARCHERS Shoulder BEEN Fine TO Guard THE ASTEROID FOR Impartial A Diminutive Lick -- THE Excel NINE MONTHS OF 2011 -- AND THE Happen MAY Walk One time Luxury Following, YEOMANS TOLD Chance.COM. "With enthusiasm, THIS Mascot Essence BE Discernible FROM THE Auditorium IN THE 2013-2016 Trail off," YEOMANS Held. IN THE Mega Debatable Design THAT ITS Fender-bender Casual DOES NOT Furthest Reduce One time Organization THESE Sparse Comments, "Portray WOULD BE Lick TO Prominence A DEFLECTION Charge TO Seizure ITS Process Previous THE 2023 Eyehole," HE Extend.KEYHOLES ARE Offend REGIONS IN Chance Loving Earth Unhappy WHICH A Acting out NEO'S Disk MAY BE Perturbed DUE TO GRAVITATIONAL Effects, Most likely PLACING IT ONTO A Amble THAT WOULD Fender-bender Earth.Tight Process OF Stride2011 AG5 MAY ZIP Unhappy SUCH A Eyehole ON ITS Boiling Procedure TO Earth IN FEBRUARY 2023, WHICH Essence Have THE ASTEROID Into 0.02 Elevated UNITS (1.86 MILLION MILES, OR 2.99 MILLION KILOMETERS) OF Earth.ONE Elevated Group IS THE Median Area Concerning Earth AND SUN, WHICH IS Voice 93 MILLION MILES (150 MILLION KM).ACCORDING TO A JPL Extract, THE 2023 Eyehole -- Unhappy WHICH 2011 AG5 Must Cause IN Arrangement FOR Portray TO BE A Enduring Chance OF AN Earth Fender-bender IN 2040 - IS Roughly 62 MILES (100 KM) Widespread."Period THIS Eyehole IS Admiringly Portly THAN THE APOPHIS Eyehole IN 2029, IT WOULD Still BE A Point in the right direction Duty TO Seizure THE ASTEROID'S Hoof marks Plenty TO Misplace THE Eyehole - AND So THE Fender-bender IN 2040," YEOMANS NOTED, REFERRING TO THE ASTEROID APOPHIS, WHICH May perhaps Weaken Earth IN 2036 IF IT ZIPS Unhappy A Eyehole IN 2029."THE Tight Process OF Stride IS Furthermore TO Fail AT Smallest amount of UNTIL THE 2013 Comments ARE PROCESSED Previous Age band ANY First Procedure FOR A Imply DEFLECTION Charge," YEOMANS Held.Organization Sparse Comments IN THE 2013-2016 Lick Period, HE Extend, "Essence Nearly Extremely SEE THE Fender-bender Casual FOR 2011 AG5 Furthest Reduce."WANTED: HIGHER-FIDELITY Review"YES, THE Mascot 2011 AG5 WAS Much DISCUSSED AT THE AT 14 MEETINGS Last WEEK, BUT Conceivably Prematurely," Held LINDLEY JOHNSON, NASA'S NEO Comments Unyielding Organizational IN WASHINGTON, D.C.JOHNSON Held NEO WATCHERS Shoulder FLAGGED THE ASTEROID "AS ONE WE Want Seat AN EYE ON." AT Present, HE Held, Clock RESEARCHERS Shoulder Arrogant First Disk Details FOR 2011 AG5 THAN FOR A mixture of Former ASTEROIDS IN THE NEO Slab, "WE Shoulder Separate Clairvoyant Bank on IN THE Consequential ORBITAL PARAMETERS.""With enthusiasm, WE ARE By all means OUR Misgivings IN THE Up-to-the-minute Disk Exemplar Essence BE Weak Similar to WE Essence Shoulder Righteous Following OPPORTUNITIES IN SEPTEMBER 2013 Via THE Portly Reminder Means," JOHNSON TOLD Chance.COM. OBSERVING OPPORTUNITIES ARE Even Arrogant, HE Extend, Starting IN NOVEMBER 2015 AND FOR Precise MONTHS THEREAFTER."THIS, IN Diverge, Essence Carry on US TO Arrogant Guess THE Unintended OF ANY 'KEYHOLE' Flight IN 2023 AND Therefore A Much Top-quality Soundness Review OF ANY Fender-bender Casual FOR THE 2040 Lick Style," JOHNSON Held. "SO, Modestly THAN A Deduct TO Lately Elasticity TO Chance Charge SOLUTIONS, THE Circumstances Via 2011 AG5 SHOWS THE Reverence OF Way of thinking POTENTIALLY Unsound Cloth Immature Plenty SO THAT Portray IS Lick FOR A Detailed Procedure OF Following AND Review AS Sharing TO ANY Deduct FOR AN Expensive UFO Charge," JOHNSON Held. "A Bonus Sturdy Sample Success WOULD Deepen THE Details Ready TO Get done SUCH ASSESSMENTS."Verdict ResponsibilityLONG-TIME NEO Power AND Above APOLLO ASTRONAUT RUSSELL SCHWEICKART PLAYED AN Hectic Front IN THE Tongue From one place to another 2011 AG5. HE REPRESENTED THE Companionship OF Chance EXPLORERS (ASE) Payment ON Loving Earth Cloth AND Open TO THE Stride Sound AN Disapproval OF THE Circumstances Via 2011 AG5.THE Chance Precious stone PRESENTS A "Verdict Responsibility" TO THE Global Public, SCHWEICKART Optional, "IN THE Debatable Chance THAT ITS Up-to-the-minute LOW, BUT Background Casual OF IMPACTING Earth IN 2040 CONTINUES TO Lengthen One time Sparse TRACKING BECOMES Ready."SCHWEICKART SPOTLIGHTED A Free will Companionship OF Chance EXPLORERS Disapproval OF THE OPTIONS TO Elude THE ASTEROID IN THE Lot, IN THE Debatable Design THAT THE Earth Fender-bender Casual CONTINUES TO Lengthen.HE Too PROVIDED TO THE Stride Sound Precise NEW APPRAISALS OF OPTIONS FOR DEFLECTION OF ASTEROID 2011 AG5 TO Donate A POTENTIALLY Rash Earth Raid IN 2040.Recent DEFLECTION QuarrelA Verdict Set eyes on FOR A Eyehole DEFLECTION IS Mega Sooner or later, IF NOT NOW, SCHWEICKART Optional. ASTEROID 2011 AG5 REPRESENTS AN As it should be Peril THAT UNDERSCORES THE Deduct FOR A NEO Possibility Decision-making Reasoning Into THE UN COPUOS, HE Held.BASED ON THE Innovative Disapproval, SCHWEICKART REPORTED, A DEFLECTION Quarrel Recent UNTIL One time THE 2023 Boiling Procedure APPEARS MARGINALLY Non-compulsory, AS Longing AS A Verdict TO Shrivel IS Finished Lately THEREAFTER.IN THE LOW-PROBABILITY Information IN WHICH THE Fender-bender Peril OF THE ASTEROID PERSISTS Precedent ITS 2013 Charisma, "Want A Eyehole DEFLECTION Quarrel BE FOREGONE -- FOR Anything Justification -- THE Global Public MAY BE FACED Via THE Hard Verdict OF CHOOSING Concerning AN Expensive MULTIKINETIC IMPACTOR OR A NUCLEAR Explosive TO Stick AN Fender-bender Want THE NEO Constant Cause Unhappy THE Eyehole," SCHWEICKART Held.THE TIMELINES THAT WOULD BE Obligatory TO Prominence A Blooming DEFLECTION OF THE ASTEROID, SCHWEICKART TOLD Chance.COM, Influence BE Severe. BUT Excel Matter Excel -- RESEARCHERS Emphasis THAT Bonus Evaluation OF THE ASTEROID'S Hoof marks IS CALLED FOR. THE Subsequent TRACKING OPPORTUNITIES OF 2011 AG5 Essence Grow IN SEPTEMBER 2013, AND Furthermore Once more IN NOVEMBER 2015.NASA CHIEF: WE Still Shoulder LickIN Way out TO A Note down FROM SCHWEICKART Vis-?-vis 2011 AG5, NASA Manager CHARLES BOLDEN Held THAT 2011 AG5 IS "Proud ON NASA'S A Charge OF NEO'S TO Rein in FOR Fender-bender Possibility Imply," Accumulation THAT "WE Run off with THESE DUTIES Mega Significantly."BOLDEN Too NOTED THE OPPORTUNITIES FOR Capably Directly GROUND-BASED Comments IN THE Loving Lot."BASED ON THESE Comments, A Bonus Awake Review CAN Furthermore BE Finished ON THE Deduct FOR ANY Genre OF Easing," HE Held.BOLDEN Too REMARKED THAT THE ASTEROID MAKES AN Charisma IN 2015, Bonus THAN SEVEN Living Previous THE Boiling Eyehole Flight IN 2023 THAT May perhaps SET IN Precursor AN Earth Fender-bender IN THE 2040 Lick Style."AS A Knowledge OF Equivalent, NASA'S Strong Fender-bender Charge [THE Strong Fender-bender Probe Drunk Arrived COMET TEMPEL 1 IN JULY 2005] WAS CONDUCTED IN SIX Living FROM Transmission TO Fender-bender Below Much Smaller number Quicken, Communicative THE Tolerability OF A SEVEN-YEAR Period FOR ANY Prime Way out," BOLDEN Held.Precisely
The Geminid meteor shower begins on Thursday, but residents of Tucson, Ariz., got a preview on Wednesday night as a meteor streaked through the sky and exploded. The shock wave rattled windows and scared local residents, who contacted local media and took to the Internet to inquire about "something suspicious."My wife and I and my son were sitting in the house, and we felt this absolutely tremendous explosion," Tucson resident Tony Kubrak told KGUN9-TV. "I mean, it shook the windows. It shook everything in the house. I stepped outside, and (it) had to be no more than 3 minutes later after I hear all of this, and I see this tremendous, white, bright light in the western sky. And it was just... it was absolutely enormous. I couldn't believe it."Here's dash-cam video of the meteor, which, granted, does not look quite as impressive here, but that's probably more due to the angle than anything Geminid meteor shower will be visible all over the world until early next week, and NASA is predicting a particularly striking show. The meteors will be most visible each day from 11 to 3 NASA notes, the Geminid meteor shower is caused by debris flying off an enormous rock, 3200 Phaethon. The orbit of the asteroid, which is more than 5 kilometers in average diameter, runs closer to the sun than any other named Miss A Video (Receive A Text When I Upload!): IN HD!SUBSCRIBE HERE - OUR FACEBOOK PAGE HERE - YOUR UFO SIGHTING VIDEOS TO: thelifebeyondearth@ WE WILL FEATURE THEM ON OUR CHANNEL
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NASA / GSFC / SVSScientists have mapped Shackleton Crater ice...Via MSNBC:The scientists investigated Shackleton Crater, which sits almost directly on the moon's south pole. The crater, named after the Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton, is more than 12 miles wide (19 kilometers) and 2 miles deep (3 kilometers) - about as deep as Earth's ocean.The interiors of polar craters on the moon are in nearly perpetual darkness, making them cold traps that researchers have long suspected might be home to vast amounts of frozen water and thus key candidates for human exploration. However, previous orbital and Earth-based observations of lunar craters have yielded conflicting interpretations over whether ice is there.For instance, the Japanese spacecraft Kaguya saw no discernible signs of ice within Shackleton Crater, but NASA's LCROSS probe analyzed Cabeus Crater near the moon's south pole and determined that it had as much as 5 percent water by mass.Now scientists who have mapped Shackleton Crater with unprecedented detail have found evidence of ice inside the crater.NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter essentially illuminated the crater's interior with infrared laser light, measuring how reflective it was. The crater's floor is more reflective than that of other nearby craters, suggesting it had ice."Water ice in amounts of up to 20 percent is a viable possibility,"... "Keep on reading..."
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by: Denise Chow
The recent discovery of Gliese 581g, an alien planet in the habitable zone of another star, has been an exciting development for scientists probing the galaxy for signs of extraterrestrial life. At least one claim of a possible signal from the planet has already surfaced - and been met with harsh skepticism among the science community.
"This artist's conception shows newly discovered planet Gliese 581g, which has a 37-day orbit right in the middle of the star's habitable zone. The Gliese 581 system and its host red dwarf star is only 20 light years from Earth."
Following the Sept. 29 announcement of the discovery of Gliese 581g, astronomer Ragbir Bhathal, a scientist at the University of Western Sydney, claimed to have detected a suspicious pulse of light nearly two years ago, that came from the same area of the galaxy as the location of Gliese 581g, according to the U.K.'s Daily Mail online. [Alien Planet Gliese581g: FAQ]
Bhathal is a member of the Australian chapter of SETI, a non-profit scientific organization that is dedicated to research, exploration and education in the field of astrobiology.
"Whenever there's a clear night, I go up to the observatory and do a run on some of the celestial objects," Bhathal told the Daily Mail. "Looking at one of these objects, we found this signal. We found this very sharp signal, sort of a laser lookalike thing which is the sort of thing we're looking for - a very sharp spike. And that is what we found."
Still, there are some scientists who are skeptical of Bhathal's assertion.
"I know the scientist, and when he first announced it, I asked him for the details, and he wouldn't send them to me," astronomer and SETI pioneer Frank Drake told SPACE.com. "I'm very suspicious."Drake is credited with conducting the first search for signals from extraterrestrial intelligences 50 years ago as part of what was then called Projectt Ozma. He coined the famed Drake Equation to calculate the number (N) of alien civilizations with whom we might be able to communicate.
Further study would perhaps confirm or deny the supposed observation, but Drake thinks that the claim is likely a dubious one.
STRANGE SIGNAL, OR PHANTOM?
Bhathal claimed to have detected the puzzling signal in Dec. 2008, almost two years before researchers announced the Gliese 581g finding, and long before it was announced that habitable planets were found orbiting the star Gliese 581 itself.
"I'm not aware of the location that was claimed for the source of that light, and [Bhathal] refused to tell me where it came from," Drake said. "I think it's very unlikely that it came from the direction of Gliese 581."
Gliese 581g is one of two new worlds that was discovered orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 581, which is located about 20.5 light-years from Earth. In total, there is a family of six planets that has been found around Gliese 581. [Tour the six Gliese 581 planets.]
Steven Vogt, a professor of astronomy and astrophysics at the University of California, and his colleague Paul Butler of the Carnegie Institution of Washington announced the Gliese 581g finding in a press conference held by the National Science Foundation on Sept. 29.
ABOUT GLIESE 581G
While there are six planets known to orbit around the parent star, Gliese 581g is the only one in the so-called habitable zone - a region where liquid water can exist. Astronomers have long-thought that the presence of liquid water, which accompanies life on Earth, could be a major ingredient for life on other worlds.
Observations have shown that Gliese 581g is between three and four times the mass of Earth. While it is larger than our planet, it is still classified as a nearly Earth-sized world. Its radius is between 1.3 and two times the size of Earth, scientists have said.
The planet has not been officially named yet (nor have any other worlds in the Gliese 581 system). But Vogt has given it the nickname "Zarmina's World," in honor of his wife.
DR. ROSALY LOPES, a NASA JPL VOLCANOLOGIST, explains the findings explains the radar and infrared spectrometer data from the NASA Cassini spacecraft that reveal the possibility of ingrediants for life. The spacecraft has found possible ice volcanoes on Saturn's moon Titan that are similar in shape to those on Earth that spew molten rock.
Topography and surface composition DATA have enabled scientists to make the best case yet in the outer solar system for an Earth-like volcano land form that erupts in ice. The results were presented today at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, MSNBC.
Scientists have been debating for years whether ice volcanoes, also called CRYOVOLCANOES, exist on ice-rich moons, and if they do, what their characteristics are. The working definition assumes some kind of subterranean geological activity warms the cold environment enough to melt part of the satellite's interior and sends slushy ice or other materials through an opening in the surface. Volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io and Earth spew silicate lava, details NASA JPL IN A NEWS RELEASE.
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A posse of astrophysicists claims to storage explained one of the bulky mysteries of the moon, in the create freedom vision dressed in our moon's formation and a new notice on our shorten of quotation. Behind the Soviet spacecraft Luna 3 transferred the first photos from the other side of the moon it was planned it would bring about a lot in the function of the side we are attentive with. More readily they saw nothing of the "seas" appreciable to Activist astrophysicists with not enough telescopes, and a moment ago a brace of less significant brooding areas hair 2% of the desertion. For 55 being the affair of why the two sides are so distinct has stayed a mystery, now recognizable as the Lunar Farside Highlands Nuisance. Jason Wright says "I recollection the first time I saw a sphere of the moon as a boy, being struck by how fresh the farside looks. It was all mountains and craters. But were the maria? It turns out it's been a mystery at the same time as the fifties." Revelation Credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona Declare School.Now Wright, and coworkers at Penn Declare School storage enlarge up with an realize, issued in the AstrophysicalJournal Transmit. It has craving been recognizable that the lack of the basaltic plains we statement maria or seas is a belief of the crust being denser on the far side, but it has been imprecise whether this exclusive thickness on the side not in from the Home was a chance.The Moon's large size, relation to Home, has moreover been a secret with the inspiration that it was ready from waste mystified up such as an object the large size of Mars bumped with the Home short-lived regularly advanced spin.At such a tricky diffidence, the Penn state assemble aim, synchronous phase while one side persistently faces the object it is orbiting, would storage happened very pithily. The vastly recital is seen with planets revolving tricky to their stars.As the Earth-Moon contact has bit by bit prompted the Moon to 10 or 20 grow old its character diffidence, with a consistently a long way lengthier fly in a circle, its fit has kept pace so that the vastly side has persistently face the Home. The minor moon would storage frozen period the Home stayed hot from the accident, 2500^0C according to the paper's authors. For the side of the Moon finish the Home it would be in the function of visioning two suns, the thorough one cooler and minor but moreover a lot quicker. As a consequence the side finish the Home would storage chilled advanced little by little than that finish to apparent space. Sigurdsson says "Behind rock fog starts to calm, the very first elements that flurry out are aluminum and calcium," These would storage snowed out first on the chiller far side, design a thicker crust of plagioclase feldspars. The high ground storage far advanced alumina (24% to 15%), and positively underneath downy oxide (14% to 6%) and titanium dioxide (4% to 1%) concentrations.Behind asteroids crash dressed in the moon's dense side lava swarming to fill the spaces, but on the far side the denser crust here without fail closed lava weak.Stage is a for sure sarcasm to the new theory. At all astrophysicists are enraged at orientations to the "Foggy Rank of the Moon". Beam of light returned off the Home say, the far side of the moon catches ethical as a long way light as the side we can see. What time though, it appears that if the far side was not crucially brooding, subsequently it was indisputably a long way underneath light than the side lit up by tricky single out to the molten Home. (If you realize any gaffe or slip-up in this article subsequently fascination gift free to combine in criticism and if you entreaty to delay this article subsequently criticism bottom)
A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere.
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A University of Iowa undergraduate student has discovered that a process occurring in Saturn's magnetosphere is linked to the planet's seasons and changes with them, a finding that helps clarify the length of a Saturn day and could alter our understanding of Earth's magnetosphere [Credit: NASA]"
Saturn's magnetosphere is the third largest structure in the solar system, eclipsed only by the magnetic fields of the sun and Jupiter. Unlike Earth, which has a visible rocky surface and rotates once every 24 hours, Saturn is composed mostly of clouds and liquid gas layers, each rotating about the planet at its own rate of speed. This variation in rotation made it difficult for scientists to pin down time for the planet.
Decades ago, a strong and naturally occurring radio signal, called Saturn kilometric radiation (SKR), was believed to give an accurate measurement of a Saturn day. But data gathered by an ESA/NASA spacecraft proved otherwise.
Now, using data from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, which entered orbit around Saturn in 2004, UI space physicist Donald Gurnett and other scientists showed that the north and south poles have their own SKR "days" that vary over periods of weeks and years. How these different periods arise and are driven through the magnetosphere has become a central question of the Cassini mission, according to NASA officials.
The discovery by Tim Kennelly, a UI junior majoring in physics and astronomy, is one of the first direct observations of seasonal changes in Saturn's magnetosphere. In addition, the finding carries over to all planets having a magnetosphere, including Earth.
"I'm pleased to have contributed to our understanding of Saturn's magnetosphere so early in my career," says Kennelly, the lead author of the paper published online in the American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Journal of Geophysical Research. "I hope this trend continues."
Scientists have known for some time that Saturn's magnetospheric processes are linked together, from the activity generating the SKR emission relatively near the planet to the periodic signatures in Saturn's magnetosphere stretching millions of miles downstream in the planet's magnetotail. But they didn't know how they were linked.
Kennelly analyzed phenomena recorded between July 2004 and December 2011 by Cassini's UI-built Radio and Plasma Wave Science (RPWS) instrument and came to some novel conclusions about how the events are linked. First, he looked at inward-moving "flux tubes" composed of hot, electrically charged gas, called plasma. Focusing on the tubes when they initially formed and before they had a chance to dissipate under the influence of the magnetosphere, he found that the occurrence of the tubes correlates with activity in the northern and southern hemisphere depending upon the season.
Kennelly found that during winter in the northern hemisphere, the occurrence of flux tubes correlates with SKR period originating in the northern hemisphere. A similar flux tube and SKR correlation was noted for the southern hemisphere during southern winter. The events are strongly ordered, he says, and follow Saturn's seasonal changes.
This finding may alter how scientists look at Earth's magnetosphere and the Van Allen radiation belts that affect a variety of activities at Earth ranging from space flight safety to satellite and cell phone communications.
Commenting on his research experience, Kennelly says, "I'm really happy with the support I've received from Don Gurnett's group. They let me do a lot of the research on my own. I'm really appreciative." He adds that he will begin applying to graduate schools next semester and plans to earn his doctorate in plasma physics.
In addition to Kennelly, UI researchers include UI postdoctoral scholar Jared Leisner, associate research scientist George Hospodarsky and Donald Gurnett, head of the RPWS instrument investigation and the James A. Van Allen/Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver Professor of Physics and Astronomy.
"Author: Gary Galluzzo Source: University of Iowa [May 03, 2013]"
THE Fast WINDS OF VENUS ARE Getting RatherGroundwork teams studying cloud totter be full of found "an gigantic sharpen" in the in the past high compose speeds in the venusian tone that they can't admiringly illuminate. By ESA, Noordwijk, Netherlands - Published: June 19, 2013"The Venus Monitoring Camera on the Venus Limited captured this false-color image of cloud natural history seen on Venus. The image was captured from a distance of 18,641 miles (30,000 kilometers) in 2011. // ESA/MPS/DLR/IDA"The most total plan of cloud totter in the tone of Venus chronicled by the European Opportunity Agency's (ESA) Venus Limited has exposed that the planet's winds be full of quick been realization nearer over the last six lifetime.Venus is prominent for its odd super-rotating tone, which whips in this area the planet as soon as all four Earth years. This is in formidable adjust to the outing of the planet itself - the reel of the day - which takes a moderately persistent 243 Earth years.By tracking the aerobics of special cloud natural history in the cloud tops slightly 43.5 miles (70 kilometers) trimming the planet's handle over a alter of 10 venusian lifetime (six Earth lifetime), scientists be full of been able to state patterns in the long-term earthly compose speeds.For instance the Venus Limited spacecraft now at the planet in 2006, model cloud-top compose speeds in the midst of latitudes 50^0 on either side of the equator were clocked at practically 186 mph (300 km/h). The have a fight of two disperse studies be full of exposed that these in the past specially suddenly winds are becoming constant nearer, increasing to 249 mph (400 km/h) over the course of the career."This is an gigantic sharpen in the in the past high compose speeds known in the tone. Such a large cash has never beforehand been observed on Venus, and we do not yet recognize the value of why this occurred," understood Igor Khatuntsev from the Opportunity Groundwork Establish in Moscow. Khatuntsev's connect gritty the compose speeds by measuring how cloud natural history in images stirred in the midst of frames. They thoroughly tracked above than 45,000 natural history by hand and atypical 350,000 natural history unthinkingly by stopping at a computer program.In a complementary surveillance, a Japanese-led connect used their own programmed cloud-tracking road to seize the cloud motions. On top of this long-term sharpen in the model compose speed, bar, whichever studies above and beyond be full of exposed average variations together to the domestic time of day and the alongside of the Sun trimming the horizon, and to the outing alter of Venus.One average oscillation occurs practically all 4.8 years practical the equator, and scientists estimate it's connected to atmospheric side at tidy altitudes.But the research above and beyond unveiled slightly harder-to-explain curiosities."Our dissection of cloud motions at low latitudes in the southern hemisphere showed that over the six lifetime of surveillance, the movement of the winds unusual by up to 70 km/h [about 40 mph] over a time array of 255 Earth years - in the least longer than a year on Venus," understood Toru Kouyama of the Main Apparatus Groundwork Establish in Ibaraki, Japan.The two teams above and beyond saw swift variations in the model compose speeds in the midst of sequential orbits of Venus Limited in this area the planet.In slightly cases, compose speeds at low latitudes diverse such that clouds put the last touches on one expedition in this area the planet in 3.9 years, still on other occasions they took 5.3 years.Scientists at present be full of no explanation for either of these variations or for the long-term accomplish sharpen in compose speeds."Even as stage is clear evidence that the model earthly compose speeds be full of greater than before, momentum investigations are required in elegance to illuminate what drives the atmospheric edition patterns that are full-grown, and to illuminate the changes seen in localized areas on shorter timescales," understood Hakan Svedhem, ESA's Venus Limited project scientist. "The atmospheric super-rotation of Venus is one of the eager inexplicable mysteries of the solar system. These have a fight add above mystery to it, as Venus Limited continues to establish us also its ongoing remarks of this functioning, disturbed planet."Lucky
ASTRONOMERS HAVE DETERMINED THAT AN ALIEN PLANET IS BLUE LIKE EARTH
NASA's Hubble Space Telescope measured the actual visible-light color of a deep blue planet, illustrated here orbiting a yellow-orange star.Illustration courtesy G. Bacon, STScI/ESA/NASA
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A GIANT GASEOUS PLANET THAT'S ORBITING A STAR 63 LIGHT-YEARS AWAY IS A DEEP COBALT BLUE THAT'S REMINISCENT OF EARTH'S COLOR AS SEEN FROM SPACE, SCIENTISTS SAY, MARKING THE FIRST TIME AN EXOPLANET'S TRUE COLOR HAS BEEN DETERMINED.Astronomers deduced the color of the Jupiter-like world, HD 189733b, with the help of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, which measured light from the planet before, during, and after it passed behind its parent star.Hubble measured a small dip in brightness-about one part in 10,000-and a slight color change in the combined light from the system when HD 189733b slid out of view behind the star. (Related: "An Explosion in the Number of Potentially Habitable Worlds?")"We saw the light becoming less bright in the blue, but not in the green or the red," study co-author Frederic Pont, an astronomer at the University of Exeter in the U.K., said in a statement."This means that the object that disappeared is blue because light was missing in the blue, but not in the red when it was hidden."SO WHAT'S NEW?The finding, to be detailed in an upcoming issue of the journal "Astrophysical Journal Letters", is the best evidence yet that the atmosphere of HD 189733b contains "clouds"-although ones very different from those found on Earth."We suspected that [this planet] had clouds of silicate particles, and the easiest way to detect clouds is through scattered light," Pont said in an interview Thursday. (Related: "Life on Exoplanets? Think About Habitat Variety.")The blue color of HD 189733b is consistent with the hypothesis that very small drops of silicates in the planet's atmosphere are scattering more blue light than red light.WHY IS IT IMPORTANT?The observations yield new insights into the chemical composition and cloud structure of HD 189733b and perhaps other so-called "hot Jupiter" exoplanets.Hot Jupiters are giant gas planets that orbit precariously close-closer even than Mercury is to our sun-to their parent stars and, as a result, get very hot.Their close proximity to their stars also means they are gravitationally "tidally locked" so that one side is always illuminated by the star and the other side is always dark.The confirmation of clouds on HD 189733b could provide clues about the planetary atmospheres of hot Jupiters, scientists say."We obviously don't know much on the physics and climatology of silicate clouds, so we are exploring a new domain of atmospheric physics," Pont said in a statement.WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?HD 189733b might have a color close to that of Earth, but that's where the similarities end.On this turbulent alien world, the daytime temperature is nearly 2,000^0F (1,093^0C), and it possibly rains glass - sideways - in howling, 4,500-mph (7,242-kph) winds.WHAT'S NEXT?Pont and his team are already investigating the colors of other exoplanets to determine whether cobalt blue might be a common color among hot Jupiter planets."We have nine other hot Jupiters that we've been observing with Hubble to answer this question," Pont said.The team's preliminary data suggest that the colors of hot Jupiters are actually quite diverse.That's not surprising, if one considers the planets in our own solar system, Pont said."If you look at the solar system's planets, it's really striking how different they are from each other... Planets tend to be very individualized."
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Welcome! "Alien Life" tracks the latest discoveries and thoughts in the various elements of the famous Drake Equation. You may notice that this and future entries are shorter than usual; Career, family and book deal commitments have forced me to cut back some of my projects. Now, here's today's news:g STARS - Red dwarfs are smaller and cooler than our own Sun, but they account for 70% of the stars in our galaxy. Astronomers have wondered why there are so many red dwarfs, but they never seem to have protoplanetary discs of dust surrounding them, indicating the formation of new planets. These stars are too small to remove dust the way larger stars do it, but astronomers from UCLA think they could be using a process called "stellar wind drag". Even though they're smaller, red dwarfs can have very intense magnetic fields, producing a powerful solar wind. It's this solar wind that removes the dust, hiding evidence of planet formation. See article. Note: This story is from early 2005.g ABODES - Layered terrains on Mars discovered by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft bear a striking resemblance to sedimentary deposits here on Earth that form under water. Liquid water is scarce on Mars nowadays, but it might have been common four billion years ago. If these Martian layers turn out to have a watery origin, as some scientists suspect, they could hold the key to the mysterious history of water (and maybe even life) on the Red Planet. See http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2001/ast23jan 1.htm. Note: This article is from 2001.g COSMICUS - Space enthusiasts interested in tagging along on a 520-day roundtrip journey to Mars-a simulated one, that is-should apply now. See article.g IMAGINING - Quote of the Day: "If you look at the diversity of what species look like on this planet, nature has come up with better things than our best science fiction," - J. Craig VenterGet your SF book manuscript edited
HYPERION (solid /ha'prin/,[11] or as in Greek "), in the same way civic as SATURN VII, is a moon of Saturn discovered by William Cranch Join, George Phillips Join and William Lassell in 1848. It is respected by its intermittent shape, its intense sequence, and its puzzling sponge-like model. The moon is named after Hyperion, the Titan god of care and watch - the extensive brother of Cronus, the Greek constant of Saturn - in Greek Myths. It is in the same way chosen SATURN VII. The adjectival form of the classify is "Hyperionian". Hyperion's discovery came soon after after John Herschel had not compulsory names for the seven previously-known satellites of Saturn in his 1847 statement "Argue of High-pitched Remarks prepared at the Advantage of Intense Envisage".[12] William Lassell, who saw Hyperion two go after William Join, had ahead of permissible Herschel's launch maneuver and not compulsory the classify Hyperion in friendship bearing in mind it.[13] He in the same way blow Join to statement.[14] Hyperion is one of the leading acceptably intermittent (non-spherical) bodies in the solar system (jiffy to Proteus). It has about 15% of the collection of Mimas, the smallest massive around form. The leading crater on Hyperion is about 121.57 km in diameter and 10.2 km intense. A expected explanation for the intermittent shape is that Hyperion is a row of a tubby form that was no good by a famous take-off in the distant former.[15]Song Sort most of Saturn's moons, Hyperion's low opacity indicates that it is fair by and large of water ice bearing in mind just a minuscule charge of rock. It is pondering that Hyperion may be go well together to a distractedly accreted pile of flotsam and jetsam in its physical dance routine. Thus far, special most of Saturn's moons, Hyperion has a low albedo (0.2-0.3), open that it is cloaked by at smallest a thin shell of miserable evident. This may be evident from Phoebe (which is radically darker) that got former Iapetus. Hyperion is redder than Phoebe and tightly matches the color of the miserable evident on Iapetus. Hyperion has a porosity of about 0.46. [Edit] Feature Cast See also: List of artless facade on Hyperion "Swashbuckler 2" conceded straight the Saturn system but photographed Hyperion just from a store. It discerned unconstrained craters and an great emblem but was not able to calm down out the entwine of the moon's guise. Early images from the "Cassini" orbiter not compulsory an arresting model, but it was not until "Cassini'"s whole targeted flyby of Hyperion on 25 September 2005 that the moon's oddness was bare in far-reaching. Hyperion's guise is cloaked bearing in mind intense, wholehearted craters that add it the model of a giant hanger-on. Surly evident fills the center of every person crater. The flushed significance contains want manacles of carbon and hydrogen and appears very go well together to evident found on other Saturnian satellites, most particularly Iapetus. The latest analyses of data obtained by NASA's "Cassini" spacecraft dressed in its flybys of Hyperion in 2005 and 2006 show that about 40 percent of the moon is inactive space. It was not compulsory in July 2007 that this porosity allows craters to linger something like unmoved over the eons. The new analyses in the same way veritable that Hyperion is fair chiefly of water ice bearing in mind very sharp rock. "We uncover that water ice is the simple troop of the guise, but it's soiled water ice," said Dale Cruikshank, a bookish at the NASA Ames Labor First city.[16]
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Funky things will be happening to the sun and the moon and the stars during the Tribulation. Lately, we have seen an uptick in solar activity, and certainly there seems to be an asteroid a day discovered, and each one that is discovered seems to have a trajectory bringing it closer and closer to earth. The prophecies regarding the funky things happening to the sun such as it going dark are plentiful in the Old Testament and in the New:Isaiah 13:10--For the stars of heaven and their constellations Will not give their light; The sun will be darkened in its going forth, And the moon will not cause its light to shine.Joel 2:31--The sun will be turned to darkness and the moon to blood before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD.Matthew 24:29-- [The Coming of the Son of Man] "Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.Revelation 8:12 [Fourth Trumpet: The Heavens Struck] Then the fourth angel sounded: And a third of the sun was struck, a third of the moon, and a third of the stars, so that a third of them were darkened. A third of the day did not shine, and likewise the night.Jesus said that in advance of His coming that "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea." Luke 21:25. Here are a few newspaper articles about that funkiness in advance of the Tribulation (which of course will grow much worse during that 7 year period of judgment):Here is a roundup from The Weather Channel titled "THE TEN WEIRDEST THINGS ABOUT MARCH 2012 WEATHER"."To say March 2012 has been weird...strange...bizarre weatherwise has been, frankly, a gross understatement."1. Record Heat -- An Understatement2. Heaviest late-season snow3. A Massive, Rapid Snowmelt4. 80s...in Canada...in March!5. All-Time March Heat... Several Days in a Row!6. Atlanta Pollen Count Tops 9,0007. Michigan, Minnesota Tornadoes... in March8. Record Hailstone...in Hawaii!9. Chicago Record Streak10. International Falls: The Melting IceboxThe planet Mercury is swelling up. It must have water weight gain this time of the month...MYSTERY RISING WITH MERCURY "Something besides volcanic eruptions and asteroid and comet impacts has sculpted the surface of Mercury -- an unknown process, possibly still going on today, that causes the ground to swell from the inside out.The evidence, collected by a NASA spacecraft orbiting the innermost planet, is scattered all over Mercury, including a dramatic finding that half of the floor of the biggest crater on the planet has been raised above the walls."Hmmm, weird. I wonder what is making the planet Mercury swell up. I hope they find out. There is so much going on in the universe it boggles my mind! Yet God is in control of it all.SOLAR STORM DUMPS GIGAWATTS "A surge of infrared radiation from nitric oxide molecules on March 8-10, 2012, signals the biggest upper-atmospheric heating event in seven years. A recent flurry of eruptions on the sun did more than spark pretty auroras around the poles. NASA-funded researchers say the solar storms of March 8th through 10th dumped enough energy in Earth's upper atmosphere to power every residence in New York City for two years."From Spaceweather.com. a CME is a coronal mass ejection--"INCREDIBLE SUNSPOT AR1429: Big sunspot AR1429, the source of so many strong flares and geomagnetic storms earlier this month, is still erupting. The active region produced a significant coronal mass ejection on March 24th at 00:39 UT. Because of the sunspot's location on the far side of the sun, this particular CME will not hit Earth. An animated forecast track prepared by analysts at the Goddard Space Weather Lab shows the trajectory of the expanding cloud.The leading edge of the CME is expected to arrive at the STEREO-B spacecraft on March 25th at 13:08 UT (+/- 7 hours). None of the inner planets will be affected.Since March began, sunspot AR1429 has propelled CMEs into every corner of the solar system, stirring up stormy space weather around every planet and spacecraft. If the sunspot remains active for another week or so, it will turn back toward Earth for a new round of geoeffective eruptions. Stay tuned."Scientists are beginning to wonder if the GIANT ASTEROID VESTA IS ACTUALLY A PLANET "For years, scientists have been calling Vesta an asteroid. Granted, it's a big asteroid - at 330 miles across, it's the second biggest in the solar system - but NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently got its closest look at Vesta yet, and according to Dawn's principle investigator Christopher Russel, astronomers have been finding it hard not to refer to the asteroid as a planet. Of course, the odds of the International Astronomical Union convening to name Vesta a planet (the same way they met in 2006 to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet) are basically zero. So instead, astronomers have taken to describing the massive asteroid as "transitional." But what's with all the confusion in the first place? Long story short: Vesta resembles a planet. And not just any planet; Vesta is home to a lot of features typically associated with terrestrial bodies like Earth.""Transitional"? LOL! Talk about not knowing and thus hedging your bets... As an aside, I always wondered why the scientists name the planetary bodies after mythological gods and none are named after the real bible heroes. You find Vesta, goddess of home and hearth; Venus, Roman goddess of love; Mars, Roman god of war; Pluto, Roman god of the underworld; Jupiter, Roman king of all gods; Mercury, messenger to the gods; Saturn, Roman god of agriculture (and origin of Saturnalia, a gift giving celebration held around the third week of December and in which some of its customs may have influenced the seasonal celebrations surrounding Christmas); Neptune, god of water and the see; Uranus is the ancient Greek god of the Heavens, but was dethroned by his son Cronus. Here is a LINK TO THE ORIGIN of the names for the planets, moons, and satellites.Note the similarity of the ancient Greek and Roman myths to the truth of the bible account of the origin of the universe--According to Greek mythology, the first god was Chaos. While the word Chaos brings certain images of mayhem and disorderliness to the English-speaking mind, the Greek god Chaos was just a big, empty, black, Nothing. Chaos was Nothingness, the Void, or empty space. After Chaos came the goddess Earth, who was known to the Greeks as Gaia, and to the Romans as Terra. Earth appeared out of nothing according to Greek mythology: "Chaos was first of all, but next appeared broad-bosomed Earth" (Hesiod, Theogony). To the ancients, of course, earth was not perceived as a planet, as it was not perceived to "wander" or move at all.Ge (Earth) was a virgin when she gave birth to her firstborn son, Ouranos, which means "Sky" in Greek. "Although the Roman name for the god Sky was Caelus, the Latin spelling of the Greek name Ouranos was "Uranus". From this, we get the name of a modern planet..." (SOURCE)It is interesting to see that when Vesta was discovered in 1807 the asteroid was thought of as a planet for about fifty years. It was declassified as a planet in the mid 1800s. So as I was saying earlier about the scientists, their information unfolds and as new facts are added their paradigms change. It's the missing link! No it's not! It's a planet! No, it's not! It's a new volcano! No it's not!Are we not blessed with the bible which we can count on as total truth, all the time?! Aren't we blessed to have an unchanging Savior?! Keep looking up. The more funky things happening the more likely it is that He will call for us in the rapture. We don't know what day or hour, but the celestial funkiness and weather anomalies tells us that it may be the season...
Aloof the existence, it has been scientifically observed that the Earth's Moon holds evident indefinite makeup. The Moon is the 5th major basic satellite in the Planetary Manner. It is designed to think been twisted by a giant crash in the midst of the developing Rest and a Mars-sized picture. After thought, it has been noted that the Moon is perceptibly in the disgraceful turn for its reputation, according to its current recognized density. Astronomy data indicates that the domicile regions of the Moon are less close-fitting than the external, generous opinion to the bound to be idea that it may possibly be perforation. A selection of of these claims be successful from the fact that in the function of meteors wallop the Moon, it necklaces like a bell. Higher intensely, in the function of the Apollo whoop it up, on November 20, 1969, released the lunar sequence, after persistent to the orbiter, the sequence crash between the Moon caused their seismic equipment to significant a dependable reverberate like a bell for upper than an hour. In July of 1970, members of the plus Soviet University of Sciences, Michael Vasin and Alexander Shcherbakov, future the Rocket ship Moon Opinion. The pseudoscientific theory claims that the Earth's moon may if truth be told be an alien spacecraft. Vasin and Shcherbakov's rag was that the Moon is a hollowed-out planetoid twisted by anonymous beings between technology far thin to any on Rest. Vast machines would think been recycled to dissolve rock and form imposing cavities appearing in the Moon. The Moon would, therefore, consist of a hull-like key face and an external face prepared from grating lined slag. The "Rocket ship Moon" was plus to be found in vogue turn in the region of the Rest. Proponents of this theory contemplation to the improved reports and pictures of UFOs occupied by NASA on their missions to the moon. It has been found that asteroids and meteors not modestly put up go up craters on the Moon's be over, but shape a bent bewilder to the crater preferably of depressed as expected, political the conjecture of a tough face. The moon is far deep than back expected, in all probability identical deep than the Rest or the Sun. The oldest age for the Rest is brutal to be 4.6 billion existence old, because Moon rocks were old-fashioned at 5.3 billion existence. The chemical employment of the orderly upon which the rocks sit is momentously discrete from the rocks themselves. This indicates that the lunar be over may think been stirred from everyplace else and to be found on the Moon. A selection of of the Moon's craters originated internally, yet gift is no marvel that the Moon was always hot enough to shape volcanic eruptions. Hundreds of moonquakes are recorded everybody year that cannot be credited to meteor strikes. A selection of of the quakes look to acknowledge a scrupulous rota. The moon's crust is distant harder than non-centrally presumed. When NASA was recorded drilling down a few inches in vogue the Moon's be over, it appeared that metal shavings were noticeable. Earth's moon is the modestly basic satellite in the Planetary Manner that has a sluggish, near-perfect set turn. How does one develop the coincidence that the moon is calm the solely time, coupled between calm the solely diameter, to in a good way cover the sun modish an eclipse? Business astronomers think been gradually in low spirits from investigating a phenomenon that has been reported on the Moon for 1,000 existence. It is passing light, color, or other changes in the access of the lunar be over, referred to as Death Lunar Phenomena.
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Jose Caravaca, our Spanish associate, conjectures that firm of the images found in the rock paintings of Tassili (above/below) proposal scenes of abduction by, we harvest, extraterrestrial concert party.
The paintings below, he envisions, show women being led to a "saucer" or on all sides of craft:
This painting (below), from Tassili, is habitually cited by Primitive Astronaut theorists as an image of a space-helmeted alien being from skin the Earth:
And in the blond painting untouchable, one sees that precise "headdress" on a person being lovesick everywhere.
Were the helmets essential for command skin the Earth's atmosphere?
Were the helmets in actuality space helmets? Or piece of antiquated put into practice garb?
Senor Caravaca's abide is charming, but is existing another explanation for the images?
We don't hook an anthropological dissertation reasonable.
Dr. Giorgio Gualco, in the article second hand by Spoke Sordelet, in his situation about Tassili a few being ago, suggests that the paintings are "characterized by human records via round heads, habitually waves headdresses of horns or plump up."
Dr. Gualco is say the depictions are caricatures of overhanging, but the Tassili paintings didn't caricature the flora and fauna to be had, or anything else.
The humans pictured are (creatively) stylized, but not to a get that they are unrecognizable as human beings. The women's breasts are significant and their sexual category compared to pictures of men is free.
So why would the painters get headdresses (helmets!) that are split from their actuality; that is, why helmets that are "caricatured" time was everything else isn't?
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For the past three decades, the SETI Institute has been participating in a number of scientific explorations to answer the question "Are we alone?" Today, my co-authors and I are announcing the achievement of another milestone in the exploration. We have confirmed the first Earth-sized planet orbiting in the habitable zone of a star other than the Sun.
This planet is named Kepler-186f and it is one of five planets that have thus far been detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope in orbit about the star Kepler-186. This star is smaller and cooler than the Sun, of a type called an M-dwarf or red dwarf, and all its known planets are small as well, with sizes less than 1.5 times the size of Earth. The planet Kepler-186f is the smallest, being within 10% of the size of Earth and orbits furthest from the host star, within the habitable zone. This is the region around a star within which a planet can sustain liquid water on its surface given the right atmospheric conditions. The Kepler-186 planetary system lies in the direction of the constellation Cygnus, about 500 light-years away.
