Our Planets (all but Earth)

[Jivatman]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070327_saturn_hex.html

full article:

"one of the most bizarre weather patterns known has been photographed at saturn, where astronomers have spotted a huge, six-sided feature circling the north pole.

rather than the normally sinuous cloud structures seen on all planets that have atmospheres, this thing is a hexagon.

the honeycomb-like feature has been seen before. nasa's voyager 1 and 2 spacecraft imaged it more than two decades ago. now, having spotted it with the cassini spacecraft, scientists conclude it is a long-lasting oddity.

"this is a very strange feature, lying in a precise geometric fashion with six nearly equally straight sides," said kevin baines, atmospheric expert and member of cassini's visual and infrared mapping spectrometer team at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory, pasadena, calif. "we've never seen anything like this on any other planet. indeed, saturn's thick atmosphere, where circularly-shaped waves and convective cells dominate, is perhaps the last place you'd expect to see such a six-sided geometric figure, yet there it is."

the hexagon is nearly 15,000 miles (25,000 kilometers) across. nearly four earths could fit inside it. the thermal imagery shows the hexagon extends about 60 miles (100 kilometers) down into the clouds.

at saturn's south pole, cassini recently spotted a freaky human eye-like feature that resembles a hurricane.

"it's amazing to see such striking differences on opposite ends of saturn's poles," said bob brown, team leader of the cassini visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at the university of arizona. "at the south pole we have what appears to be a hurricane with a giant eye, and at the north pole of saturn we have this geometric feature, which is completely different."

the hexagon appears to have remained fixed with saturn's rotation rate and axis since first glimpsed by voyager 26 years ago. the actual rotation rate of saturn is still uncertain, which means nobody knows exactly how long the planet's day is.

"once we understand its dynamical nature, this long-lived, deep-seated polar hexagon may give us a clue to the true rotation rate of the deep atmosphere and perhaps the interior," baines said. "

personally, i've read portions of david's divine cosmos book in the past, but not the whole thing, nor understood it completely.

however, i have recently read a few physical books on sacred geometry, but my general feeling about the harmonics of the universe is this:

hexagons, squares, various other geometric shapes occur throughout nature, especially in micro crystalline structures, usually on the "micro" level because certain forces on that level behave in a regular way that causes them to occur.

now, for this shape to occur on the "macro" level (several times the size of earth), it indicates to me, that universe, the fabric of space itself, must have harmonics that are as-yet unrecognized by modern science, as, our understanding of the structure of nature is limited to our understanding that all large systems apparently move towards disorder, entropy.

this shows that that view is indeed, not entirely correct.
as above, so below. god shows us the inherent harmonic geometric structures he created, from waves of light, to molecular structures, dna, all the way up this hexagon on mars.

[David Wilcock]

very well put. the point we keep stressing is that there is a fluid-like energy field that is outside our measurable three-dimensional reality, and without this field, matter, biology and consciousness -- all aspects of the universe itself -- could not exist.

dr. hans jenny's cymatics research, as well as experiments of dr. buckminster fuller, showed that vibration and sacred geometry are one and the same. geometry is simply a visual representation of the structure of a vibrating fluid.

in this case the planets display geometric patterns because they have 'central oscillators' within them -- luminous plasma, not iron cores -- which set up standing waves in the 'aether' that have a geometric form. this geometry then impinges upon the exterior structure.

it's not rocket science and i put the whole thing together in the third convergence book, divine cosmos.

expect a post soon where i shed new light on the interior structure of the earth, and new revelations about the exterior as well...

- david

[Jivatman]

i have a lot of things to say, and i'm not sure if i should add a new thread, so i'm just going to say them here.

first a little background

- my first real metaphysical love was astrology. i've been interested in astrology for a very long time, i see it as a beautiful, amazing way to describe human personalities, and is a great lens to use when exploring any type of myth, as there tends to be a lot of similarity between astrology throughout the world, as well as zodiacs. also, i now recognize that the aspects between planets, which are the angular separation between them on the horoscope, also form regular geometric figures. the most commonly used are called conjunction(being together on the chart) opposition (180 degrees) trine(120) square (90) quintile (72) and sextile (60). some of these are harmonious, others are disharmonious.

-next came reading a lot about obe's and astral planes, lucid dreaming, that affirmed for me the existence of the afterlife. i've really only had probably 1-2 successful obe's, although when i had a lot of partial separations, and felt amazingly intense vibrations from it.
-recent my interest has been in geometry, and i read a couple books on the meanings of the numbers 1-10, and about the elements (which i already knew about from astrology)

-also now, i'm interested a lot in various religions, particularly cabala and that of christianity, especially of the gnostic variety.


most of what i've thought about has been concerned with finding connections between things, as applies to religion, geometry, etc. these things help me to understand the universality of things.

for now i have a few things to say. first, as far as geometry is considered, i know that geometry accounts for a massive amount of religious symbols, but i would like to explore the vesica piscis. simply two circles of equal size, whose outer walls touch the center of the other, the inner part of the vesica piscis can be used to perfectly draw all regular polygons. the way this works is that points are formed by the intersections of the lines, and by the center of the circles. sometimes additional circles of the same size need to be drawn though. still, drawing lines between points created by circles allows us to draw all of the polygons.

i was wondering, perhaps, could a sphere do the same for the 3d equivalents of the regular polygons? if so, this would demonstrate that moving a sphere, aka vibration, could create all of the shapes. i'm not sure if this is correct or not though, perhaps you're better at visualization than me?

anyways, the piscis is also the basic unit for the flower of life, from which we can create the tree of life, and additionally, the platonic solids as well. you can read more by reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/flower_of_life it links to the simpler units of the flower as well.


also i felt if interesting to note, that seeing as vibrations are numbers moving though time, and geometry moves through space. (represented by progressing waves and standing waves respectively) both are defined by e=mc2.

as far as my knowledge of elements is concerned, platonic and vedic ones are the same (air, fire, water, earth). however, vedic also has akasha, from which they believe the other elements were created. the greeks called it quintessence, and you call it the aether.

i'l perhaps have more to say eventually, various thoughts are still growing in my head...

[charran]

david (et al),

dare say i that i actually found a link ahead of you for a change!? or maybe you're just messing with me and letting me get one in ahead of you!? i'll never know.

if you (all) look at

http://news.softpedia.com/news/rotating-water-gives-rise-to-geometric-figures-23640.shtml

you will see just how the recently discussed hexagonal shape on the north pole of saturn might be formed and why also the south pole is simply a vortex. the rotation of saturn's north pole is the fulcrum upon which everything else rotates. imagine what would happen on earth if it has the viscous gases saturn has or its mass. ask yourself "when would the circular patterns of the clouds on earth (a much smaller sphere) become like that of saturn?" read the article and ponder it for a moment. fascinating what you learn from planet #6 in our beautiful solar system and interesting that it displays a hexagonal (6-sided) pattern on it marking it as such.

what an amazing universe we live in.

peace and love,

charran

[David Wilcock]

dear charran,

ironically i had just listened to hoagland's thursday appearance on coast today, and then immediately called him and had an hour-plus conversation after i finished listening... and this water-rotating study came up on the show. i asked him to send me a link, expected it would be there, and he hadn't sent it... but you had.

it's not the be-all-and-end-all study, because it's only 2d, and it's basically another iteration of cymatics (which is still more potent because it reveals that the platonic solids are simply fluid vibrations in three dimensions)... but that doesn't change the fact that it's still valuable. richard might see it as a hyperdimensional bleed-through caused by rotation, whereas i am prone to see it as a natural consequence of vibration in a fluid creating a resonance pattern... all very 3d in this case.

in fact, richard proposed we do a show on this hexagon story... since i'm the only person out there who took this aspect of what he started and further built on it and expanded it. the hexagon is now firmly in the collective consciousness thanks to it being linked on drudge - and what's even more exciting is that it is multi-layered. in fact it gave me an epiphany about how platonics interact in a planetary system. :eek:

- david

[David Wilcock]

drawing lines between points created by circles allows us to draw all of the polygons.

i was wondering, perhaps, could a sphere do the same for the 3d equivalents of the regular polygons? if so, this would demonstrate that moving a sphere, aka vibration, could create all of the shapes. i'm not sure if this is correct or not though, perhaps you're better at visualization than me?

dear jivatman,

you're mostly correct. all the platonic solids can be formed by what are called "close-packed spheres" - the closest they can nestle together, depending on how many you have, will create the various platonics.

rather than moving a sphere, it has more to do with the one sphere that is vibrating, (more technically pulsating) and then the original sphere becomes a "wavelength" in 3d that continues iterating... thus forming the entire universe.

- david

[wicherink]

i believe that the hexagon on saturn may be the top view of the underlying icosahedron.

as with masaru emoto's hexagonal water where he's photographed hexagonal shaped ice crystals, the underlying structure of the water clusters is icosahedral.

a recent theory by martin chaplin professor of applied science water and aqueous systems research of the london south bank university demonstrates that water molecules can arrange themselves in various structures and configurations based on the icosahedron. the most amazing structure is a super icosahedral structure that exists of 13 smaller icosahedral structures with a total of 1820 water molecules.

more information on icosahedral structured water here:
http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/water4.html

regards
jan

[Jivatman]

knowing the ubiquity of life on earth, and how various bacteria can adapt to nearly every niche on earth, even miles underground, under the sea, inside nuclear reactors, there really could be life there, or at least past evidence of it... may just the lack of a martian atmosphere kills the surface bacteria with uv rays?


http://newscri.be/link/202487

"the football-field sized holes were observed by mars odyssey's thermal emission imaging system (themis) and have been dubbed the seven sisters --dena, chloe, wendy, annie, abbey, nikki and jeanne--after loved ones of the researchers who found them. the potential caves were spotted near a massive martian volcano, arisa mons. their openings range from about 330 to 820 feet (100 to 250 meters) wide, and one of them, dena, is thought to extend nearly 430 feet (130 meters) beneath the planet's surface.

the researchers hope the discovery will lead to more focused spelunking on mars.

"caves on mars could become habitats for future explorers or could be the only structures that preserve evidence of past or present microbial life ," said glenn cushing of northern arizona university, who first spotted the black areas in the photographs. "

[David Wilcock]

dear jan,

yes... that particular water study is another one of those that exists in the huge convergence research archive (along with others like it) that just hasn't gotten written up yet.

the point about the icosahedron is a very good one. i'd realized that before, forgotten it, and you gave me a timely recall. you can even see, in some of the original shots, how there are straight lines (at times) from the edges of the hexagon to the center -- totally in accordance with an icosahedron.

it's certainly the path of least resistance becuase so little of the current model needs changing to fit the data. the next logical question would be if the width of the 'nested' hexagons keeps expanding rapidly enough as you go down to account for the width increase of that geometry -- but it is a very good fit.

now i'll have to work up a geometric diagram of saturn. it seems that the aetheric flow pattern is going in through the south pole and out through the north pole, predominantly, and that slightly pushes the icosahedral wave out of perfect alignment with the planet itself -- thus accounting for the asymmetry we are seeing (since there is no hexagon on the opposite pole). hoagland had brought up this point on the phone and how it ties in with the data from kozyrev.

- david

[charran]

hey david, jan, and jivatman,

ah, the synchronicity of today continues. let me connect a few more things up that you all helped me to link up about water, the hexagon shape, saturn, and light.

let me first start off with what is known as the “kissing” principle of a sphere here, if you haven’t heard of it already. basically, it goes like this. in a 2d worldview, you can put exactly 6 spheres (of the same size) around a central one (of the same size as the 6 spheres surrounding it) where each sphere has a single point that touches (i.e. kisses) the central sphere. in a 3d view, you can put exactly 12 spheres around a central one with each one having a single point that touches the central sphere. see http://plus.maths.org/issue23/features/kissing/

i would venture to guess that depending on which sphere is/spheres are activated by any light and/or electro-magnetic source that an icosahedron or a hexagonal shape can be produced (within a group of spheres about a main “core” sphere) and energy transmitted via the resultant shape’s boundary lines via em fields running through it. funny how an icosahedron resembles the vortex of a tornado, isn’t it? perhaps the formation of this hexagon on saturn is related to the 20-year and or 60-year grand cycle of jupiter and saturn??? :)

jan: when i saw your website http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/water4.html and read the text about zero point energy, i saw something beyond what you had already written there. water has some very interesting principles. unlike most other substances, which normally reflect, refract, and absorb light, i believe that water gives us a better glimpse of what light really is. (note: it seems that in 3d we don’t get to really see light but rather we see objects as they appear to reflect, refract, or absorb light). in other words, we don’t get to see inside the “black box of light” but see only the results of what comes out of that black box in our everyday world.

if you go to http://www.coralcastlecode.com/id1.html and note the text around figure k in particular (you might have to scroll a good bit down the page), it states “water has the ability to capture the neutral particles of sunlight in which the north and south pole magnets orbit as a common core.” so basically water allows us to actually see more about light than is possible via most other substances.

in looking closely at a water molecule (especially that of a frozen water molecule such as seen in hado water photos) you will see the tubes that connect each center. are these not magnetic structures in nature being shown to us via a simple water molecule in its geometry? these little hexagonal water molecules connect up and help keep the consciousness of their source alive and extend beyond their original bounds into a network of little crystals? is it not all about electro-magnetism interacting through matter which has specific geometries (i.e. planets being roughly sphereical or elliptical)? this is why when you drink water that has been charged with sunlight that it seems to have more healing properties and why the various brand name flower essence remedies and ancient oils put out in sunlight seem to have almost magical properties. they are infused with something you normally don’t find in other substances! wonder isn’t it why our bodies are made up of mostly water.

hopefully i am making sense here to you all with what i am trying to get across.

david: thanks for posting your coast to coast interviews with art bell to the divinecosmos website where in an interview (http://daresh.blackroute.net/coast_to_coastapr.22.mp3) you briefly mentioned the coral castle code. sounded like you had been there!??? i hadn’t heard about it before until recently and hearing it this weekend is one of the things that is partially responsible for the syncing up of these thoughts within these posts for me. what a small world we live in.

love and light back at ya all,

charran

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's an article concerning cymatics.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_cymatics.htm

be well, be love.

david

cymatics - the science of the future?

is there a connection between sound, vibrations and physical reality? do sound and vibrations have the potential to create? in this article we will see what various researchers in this field, which has been given the name of cymatics, have concluded.

by peter pettersson, translation yarrow cleaves

in 1787, the jurist, musician and physicist ernst chladni published entdeckungen über die theorie des klangesor discoveries concerning the theory of music.in this and other pioneering works, chladni, who was born in 1756, the same year as mozart, and died in 1829, the same year as beethoven, laid the foundations for that discipline within physics that came to be called acoustics, the science of sound. among chladni´s successes was finding a way to make visible what sound waves generate. with the help of a violin bow which he drew perpendicularly across the edge of flat plates covered with sand, he produced those patterns and shapes which today go by the term chladni figures. (se left) what was the significance of this discovery? chladni demonstrated once and for all that sound actually does affect physical matter and that it has the quality of creating geometric patterns.

[MarkM]

a simple way for anyone to see this effect for themselves is to take a plain styrofoam cup filled with an opaque liquid such as coffee and drag it slowly across a tabletop. if you get it vibrating you will see a hexagonally based geometric disturbance of the surface of the liquid.as you gaze at the effect you can sometimes discern an extension of this patterning extending beneath the surface in 3d, although speaking for myself this might be mental extrapolation. it's hard to tell, but a great muse.

[charran]

so there must be some sort of beautiful cymatic music going on up there on saturn right now. wonder what's triggering it? change in angles/geometries of saturn and sun, jupiter, or some other heavenly body? some sound wave hitting the planet...but via the vaccum of space? the memory in water on the planet once set in motion...by something?

maharishi clearly knew of cymatics (but didn't call it that) when he trained people to heal the sick with specific sounds/vocal tonations (on vhs tape called vedic vibration technology).

truly we have music of the spheres (however that music is made) and this is what i think pythagoreaus was trying to get across to his initiates.

charran

[wicherink]

hi charran,

the kissing problem is interesting since this kissing of the spheres is related to sacred geometry.

if you are familiar with the work of drunvalo melchizedek you may know that his ‘genesis pattern’ exists of 7 circles consisting of one central circle with 6 circles having their center at the circumference of the inner circle. these 6 circles then spread along the inner circle forming perfect vesica pisces with the central circle.

this genesis pattern can be extended into the ‘fruit of life’ and eventually the ’flower of life’. in the ‘flower of life’ the 6 kissing spheres can easily be recognized.

most interesting within the ‘flower of life’ the cube of metatron is embedded. this cube is the framework that defines all of the five platonic solids including the icosahedron .

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/soda_chapter5.html

so within the kissing spheres all of the platonic solids are embedded, just connect the centers of these spheres and you can create the wire frame of these platonic solids.

as david wilcock has mentioned the secret of sacred geometry is that the platonic solids are vibrational interference patterns, they can all be demonstrated by the science of cymatics.

there is growing proof that our universe uses self-organizing fractal patterns that connect the macro world with the micro world. there’s no separation between the macro world and micro world since everything is interconnected.

what i think happens in water when it forms these icosahedral clusters and becomes ‘structured’ water is that the water molecules of bulk water organize themselves into a structure that can be embedded into the fractal matrix of self-organizing energies that are present throughout our universe.

this embedding allows for the free flow of this cosmic energy. through the embedded organization pattern the water molecules loose their resistance and become a super conductor for the cosmic energies that wilhelm reich called orgone. this orgone is the life force energy, the ki or chi of the ancients and explains why we find this structured water as well inside the living cell. what we call structured or charged water is simply water with a high concentration of icosahedral water clusters.

we’ve have a joe cell group here in the netherlands trying to create free-energy. it’s believed that the joe cell channels this orgone energy and psychics within our group have confirmed that the joe cell indeed attracts this cosmic energy. energy vortex formations created by the joe cell have been observed.

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/bne.html#a

regards
jan

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i've been following joseph's work for some time. always interesting inisghts...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/117/forest-biodiversity-8a.htm

mars forest life bio-diversity-8a
report #117
april 1, 2007
joseph p. skipper
forward to part-8b
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

here again in this report we're going to examine more evidence of biological forest life on mars that is unfamiliar to the earth human eye. this time it is from the mgs moc r08-01921 official science data strip and specifically from the fourth listed straight oriented .gif strip at msss. we start off here in part-8a with two image sets from the very top of the strip, then two from the middle of the strip, and the next part-8b of this report will have five images from the very bottom of the strip plus an earth comparison image.

i'm going to this much trouble with so much imaging devoted to a single strip because the stronger biological life evidence on the surface of mars is very important and needs to be recognized by the in denial science and academic communities, who it seems must crawl before they can walk must less run. so evidence like this must be presented as well as possible because it has a lot to overcome in some earth human psychological dispositions. when considered alone like an isolated island, i don't expect evidence like this to do that much. however, as time goes by and more and more such evidence is added, it will eventually have its way and especially in posterity's light.

the above first image in official monochrome black and white is what you see at the strip's very top edge working down and from on side edge to the other. the resolution is the official full size 100% and i have done absolutely no graphics work in the image. the view is exactly what you see in official science data strip with no enhancements for even clarity.

so, as you should be able to fairly readily see, even at this official resolution with the image too over saturated light and washed out bright obscuring detail, for one to believe wholesale without any doubt that what one is looking at here is just geology, is just incredibly hard to fathom. especially when one eventually gets to considering the rest of the evidence at the bottom area of the strip. yet remember that many science and academic professionals have no doubt come to that very dismissal conclusion as they've researched this same material and run across this same evidence and then passed on by it without question.

[charran]

wonderful info you have complied, jan! l-o-v-e-d it. you obviously put a lot of work into it.

got something more for you too. take a look at this photo (http://gallery.euroweb.hu/support/viewer/z.html) from the tomb of pope alexander (chigi) vii in the vatican. see a familiar shape (our hexagram)? could the grand sphere (what i call the sphere of the fixed stars) be comprised of a repeating hexagonal pattern?

charran

[wjbombo@mac.com]

dear friends,

here's an article concerning cymatics.

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_cymatics.htm

be well, be love.

david

cymatics - the science of the future?



cymatics is very cool to learn about... but even cooler to observe in action...

warning: be prepared to adjust your volume as you watch this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sonpvuxgl8

peace,
will

[pyramidnj]

" i'm interested a lot in various religions, particularly cabala and that of christianity, especially of the gnostic variety.


most of what i've thought about has been concerned with finding connections between things, as applies to religion, geometry, etc. these things help me to understand the universality of things. "

i experienced a sense of "delight" when i read your post, because i recognized this phase of the "journey" experienced in different but similar? ways by everyone as we evolve. you are in an amazing time of your life, and i encourage you to enjoy every moment of this hunger for knowledge. david might have a name for this phase in the quest -- at least there ought to be one, it is so magnificent!:d i remember the hunger for truth, and i remember the spiritual experimentation and the linking of scientific interests [in my humble case, very rudimentary!] and spiritual curiosity. my spiritual study was so intense at the time [eckankar] that i did begin relatively frequent obe that were an outgrowth of my study and discipline.

the bells and whistles experienced early on often serve the purpose of helping you to see that this is not just ordinary religion, but they often fade away later and for a time, because you do not need those lower level manifestations to access higher levels of truth. i am only mentioning this, because one of our chat group friends mentioned his experience with meditation that produced no bells and whistles.

what i find is so exciting about the design of all that is, is the fact that your experience, david's experience and everyone else's experience, becomes a part of the whole of life, knowledge, wisdom that is accessible to each one of us as part of the one. as i go through each day and i see people doing all kinds of things -- whether or not i may approve -- i have begun acknowledging inwardly: oh, well he/she has chosen to experience this or that to "enrich" the whole [so now i don't have to do that! -- if it does not appeal to me :) ]. anyway, regardless of all of the turmoil, pain, challenge, etc, [i have had a full load of etc. in this life to last me for eternity! :d ] when i take a moment to thoughtfully breathe or even to browse through the comments on our discussion board, i smile inwardly with appreciation for the beauty of the diversity in the one. did i get off track a bit here? hahahaha

jo anne

[charran]

hey will,

don't you think that the formations in the sand from your link to the demo on cymatics look a lot like the mayan glyph characters (like cimi, lamat, ix, oc at http://www.dr-rock.biz/tzolkin.html? at least to me, the mayan glyph characters look a lot like the basic units (kinda like an atom) of these cymatic patterns.

cool stuff!

charran

[Jivatman]

@pyramidnj

indeed. as i've mentioned before, my particular specialty though, is in the area of astrology, particularly of the psychological variety... because i feel that the archetypes of the signs, planets, and aspects explain human behavior so beautifully, and it applies to so many things, that i continue to search deeper.
it's amazing how one can divide the signs into the elements, qualities, or even sequentially into the personal, interpersonally and transpersonal signs. (which i believe is by far the most important overlooked way to classify signs. sequentially, it can be used to describe the developmental process of humans, the cycle of life, or almost anything that runs in cycles. you can even sequentially separate the signs themselves and use them as metaphors (for example, using the earth signs to describe stages of farming) this is probably possible with the qualities as well, but would require a lot of creativity.

recently i've gotten a bit into the mesoamerican astrologies as well... there's quite a bit out there, though not nearly the volume of info as there is for western.

plus, studying astrology and gnosticism/cabala also may lead one to perhaps, more "specific?" aspects of the 2012 phenomenon. perhaps we may not completely understand them, but i've found i've developed astrology (along with the religions) to help develop an "alphabet" of sorts, that i can use when analyzing various phenomenon. (hmm... i'm discussing this here now... but perhaps a mythology/religion/astrology board would be more appropriate. 2012 board is close, but not exactly fit into these categories.)

[wicherink]

dear david,

not only could the ‘hexagon’ on saturn represent an icosahedron, it could also represent a dodecahedron!!! (as strange as this may sound at first).

if you carefully look at the pictures of the ‘hexagon’ you may notice that at the vertices a short edge of around ¼ of the edge of the regular hexagon can be observed. it gives the impression that the hexagon has ‘rounded’ vertices.
take a careful look at the left vertice in the first picture:

http://www.esa.int/specials/cassini-huygens/semem5t4lze_1.html

also the black and white picture on the bottom of this page shows this feature clearly. so it seems there are more than 6 vertices in this ‘perfect’ hexagon.

what it could represent is the top view of a dodecahedron observed from an angle that will give it its ‘hex view’:

http://www.zayra.de/soulcom/physicsofphi/image26.gif

since the icosahedron and the dodecahedron are duals they can be nested into an ico-dodeca alternating fractal geometry. this geometry implodes from large to small scale and describes the geometry of a vortex as has been demonstrated by dan winter.

this geometry then may explain why we see ‘nested’ hexagons on saturn which in reality are nested icosa-dodeca fractals. the fact that the nested ‘hexagons’ on saturn do not align but are slightly rotated when you go down from one hexagon to the other, may be an indication that we’re dealing with this kind of fractal geometry.

the north pole of saturn shows the icosa-dodeca geometry because here the vortex implodes to a zero point while at the south pole this geometry gets blurred because of a widening of the funnel of the vortex.

you can read more on this icosa-dodeca fractal from the work of dan winter here: http://www.zayra.de/soulcom/physicsofphi/physicsofphi.html

this is my five cents.

regards
jan

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://metaresearch.org/publications/bulletin/2007issues/0315/mrb07ap3.asp#t1

be well, be love.

david

the violent history of mars
tom van flandern
meta research <tomvf@metaresearch.org>

abstract.

with overwhelming evidence now available for the basic correctness of the exploded planet hypothesis, questions arise about the details of the most recent such explosions responsible for shaping mars and its orbit as we know them today. this study shows that the basic scenario suggested by the evidence and described previously stands up under rigorous scrutiny despite the improbability of passing these new tests by chance. and it allows us to derive specific information about the properties and history of the bodies involved that could only be guessed at heretofore. the solution we adopt is not unique, but satisfies all previous constraints and leads to the present day orbit and rotation period of mars. “planet v”, the original parent of mars, was apparently of “helium class”, a proposed new class of planets. it had an estimated mass of 2.4 earth masses, a circular solar orbit at about 1.5 au from the sun, and two “twin” moons. the inner moon, which later became today’s planet mars, originally had a circular satellite orbit with a period of 20 hours. tidal locking made that its spin period as well. outer moon “body c” originally had a circular satellite orbit with a period of 40 hours and a mass of 86% of that of mars. following the explosion of planet v 65 million years ago, body c and mars were left in a mutual, highly eccentric, prograde satellite orbit while continuing to orbit the sun on an altered solar orbit. tidal evolution continued until the explosion of body c 3.2 million years ago, leaving mars alone in its present solar orbit with relatively high eccentricity for a planet and a prograde rotation period of 1.026 days. mars today shows the many scars that exhibit this violent history, seen dramatically in the accompanying video.

overview

a recent review article showed that evidence for the exploded planet hypothesis (eph) scenario is pervasive and deep. [[1]] especially telling are the many successful predictions of the hypothesis against all odds: satellites of asteroids; satellites of comets; salt water in meteorites; “roll marks” leading to boulders on asteroids; the time and peak rate of the 1999 leonid meteor storm; explosion signatures for asteroids; strongly spiked energy parameter for new comets; distribution of black material on slowly rotating airless bodies; splitting velocities of comets; the asteroid-like nature of deep impact target comet tempel 1; and the presence of high-formation-temperature minerals in the stardust comet dust sample return. this research report assumes the basic eph is established and seeks to find out more about the now-exploded bodies involved in the two most recent events that have left behind the most surviving evidence.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://skytonight.com/news/home/jupiter_changes.html

be well, be love.

david

jupiter's tumultuous changes
april 11, 2007by sean walker

times, they are a-changin' on jupiter. the planet is now shining in fine view in the southern sky before dawn, and as first noted earlier this year by amateurs around the globe, jupiter's familiar dark cloud belts and bright zones are in the midst of a facelift. john rogers, director of the british astronomical association's jupiter section, reports that several different latitudes on the planet are showing rapidly developing phenomena.

the new white spots noted on march 29th by zac pujic have now spread out within the north tropical zone (ntrz) and the north temperate belt (nteb), disturbing a long swath of the thin, almost invisible nteb. these spots are bright at all wavelengths from ultraviolet to near-infrared, implying that their cloud tops extend to a high altitude.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.antonnews.com/greatneckrecord/2007/04/13/opinion/environmentalrecord.html

be well, be love.

david

an unknown planet orbits in the outer solar system
by julian kane (juliankane@optonline.net)
earth and planetary scientist, professor (retired)
hofstra university

a theory is hereby proposed that an unknown mega-massive planet has, for billions of years, been orbiting at 77.2 au from the sun --- within a 44 au-wide, virtually empty great void that surrounds the kuiper belt (one au = 93 million miles, the mean earth-sun distance). the void is postulated to have been formed by strong gravitational attraction of the unknown planet having removed all ckbos (classical kuiper belt objects) that had existed previously in the vicinity of the massive planet's huge orbit.

the kuiper belt is a doughnut-shaped, 10 au-wide region surrounding the regular planets that contains possibly trillions of small ckbos, with some larger than pluto. ckbos, which make up approximately 70 percent of the known kbos (kuiper belt objects), orbit the sun in nearly circular paths that are typically within the ecliptic, the general plane of the solar system. kbos are primordial planetesimals that had not coalesced to form planets billions of years ago. some ckbos, known as rkbos (resonant kuiper belt objects), have been pulled by neptune's gravity into orbits which resonate with that planet's 165-year orbital period. these comprise about 20 percent of all kbos. the scattered kuiper belt objects (skbos) are ckbos that have been perturbed into highly eccentric, extremely inclined orbits, and they make up roughly 10 percent of the kbos within the belt. a small number of skbos apparently are the only objects that remain within the great void surrounding the kuiper belt. they may have been near aphelion and far away enough to have avoided being captured whenever the unknown planet had orbited into a suitable position to acquire them.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i've been following joseph's work for some time. interesting to say the least...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/118/forest-biodiversity-9.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars forest life bio-diversity-09
report #118
april 22, 2007
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com


the above first image evidence is not something that i would normally report on simply because i doubt that very many would be able to distinguish this from geological terrain. this type of evidence is common in the mars distant obfuscated satellite imaging. i pass over reporting on evidence like this often because i suspect many would see this as just too inconclusive. yet it is biological life and it is included in this report because it is present in this strip and it demonstrates yet another example of a different looking mars forest life bio-diversity.

this section of evidence comes from the mid-upper area of the original strip. nothing that you are looking at in this larger than my normal size image is geological rock and soil terrain but rather a forest of flourishing densely packed life. more specifically the darker material is some kind of finer smaller textured and pattern biological life engulfing this terrain area. unfortunately, the massed individual objects in the darker material are too small and the resolution too poor to allow determining any more about it than that.

then there is the larger more course light reflective evidence you see above. it may be a different life form erupting out of this biological sea of life via spout or plume activity on top of the finer texture evidence to establish its own presence like a collection of individual islands in this area. on the other hand, it may simply be the same darker fine textured life but seen as a permanent spout/plume/bloom function making a transition to another stage of development. we just don't know and, as is often the case, the visual evidence often raises more questions than it answers.

remember though that this is not earth but another world with its own unique evolutionary paths. as you will come to know in this evidence record, some of those paths are very unique and unknown to us. often they take the form of spouts/plumes or blooms that may be temporary or even semi-permanent to permanent in nature establishing different looking structures. in any case, so much for that, let's move on now in the following images to the principle evidence and reason for this report.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this puts things in a better perspective...

http://www.metaresearch.org/

be well, be love

david

"the violent history of mars" video with a new sound track is now available in both full screen (38 mb) and small screen (5 mb) versions.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

nice to see that bob's posting again...check out his earlier analysis - links at the end of the article.

http://www.bob-wonderland.supanet.com/face_6.htm

be well, be love.

david

the face of 2007

on the 11th april 2007 the mars reconnaissance observer (mro) team published the first high resolution image of "a popular landform in cydonia" on their website, (see µµµ).

according to comments from the mro team the "face" image is one of the poorest quality images taken by the mro to date. although the image is not up to the usual crystal clear quality of almost all mro pictures, the resolution of 11 inches to each screen pixel is still more revealing than the 2001 images taken by the mars global surveyor (mgs) spacecraft.

the full resolution mro face image comes in at a massive 300 megabytes and in a special format called jpeg 2000. these are far beyond the capability of my existing computer. fortunately paul mccarthy has kindly supplied me with a compressed version of the image, which has allowed me to pick out the most salient features.

as cydonia quest has a limited amount of web space i've decided to limit the following analysis to two small example areas indicated on the context image below.

[Larry Seyer]

mars is being hit by rapid climate change and it is happening so fast that the red planet could lose its southern ice cap.http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720024.ece

[charran]

yes, probably. and i expect that many planets including venus will have a polar revearsal. currently its spin is the opposite of earth.

charran

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the times article is just rehashing this article i posted earlier.

http://www.divinecosmos.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8819

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"venus express confirmed there a spectacular massive swirling storm system with similarities to the vortex recently imaged over saturn's south pole." ;-)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

be well, be love.

david

swirling clouds over the south pole of venus
credit: esa/mps, katlenburg-lindau, germany

explanation: what's happening over the south pole of venus? to find out, scientists sent the robot venus express spacecraft now orbiting venus directly over the lower spin axis of earth's overheated twin. venus express confirmed there a spectacular massive swirling storm system with similarities to the vortex recently imaged over saturn's south pole. the above composite image in infrared light features venus' daytime side on the left, shining primarily by reflected sunlight, and nighttime side on the right, shining primarily by thermal light. a venusian polar vortex is visible as the small circular feature near the center of the thermal infrared image pictured on the right. close inspection of other south pole images unexpectedly showed a second vortex, meaning that the unusual swirling clouds are like an earth-hurricane that has two eyes. why a double vortex has formed is now a topic of research. the above image was taken last year, and more recent images from venus express are being processed that have as much as 100 times more detail.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's a comparison image between venus/saturn.

http://www.esa.int/esa-mmg/mmg.pl?b=b&type=i&mission=venus%20express&single=y&start=10

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11772-bumpy-ice-on-mars-points-to-active-water-cycle.html

be well, be love.

david

'bumpy' ice on mars points to active water cycle
18:00 02 may 2007
newscientist.com news service
stephen battersby

the depth of ice below the surface of mars is highly variable, new temperature maps made by nasa's mars odyssey spacecraft reveal. the 'bumpy' ice appears to be involved in an active martian water cycle.

odyssey saw its first evidence for the ice in 2002, when an instrument detected neutrons that are generated when charged particles from space, called cosmic rays, hit hydrogen in ice molecules. the spacecraft's neutron detector showed that the ice is mostly hidden near the north and south poles (see image below right).

that instrument has very fuzzy vision and cannot resolve any detail smaller than 500 kilometres, but now joshua bandfield of arizona state university in tempe, us, can paint a much finer picture of the subsurface ice.

ice acts as a heat reservoir, so as summer turns to autumn it can keep the temperatures from falling too fast. the closer the ice lies to the surface, the stronger the temperature lag.

using odyssey's thermal imager, called themis, bandfield has mapped the seasonal temperature variation in several areas on mars. he has found that the depth of the ice is highly variable, even on the finest scales that themis can see – around 100 metres across (see image at right). in many places, ice lies only about 5 centimetres below the surface.

[Mozart]

...jupiter's geologically-active moon.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/technology/technology.html?in_article_id=452130&in_page_id=1965


take a look at the pics and look at the strange triangular-shaped things on the upper, left part of io. such straight lines. natural? hmmm.


then there's the triangular-shaped thing in the upper, right-of-center side of io. looks like a perfect triangle. i'd like to see close-up shots to see if the triangular shape still holds.<searching...no, i can't find anything beyond this photo so far>


update: i found a closer image of io from...

http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/pia09257.jpg

...and i did not find anything that could be construed as to be straight, artificially-created lines/structures.


~

[pyramidnj]

hi everybody! this is interesting....i hope you can also access the photos here and the slide show. jo anne

updated:2007-05-03 01:35:26
probe snaps new images of jupiter


http://news.aol.com/topnews/articles/_a/probe-snaps-new-images-of-jupiter/20070502133109990001?ncid=nws00010000000001

(may 3) - new images beamed back by a nasa spacecraft that flew by jupiter earlier this year are giving scientists their most detailed glimpse yet of the gas giant and its moons.
on feb. 28, new horizons passed within 1.4 million miles of jupiter as part of a slingshot maneuver to give it a speed boost as it races toward its main target pluto. during the move, the spacecraft snapped hundreds of images of the jupiter system.

some of those images, unveiled today during a nasa news conference, reveal never-before-seen features of the planet and its moons. new horizons' principal investigator, alan stern, said new horizons' jupiter flyby was "successful beyond our wildest dreams."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6617851.stm

be well, be love.

david

'up to half' of mars may have ice
by neil bowdler
bbc news

scientists in the us say that initial data from a new way of scanning mars has shown up to half of the red planet's surface may contain ice.

the new method of scanning for water offers vastly more accurate readings than before, they say.

the data could prove vital for the phoenix mars mission which launches this august and which will put a lander on the surface to dig for ice.

the new data shows wide variation as to how deep below the surface ice exists.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/070503_mercury_core.html

be well, be love.

david

surprise slosh! mercury's core is liquid
by ker than
staff writer
posted: 03 may 2007
2:00 pm et


kitchen physics dictates that a raw egg will spin slower than a hard-boiled one. scientists using this same logic have discovered the planet mercury has a fluid core of molten iron.

the finding, detailed in the may 4 issue of the journal science, solves a 30-year-old mystery but raises another.

to figure out whether mercury's core was liquid or solid, a team of scientists led by jean-luc margot at cornell university measured small twists in the planet's rotation. they used a new technique that involved bouncing a radio signal sent from a ground telescope in california off the planet and then catching it again in west virginia.

after 5 years and 21 such observations, the team realized their values were twice as large as what would be expected if mercury's core was solid.

"the variations in mercury's spin rate that we measured are best explained by a core that is at least partially molten," margot said. "we have a 95 percent confidence level in this conclusion."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

click the images for more details...

http://www.esa.int/esasc/semqkvu681f_index_0.html

be well, be love.

david

venus express’ infrared camera goes filming

virtis composite video of venus’ south polar vortex

7 may 2007
an exciting new series of videos from esa’s venus express has been capturing atmospheric details of day and night areas simultaneously, at different altitudes.

the south pole of the planet and its gigantic double vortex has been pictured as never before.
the south pole of venus and the double-eyed storm permanently rule atmospheric phenomena in that area of the planet. they are key to understanding the global atmospheric dynamics on venus and will contribute to a better comprehension of the global meteorology of the planet.

in the search for all possible clues on how to solve the global atmospheric ‘puzzle’, the team of scientists behind the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared mapping spectrometer (virtis) on board venus express, have tried something new – starting from the south pole.

they started by focusing on this target from the advantageous position of the orbit apocentre (the furthest distance of the spacecraft from the planet). this allows the instrument to keep the target in the field of view for longer than in other portions of the orbit, where the spacecraft travels faster. in this favourable position, scientists made efficient use of the multi-wavelength capability of virtis.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://physorg.com/news97866735.html

be well, be love.

david

cassini finds that storms power saturn's jet streams

new cassini research suggests eddies, or giant rotating storms, are the "engine" powering saturn's jet stream winds.

"the new information about how saturn's jet streams are powered is exactly the opposite of what we thought prior to cassini," said anthony del genio of nasa's goddard institute for space studies, new york, n.y. del genio is a cassini imaging team member and lead author of a paper describing this research in press in the journal icarus.

jet streams are motions in an atmosphere that carry clouds rapidly eastward or westward. the eddies get fed into the jet streams, in much the same way that rotating gears can power a conveyor belt.

"while we thought the conveyor belt--in this case, the jet streams--powered the rotating eddies, we now think the opposite: the rotating eddies power the jet streams," said del genio.

"intuition would say that the eddies take energy out of the jets, because of the friction and tugging of the storms. instead, what we find is that they are pumping energy into the jets," said andrew ingersoll, a cassini imaging team member with the california institute of technology, pasadena, calif. ingersoll says that while this process has been known to occur on earth, it was only recently shown to operate on jupiter and is a new idea for saturn, where data from the earlier voyager missions had failed to detect the eddy-jet interactions.

the cassini team analyzed, for the first time, how storms and eddies interact with saturn's jet streams. by tracking the movements of these cloud features in successive images separated by about 10 hours (about one saturn rotation), cassini scientists have confirmed that the eddies on either side of the jet give up their energy and momentum, which helps keep the winds in the jet blowing.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's the latest from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/119/forest-biodiversity-10.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars forest life bio-diversity-10
report #119
may 13, 2007
joseph p. skipper

in addition to the mars forest life evidence presented here, this report will provide some insight into how difficult it is to determine whether one is looking at living biological forest evidence or inanimate rock and soil geology. such considerations are almost always in this satellite imaging an issue of terrain massed textures and patterns rather than a collection of identifiable objects.

the above first image is a scene from the mgs moc r07-01831 narrow-angle science data strip. this strip has a lot of imaging artifact banding problems (not seen here) in it spanning across its width and any evidence like that above must be extracted from the gaps between these problem bands. the evidence above is demonstrated here at the official 100% resolution but cleaned up just a bit and with color added for some contrast to bring out a little more of the smaller detail. the split screen on the left shows a section of the evidence presented at the same orientation as in the original strip while the screen on the right is from the same area but rotated 90º clockwise.

this is actually evidence of mars forest life that is a bit smaller size and, as you can see, even with clarification work, it is hard at first blush to be sure whether one is looking at life or just rock and soil geology. if you are a more gullible researcher accepting official propaganda that such evidence on mars is simply not possible, then you just quickly pass on over this material as geology and of no consequence. in other words, you see only what you expect to see and you don't see what you don't expect to see. further, it is to some extent understandable. believe me, the original black and white image is washed out and doesn't display the level of texture and pattern detail you see above that just might tip a more open minded researcher off that something else is going on here in this terrain.

when mars forest growth is made up of a bit smaller size objects of the same kind repeated over and over again in the hundreds and thousands and with basically the same growth individual object shape height and width that extends from strip edge to edge without a break, it's sort of like trying to pick out the individual tuffs of fiber that constitute a section of carpet. you know the tuffs are there but you just can't see them unless you can get a look at the boundary edge of the carpet from an oblique (side) angle where you can see the tuffs sticking up from the base mat. this bio-life evidence isn't quite that bad but the principle is the same.

[soup]

it might be more convincing if there were some forest images from earth that were taken from the same perspective, i.e. same distance and resolution, for comparison. and then again, even with that - someone would probably argue the thing was filmed in the back lot of a hollywood movie studio. its difficult if not impossible to please everyone. why try?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/120/mounts-n-pits.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars strange mount & pit evidence
report #120
may 26, 2007
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report is both about bio-life and geological evidence. some of the bio-life evidence in this report is dramatic looking but represents somewhat of a departure from the norm for me. that's because i often have something fairly specific to say about what i think the bio-life evidence is or at least what category that i believe that it belongs in based on my experience in this imaging. that will not be the case here because, while i still do have some opinions as you will see, i have insufficient confidence in my identification of the bio-life evidence here to make a call on it for posterity. so see what you think?

the above first image shows the evidence scene just as it is depicted in the official s05-00845 narrow-angle strip without any clarification work in it by me and, as you can see, overly light saturation haze is the primary reason this evidence at first appears not especially remarkable. however, the next image below will sharpen up this scene bringing out more detail and demonstrate why paying more attention to this evidence site is required. meanwhile, the above first and below second image views are taken from one side edge of the official strip to the other and represent about 3.31 km or 2.05 miles across the image horizontally according to the official stats.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the morgan curve close up

http://www.kbmorgan.com/marsmission/nasa%20close%20ups.htm

click on an image to enlarge and then hoover over the newly
opened image until the enlarge icon appears to maximize the
image to see details.

also this;

http://www.kbmorgan.com/marsmission/mars%20images/profile%20side-by-side%20with%20overlay.jpg

face on mars a side-by-side comparison of the right side of the 2001 face on mars and the abstract drawing with an overlay the morgan curve;

http://www.kbmorgan.com/marsmission/mars%20images/morgan%20cuvre%20still%20log%20e.jpg

click the link for more info;

http://www.kbmorgan.com/marsmission/marshome.htm

be well, be love.

david

[SpiralCycle]

there is a hole found that is is about the size of a football field and is so deep that it is unlit by the sun. it could have many purposes if species thrive there.

it is interesting to learn more and more about mars it makes me curious to know if there is something there.

link:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's the original link;

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070528.html

here's more;

http://planetary.org/blog/article/00000984

and here;

http://palermoproject.com/martian_cavern.html

be well, be love.

david

[eyez4096]

if the nasa airbrushing crap is true it's entirely possible that the strangely pure blackness is the result of covering up something they didn't want visible. just a thought.

-charles

[Avocet]

two quotes from science daily 'to determine the extent of surface changes on mars.........................the results of this research show that an increase in darkened surface areas may account for a one degree fahrenheit rise in the surface air temperature of the planet.' this is over 30 years.

elsewhere i saw that the temperature rise on earth has been one degree fahrenheit in the 100 years up to 2004. interesting.

[soup]

that seems difficult to fathom, such measurements. i'd imagine one takes several snapshots of the planets entire surface area during a specific point in its orbit, then average and normalize all that data to get a figure for a planet's surface temperature. then thirty years later one would do the same exercise, ideally using the same equipment calibrated the same way, at the same point in the planet's orbit (to accomodate any seasonal variable). i'd imagine the uncertainty in such exercise could easily be on the order of one degree. did they state anything about the measurement uncertainty? ridiculous as it may sound, the uncertainty may be several degrees or more.

[soup]

this feature may act as a good black body radiator by which they could calibrate remote sensing instruments for study of thing like surface albedo.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

sure looks like water tooo meeee....re-member what nasa has said - "where there's water there's life as we know it."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12026-mars-rover-finds-puddles-on-the-planets-surface.html

be well, be love.

david

mars rover finds "puddles" on the planet's surface

15:33 08 june 2007
newscientist.com news service
david chandler
a new analysis of pictures taken by the exploration rover opportunity reveals what appear to be small ponds of liquid water on the surface of mars.

the report identifies specific spots that appear to have contained liquid water two years ago, when opportunity was exploring a crater called endurance. it is a highly controversial claim, as many scientists believe that liquid water cannot exist on the surface of mars today because of the planet’s thin atmosphere.

if confirmed, the existence of such ponds would significantly boost the odds that living organisms could survive on or near the surface of mars, says physicist ron levin, the report's lead author, who works in advanced image processing at the aerospace company lockheed martin in arizona.

along with fellow lockheed engineer daniel lyddy, levin used images from the jet propulsion laboratory's website. the resulting stereoscopic reconstructions, made from paired images from the opportunity rover's twin cameras, show bluish features that look perfectly flat. the surfaces are so smooth that the computer could not find any surface details within those areas to match up between the two images.

the imaging shows that the areas occupy the lowest parts of the terrain. they also appear transparent: some features, which levin says may be submerged rocks or pebbles, can be seen below the plane of the smooth surface.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/121/mars-dark-hole.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars mysterious dark hole
report #121
june 14, 2007
joseph p. skipper

j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

according to my email feedback, it appears that quite a few viewers are interested in the mysterious dark hole or cavern on mars recently reported from the mro imaging a few weeks ago. the above first image is the official science data mro browser compatible image without any enhancements in it by me. all i've done is put some labels in it and reduced its size by only 10% to better fit this reporting page. as you can see, it is merely a round dark spot in an otherwise fairly level looking terrain but it has apparently generated quite a bit of interest and also debate.

it is the latter factor that has drawn my opinion and two cents into this as viewers keep wanting me to comment on this. i have been reluctant to do much with this because at my first glance this subject matter appeared to be too inconclusive in nature. further, it appeared to be something that i might likely wind up reporting about nothing but image tampering on. i'm tired of doing that and, believe it or not, i try to avoid that where i can. on the other hand, viewer persistence caused me to take a closer look and so what follows is my small contribution to this issue.

the truth is that this is not a new discovery in the mro imaging but a discovery originally made but poorly seen in the older themis imaging now perhaps confirmed by the current much higher resolution mro imaging. the mysterious dark spot you see above in the mro imaging is speculated to be a dark hole in the mars terrain that is so large and deep that very little light is reflected back out of it. it is suppose to be about the length of a football field across which would roughly be about 100 yards. it is actually just one of seven such pits or holes discovered in the themis imaging and they are known collectively as the "seven sisters" and this site is the smaller of those they are all named and this one in the mro imaging is named "jeanne."

the seven sister evidence reportedly exists on the exterior flanks of the arsis mons volcano system terrain elevation. this is one of three volcanos oriented in a linear line and the three together are known as the tharsis montes and exist on what is known as the tharsis rise and of course the region in general is known as the tharsis region. arsis mons is the second largest volcano system on mars with nearby olympus mons being the largest by far as well as the largest known in the solar system dwarfing anything on earth.

[nem338nem]

this is just more substantial ammo for david's long time knowledge of interplanetary warming. now more and scientific proof. perhaps you can use this david.

http://seoblackhat.com/2007/03/04/global-warming-on-mars-pluto-triton-and-jupiter/

look forward to tuesday, great great job!

peace, nelson

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12159-jupiter-changes-its-stripes.html

be well, be love.

david

jupiter changes its stripes
23:00 28 june 2007
newscientist.com news service
david shiga

jupiter's cloud patterns are undergoing dramatic changes, reveal new images by the hubble space telescope. similar transformations of the giant planet's clouds have been witnessed before, but never in such detail – and they have never been explained.

hubble has been keeping an eye on jupiter to provide context for close-up observations made by nasa's new horizons spacecraft, which flew by the solar system's largest planet in february on its way to pluto.

some changes were already evident in january, when jupiter became observable again after a period when it was too close to the sun in the sky for hubble to image. at that time, cloud bands around its equator that had been whitish for the past 15 years or so were noticeably darker.

[charran]

hi gang,

jupiter isn't just changing its stripes as david mentions above. so much more is going on that most people don't see.

take a look at the latest news about jupiter.

http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_539_prt.htm

this map of jupiter is the most detailed global color map of the planet ever produced. the round map is a polar stereographic projection that shows the south pole in the center of the map and the equator at the edge. it was constructed from images taken by cassini on dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft neared jupiter during a flyby on its way to saturn.

then go for the in depth analysis of some of the patterns at this link:

http://ray.tomes.biz/b2/index.php/a/2007/06/28/p149

life is all about cycles and understanding them from the planetary level down to our human existence.

have fun!

charran

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/122/south-polar-cap-life.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars south polar cap bio-life
report #122
july 2, 2007
joseph p. skipper
large continuous report with 9 images & slow loading
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the above first image is a view of the south polar region with the cap as the white mass at the center. the labeling points out the location of the multiple evidence sites on the left side of the cap. as you can see, the evidence is well up on the top of the cap's surface.

the mars south polar cap ice mass according to official science is suppose to consist primarily of carbon dioxide (co2) ice concentrations. now water ice and co2 ice look the same appearance wise, so how do they arrive at the co2 identification? well it's pretty simple really. previous instrument science data says that the mars atmosphere is made up primarily of 95.32% co2 with only faint trace amounts of nitrogen at 2.7%, oxygen at 1.6%, and water vapor at .03%. compare that with the earth atmosphere of nitrogen at 78.084%, oxygen at 20.946%, water vapor averaging around 1.00%, and co2 at .038%. as you can see, according to the official statistics, there is a very big difference between the two worlds.

so, if the mars atmosphere is almost all co2, how does it collect on the mars surface in great concentrations forming the polar caps? the answer is cold, super hard freezing cold and the mars temperatures would of course be expected to be the coldest at the poles. sure enough official science data tells us that the average temperature on mars is around –63º c. or –81º f. but in the south polar region it can get as cold as –140º c. or –220º f. that's serious super hard freezing cold to put it mildly. here on earth co2 freezes under normal conditions at about –56.6º c. or –69.8º f., so you see that with the official mars temperatures as stated co2 can freeze readily out of the air and drop to the ground as co2 snow and accumulate over time into the ice masses seen at the poles.

also, you should know that co2 is one of the most powerful cerebral vasodilators known. for earth humans sustained exposure to co2 concentrations of as little as 3–5% (molar) start being deadly to life and compare that with a mars 95.32% co2 atmosphere. so, for the the earth human who takes a stroll on the surface of mars without a serious containment suit, while you're instantly choking to death and dying of nitrogen and oxygen insufficiency, you're also being intensely poisoned by many times over with mega proportions of toxic co2. in other words, it could mess up your day! still feel like a trip to mars?

obviously, it is hard to consider that biological life of any kind that we might be aware of trying to survive in such a hostile south polar environment must less on the cap itself at the center of the freezing conditions and thriving. yet that is the nature of the evidence i am presenting here. the logical implication will of course be that the the mars atmosphere is not 95.32% co2 as promoted nor is the temperature as super hard freezing cold as stated. you be the judge.

[soup]

i consider co2 a greenhouse gas, and wonder if mars is an example of the long term prospects of a planet experiencing that effect. that is, could earth resemble mars at some point in the future?

[Chris Hamilton]

pictures, changes, and new theories about our solar system's planets.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

here are good comparison photos, esa compared to nasa donald

http://xfacts.com/gusev2004/gusev.html

nasa’s pictures of the gusev crater using the mars global surveyor, and the more recent odyssey mission using the themis camera reveal some interesting data. the images taken show a dark mass that at first glance seem to have characteristics that resemble some sort of planet life.

then in 2004, the european space agency took it’s first full color image of the gusev crater. what made the esa image so immediately interesting was the fact that the “dark mass” features seen streaking portions of the floor of the 90-mile-wide crater in the nasa imaging (left). can now be seen in true color by esa revealed by mars express (right) to be various amazing shades of green …

[Lorigga]

i read this news article last week, and just today started reading the short breakdown of the ra material.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12466

this new scientist article essentially relates how scientists are crafting an experiment to see if life exists in saturn's rings. apparently a recent simulation (utilizing mainstream physics i'm assuming) shows that dust submerged in plasma could form a double helix. now scientists are curious about saturn's rings because you have a heavy plasma created via solar winds and a lot of dust. it's just very cool that their attention would be drawn there of all places...

what got me excited was reading about the council's presence on saturn's rings and thinking back to this exact article. add that to the recent article david posted about life being created from "nothing" and it looks like we're on the right track!

once again, i'm just scraping the surface of some of the material here on divine cosmos but felt this should be mentioned if it hasn't already.

best,
lorenzo

p.s. these topics seem very hot in science right now, new scientist ran an article called "what are aliens made of?" which questioned our current understanding of life and the need for a carbon basis (or how some scientist feel you don't!).

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/124/north-polar-biolife2.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars north polar bio-life-2
report #124
august 16, 2007
joseph p. skipper

j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

as far as the poor quality heavily obfuscated satellite imaging will allow us some decent insight, the south polar region story is one generally about surface water and a great variety of biological forestation life competing with each other for space and resources. in comparison, the north polar region is a story not so much about surface water plenty but more about more colder hardy forestation and the proliferation of the "dune" appearing dominant mega bio-life and some samples of this mixture is what this report is about.

the above first 1a and 1b images are a regional e02-00868 wide-angle context view. the official statistics indicate that the view here is roughly just under 132 km or 82 miles wide including the dark areas. the left image shows the white outline location of the e02-00867 narrow-angle strip within it and the location of my next three evidence images below within the narrow-angle outline. as you can see, the 1a strip on the left is very dark but with this very bright oblong patch in it.

it is a mystery because this is a very bright patch that just shouldn't be this way against such a dark surrounding terrain background. it may be in part due to the camera and filters used but i suspect that more than that is going on here. i suspect that some growth within the bright patch boundaries is absorbing and regenerating (not just reflecting) light in what is probably a twilight camera view of this site with the terrain around the bright patch made up of a darker color light absorbing bio-life

note that the lightened 1b image on the right suggests that the bright patch is cradled in a depression rather than being an elevated mass. if you will remember, it was the same with the interior of a large crater pit presented in the last #14, #15 and #16 images in part-3 of my last report #123 titled mars north polar bio-life-1. i can't know for sure here of course but i suspect we are looking at some type of densely packed bio-luminesent-life growth that is doing this and this may apply to the crater pit interior lining in previous report #123 as well. you'll see what little detail can be seen of this bright patch evidence in my next second image below.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

you may have to copy and paste the link to view the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gth8kccvlty&mode=related&search=

make sure you check out stuart's home page here;

http://www.stuart-mitchell.com/

be well, be love .

david

saturn hexagon mystifies scientists

march 27, 2007 — a long-lived double hexagon formed in the clouds.
the two six-sided features — one inside the other — are in stark contrast to the hurricane-like vortex that has been observed at the ringed planet's south pole. both poles have been imaged by nasa's orbiting cassini spacecraft.
"we haven't seen a (geometric) feature like this anywhere else on any other planet," said cassini scientist kevin baines of the nasa's jet propulsion laboratory. "it's unbelievable."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

we might as well include richard hoagland's interview concerning the hexagon on saturn - you might have to copy and paste the links;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxy_8kvzs9i&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frfdndwjz9w&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1guf5zwub_a&mode=related&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6iu1cav4io&mode=related&search=

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

this is quite relaxing to hear...

http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/1252/strange_jupiter_sounds___nasa_voyager_recordings/

be well, be love.

david

strange jupiter sounds - nasa-voyager recordings

fascinating recording of jupiter sounds (electromagnetic "voices") by nasa-voyager. the complex interactions of charged electromagnetic particles from the solar wind , planetary magnetosphere etc. create vibration "soundscapes". it sounds very interesting, even scary.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

here are some high definition photos revealing trees on mars, amazing, donald

http://mmmgroup.altervista.org/e-trees.html

the possibility of existence of life forms on other planets has always charmed men. but only in fairly recent times the means with which we can explore celestial bodies in a scientific manner have become available. countless probes have been launched toward planets belonging to our solar system, to study their characteristics and to understand if any form of life may have developed on them. among planets, mars is still the more studied planet, both for the proximity to the earth and mainly because it is the most earth-similar celestial body and maybe it's able to receive any type of living organism.

there's an opinion shared among scientists by now that says that if we'll find life on mars, it surely won't have an evolutionary stage higher than the one of a bacterium. it's an opinion that has become a dogma with the passing of time, supported even in the presence of photographic documents, still without explanation, that could invalidate it.

it's the case of a photo taken by moc (mars orbiter camera), a satellite for photographical mapping of mars that, at latitude -82.02°, longitude 284.38° (near to the martian south pole) has filmed something totally incredible, but still neglected: it's some form of vegetation on mars.
the photo number is m08-04688.


detail of photo m08-04688 taken by moc satellite that depicts the mars surface (6.79 m/pixel)

as one can see in the image, shapes very similar to big trees (with branches) seen by above are visible.
for example, let's compare the moc shot with this other photo, that portrays a terrestrial tree: there are really many similarities.



here's the complete "strip" taken by moc, that shows plants becoming more and more thick, actually creating a forest. a geological phenomenon vaguely similar to this doesn't quite exists. the high resolution photo is visible by clicking here (259kb)



but then, what is the explanation? the simplest explanation is that some vegetable life forms (perhaps dating back to times when water was abundant on mars) continue to grow on the planet, probably sinking their roots in a partially frozen water layer and able to bear strong changes in temperature.

in regard to their size, the biggest trees visible in the image have a diameter of about 1 kilometer. it obviously may seem too much, if it's compared with a terrestrial tree. but if we consider that:
1. atmosphere is more rarefied than the terrestrial one
2. gravity is only a third of the one of our planet
3. probably there are no parasites that can attach them
4. it's an alien species, surely unknown to us, with a different metabolism

then their huge dimensions become more acceptable. anyway in the photo we can see also more "normal-sized" trees.

unfortunately no scientist accurately studied this document, because the "official science" says we cannot find trees there. stop. but the "martian forest" continue to grow regardless.

link to the moc official photo: http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/m08046/m0804688.html



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this isn't the only evidence of vegetable life on the red planet, other images taken by moc exist which show what could be brushes grown among dunes.


let's compare it with this satellite photo showing a desertic area of australia:



in this image of the martian surface we can observe what is resembling a wood seen from above:



here we see what really seems to be a lake (photo moc m0901354, 2.75m/pixel):



here too (moc m0902042):



and in these photos too (click to view): e0801033, e0900020, e0900304 (this one at a 3.5 m/pixel resolution).

the following picture was acquired by the opportunity probe on december, 19 2004 and it needs no comments (to the right there is a zoom of the yellow box). the original photo is visible by clicking here.



here we have two other meaningful images which show the growth of vegetation on the red planet (moc m1001442):





click here for another photo showing vegetation on mars (646 kb)

it must be noted that unfortunately the mars global surveyor has a camera (moc) that shows only the red and the blue color, but not the green. it's probably the only camera ever constructed that has this feature, and i leave to your imagination what may be the reason for this technological choice....

final note: probably not all people know that a certain amount of methane has been found in the martian atmosphere (it was detected by mars express, by nasa's infrared telescope facility in hawaii, by international gemini south observatory in chile, by mars express planetary fourier spectrometer (pfs) etc...).
methane is not a stable molecule in the atmosphere, it vanishes after a few hundred years. then if it's still present, it must be regenerated in some way. two are the possibilities: either volcanic activity or bacterial production.
it exists a third hypotesis too: methane may be generated by the impact of a comet on mars, but nobody found any recent sign of collision on the surface, and anyway it couldn't have produced long-lasting effects.
it's difficult to support the first hypothesis, because the tes on mars global surveyor and the themis on mars odyssey (thermical sensors with a resolution of 100 meters) never detected any volcanic activity on mars.
then the second hyphotesis is the most likely, there seems to be some sort of biologic activity on mars.

update october, 6th 2006: currently there is the actual possibility to observe forests and lakes in color and with great detail, the proof is the photo taken from orbit by mars reconnaissance orbiter that shows perfectly the opportunity probe on the red planet surface, and even the tracks that its wheels left on the sand. at this point one question arises: what is nasa waiting for before taking pictures of the most interesting zones and finally solving some mysteries?








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[LightEye]

dear friends,

i've posted joseph's work on this before. check it out.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/104/life-bio-diversity-1.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/105/life-biodiversity-2.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/106/life-biodiversity3-1.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/110/mars-forest-biodiversity4-1.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/114/forest-biodiversity-5-1.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/115/forest-life-biodiversity-6.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/116/forest-bio-diversity-7.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/117/forest-biodiversity-8a.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/118/forest-biodiversity-9.htm

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/119/forest-biodiversity-10.htm

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/odyssey/odyssey-20070921.html

be well, be love.

david

nasa orbiter finds possible cave skylights on mars
09.21.07

pasadena, calif. -- nasa's mars odyssey spacecraft has discovered entrances to seven possible caves on the slopes of a martian volcano. the find is fueling interest in potential underground habitats and sparking searches for caverns elsewhere on the red planet.

very dark, nearly circular features ranging in diameter from about 100 to 250 meters (328 to 820 feet) puzzled researchers who found them in images taken by nasa's mars odyssey and mars global surveyor orbiters. using mars odyssey's infrared camera to check the daytime and nighttime temperatures of the circles, scientists concluded that they could be windows into underground spaces.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

2002 lecture by dr tom van flandern - fascinating stuff.

part i
http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/1127/part_1_mysterious_mars/

part ii
http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/1129/part_2_mysterious_mars/

part iii
http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/1130/part_3_mysterious_mars/

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more food for thought... ;-)

http://www.disclose.tv/viewvideo/1802/nasa_jpl_evidence_of_life_on_mars_and_the_moon/

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/127/northpole-bioengineering.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars north pole bio-engineering
report #127
october 4, 2007
joseph p. skipper

j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report's 1-6 image evidence comes from a single mgs moc e02-02554 narrow-angle image strip and the last 7th image from its companion e02-02555 wide-angle context strip. the above first image scene is located in the very top end of the narrow-angle strip and the second image scene is located in the strip's mid area. neither of these evidence sample images as presented here have my usual graphic data frames around them because even with significant compression each is really huge in file size because of the great multitude of smaller size objects and texture patterns seen down there.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

lots of great info at this site. take your time and check out the links.

http://www.boomslanger.com/moon.htm

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"perhaps even more important, jupiter's weather appears to be different than it was when nasa probes last visited the gas giant, experts say." ;-)

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071009-jupiter-lightning.html

be well, be love.

david

lightning strikes, changing climate revealed on jupiter
anne minard
for national geographic news

october 9, 2007
a quick flyby of jupiter by nasa's new horizons probe has yielded the most detailed glimpse yet of the weather on the gas giant.

images sent back from new horizons earlier this year show stormy features similar to earth's, including lightning on both of jupiter's poles.

the images suggest the storms are caused by the heat from the planet itself, rather than the sun, and are maintained by circulation patterns that could be global in scale.

perhaps even more important, jupiter's weather appears to be different than it was when nasa probes last visited the gas giant, experts say.

"jupiter has changed," said dennis reuter of nasa's goddard space flight center in greenbelt, maryland.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

what do you think?

http://www.earthchangesmedia.com/images/mars_lake.jpg

be well, be love.

david

is there a "living" lake on mars?

on wednesday october 10th, the university of arizona-based hirise team released 143 color images of planet mars. the hirise is a super-powered camera which sits on the mars reconnaissance orbiter spacecraft. when i ran over to take a look at these just downloaded photos, my jaw dropped and i brought my wife over and said: "do you see what i see?" without telling her the source or location of the photos, her answer was: "oh that's beautiful, what lake is it?"

this is what ua professor alfred s. mcewen, hirise principal investigator had to say: "color data are proving very useful in interpreting geologic processes and history on mars. the images we're releasing today include views of some of the most exciting and compositionally diverse areas on the planet. they are really interesting.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/129/richardson-crater-1.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars richardson crater enigma
part-1
report #129
october 31, 2007
joseph p. skipper
part-2 .... part-3 .... part-4
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

even though it's halloween today here in the usa as i post this report, the subject of this reporting is very real. for those of you overly confident that man and his ways rule the cosmos, the life discussed here may just give one pause in that regard.

the above first image is the mgs moc mars chart 30 and it shows a wide-angle global context view of the mars south polar region with the south polar cap shown in the very center. the subject of this reporting is the "richardson crater" site pointed out with the black arrow. this global context view will serve to demonstrate where the site is located as well as the colossal scale involved here. note also that the enlarged inset of the the site attached to the black arrow is included here to demonstrate the true orientation of the site. the next enlarged view of the evidence site below complies with this orientation.

now in this shorter reporting style i'm going to try and tackle original discovery evidence here that may strain some brain pans to the limit and my credibility along with it. you should know that this particular site is one of the most repeatedly imaged on mars. the official reason given is that this survey work is a consistent program of "richardson crater dunes seasonal monitoring." the "seasonal monitoring" part is no doubt correct but the "dunes" characterization in my opinion is not. the latter is just a label to misdirect perception away from the real truth here. on the other hand, it is true that monitoring this site with repeated imaging is a lot about "seasonal" changes at this site.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

d&m pyramid of cydonia - sibling of great pyramid of giza?
http://www.mayanmajix.com/dm_pyramid.pdf

mars & d&m parameters
http://www.mayanmajix.com/dm_appendix.pdf

be well, be love.

david

[wicherink]

sergey smelyakov released a new article this week on the d&m pyramid of mars.
he’s done a critical mathematical analysis of the off-planet structure that must be artificial in design. smelyakov discovered some correspondences that may indicate that the d&m pyramid and great pyramid at giza are siblings and may have been designed by the same intelligence.

some of the striking things he discovered is that the perimeter of the d&m pyramid equals exactly the number of ac minutes in a circle = 60 * 360 = 21.600 egyptian cubits!

in addition the earth’s equator and mars equator can be found in the pyramid and correspond with the latitude of the great pyramid at giza and the d&m pyramid respectively.

hoagland discovered (op cit) that the critical object torun had "decoded" – the pyramid – lies precisely astride the key geodetic martian latitude expressive of the arctangent equivalent of "e/pi": 40.87 degrees = arctan 0.865! …

smelyakov demonstrates that if the arc cos is taken from e/pi it corresponds with the latitude of giza: 30.08805…

http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/d&m%20pyramid.html

or in pdf: http://www.soulsofdistortion.nl/download/d&m%20article.pdf

or from smelyakov's website:
http://www.astrotheos.com/page7.htm


enjoy
jan

[wicherink]

sorry about a few mistakes:

60 * 360 = 21600 egyptian cubits!

and the arc cos taken from e/pi corresponding with the latitude of giza: 30.08805… is not sergey smelyakob's discovery.

regards
jan

[Jivatman]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/071128-venus-express.html

"venus is more earth-like than previously thought—including lightning where theory held that none could exist.

venus is the world closest to earth in terms of size, mass, distance and chemical makeup, but while earth is a haven for life, venus is typically described as hellish, with a crushing atmosphere holding choking clouds of sulfuric acid over a rocky desert surface hot enough to melt lead.

the venus express mission that the european space agency launched in 2005 is now shedding light not just how venus became the daunting world it is, but also how it still remains somewhat earth-like."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting insights from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/131/mars-strange-2.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars strange evidence-2
report #131
december 4, 2007
joseph p. skipper
(nine images & some unusually large image files, so expect loading delays)
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the above first image is from the upper portion of the very long official mgs moc m17-00612 narrow-angle straight .gif strip. the view is the full size as the strip is officially presented and from one side edge to the other which the image stats say is 1.66 km or 1.03 miles across, although i wouldn't place too much confidence in those stats if i were you.

although it doesn't appear so at first glance, this strip's resolution is very compromised. normal size detail is very blurry and fuzzy and thoroughly obfuscated. that has severely impacted the normal size vegetation that is carpeting the ground here to the point that the vegetation isn't recognizable. however, that is not part of the reporting here. the reason that the scene still looks pretty good on the surface is because the light color objects seen are very large and over coming the resolution limitations to some extent. remember this principle as you view the rest of the evidence from this strip.

truthfully the above scene doesn't have all that much to do with the "strange" theme of this report. i'm including this scene here simply because this type of evidence is present in this strip, you probably should be aware of it, and it is convenient for me to include. this evidence exists in the chasma boreale locale which is the largest by far dark canyon extending deep within the north polar cap main body distorting the entire shape of the cap which can be seen in the last image in this report. the objects you see above are present in great numbers and in a great variety of shapes and sizes within this chasma general location.

the official interpretation of the many light color objects would no doubt (as usual) be that they are sand dunes. they aren't that but what they are is a mystery. in the chasma they normally appear in large numbers and as isolated objects not part of and distinct from any readily apparent loose sand matrix. that is why the resolution in this strip is compromised to primarily affect the background making it fuzzy and indistinct forcing any vegetation present to be blurry enough to merge and look a little like sand that could produce sand dunes. these objects are always in some aerodynamic shape oriented in the same direction and they can be much larger than what you see above as well as smaller. take a look at more of these objects in my 2006 report #099 and especially the 1st, 2nd and 6th images there.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

here's more changes in our sol system...

http://www.aas.org/publications/baas/v34n4/aas201/1107.htm

be well, be love.

david

seasonal changes in the microwave brightness temperature of the uranus atmosphere

m.j. klein, m.d. hofstadter (jet propulsion laboratory/caltech), h.b. hammel (space science institute, boulder co), j.g. leflang, j.p. roller, r.k. mcleod (lewis center for educational research, apple valley ca)

uranus' appearance is changing as its 2007 equinox approaches. latitudinal banding and discrete cloud features are reported at visible wavelengths and evidence of aerosol variability in the upper atmosphere has been reported in the near-ir. at radio wavelengths, the south pole has appeared brighter than lower latitudes. microwave observations probe the ~5 to ~50 bar region of the atmosphere, well below the cloud tops. changes in microwave brightness temperature with time and wavelength are expected to provide insights into seasonal processes affecting the planet�s deep atmosphere.

here we report observations of changes in uranus� 3.5-cm microwave brightness temperature using nasa�s deep space network (dsn) antennas at goldstone, ca. twelve observing �campaigns� from 1984 through 2002 indicate that uranus� brightness temperature declined from a maximum of ~255 +/- 10 k (circa 1984-86) to ~200 +/- 8 k in 2002.

the �2002 campaign� is primarily being carried out by middle-school and high-school students from classrooms across the nation. the students and their teachers are participants in the goldstone-apple valley radio telescope (gavrt) science education project, which is a partnership involving nasa, jpl and the lewis center for educational research in apple valley, ca. working with the lewis center over the internet, gavrt students conduct remotely controlled radio astronomy observations using 34-m antennas at goldstone. their data are validated by professional scientists and incorporated into the data base.

the gavrt project plans to observe uranus for several years and to coordinate the students� observations with those at visible and infrared wavelengths and the very large array. the objective is to develop a comprehensive description of the troposphere and improve dynamical models of the planet. the jpl contribution to this paper was performed at the jet propulsion laboratory, california institute of technology, under contract with the national aeronautics and space administration.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

new article on formation of craters on moons and planets are created by electric arcs. donald

http://www.thunderbolts.info/webnews/120707electriccraters.htm

but more than forty years ago, the british journal spaceflight published the laboratory experiments of brian j. ford, an amateur astronomer who raised the possibility that most of the craters on the moon were carved by cosmic electrical discharge. (spaceflight 7, january, 1965).

in the cited experiments ford used a spark-machining apparatus to reproduce in miniature some of the most puzzling lunar features, including craters with central peaks, small craters preferentially perched on the high rims of larger craters, and craters strung out in long chains. he also observed that the ratio of large to small craters on the moon matched the ratio seen in electrical arcing.

unfortunately (but not surprisingly), no one in the scientific

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/11/wmars111.xml

be well, be love.

david

mars rover finds signs of microbial life
by katie franklin and agencies
last updated: 8:53am gmt 11/12/2007

nasa says its mars rover spirit has discovered "the best evidence yet" of a past habitable environment on the planet's surface.

spirit has been exploring a plateau called home plate, where it discovered silica-rich soil in may.

researchers are now trying to determine what produced the patch of nearly pure silica - the main ingredient of window glass.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://eng.cnews.ru/news/line/indexen.shtml?2007/11/22/276238

be well, be love.

david

strange object found on mars
december 22, 2007, thu 1:28 pm science

alexander novgorodov, the reader of the portal r&d.cnews from moscow region, has pointed to an object of unusual morphology found on mars images made by the spacecraft mars reconnaissance orbiter.


on the images taken from the orbit an unusual mountain formation is depicted, which seems to have resulted from weathering (erosion) and is located amid the frozen ocean. the given formation drop-like shape (in section), its evidently erosion origin and the unusual structure at the base, which might be conventionally called a 'door' for its physical resemblance, are of interest.

the object unusual form and the presence of a 'door' do not mean the mountain formation is of artificial origin. the mentioned peculiarities are of primary interest because of their morphology.

the other images sent by our reader depict another formation of unusual shape resembling a pyramid with a regular polygon at the base.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2007/132/dunes-in-infrared.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars "dunes' in infrared
report #132
december 23, 2007
joseph p.skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this reporting is going to take a jog to the side and into the odyssey spacecraft themis imaging of mars which came right after the mgs moc and before the rover, esa, and now current mro imaging. this helpful evidence came to my attention via a sharp eyed anonymous viewer in poland seeing it as strange and wondering what it is?

before getting into the evidence, here's a little background. the odyssey themis (thermal emission imaging system) imaging is different because of the satellite camera system. that system covers 5 visual bands and 10 infrared bands and its main" stated" tasks are mapping rock mineralogy via detecting heat signatures. this means that it will see most but not everything in the visual bands we humans are familiar with seeing but should see most heat sources including some that we might not normally see.

in brief and in theory, an active natural geological process like volcanic activity would produce heat and be registered by this camera system including fairly deep underground depending on how large and active the heat source is. also solar heat reflecting off of most natural geological surfaces would be registered, mapped, and also identified. conversely, cooler objects not generating or reflecting heat might be invisible to this camera system. remember all this because it is important to this report and its evidence.

i might add that significantly, although it's not really an issue in this particular report, artificial installations on the planet surface or hidden not too far underground could also presumably be registered and mapped, that is assuming they were generating internal heat. of course that couldn't possible be a covert part of the odyssey mission now could it?

in any case, the odyssey themis image #v16602008 courtesy of arizona state university is the source of this report's evidence. the location of the evidence on mars is in galle crater also informally known as smiley face crater and the evidence in tis strip has been officially identified (as usual) as "dunes."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/133/colossal-plants-revisit.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars colossal plants revisited
report #133
january 16, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the colossal plant or tree evidence in the older mgs moc m08-04688 image (per my 2001 report #019) is some of the most powerful biological life evidence to be imaged on the planet mars. the individual evidence objects are just so incredibly colossal in size, at over half-a-mile across in the case of the largest plants, that it overcomes the otherwise very poor resolution of the image that effectively obscures anything else on a lesser and more normal size scale. in fact, as you might imagine, despite the official stonewalling and pretending it doesn't exist, it is just too powerful for the secrecy agenda to be able to ultimately stand against should knowledge of it and others like it ever find its way into the wider mainstream media and their audiences.

now if you're a secrecy agenda type decision maker, that logically means that something must be done about it. since the mgs moc image with this in it is fixed in time and place, dealing with it and redirecting attention away from it obviously must be in subsequent imaging of the same site. the only problem is that this particular evidence with its many branchings is very detailed and complex. further, thanks to independent reporting, some are now aware of it and on guard as to its existence, so great care must be exercised in how it is dealt with. however, the level of technical obfuscation capability is just not up to what is required in the older mgs moc imaging or the subsequent odyssey themis thermal imaging and not quite up to it either in the later esa imaging. so the idea is to avoid it and wait for the arrival of the current mro hirise imaging with its super fine high resolution camera work that stands a good chance of being regarded as definitive.

the mro's super fine imaging well beyond that publicly admitted to will enable the very fine application detail needed, or at least so they prefer to believe. now with the mro psp_003443_0980 image, the troublesome site has been imaged again and that is what this report is all about as we'll be looking at the old versus the newest imaging to see what is happening with this critical evidence. the old mgs moc imaging strongly suggests biological plant life while the new mro imaging of course suggests geology. i'll bet those that follow richard hoagland's work on the "face" on mars will find that theme familiar in the follow-up subsequent official imaging of that evidence moving from the old viking imaging suggesting a face monument to the later mgs moc imaging indicating just geology.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"the storms appeared during a dramatic, planet-wide disturbance on jupiter that is ongoing. the cause of the disturbance has yet to be explained, but it has changed the colour of some of the planet's stripes."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13217-jupiters-raging-thunderstorms-a-sign-of-global-upheaval.html

be well, be love.

david

jupiter's raging thunderstorms a sign of 'global upheaval'
18:00 23 january 2008
newscientist.com news service
david shiga


towering storms more than 100 kilometres tall have been caught punching up through jupiter's cloud deck for the first time, thanks to a series of hubble space telescope and ground-based observations. the rare storms - a sign of recent turmoil on the planet - are helping scientists deduce what lies hidden beneath the clouds that shroud the solar system's largest planet.

the hubble space telescope captured the first of the two clouds by chance just as it was forming on 25 march 2007. a second, very similar cloud appeared just 9 hours later in an image taken by a team of amateur astronomers from the ground.

hubble, the infrared telescope facility in hawaii, us, and telescopes owned by a network of amateur astronomers called the international outer planet watch then tracked the development of the clouds, and the observations are reported in a study led by agustin sanchez-lavega of universidad del pais vasco in bilbao, spain.

once they appeared, the two clouds grew horizontally to span about 2000 kilometres in a little more than a day, eventually reaching 4000 kilometres across – wider than the moon – before disappearing in may.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

interesting...

http://lifeonmars-vids.blogspot.com/2008/01/life-on-mars.html

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

now jupiter has a "pulse." it's the "universal heartbeat" ;-)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;jsessionid=diyimczpc1tyxqfiqmgsffwavcbq wiv0?view=details&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/01/25/scijupiter125.xml

be well, be love.

david

jupiter atmospheric change detailed by astronomers
by roger highfield, science editor
last updated: 7:01pm gmt 25/01/2008

a remarkable and rare change in jupiter's turbulent atmosphere has been detailed by astronomers, revealing that the planet has a pulse.

the power source for a huge disturbance that has churned the vivid stripes of the middle northern latitudes of the planet since two giant storms erupted has been traced to beneath the clouds of the gas giant.

similar phenomena occurred in 1975 and 1990, suggesting the atmosphere of the planet has an irregular pulse, but this turmoil has never been observed before with high-resolution modern telescopes.

the start of the storms was captured in last year by the hubble space telescope, the infrared telescope facility in hawaii and telescopes in the canary islands, spain, along with smaller telescopes around the world.

now an international team coordinated by agustín sánchez-lavega from the universidad del país vasco in spain has deduced that the storm systems were triggered in jupiter's deep water clouds that vigorously moved upward in the atmosphere and injected a fresh mixture of ammonia ice and water about 20 miles above the visible clouds.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/135/mars-rover-misc.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars rover miscellaneous evidence
report #135
february 22, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

as you can instantly see in the above first image taken on sol-1304 by the rear hazcam wide-angle camera on the spirit rover, there is a large anomalous object suspended in the air just above the terrain not too distant from the rover's position and in the upper left of the image. note that the shape is clearly globular, that the object is solid enough that it appears to obstruct sunlight but without reflecting it and at the same time is strangely visually diffuse. this object in this image was brought to my attention by anthony r. of new haven, ct inquiring as to my opinion of what it might be.

now before you get going on this suspect object, let me say ahead of time that this is not anything real on mars. it is almost certainly an artifact, smudge or flaw on the camera lens but that isn't the whole story. it only started showing itself visually starting a few mars sol days before this image was taken on sol-1304. very much before that time it was not present and after that time it is always present when the same left rear hascam lens is used while never appearing when the other right hazcam lens is used in side-by-side companion shots.

i'm including this evidence here because it is so visually pronounced drawing attention and others may mistake it for something real on mars. so, if it isn't real, then the question becomes why did this artifact suddenly visually start showing up where it did not do so before? that question is likely answered by the evidence in the next image below.

[weboy78]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/080222-venus-haze.html

bright hazes that mysteriously appear and then disappear on venus in a matter of days have revealed a new dynamic feature of the planet's cloudy atmosphere that is unlike anything on earth.

the european space agency's venus monitoring camera (vmc) captured a series of images showing the development of a bright haze over the southern latitudes of the planet in july 2007. over a period of days, the high-altitude veil continually brightened and dimmed, moving towards equatorial latitudes and then back towards the south pole.

these transien..

[Magical_Mongoose]

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mro/news/mro-20080123.html
just found this today.

orbiting camera details dramatic wind action on mars

mars has an ethereal, tenuous atmosphere with less than one-percent the surface pressure of earth, which challenges scientists to explain complex, wind-sculpted landforms seen with unprecedented detail in images from nasa's mars reconnaissance orbiter.

one of the main questions has been if winds on present-day mars are strong enough to form and change geological features, or if wind-constructed formations were made in the past, perhaps when winds speeds and atmospheric pressures were higher.

of course, but aren't they also growing right now? c'mon nasa, tell us what you really know :p linked with the other articles on how these dust storms are warming the martian atmosphere, this could be a potentially positive reinforcement of the warming trend there, and an increase in its atmospheric density resulting from water vapour and other gases being released.
now all we need is an em field. is anyone privy to some information on what caused mars to lose its field? my hunches tell me nasa is extremely fascinated with this enigma.

[Art]

i had heard that the core of mars cooled which resulted in the loss of em fields... sorry, i don't presently remember the reference.

[weboy78]

a new planet?

http://afp.google.com/article/aleqm5gd2yjcvcevaglfa_axh9m51mrqcg

tokyo (afp) — scientists at a japanese university said thursday they believed another planet up to two-thirds the size of the earth was orbiting in the far reaches of the solar system.

the researchers at kobe university in western japan said calculations using computer simulations led them to conclude it was only a matter of time before the mysterious "planet x" was found.

"because of the very cold temperature, its surface would be covered with ice, icy ammonia and methane," kobe university professor tadashi mukai, the lead researcher, told afp.

the study by mukai and researcher patryk lykawka will be published in the april issue of the us-based astronomical journal.

"the possibility is high that a yet unknown, planet-class celestial body, measuring 30 percent to 70 percent of the earth's mass, exists in the outer edges of the solar system," said a summary of the research released by kobe university.

"if research is conducted on a wide scale, the planet is likely to be discovered in less than 10 years," it said...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2008/07mar_strangecraters.htm?list29945

be well, be love.

david

dark halos discovered on mercury
03.07.2008

march 7, 2008: the surprises continue. scientists studying the harvest of photos from the messenger spacecraft's jan. 14th flyby of mercury have found several craters with strange dark halos and one crater with a spectacularly shiny bottom.

"the halos are really exceptional," says messenger science team member clark chapman of the southwest research institute in boulder, colorado. "we've never seen anything like them on mercury before and their formation is a mystery."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

what happened to mars?/they are us

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/16639306.html

and then watch this;

http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/3368/they_are_us__/

what happened to mars?

here's a sneak peak at a story that's likely to make a big splash — figuratively and literally — in a couple of months.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.esa.int/esasc/semizfm5ndf_index_0.html

and here;

http://www.esa.int/esasc/semygqefwoe_index_0.html

be well. be love.

david

the eye of the hurricane
the puzzling 'eye of a hurricane' on venus
13 march 2008

venus express has constantly been observing the south pole of venus and has found it to be surprisingly fickle. an enormous structure with a central part that looks like the eye of a hurricane, morphs and changes shape within a matter of days, leaving scientists puzzled.

the eye of the hurricane is at the centre of a 2000 km-wide vortex. it was discovered in 1974 by the mariner 10 spacecraft. there is a similar structure on the planet’s north pole, which was observed by the pioneer venus mission in 1979.

venus express scientists have been studying the structure in the thermal infrared, the wavelength range which reveals the temperature at the cloud-tops. seen in this wavelength, the core of the vortex appears very bright, probably indicating that a lot of atmospheric gases are moving downward in the region, which creates a depression at the cloud-tops, making the region hotter.

venus's polar vortex

“simply put, the enormous vortex is similar to what you might see in your bathtub once you have pulled out the plug” says giuseppe piccioni, co-principal investigator for the visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer (virtis) on venus express, at iasf-inaf, rome, italy.

[transiten]

gosh!

i just posted a thread about expanding earth by neil adams before popping into this thread...mars uranusconjunct today..surprising events and discoveries....

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gosh!

i just posted a new thread on expanding earth by neil adams........i'll track the threads for davids promise he would be back on that.....earth not having an ironcore and all that...my mars uranusconjunction today reflects sudden surprises and discoveries and impatience with slow motion....excuse me for not having read the whole thread through..i will

transit mars conj uranus, venus trine uranus, sun trine sun, mercury 135 neptune today and neptune square mercury, trine moon together with sun-solarreturn neptune...no wonder i feel like i've ascended into the diviecosmos already.

i love the planets and i don't regard them as dead objects anymore merely acting as chessmen on the synchronicityboard, but also as living entities......

just had to burst into this personal comment:)

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[LightEye]

dear friends,

mud means water and water means there's life as we know it...

http://xenotechresearch.com/newflow1.htm

be well, be love.

david

present day mud flows on mars
liquid water is active on the surface of mars today

evidence from the opportunity rover shows that the soil is acting in the same manner as mud, and that many flow features and geyser vents appear in this particular area. now i have images from two different sols showing changes in the soil that are only reasonably created through the action of liquid water.

images from one area on the rim of endurance crater show where the soil was analyzed by the mossbäuer spectrometer, and the print that was left by the instrument in the soil. a characteristic round-shaped print is left by the metal ring on the front of the spectrometer when it is in contact with a soft surface. first, let's examine the area before the instrument was used and see the soil and its shape.

[AmelieJolie]

i wonder why a hexagon and an eye in particular would appear?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/136/forest-biodiversity-11.htm

love and light.

david

mars forest life bio-diversity-11
report #136
march 24, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this reporting is sourced from only one mgs moc r08-01745 narrow-angle strip and will be a bit different. the location of the evidence is well out midway in the south polar region below and out from the cap in mars chart 30. this reporting is about biological growth and it is characterized by a finer texture relative to other larger more gross size growth forms. this type of growth is very easy to hide in this satellite imaging by employing the prevalent distancing technique and tampering with the image resolution a bit and so it is very rare to get a halfway decent look at it.

the distancing tactical causes the image strip to be physically very narrow and that is the case with this strip. this tends to merge finer textured bio-life into a unrecognizable visually fused mass with no or at least insufficient individual detail. as i explore this data, i see this over and over again countless thousands of times and have to move on because i know that the evidence is too visually compromised for most viewers to recognize and they would regard it as ambiguous. however, with that experience also comes the knowledge of what just might rarely show sufficient revealing detail (with a little graphics clarification work) and that is the case here with this strip.

this strip has been subjected to the usual distancing obfuscation tactical and the resolution has also been compromised so much that the strip will not allow very much zoom factor before quickly encountering pixelation. however, the evidence, while still being finer textured relative to other larger forms that will be seen in my upcoming book evidence, is just large enough at a slight 107% zoom factor to resists the compromising tactics enough to be adequately seen. so what i've done is start in the upper part of the straight .gif strip and work down it with my image crop outs with each one adjacent to the other end to end with no missed gaps.

so i'm going to just present four images one after the other below. each will be a split screen two panel image. the left panel will represent the upper scene from one side edge of the strip to the other and the right panel will represent the scene immediately below and adjacent to it. as you view from left to right in each split screen panel you will be traveling down the strip with no gaps. likewise each next split screen image of the four shown here will represent the next lower scene/section in the strip.

now understand that each of these four images is of a very high file size even though they are medium compressed .jpeg for saving space for presentation here on the web. that means that each will be slow loading and particularly for those of you on a dial-up connection and why there are only four images presented here. that very high file size comes from the graphics software counting a lot of individual objects down there even if the human eye tends to be overwhelmed with detail tending to want to merge it all into a single mass.

that human eye/brain tendency is also why i have presented this evidence in this sectioned way trying to minimize the overwhelm and merge effect. just remember that the left panel is the upper field of view and the right panel is the scene immediately below and adjacent to it and the scenes are comprehensive from one side edge of the strip to the other. the official statistics tell us that the strip view is 2.94 km or 1.83 miles across and so that is theoretically the view in each split panel below.

[osiris]

this is the north polar region of saturn,

http://lasp.colorado.edu/~bagenal/3720/class19/saturn_npole.jpg

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/cassini/pia09188-browse.jpg

http://www.akasha.de/~aton/saturnhexa2003.gif

"there are more things happening in the realm of time and space then anyone can possibly imagine...
in a universe so vast that anything one can imagine already exists!"

[LightEye]

dear friends,

sure looks like water and a tower too meee... ;-)

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/137/mars-tower-water.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars tower & water evidence
report #137
april 9, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

in the above first report image, you see black arrows and text pointing out what very clearly appears to be a dark tower of some kind with a bright light reflective top and casting a dark shadow on the ground just to the right and back of it. note how the shadow length and width very closely approximates the tower size and radiates out from the tower base. now please understand that this evidence is in a wide-angle image mgs moc m08-06809 strip rather than the usual narrow-angle strip. further, it has been flipped vertically by me here to provide a more comfortable view but this does not distort the evidence.

a wide versus narrow strip knowledge is important because narrow-angle strips offer a closer view while the wide-angle strips offer only a distant generally poorer resolution regional view. that means that objects in wide-angle strips to be seen at all must be really large and massive. that means that this tower appearing object would of course have to be very massive to be seen this well. on the other hand, it also means that closer examination of this object in this kind of poorer resolution wide-angle imaging is just not going to happen with any reasonable success of providing more detail.

[Figgs]

2 examples of sacred geometry

http://www.crystalinks.com/metatcubebwlogo.gif
http://www.pleasantmorningbuzz.com/pics/hexagon.gif

[LightEye]

dear friends,

correct title;

mars image shows wind-sculpted sand dunes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=details&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/04/11/scimars111.xml

be well, be love.

david

mars rovers continue to reveal planet's secrets
acid house smiley face found on mars

the sculpted outcrops, so smooth and geometrically precise that they almost look designed by martians, were spotted in the hellespont region of the red planet.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=25397

be well, be love.

david

saturn does the wave in upper atmosphere

two decades of scrutinizing saturn are finally paying off, as scientists have discovered a wave pattern, or oscillation, in saturn's atmosphere only visible from earth every 15 years.

the discovery of the wave pattern is the result of a 22-year campaign observing saturn from earth (the longest study of temperature outside earth ever recorded), and the cassini spacecraft's observations of temperature changes in the giant planet's atmosphere over time.

the cassini infrared results, which appear in the same issue of nature as the data from the 22- year ground-based observing campaign, indicate that saturn's wave pattern is similar to a pattern found in earth's upper atmosphere. the earthly oscillation takes about two years. a similar pattern on jupiter takes more than four earth years. the new saturn findings add a common link to the three planets.

just as scientists have been studying climate changes in earth's atmosphere for long periods of time, nasa scientists have been studying changes in saturn's atmosphere. glenn orton of nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, calif., says patience is the key to studying changes over the course of a saturnian year, the equivalent of about 30 earth years.

"you could only make this discovery by observing saturn over a long period of time," said orton, lead author of the ground-based study. "it's like putting together 22 years worth of puzzle pieces, collected by a hugely rewarding collaboration of students and scientists from around the world on various telescopes."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/139/the-mars-face.htm

also this comment from joseph;

why so much water & bio-life?
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/general-directories/commentary/28/civilization-vs-biolife.htm

be well, be love.

david

the mars cydonia "face"
report #139
may 14, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the mars cydonia "face" object your see above and its controversy has been very well known all over the world for quite a few years now and has a lot of followers. reputations have been forged on it, websites created on its foundations, books written, and money made on it. why? because of the obvious that it is interesting and visually suggestive evidence. some of you have noted that, in the time since the inception of this work in year 2000, this subject has been conspicuously absent from this website's evidence reporting.

i'm often asked why? in fact, in email i'm asked why so much that it is becoming a burden on my now increasingly very limited time to answer and try to explain myself in this regard over and over again. to those that have asked, i usually cryptically advise that it has been explored to death by others and, in my opinion, the "face" evidence was a trap for the unwary laid by the secrecy agenda who floated it into public awareness intentionally. i also indicated that i did not want to step on the toes of others who have spent so much time exploring this evidence. after all, the cydonia "face" is their thing, not mine.

however, i did not go on to explain myself in detail because that would have opened up more doors and questions. so i suspect my responses were less than satisfactory to many of those who asked. but, now that i am running out of room time wise to deal with this over and over again in email, i've come to the decision that i need to put in my two cents on this and better answer those that have asked. however, the question is can i add anything new of substance to this issue that has been examined by so many? you be the judge.

[Louie]

add this to the growing changes in the solar system!

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/05/14/pole-shift-on-europa/
......................................
curved features on jupiter’s moon europa may indicate that its poles have wandered by almost 90°, a new study reports. researchers believe the drastic shift in europa’s rotational axis was likely a result of the build-up of thick ice at the poles. “a spinning body is most stable with its mass farthest from its spin axis,” says isamu matsuyama of the carnegie institution’s department of terrestrial magnetism. “on europa, variations in the thickness of its outer shell caused a mass imbalance, so the rotation axis reoriented to a new stable state.” an extreme shift like this also suggests the existence of an internal liquid ocean beneath the icy crust.

the research team used images from the voyager, galileo, and new horizons spacecraft to map several large arc-shaped depressions that extend more than 500 kilometers across europa’s surface. with a radius of about 1500 kilometers, europa is slightly smaller than the earth’s moon.

by comparing the pattern of the depressions with fractures that would result from stresses caused by a shift in europa’s rotational axis, the researchers determined that the axis had shifted by approximately 80°. the previous axis of rotation is now located about 10° from the present equator.

such a change is called “true polar wander” as opposed to apparent polar wander caused by plate tectonics. there is evidence for true polar wander on earth, and also on mars and on saturn’s moon enceladus. “our study adds europa to this list,” says matsuyama. “it suggests that planetary bodies might be more prone to reorientation than we thought.”

the study also has implications for liquid water inside europa. many scientists believe europa has an extensive subsurface ocean based on spacecraft photos showing a fractured, icy surface. the ocean beneath the crust would be kept liquid by heat generated by tidal forces from jupiter’s gravity. the presence of heat and water may make life possible, even though the subsurface ocean is cut off from solar energy.

“the large reorientation on europa required to explain the circular depressions implies that its outer ice shell is decoupled from the core by a liquid layer,” says matsuyama. “therefore, our study provides an independent test for the presence of an interior liquid layer.”

[weboy78]

http://www.newsfood.com/articolo/international/2008-05/20080515-key-molecule-discovered-venus-atmosphere.asp

venus express has detected the molecule hydroxyl on another planet for the first time, this detection gives scientists an important new tool to unlock the workings of venus’s dense atmosphere.

hydroxyl, an important but difficult-to-detect molecule, is made up of a hydrogen and oxygen atom each. it has been found in the upper reaches of the venusian atmosphere, some 100 km above the surface, by venus express’s visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer, virtis.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13963-third-red-spot-erupts-on-jupiter.html

be well, be love.

david

third red spot erupts on jupiter
18:03 22 may 2008
newscientist.com news service
david shiga

a third giant red storm has flared up on jupiter, joining the great red spot and the recently developed red spot junior. the spot, along with new measurements of record-high wind speeds on red spot junior, suggest the solar system's largest planet is experiencing a time of global upheaval.

jupiter's great red spot is an ancient, hurricane-like storm that may have been raging for 340 years or more, based on early observations with telescopes. at three times the width of earth, it is the largest storm in the solar system.

it was recently joined by a similar, but smaller storm called red spot junior. red spot junior grew out of the merger of three smaller, white storms between 1998 and 2000 and turned red in 2006. it is about the size of earth.

now, a third red spot, about half the size of red spot junior, has broken out on the giant gaseous planet. the spot, previously a white storm, now appears red in hubble space telescope images taken on 9 and 10 may. the observations were led by imke de pater of the university of california, berkeley, us.

no one knows for sure what gives the three spots their red colour. but one theory is that especially violent storms dredge up material from deeper in jupiter's atmosphere, such as phosphorus-containing molecules, which undergo chemical reactions that turn them red when exposed to sunlight.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more solar system changes...

be well, be love.

david

http://www.esa.int/specials/venus_express/semivtvhjcf_0.html
the light and dark of venus
21 february 2008

venus express has revealed a planet of extraordinarily changeable and extremely large-scale weather. bright hazes appear in a matter of days, reaching from the south pole to the low southern latitudes and disappearing just as quickly. such ‘global weather’, unlike anything on earth, has given scientists a new mystery to solve.

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn9380-venuss-double-vortex-raises-new-mystery.html
venus's double vortex raises new mystery
20:05 27 june 2006
newscientist.com news service
new scientist space staff and afp

a bizarre double vortex whirls in the atmosphere above venus's south pole, images from europe's venus express spacecraft reveal. but it is not clear what causes the "double eye" pattern.

previous missions to venus have spotted a similar structure over its north pole and glimpsed stormy atmospheric behaviour at the south pole. but the double vortex has never before been seen at the south pole.

the feature was not even clear in the first image released by the venus express team in april, just after the spacecraft entered into orbit around the planet (see first images of venus’s south pole revealed). but images taken over the course of about a week during that first orbit do reveal two vortices above the south pole. the vortices are formed by winds of super-hurricane force.

the winds on venus spin westwards at hundreds of kilometres per hour, taking only four days to rotate around the planet, which is slightly smaller than the earth. this "super-rotation", combined with the natural recycling of hot air in the atmosphere, would logically induce a vortex over each pole. but the mystery is why there are two vortices.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more signs of cosmic warming... ;-)

http://space.newscientist.com/article/mg19826575.800?dcmp=nlc-nletter&nsref=mg19826575.800

be well, be love.

david

early images reveal frosts on pluto
21 may 2008

frost has been seen vaporising on pluto for the first time, though the pictures of it were taken in the 1930s, soon after the dwarf planet was discovered.

a team led by bradley schaefer from louisiana state university in baton rouge measured pluto's brightness on 32 photographic plates taken at us observatories in 1933 and 1934. using modern techniques, the team was able to measure pluto's brightness far more accurately than at the time.

comparing the results with observations from the early 1950s, the team showed that pluto darkened by about 5 per cent in the intervening years. the results will be reported in the journal icarus.

pluto's brightness always appears to be changing because its colour is uneven and its rotation axis is highly tilted, so our view of it gradually changes from its north pole to its south. but in the early 1930s and early 1950s the same southern latitudes faced earth, so geometry can't explain the darkening.

the finding suggests pluto's thin atmosphere froze when it was farthest from the sun in the 1930s, then the bright methane and nitrogen frost vaporised as it moved closer in the 1950s, as had been expected. "but now we've actually got the smoking gun," says schaefer.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn13986-mars-scientists-ponder-polygon-mystery.html?dcmp=ilc-hmts&nsref=news3_head_dn13986

be well, be love.

david

mars scientists ponder polygon mystery
12:54 27 may 2008
newscientist.com news service
ivan semeniuk, pasadena

scientists working with images from the mars phoenix mission are baffled by an unexpected difference between what they thought they would see and what phoenix is now showing them.

the difference suggests that the northern plains of mars may be a more complicated and active environment than previously imagined.

phoenix landed on monday at 0053 gmt (1643 pdt on sunday). since then it has been relaying images and data back to earth via the mars odyssey orbiter, which periodically passes over the landing site.

among the most spectacular images thus far is a colour mosaic of the terrain looking out from the northward side of the lander. it clearly shows the so-called "polygons" that are typical features of this region.

there's just one problem: the polygons are too small.

size surprise
during a press briefing yesterday, principal investigator peter smith of the university of arizona, tucson, us, said that preliminary estimates suggest the polygons in the foreground of the image are about 1.5 to 2.5 metres across.

this is much smaller than scientists estimated based on overhead views from the mars reconnaissance orbiter and on models of the martian climate.

"i think it means that there are polygons within polygons within polygons," said smith. "at different climate times there may have been big polygons and at other times there may be small polygons, and it just may go back and forth over time."

polygons are produced by seasonal expansion and contraction of ground ice. when the ice is very cold it contracts and fractures in geometric patterns, much like mud cracks in the desert.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"where there's water there's life as we know it - nasa."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1023440/nasas-phoenix-probe-discovers-ice-mars.html

be well, be love.

david

scientists find ice on mars
by daily mail reporter
last updated at 12:24 pm on 02nd june 2008

nasa scientists yesterday said they had found ice on mars -- a step towards finding evidence of life.

sharp new images received from their phoenix lander convinced scientists that the spacecraft's thrusters had uncovered a large patch of ice just below the martian surface, team members said.

that bodes well for the mission's main goal of digging for ice that can be tested for evidence of organic compounds that are the chemical building blocks of life.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://xenotechresearch.com/phmove1.htm

be well, be love.

david

obvious changes in phoenix images
something appears to be moving

in the latest phoenix images, we have a number of those taken by the camera mounted on the robotic arm. some show the footpad prints and soil in good resolution, but two odd features are clearly shown that cannot yet be explained. we will examine both and what appears to be an object that has emerged from the soil.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/141/opportunity-lander-life1.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars opportunity rover lands in life: part-1 of 4
report #141
june 15, 2008
joseph p.skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

most of you didn't know that i and this work had been invited to appear at the society for scientific exploration's (sse) annual meeting to present some of this work's evidence near the end of june and they were footing the bill for it. i had accepted and most definitely wanted to appear before this group of learned phd's and scientists out on their own lonely cutting edges of science. why? because of my respect for their straight forward curosity and making such an offer favorable to this work by simply treating it objectively.

treating this work objectively is really all that it takes to get me interested but i still had to back out with an early notice to them nearly two months ago. the reason is in part because the preparation for this meeting required too much of my now very limited time and in part because i am very slow in what i do. obviously, both factors gobble up a lot of time.

also, primarily it would have interfered with the coming soon release of my book and its strong water and biological life evidence and i can't let anything interfere with that. likewise, leaving my little safer sphere of influence to go out in the world across state lines where i may be more vunerable may have been a bit risky prior to the release of the book as it might tempt my adversaries a little too much, that is if they thought some action against me might stop the book's evidence release. once the book evidence is released, my risk factor goes down some simply because what's the point for them after that?

however, i haven't forgotten about the sse open honest offer and still appreciate the demonstrated objectivity, so this report is dedicated to them whether any of them agree with the report's content or not. this evidence is some that i have been holding back ever since the opportunity rover landed on mars years ago. i did so thinking that i might include it in the book but presenting it requires too much dedicated imaging for that on just one evidence of life and so this is a good place for it. some of the evidence is interpretive when considered isolated and lone but i think i have enough collective visual evidence tied together to make a good case for what will be revealed here in this reporting. so now let's get on with it.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/has-electrodynamics-solved-mystery-saturns-dual-hotspots

also this;

jovian-like aurorae on saturn
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v453/n7198/full/nature07077.html

be well, be love.

david

has electrodynamics solved the mystery of saturn's dual hotspots?
by mgmirkin | june 16, 2008 at 05:52 pm

it is generally believed that falsifiability and predictive ability are two cornerstones of science. as a corollary, the critical experiment (experimentum crucis) is a widely accepted method of determining which of two mutually exclusive theoretical viewpoints hits closest to the mark. recent data from saturn may provide just such a critical experiment, but the answer doesn't appear to be what many scientists expected.

opposing viewpoints were registered back in 2003 with respect to a peculiar feature at saturn's south pole. the issue stems from a 2003 keck observatory press release that noted a strange hot spot at saturn's southern pole. the issue was not the hot spot itself, according to the keck team, but that fact that its structure did not conform to that predicted by a solar heating model.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

weird indeed...think the movie mission to mars...

http://keithlaney.net/weirdestmars/weirdestmars.htm

be well, be love.

david

weirdest mars because it's time

on these pages i will be displaying curious items found during mine and others near decade long journeys into the vast imaging archives of the mars global surveyor. during the course of these explorations i have witnessed many paradigm shifting items and locations. this goes beyond any face, or cydonia, it goes planet wide, because while singularity may be coincidence, multiplicity defines a pattern. it is my opinion that mars was once much more than presently researching sciences can account for. somewhere between the artful and sometimes uncannily accurate predictions of science fiction or serial comic writers, and the hard data analysis of a scientific community too ready to dismiss the probability there does stand a possibility, one which can be backed somewhat by photographic evidence. i'll go ahead and say it, then maintain the tone throughout, because it is the subject of this foray; that incredibly, there may have been a prior civilization on mars.

because both the photo archives and world of mars itself are vast and varied, many who've attempted a look at it through the high resolution images invariably may never have noticed some of these more interesting and curious of items. i have the advantage of many years experience processing moc images and sorting out the martian surface, and over time have amassed quite a collection of oddities in result.

i intend to show them to you and in doing so, thoroughly make you wonder what we really know about our brother planet. this will be without much image interpretation, or crayon scribbling- mainly because i think it clear that the images speak well enough for themselves.

i will say this in guideline; i recognize what is left of a previously very living planet, with huge bustling metropolitan areas, scattered here and there much like present day earth; along rivers, oceans, and mountains, some replete with monolithic constructions and large areas where mining activity is apparent. from all evidences nobody's lived here for a long long time. all is now almost gone, bones left to the ages, covered by dust and wrecked in all but the best preserved cases. occasionally and over time these remnants are exposed by fortuitous winds and erosional processes to be revealed to our eyes through the irises of our technology.

to see what mars was, it is absolutely necessary to recognize what it is showing us, chance have it we see. what it reveals to the adroit and open minded observer is a terror unimaginable. a fate we may one day face ourselves. global catastrophe.

a world that was, and is gone, a relic of destruction. a lesson to be learned?

whatever horrendous cataclysm it was that occurred to mars is beyond our knowledge at present, but whatever it was it buried barsoom. who were these people, if they existed at all? perhaps they were like us, perhaps they were us, perhaps it's nothing at all, just strange rocks and dunes. all of this may sound a bit burroughs-ish, perhaps totally absurd, but for a world named barsoom, speculated so much on, and covered with such oddities, this ought to be expected. it seems it doesn't think much of what we think, regardless.

what we are left with is a question that is unanswerable at present but one which imperatively must some day have a solution, one which will come only via further exploration... what was mars? will come only via further exploration... what was mars?

[LightEye]

dear friends,

i knew this was ice the first time i saw the image a few days ago......"and where there's water..."

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14143-phoenix-lander-uncovers-ice-on-mars.html

be well, be love.

david

phoenix lander uncovers ice on mars

chunks of bright material unearthed by nasa's phoenix mars lander have vanished again after around four days. scientists say this is the "smoking gun" that convinces them they've found water ice, which vaporised when exposed to the martian atmosphere. watch an animated gif of the ice vaporising.

"it must be ice," says phoenix lead scientist peter smith of the university of arizona in tucson, us. "these little clumps completely disappearing over the course of a few days – that is perfect evidence."

the phoenix lander uncovered the bright material when its robotic arm was widening a trench, informally called "dodo-goldilocks", on 15 june. a camera called the surface stereo imager revealed bright chunks roughly a couple of centimetres wide at the trench's base.

vanishing chunks

one possibility was that the chunks were some kind of salt. but four days later, new images revealed that some of the chunks had vanished. "salt can't do that," says smith.

the phoenix team concludes that the bright material must be water ice that vaporised when exposed to the martian atmosphere, a process called sublimation.

the lander's robotic arm has also hit a hard surface that might be dense ice while digging another trench, dubbed "snow white 2". the arm went into a holding position after three attempts to dig through the hard material – the expected action when the arm hits something that's challengingly hard.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"and where there's water..."

http://xenotechresearch.com/icecolor.htm

be well, be love.

david

this is an image constructed from phoenix sol 024 data using ra, rb, and rc filter data. i used calibration data from dr. dan britt (thank you for the information, dr. britt) and from the known color and illumination data from the solar spectrum, as well as existing data from opportunity and spirit.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mznddyvg2se

be well, be love.

david

cool mar's pictures. they clearly show that something probably used to live there :)

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

surprise surprise like we didn't already know this. just confirmation of what we intuitively know to be true. love to all donald

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/science/space/27mars.html?_r=1&oref=slogin



stick an asparagus plant in a pot full of martian soil, and the asparagus might grow happily, scientists announced thursday.

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nasa
the phoenix lander’s scoop gathers samples of the martian soil for analysis. the image was enhanced to brighten the scene.

related
tierneylab: who cares if there's ice on mars? (june 26, 2008) an experiment on the phoenix mars lander showed the dirt on the planet’s northern arctic plains to be alkaline, though not strongly alkaline, and full of the mineral nutrients that a plant would need.

“we basically have found what appears to be the requirements, the nutrients, to support life whether past, present or future,” said samuel p. kounaves of tufts university, who is leading the chemical analysis, during a telephone news conference on thursday. “the sort of soil you have there is the type of soil you’d probably have in your backyard.”

mars today is cold and dry, and the surface is bombarded by ultraviolet radiation, making life unlikely, but conditions could have made the planet more habitable in the past. plants that like alkaline soil — like asparagus — might readily grow in the martian soil, provided that other components of an earth-like environment including air and water were also present.

the preliminary findings from phoenix do not answer whether life ever existed on mars (or might still exist somewhere underground), only that conditions, at least at this location, are not the harshest imaginable. the soil, taken close to the surface, was similar to what is found in parts of antarctica, dr. kounaves said. the soil elsewhere on the planet could well be very different; even the soil farther down in the ground could turn out to be acidic or otherwise vary in composition.

the phoenix is capable of performing the same chemical analysis on three more samples.

in a different experiment, a tiny oven heated another sample of the martian soil to 1,800 degrees fahrenheit, which released water vapor. “this soil clearly has interacted with water in the past,” said william v. boynton of the university of arizona, the lead scientist in this experiment.

dr. boynton said he could not say when the liquid water was present or even where it was. the moisture might have come from dust particles that had blown there from other parts of mars. “at this point, it is difficult to quantify what was given off,” he said.

the oven experiment also found carbon dioxide vapors, not surprising because the planet’s thin atmosphere is primarily carbon dioxide. the data have not revealed any carbon-based compounds.

the phoenix mission is not directly looking for life on mars, but rather whether conditions for habitability ever existed. in the wet chemistry experiment, water was mixed into the soil to produce martian mud. then the apparatus performed the same sorts of tests that gardeners use to test the condition of their soil.

the ph level was between 8 and 9, dr. kounaves said. the ph, or potential of hydrogen, reflects the concentration of hydrogen ions, or acidity, of a substance and usually varies between 0 and 14, with 7 considered neutral. (the water of earth’s oceans, for comparison, has a ph of 8.2.) the experiment also found the presence of magnesium, sodium, potassium and chloride ions in the soil.

“there’s nothing about it that would preclude life,” dr. kounaves said. “in fact, it seems very friendly.”

more articles in science »

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn14255-mercury-the-incredible-shrinking-planet.html?dcmp=ilc-hmts&nsref=news1_head_dn14255

be well, be love.

david

mercury: the incredible shrinking planet
20:44 03 july 2008
newscientist.com news service
rachel courtland


the solar system's smallest planet has been shrinking at an unexpected rate, researchers announced on thursday.

when nasa's mariner 10 probe flew by mercury in 1974 and 1975, it returned images of strange cliffs called 'scarps' that cut across all sorts of geological formations. that suggested that the planet's surface has contracted over time.

now, pictures of mercury's surface taken with nasa's messenger spacecraft confirm that the crust appears to have buckled. in fact, the planet seems to have shrunk more than previously thought - and may still be shrinking.

the new result comes from an analysis of pictures snapped when the spacecraft whipped past the planet on 14 january and photographed a previously unseen 20% of the surface.

in order for such shrinking to take place, mercury must have had a molten, liquid core that has cooled and contracted over time.

[donald@newdirectionscs.com]

these are the best photos yet from european probe, for once the pictures are clear and sharp, donald


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1035440/incredible-pictures-mars--look-surprisingly-like-parts-earth.html

ever since victorian astronomers pointed their telescopes towards mars and wrongly believed they had discovered canals, mankind has been obsessed by the red planet.

now these astonishing new images - captured by a european spacecraft in orbit around mars - are helping to fuel that fascination.

they show in astonishing detail a network of giant valleys, vast plains and towering waterfalls carved into the surface of our neighbouring planet, millions of miles away. enlarge
spectacular: a view of echus chasma, one of the largest water source regions on mars, showing a network of valleys

and while mars today appears lifeless and parched, they are a reminder of how its surface was shaped by fast flowing streams, rivers and oceans.

the pictures were captured by the european space agency's mars express probe - a spacecraft the size of a large fridge-freezer that has been circling mars since christmas 2003.



more...
life on mars? crystal clear images which give us our best ever view of the red planet
revealed: the time capsule dvd left on mars for future martians ... that includes 'mars attacks' and 'war of the worlds'

mars express infamously gave britain's ill-fated beagle 2 probe a lift to mars. while that mission ended in disaster, the mars express has been a fantastic success.

over the last five years its stereo, high resolution camera has taken thousands of images of the surface, revealing the planet's awe inspiring beauty in unprecedented detail.

the latest images show the echus chasma, a vast valley just north of mars equator around 62 miles long and six miles wide. the feature is cut into a high plateau and its steep-sided cliffs - some 12,000 feet high - bear a striking resemblance to the canyons of north america. enlarge
barren: located on the eastern part of echus chasma is this cliff which is up to 4,000 metres high

thunderous waterfalls may have once plunged over these cliffs, from the high lunea planum plateau that surrounds the echus chasma, on to the valley floor below.


some of the images show a five mile wide impact crater formed when asteroids - lumps of floating rock in space - smashed into mars. others show a 15 mile long dyke formed when molten rock, evidence of mars's volcanic past.

at the edges of the main valley lie smaller light-coloured tributary valleys or "sapping canyons" - around six miles long and 1800 feet deep.


the echus chasma - described by nasa as one of the largest water sources on the planet - is connected to a much bigger valley system called the kasei valles which extends thousands of miles to the north.


both valleys are impressive - but are dwarfed by an even larger canyon which lies to the south. the valles marineris is four miles deep in places, around 120 miles wide and 2,500 miles long. enlarge
echus chasma is the source region of kasei valles, which extends 3,000km to the north

the images were created by combining pictures taken from different orbits. the images can be viewed from different angles in three dimensions

mars express launched in june 2003. the craft is a cube around 5ft by 6ft by 5ft with two 60ft long radar antennae. it is photographing the entire surface of mars in high resolution, producing a detailed colour map of the minerals on the surface, mapping the atmosphere and probing beneath the surface using radar.

interest in mars is at an all time high. nasa and esa have announced plans to bring back rocks and soil samples from mars, while nasa has three probes on the planet - two rovers and its phoenix polar lander, which arrived in may.

the phoenix has scraped ice from beneath the surface of mars and is analysing samples in its laboratory to see if the planet has the right chemicals needed for life.

in 2013, esa is planning to launch exomars - a robotic rover than will explore the planet's surface. if successful, it will be europe's first mission to the martian surface.



scientists unveiled plans on monday to bring back rocks from the red planet as a preliminary step to putting a man on mars.

professor monica grady, at the open university, co-chaired the expert panel that wrote the mission proposal.

she said it was a vital next step before considering a crewed mission.

'if you can't bring a rock back you are not going to be able to bring people back,' she said.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/144/athabasca-valles.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars athabasca valles
report #144
august 5, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marasanomalyresearch.com

the above image provides a context view of the evidence scene which is this case is the entire original mars odyssey themis science data strip but here reduced to 30% of its original size. now the basic artificial color in this image has already been added at official level and is not my work while the arrows and labels added are my work. now before getting further into this report commentary, please go to the official link below and read the official lengthy comments on this particular locale applying mostly to its geological features and properties.

http://themis.asu.edu/features/athabascafloods

as per the official commentary, this general area is influenced by volcanic changes. this influence formed lengthy narrow fissures across the terrain. at this site and others nearby, over periods of time in the ancient past liquid water (as well as lava) has gushed out of the fissures pointed out by the black arrows and text in the northeast or upper right corner of the image and flowed down slope southwest from the upper right to the lower left. the paths of the stronger water flows eroding the terrain are obvious and marked in the image by the blue arrows.

the size of two of the craters in this scene is given and in the official text and reflected in the above image labeling. note that the largest crater at the mid-right is some 12 miles or 20 km across. this reminds us that this image offers a very distant view. that means that objects down there appear normal size but are actually very much larger as only huge objects can be adequately seen.

now my reporting here does not disagree with the official reporting. the visual evidence supports the fissure water outflows and the terrain erosion as the flows traveled from northeast to southwest. on the other hand, the intensity of the larger crater shadows is considerably less than the late afternoon shadows cast by the many smaller objects in the terrain all around them indicate. the exact opposite should be true of the more massive elevated objects like the craters that should be throwing long intense shadows but aren't. the largest crater is the most guilty of this. this is a clue that some of this terrain has been visually manipulated and may not be entirely trustworthy.

[Gillian Craig]

i was watching "it has begun" (ufo's) - this is quite an old documentary, it mentions a planet in a distant universe, 8000 miles in diameter! this is in line with enigma of 2012 - where david mentions truth masked as science fiction!

http://www.surfthechannel.com/info/documentaries/it_has_begun/63146/it+has+begun+hosted+by+rod+serling.html?aid=62513

[LightEye]

dear friends,

looks like wood too me...use your discernment.

http://thecrit.com/2008/08/05/nasa-mars-photo-leaked-wood-found-on-mars/

be well, be love.

david

nasa mars photo leaked - wood found on mars!
august 5, 2008

someone at nasa released a photo that they shouldn’t have, a picture of a piece of timber the size of a railroad tie, a photo that could get someone killed. there is no mistaking that the object in the print below is a piece of wood. nasa claims that mars is a desert planet with no life at all. nasa lies, repeatedly.

where would a piece of timber this size come from? there are vast forests on mars, ones that are kept from the public. this piece of wood looks like it floated to its present location, being partially sunk in the soil. the ground around it is very interesting. notice the flat rock formation of the soil and the crevices in between them. does this look familiar? it appears to be the bed of a dried up pond. there had to be a significant amount of water in this area, water high enough to lift that railroad tie sized piece of timber and float is perhaps several miles. the mars reconnaissance orbiter showed that vast regions of the red planet have been altered by floods. this dried pond effect should come as no surprise.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2001/020/giant-plants-lakes.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars giant plants & lakes
report #020
august 13, 2008
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this is a complete overhaul of the previous (year 2001) report #020 on evidence arising out of the mgs moc m09-02042 strip. the evidence consists of the giant or colossal size plants you see in the above first image as well as extensive old growth bio-life forests, very obvious water lakes in a liquid state, some suggestive civilization evidence and, unfortunately, image tampering.

as you can see, here in this strip the above giant plant evidence is very poorly viewed. the upper portion of the strip containing this oversize bio-life evidence has been compromised by resolution problems and other obfuscation factors preventing a decent look at the evidence details. for a better look at this colossal size bio-life evidence than what you see here, go to my previous 2001 report #019 and even better my much more recent 2008 report #133 revisit.

in the above image note the way each of the plants branching's radiates out 360º from a central core and the light reflectivity off of those branching's. now take a look at the earth comparison image below.

[starwhite]

it could be wood, however it could also be a shale formation as well. i grew up in wyoming and have seen such formation occur naturally everywhere, you'd be surprised! lets be fair about this....if what you say is accurate david and i quote the original article 'a photo that could get someone killed'... i have always believed nasa was in it for the pursuit of truth. i try and take a positive attitude on society, & all my brothers & sisters. i believe in me, i believe in you & maybe the whole world eventually! to me, it looks like a piece of shale, why would they lie to the american public? what would they gain? i just don't get it. lets just pretend that we've been lied to all these years...again, why? and i question those pictures of lush forests and lakes. they could have been created in a program like photo shop quite easily. i studied the picture-and if they were tampered with, it could have went either way. either someone deliberately smudged the pictures to obscure the truth, or someone for nefarious reasons could have added and created the lush forests and trees. its hard to say.

[starwhite]

the only way to be sure is to take a trip to mars! i would do so to resolve this if i could! seeing is believing. unfortunately that poses a challenge, as i do not have a spaceship. you know its kinda strange that nasa hasn't made any trips to the moon since what, the 70s maybe? i've also heard rumors that there is a city on the moon made of what appears to be glass. (its a video on revver, as you-tube removed it)

[LightEye]

dear friends,

imagine my surprise...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/ar2008092903068.html

be well, be love.

david

mars craft detects falling snow
soil tests also hint at past presence of liquid groundwater
by marc kaufman
washington post staff writer
tuesday, september 30, 2008; page a02

icy snow falls from high in mars's atmosphere and may even reach the planet's surface, scientists working with nasa's phoenix lander reported yesterday.

laser instruments aboard the lander detected the snow in clouds about 2 1/2 miles above the surface and followed the precipitation as it fell more than a mile. but because of limitations with the technology, it was unclear whether any of the powdery stuff made it all the way to the surface.

"nothing like this view has ever been seen on mars," said jim whiteway of york university in toronto, lead scientist for the canadian-supplied meteorological station on phoenix. "we'll be looking for signs that the snow may even reach the ground."

in addition to finding snow, the phoenix team reported discovering material in the martian soil that had once been dissolved in water -- clays and calcium carbonate (limestone) that could have formed only in the presence of liquid water. although the lander's instruments earlier found water ice below mars's polar surface and had photographed surface fog and clouds, it has found nothing like liquid water on the surface.

the presence of nutrients and other material that once dissolved in water, however, plus the continuing presence of water as snow, vapor and ice, is leading researchers to conclude that mars's polar regions might have supported life in the past -- when the region was much warmer. because mars wobbles on its axis far more than earth does -- in some very long-term cycles, the poles face the sun -- the northern region where phoenix landed has, in the past, been warm.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2008/148/strangeo-biolife-3b.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars strange bio-life 3b
report #148
october 5, 2008
joseph p. skipper
forward to part 3c
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report is a supplement to the previous report 147 where that evidence was presented in the browser compatible .jpg imaging to facilitate verification. here the same evidence is presented but drawn from the jp2 imaging with its closer views. the down side is that the source official jp2 imaging is not browser compatible. that means it requires the use of the proprietary ias viewer and java installed which may prevent many from being able to readily verify the jp2 evidence behind me.

sometimes this type of evidence appears as parallel very light reflective ridge forms, sometimes as frozen appearing waterfalls, sometimes as irregularly round shaped pit formations, and sometimes with the look you'll see here as another appearance variation of the ridge form evidence. the giant size of the evidence, the higher resolution mro imaging, and the absence of image tampering obfuscation on it combines to bring in some very informative detail.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

interesting videos...

mars anomoly research video
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/10088/mars_anomoly_research_video/

the ruined city on mars hale crater
http://www.disclose.tv/action/viewvideo/10084/the_ruined_city_on_mars_hale_crater/

be well, be love.

david

[Berry Chastain]

i tried to view the video of ruined cities of hale crater with no success. i vent to the dislcose.tv website and it said the video didn't exist. might have been cleaned. hmmm.

i would love to see that video if it exist anywhere else.
l&l
berry

[odiseo]

berry i tried the link and is working so far, so try it again. namaste

[Berry Chastain]

thanks odiseo,
i found the link on youtube after i posted the above. wow!, what astounding pics. and to think that his would otherwise be kept covered up if it were not for alternative sources on the inet.
namaste

[LightEye]

dear friends,

with emphasis on this paragraph;

"surrounding the cyclone is an odd, honeycomb-shaped hexagon, which itself does not seem to move while the clouds within it whip around at high speeds. strangely, neither the fast-moving clouds inside the hexagon nor the cyclone seem to disrupt the six-sided feature."

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081013-cassini-storms.html

be well, be love.

david

giant cyclones seen on saturn
by space.com staff
posted: 13 october 2008
02:31 pm et

scientists have discovered a giant cyclone swirling on saturn's north pole, and observed a similar storm on the planet's south pole in detail 10 times greater than before, thanks to new images from nasa's cassini spacecraft.

the new images, taken in infrared light, reveal for the first time a massive cyclone churning at the north pole, similar to a gigantic storm on saturn's south pole.

"these are truly massive cyclones, hundreds of times stronger than the most giant hurricanes on earth," said kevin baines, cassini scientist on the visual and infrared mapping spectrometer at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, calif. "dozens of puffy, convectively formed cumulus clouds swirl around both poles, betraying the presence of giant thunderstorms lurking beneath. thunderstorms are the likely engine for these giant weather systems."

researchers think the storms are powered by heat released from condensing water in thunderstorms deep down in the atmosphere, similar to the way condensing water in clouds on earth powers hurricane vortices.

but unlike earth's hurricanes, which stem from the ocean's heat and water, saturn's cyclones have no body of water at their bases. the storms on that planet are locked to saturn's poles, whereas terrestrial hurricanes drift across the ocean.

cassini mapped the entire north pole of saturn in detail in infrared, with features as small as 120 kilometers (75 miles) visible in the images. time-lapse movies of the clouds circling the north pole show the whirlpool-like cyclone there is rotating at 325 mph (530 kph) — more than twice as fast as the highest winds measured in cyclones on earth.

surrounding the cyclone is an odd, honeycomb-shaped hexagon, which itself does not seem to move while the clouds within it whip around at high speeds. strangely, neither the fast-moving clouds inside the hexagon nor the cyclone seem to disrupt the six-sided feature.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=26678

be well, be love.

david

new images yield clues to seasons of uranus
press release
date released: monday, october 13, 2008
source: university of wisconsin-madison

ithaca, n.y. - with an 84-year orbit around the sun, it isn't often that planetary scientists have an opportunity to observe the change of seasons on uranus, a planet some 19 times farther from the sun than the earth.

but in 2007, the planet reached equinox, the point in time where the sun is directly over the planet's equator and what little sunlight the planet gets is distributed evenly over its northern and southern hemispheres, giving scientists their best opportunity to probe the seasonal dynamics of the ringed planet.

speaking here today (oct. 13) at a meeting of the american astronomical society's division for planetary sciences, a team led by university of wisconsin-madison researcher lawrence sromovsky shared crisp new keck ii telescope images of the planet as it changed seasons.

"the last time this happened, there were no instruments that could resolve any features on the planet," says sromovsky, who led the study in collaboration with scientists from the space science institute, the university of california at berkeley, the seti institute and the keck observatory on the summit of hawaii's 14,000-foot mauna kea. "now we can see what's going on."

[KassandraLoves]

light eye,

i just wanted to say thank you for always sharing this cool stuff with us. i enjoy it thoroughly and im glad someones digging for it and bringing it to our forum. its great!

many thanks!!! :)

[Henry Deacon]

almost every fixed star which has planets has sentient 'life'.

even ra (your closest star, the sun) holds sentient 'life'.

believe it or not

:eek:

[MarkM]

indeed, life necessarily entails sentient life - there is no other kind, there being only one field of consciousness, and apparent manifestations of varying 'levels' of sentience includes the greater existence of the singular infinite intelligence, spread out as it were entailing an apparent (to us) heirarchy of relative intelligence - when there is no real subjective or relative limitation to infinite intelligence, or limitation of any of it's apparent parts, as each infinitesimal part by nature contains all.

each apparent part seemingly in a fixed moment in truth and relative intelligence exists outside of time or limitation. sentience, or perhaps better grasped as infinite intelligence, spreads itself willingly into the tiniest hint of distortion, thus becoming the concept of 'new', in order to experience. thus does anything less than infinite intelligence come into illusary being, in order to know kinetic experiencing, rather than infinite potential - with no happening. mark

[LightEye]

dear friends,

just in time for halloween... ;-)

http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features/feature20081028.cfm

be well, be love.

david

[sundari]

new spaceship forcefield makes mars trip possible...

http://www.physorg.com/news145004546.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/081112-saturn-aurora.html

be well, be love.

david

mysterious light show seen at saturn
by space.com staff
posted: 12 november 2008
01:01 pm et

an inexplicable new broad region of auroral light has been photographed at saturn's polar cap.

"we've never seen an aurora like this elsewhere," said tom stallard, an rcuk academic fellow working with cassini data at the university of leicester. "it's not just a ring of aurorae like those we've seen at jupiter or earth. this one covers an enormous area across the pole. our current ideas on what forms saturn's aurorae predict that this region should be empty, so finding such a bright one here is a fantastic surprise."

these colorful atmospheric light shows are caused when charged particles stream along the magnetic field of a planet and into its atmosphere. on earth the charged particles come from the solar wind – a stream of particles that emanates from the sun. skywatchers at high latitudes know the resulting displays as the northern lights.

jupiter's main auroral ring, caused by interactions internal to jupiter's magnetic environment, is constant in size. saturn's main aurora, which is caused by the solar wind, changes size dramatically as the wind varies.

the newly observed aurora at saturn, however, doesn't fit into either category.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the coolest thing about this is that it's happening exaclty where scientists were "mystified" about the sighting of the hexagon on saturn in 2007...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gth8kccvlty

link to new article with close ups;

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1085354/mysterious-glowing-aurora-saturn-confounds-scientists.html

re-member this...

there are no coincidences, no accidents...

be well, be love.

david

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.physorg.com/news146328763.html

be well, be love.

david

jupiter's great red spot is shrinking
space & earth science / space exploration

the best map of wind speeds on jupiter ever produced proves that the massive weather system known as the great red spot has shrunken over the past dozen years.

understanding cloud patterns on distant planetary surfaces, such as those at saturn or jupiter, is potentially confusing because clouds deform over time. using sophisticated software, scientists at the university of california at berkeley have been able to take the deformations into account (and the much easier-to-deal-with factor of the planet's rotation) and have calculated the best velocity maps yet for the surface of jupiter.

using data recorded by the galileo and cassini spacecraft, views of jupiter's surface have been made that essentially factor out the planet's rotation, simplifying our impression of what is happening to the cloud decks. for mid latitudes, the velocity resolution for this mapping procedure is 3 meters-per-second. for higher latitudes, the resolution is 3-6 meters-per-second. the maps consist of tens of millions of velocity measurements.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"where there's water there's life as we know it..." nasa

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/3491531/ice-glaciers-three-times-the-size-of-los-angeles-discovered-on-mars.html

be well, be love.

david

ice glaciers three times the size of los angeles discovered on mars
vast ice glaciers have been discovered near the equator of mars.
by richard alleyne, science correspondent
last updated: 7:25pm gmt 20 nov 2008

the glaciers, buried under rocky debris, are said to be more than three times the size of los angeles, up to half a mile thick and skirt the edges of mountains and cliffs.

scientists believe they may be remnants of an ice sheet that once covered the planet's mid-latitudes.

samples drilled out of the ice could provide a record of martian life, as have similar glaciers in antarctica.

large deposits of frozen water have already been found around the martian poles. scientists now know that enormous reserves of water exist in other regions of the planet.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"where there's water..."

http://www.physorg.com/news146924617.html

be well, be love.

david

source of geysers on saturn's moon may be underground water

saturn's moon enceladus may indeed hide an underground reservoir of water. scientists at jet propulsion lab in california, the university of colorado and the university of central florida in orlando teamed up to analyze the plumes of water vapor and ice particles spewing from the moon. they used data collected by the cassini spacecraft's ultraviolet imaging spectrograph (uvis). cassini was launched from the kennedy space center in 1997 and has been orbiting saturn since july 2004.

the team, including ucf assistant professor joshua colwell, found that the source of plumes may be vents on the moon that channel water vapor from a warm, probably liquid source to the surface at supersonic speeds.

the team's findings are reported in the nov. 27 issue of the journal nature.

"there are only three places in the solar system we know or suspect to have liquid water near the surface," colwell said. "earth, jupiter's moon europa and now saturn's enceladus. water is a basic ingredient for life, and there are certainly implications there. if we find that the tidal heating that we believe causes these geysers is a common planetary systems phenomenon, then it gets really interesting."

the team's findings support a theory that the plumes observed are caused by a water source deep inside enceladus. this is not a foreign concept. on earth, liquid water exists beneath ice at lake vostok, antarctica.

scientists suggest that in enceladus's case, the ice grains would condense from the vapor escaping from the water source and stream through the cracks in the ice crust before heading into space. that's likely what cassini's instruments detected in 2005 and 2007, the basis for the team's investigation.

the team's work also suggests that another hypothesis is unlikely. that theory predicts that the plumes of gas and dust observed are caused by evaporation of volatile ice freshly exposed to space when saturn's tidal forces open vents in the south pole. but the team found more water vapor coming from the vents in 2007 at a time when the theory predicted there should have been less.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.world-mysteries.com/sci_saturnhexagon.htm

be well, be love.

david

something strange about saturn
by s. hayes, nov 30, 2008

theories behind the mysterious hexagon on the surface of saturn.

saturn, the sixth planet in our solar system, has caused quite a stir in the news recently when the nasa cassini orbiter photographed a six sided geometric shape on the surface of the planet.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

anomolous objects on mars
http://xenotechresearch.com/anomaly1.htm

blastoid fossils found
http://xenotechresearch.com/blastoid.htm

be well, be love.

david

one thing that is common on mars is anomalous or unexplainable objects. so many anomalies exist that it is difficult to classify some of them. this page will attempts to bring some of the most unusual ones to attention and then ask why nasa, being a meter or two from most of these objects, did not take the time to explore the most mystifying things we have yet found. note: clicking the file name will take you to the raw data on the nasa/jpl web site.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

there you go...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/4243321/mars-methane-discovery-hints-at-presence-of-life.html

be well, be love.

david

mars methane discovery hints at presence of life
nasa scientists have detected "plumes" of methane on mars, possibly indicating organic activity on the red planet.

large quantities of the gas - which on earth is mostly produced by living things - were recorded by three huge telescopes during a seven year study.

the level of activity was so great that at times it equalled the amount of the gas released at some of the most methane-rich locations on earth.

scientists say that further investigation is necessary to determine whether the gas - spotted in 2003 - was created by the biological processes of creatures such as microbes, or from volcanic activity.

"living systems produce more than 90 per cent of earth's atmospheric methane; the balance is of geochemical origin. on mars, methane could be a signature of either," nasa said in a statement.

[The_G_Man]

hi guys, check this out!

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mars/news/marsmethane.html

could this methane be caused by life on mars?nasa thinks it might!

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16620-first-liquid-water-may-have-been-spotted-on-mars.html?full=true

be well, be love.

david

first liquid water may have been spotted on mars

* 01:16 18 february 2009 by david shiga
*

nasa's phoenix lander may have captured the first images of liquid water on mars - droplets that apparently splashed onto the spacecraft's leg during landing, according to some members of the phoenix team.

the controversial observation could be explained by the mission's previous discovery of perchlorate salts in the soil, since the salts can keep water liquid at sub-zero temperatures. researchers say this antifreeze effect makes it possible for liquid water to be widespread just below the surface of mars, but point out that even if it is there, it may be too salty to support life as we know it.

a few days after phoenix landed on 25 may 2008, it sent back an image showing mysterious splotches of material attached to one of its legs. strangely, the splotches grew in size over the next few weeks, and phoenix scientists have been debating the origin of the objects ever since.

one intriguing possibility is that they were droplets of salty water that grew by absorbing water vapour from the atmosphere. arguments for this idea are laid out in a study by phoenix team member nilton renno of the university of michigan in ann arbor, and co-authored by 21 other researchers, including the mission's chief scientist, peter smith of the university of arizona in tucson. the study (pdf) will be presented in march at the lunar and planetary science conference in houston, texas.

[Jivatman]

from scientific american:

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=mars-recent-water-ice-age


a new analysis of puzzling gullylike features on mars offers further evidence that water flowed on the red planet's surface, perhaps as recently as several hundred thousand years ago
...
by dating the primary martian crater that sprayed the gully to 1.25 million years old—which qualifies as very young in mars's 4.6-billion-year history—schon and his colleagues demonstrated that an estimated three subsequent outflows in the gully system must be younger than the first, which was bombarded by ejecta.

"dating these gullies has been a big problem," says michael meyer, lead scientist for nasa's mars exploration program. "but because these guys dated the nearby crater, you have proof that the water activity is recent."


geologically, a million years is a blink of an eye, and a timeline as short as 100,000 is not significant except from the perspective of humanity.

now, moving onto the reference from loo regarding martian habitation:

questioner: the way i understand it, at the beginning of this 75,000 year cycle, then, we had a mixture of entities—those who had graduated from second density on earth to become third-density and then a group of entities transferred from the planet mars to continue third density here. is this correct?

ra: i am ra. this is correct. you must remember that those transferred to this sphere were in the middle of their third density so that this third density was an adaptation rather than a beginning.

unfortunately, i was unable to locate an exact date or reason for why mars ceased to be habitable, though since the transfer occurred 75,000 years ago it probably was not significantly earlier than that.

when one considers the rough estimate of "several hundred thousand years" for scientific american's estimate for when rivers last flowed, and compare it to 75,000 for the transfer of martians to earth, than this is still makes for a very, very close parallel, especially because geologically speaking, these are very, very short periods of time.

[weboy78]

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090309-mm-jupiter-great-red-spot.html

"the velocity data show that the red spot has been shrinking along its major diameter by about 15 percent over that period," said xylar asay-davis, who conducted the study along with phil marcus, mike wong and imke de pader at the university of california at berkeley.

not dying

the finding agrees with other studies of cloud cover, asay-davis said, and it puts the conclusion on more solid footing. "velocity is a more robust measurement because the clouds associated with the red spot are also strongly influenced by numerous other phenomena in the surrounding atmosphere," he said.

it's not clear yet why the storm is shrinking, but after 300 years of hanging in there, the spot is in no danger of disappearing anytime soon, asay-davis said. it continues to kick up winds that routinely exceed 300 mph.

"we find that the red spot has been shrinking but not slowing down," asay-davis told space.com.

there is a balance of energy flowing in and out of the storm, either as it mixes with the surrounding atmosphere, consumes smaller storms, or when energy is radiated into space, he explained.

"we don't fully understand all the sources of energy, or the ways the red spot loses energy, but these can become slightly imbalanced for a period of time, and this is likely to be what is causing the red spot to shrink -- less energy is being fed in and more is slowly dissipating away," he said...

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/159/red-rain-organism.htm

and this;

indian scientists discover new bacteria in stratosphere

http://www.ptinews.com/pti%5cptisite.nsf/0/421cc27ddf3039a76525757b004c4f22?opendocument

be well, be love.

david

planetary atmospheric life?
report #159
march 11, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: [please pm for link]

some of you may be aware that for several months in 2001 a primarily red color rain fell in the south western state of kerala in india. it began on july 25, 2001 and the locals reported that it was preceded by a loud thunderclap and a flash of light. it appears that the color of the rainwater was dictated by solid particles in suspension in the water. there were also other colors but mainly a brownish-red color. there were many of these red rain occurrences finally diminishing in september, 2001. since then there have been others but sporadically.

frankly, although i had intended to report on this eventually, i had simply forgotten about it. however, in february, 2009 linda moulton howe of earthfiles.com did a good follow-up report on this. this brought it to the attention of a long time visitor to this site named rich w_____ who in turn thankfully brought it back to my attention. this subject offers expanded insight into what is possible in the planetary scheme of things beyond what we normally accept as likely or possible. therefore it is important enough to report on here bringing increased attention to the possibilities and potential. so let's get on with it.

[weboy78]

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=i-have-heard-people-call

i have heard people call jupiter a "failed star" that just did not get big enough to shine. does that make our sun a kind of double star? and why didn't jupiter become a real star?

alex rudolph of the physics department at harvey mudd college expands on this important point:

"jupiter is called a failed star because it is made of the same elements (hydrogen and helium) as is the sun, but it is not massive enough to have the internal pressure and temperature necessary to cause hydrogen to fuse to helium, the energy source that powers the sun and most other stars.

"however, jupiter has only about 0.1 percent the mass of the sun, and as it is definitely not a star, we can't really call the solar system a double star. it is interesting to note, however, that more than half of all stars in the sky are part of a binary, triple, or higher multiple star system (binaries being the most common). so the sun is unusual in being a loner.

"as for why jupiter failed to become a star--it probably had to do with the accident of the sun grabbing most of the mass early in the formation of the solar system, while in other systems the mass was more equitably distributed; in binary star systems, for example, the masses of the stars are commonly roughly equal. stellar formation is a hot topic of current research, as astronomers are trying to fathom the still-mysterious details of the birth process.

...


but wilcock and haramein could have the answers ... :d

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/160/ice-clouds-liquid-life-1.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars water ice, clouds, liquid drops & life: part 1 of 2
report #160
march 28, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

recently there are additional nasa revelations coming from the now failed phoenix mission getting additional press exposure. this most recent news is that liquid water drops may have been visually discovered collecting on a footpad strut that is in the shade on the underside of the lander. apparently close examination of the drops indicate that some are actually expanding a little. this suggests that moisture out of the atmosphere collected to these droplets increasing their size.

considering the official data depicting super freezing temperatures around the phoenix landing site in the mars south polar region and the thin atmosphere, this seems impossible. this of course guarantees controversy and debate within the science community ranks. take a look at the following link samplings to come up to speed on this issue.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/news/18103199.html

be well, be love.

david

will mercury hit earth someday?
april 24, 2008by ken croswell

first, the bad news: the inner solar system is unstable. given enough time, jupiter's gravity could yank mercury out of its present orbit.

two new computer simulations of long-term planetary motion — one by jacques laskar (paris observatory), the other by konstantin batygin and gregory laughlin (university of california, santa cruz) — have both reached the same disturbing conclusion.

says laughlin, "the solar system isn't as stable as we'd thought." both teams have found that jupiter's gravity can increase mercury's orbital eccentricity over time. mercury's path around the sun is already nearly as elliptical as pluto's. but jupiter can make mercury's orbit so out of round that it overlaps the path of venus. a close encounter between them could send the innermost planet careening off wildly.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/162/mars-global-evidence.htm


be well, be love.

david

mars global evidence
report #162
may 6, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report is about how we visually perceive mars as an entire planetary body. the initiating inspiration for this type of reporting comes from bryan a long time viewer in australia. more specifically how this general perception is also intentionally manipulated and redirected by false artificial visual enhancements and/or modifications over time to promote the perception of a planetary super dry arid geological theme. the above first report image of mars as a orange/red color world is a sample and a typical example of this. it and others like it are the coloration that we see often in official media releases.

most of us during our lives have heard and read many times that mars is referred to as the red planet. this likely started before man had telescopes and searched for mars in the night sky with the unassisted eye and it even found its way into our literature. it helped if one looked for a bright spot in the sky on a clear dark night that had a slightly earthy color and sometimes but not always with an ever so slightly rusty tint. however, much of that occasional rust color tint had more to do with viewing the planet through earth's atmosphere than with the planet mar's truth color. still that is often how the planet is visually perceived.

when telescopes came along, it turned out that mars actually has a more earthy tan color most often with white, greenish, and bluish haze highlights partially obscuring it. none the less, it is easier to sell mars as a dry barren waste empty of life if it continues to be perceived as the "red" planet with little visual evidence of an atmosphere. when it comes to geology and its perception, reddish hues are most often associated by earth humans with hot dry desert geologies such as the australian mid and western outback and many other similar arid desert places on earth.

with this psychology in mind, note again the above global image of mars here in this report. as you can see it is mostly a strong orange/red color demonstrating very little atmospheric haze. officially this particular image is suppose to have been taken via the hubble space telescope by jpl on 3/10/1997 not too long after hubble was refurbished. it was taken very near mars opposition when the planet came closest to the earth and this image is touted as one of the sharpest ever taken. remember to that, since the hubble telescope is in space orbit, images taken by it cannot be affected or distorted by earth's atmosphere. so the implication is that this is a true color image of mars.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/163/moving-evidence.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars moving evidence
report 163
may 24, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

left frame: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/1832/1p290822277esf99e0p2297l2m3.html
right frame: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/1832/1p290822518esf99e0p2297r7m1.html

this bulk of this miscellaneous reporting will be about different types of evidence that share a common theme in some images. for example, evidence that is appearing and disappearing in the same location as well as movement from one location to another in the same general scene. the above first side-by-side split frame images are from the opportunity rover taken on sol 1832 with a little color added by me. it represents a relatively minor example brought to my attention by sharp eyed viewer lottie.

in the left frame you see a white streak pointed out by a yellow arrow that is not there in the same location in the right frame. it may look sort of like something possibly on the camera lens or something possibly as a result of processing. however, this streak appears in the first three separate frames and in both left and right camera lens. this confirms that it is not likely a camera artifact. in the next five right and left lens shots following the first three, this streak is missing as represented by the right frame. this suggest that what we are seeing may be something small in high speed flight crossing the camera field of view.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227115.400-will-summer-never-end-in-titans-south.html

be well, be love.

david

will summer never end in titan's south?
03 june 2009 by stephen battersby

unreliable weather forecasts are not restricted to earth. on saturn's giant moon titan, the seasons should now be turning, but summer in its southern hemisphere is defying predictions by refusing to end.

the cassini space probe has been monitoring titan since 2004, but as the moon's year lasts 30 earth years, it has only ever seen one season. the equinox marking the end of summer in the south will come this august. "this is our first opportunity to look at seasonal change," says bonnie buratti of the jet propulsion laboratory in pasadena, california. "and it's not as simple as it might have been."

the arrival of the equinox should be accompanied by changes in titan's cloud cover. currently the north pole has a thin shroud of cirrus cloud, probably made of fine crystals of frozen ethane, while substantial methane clouds can be seen in the southern hemisphere: a clump around the south pole and a thin temperate band about 40° south.

[Felicatra]

university of colorado team finds definitive evidence for ancient lake on mars:eek:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoca-uoc061709.php

"first unambiguous evidence for shorelines on the surface of mars, say researchers"

[Berry Chastain]

to usher in the summer solstice, there is a wonderful conjuntion of planets and the moon on saturday morning june the 20th. the almost new moon, will be accompanied by venus, mars and mercury all within an arc of no more that 10-15 degrees. watch the eastern sky before sunrise to see this joining of some very powerful planetary influences.

[Felicatra]

new nasa images indicate object hits jupiter

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-112

july 20, 2009

scientists have found evidence that another object has bombarded jupiter, exactly 15 years after the first impacts by the comet shoemaker-levy 9.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/166/obfuscation-perspectives.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars obfuscation perspectives
report #166
august 4, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report will not be about new mars evidence exactly but about placing some of the obfuscation of that evidence into a little better perspective, at least at basic levels. we'll start off with color issues, then move on to black and white versus color issues, and finally wind up with a demonstrated example of how relatively easy it is to obfuscate digital imaging.

the above first and second images are just two basic samples of what is officially presented to us as mars images approximating true color. both are sections from opportunity rover panorama big mosaic press release images produced a year apart. note that the first one has an strong orange tint to it as best represented by the background sky color and the second obviously has a strong bluish tint to it as best represented by both the sky and landscape background. note that i have not done work of any kind in these images and these image sections are just as they are officially presented.

the above links under each image will take you to the official images and a fair amount of narrative that goes along with each. this official text includes the statement that each represents the mars approximate true color. you should wonder how this can be true considering the very obvious but quite different strong obvious tints permeating and differentiating these two images. obviously the term "true color" must have a very loose definition at official level.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/5981624/mars-monolith-fuels-theories-of-alien-life.html

mars 'monolith' fuels theories of alien life

a rectangular object found jutting out of mars's surface and caught on camera
by the university of arizona has caused speculation over the nature of the
"monolith" and its origins.

and of course this "monolith" on phobos...

http://palermoproject.com/mars_anomalies/phobosanomalies1.html

be well, be love.

david

[Djonne]

hey i'm having fun with google earth i'm searching for **weird** stuff on mars and i do find a lot of things.
monoliths/towers, visible with their quite long shadows. i did find some weird looking *sand mountains* or i 'd rather say pyramid shaped images.
i maybe found some proofs of civilization, apart from those towers and pyramids, like weird looking pits or cracks in the sand/dirt, almost geometrical, like if someone built it. some other places i see river like shapes cracks, which may be a big clue to water presence.

anyway, i'm having fun with their program, maybe searching more and i'll find very important stuff.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/167/parrotopia.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars parrotopia revisited
report #167
august 16, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the above first and second split screen images are reminder visuals of anomalous mars terrain relief type evidence discovered by others that have become well known over the years. many of you have seen them before on various websites. if not, the above links will take you to better images and discussions of their subject matter. all have been the subject of scrutiny and controversy and you must decide for yourself whether they have any merit. they are included here as samples and examples of various terrain relief type older evidence from an era that extends from the viking data forward through to and inclusive of the mgs moc data.

what you may not be fully aware of is that there is another lesser known parrot land form discovery by wil faust he refers to as parrotopia that shares this same general past time line. it does not have quite the fame of the others. that may be because wil faust did not have his own web presence at the time. further, he died not too long after this discovery and the attention seems to have gone away with his passing. it may also be because of some perceived improbability of such a discovery on mars and it just being considered too incredible to be true and therefore likely fake.

however it is not a fake but true imagery in mgs moc m14-02185 initial release and the subsequent re-release 8/22/05 moc2-1191 science data. i was aware of this discovery long ago but didn't take it seriously at first because it just seemed too fanciful and i was pressed for time. then a year or so ago, i took a closer look and found that there was more to this than first meets the eye. i intended to report on it myself some time ago because of other evidence at this discovery site likely missed by faust and others but just kept putting it off or more to the point forgetting it.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/168/forest-life-12.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars forest life bio-diversity-12
report #168
august 30, 2009
joseph p. skipper

this report derives from a single mgs moc e07-02038 image strip of a site in the south polar region but well out from the polar cap. the view in all the report images here is from one side edge of the strip to the other encompassing as much context information as possible. the general terrain around this site area is characterized by lowlands that tend to shallow water wet conditions at certain times with most of the water sinking into the soil. when dryer colder time comes, what water is left on the surface freezes into low level areas of water ice and the sub-soil is infused with water ice.

an example of this is what you are seeing in the above first image. the most light reflective areas above are low level water ice on the ground surface while the less light reflective areas around it is dryer terrain. this dryer terrain is dryer only in a relative sense to the more light reflective water ice on top of the ground. in warmer periods, the water ice partially melts into these lower profile looking surface ice area shapes soaking into the terrain tending to infuse the relatively dryer terrain with moisture.

as you might logically surmise, the fairly plentiful presence of moisture in this terrain logically creates good conditions for the presence of biological life to take advantage of it. that is what you are looking at with respect to the different dark spots you see both in the terrain and on the more light reflective water ice. most of this is colony life and particularly that on the water ice. the following report images presented here will represent samples of this living ecology further down the strip below this point. not included here is very light reflective terrain in the upper half of the strip where reflectivity tends to wash out all evidence detail.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/169/dunes-or-life.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars sand dunes or life?
report #169
september 13, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report is not meant to be definitive on its own but additive evidence wise in relation to older as well as future reports on this particular type of evidence subject matter. that subject matter is evidence that the official consensus labels as sand dunes on mars regardless of how that evidence behaves or how it is visually configured in the environment of this distant world.

for example, in the above first report image, i've reduced the strip size down to 35% of the original and rotated the strip 90º clockwise to achieve this wide-angle context view that includes an old crater rim and the "dunes" evidence collecting along that rim. the image is from one side edge of the strip to the other side. since i am starting out with this rotated orientation, i will maintain it throughout this report for consistency. note how the objects cluster in a line along the crater rim but do not move down past it into the crater interior. these have officially been identified as "dunes" as usual evidenced at this msss link-1.

however, note that i did not take my imaging from that particular link source and that source appears to have the image flipped horizontally from the science data straight .gif source here at msss link-2. so don't get confused about this.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

"where there's water there's life as we know it." - nasa

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/090924-mars-crater-ice.html

be well, be love.

david

water ice exposed in mars craters
by andrea thompson
posted: 24 september 2009
02:18 pm et

craters gouged into the ruddy martian terrain have revealed subsurface water ice closer to the red planet's equator than would be expected, new orbiter images show.

the ice also seems to be 99 percent pure, instead of the dirty dust and ice mixture some scientists expected to see, scientists said today.

and while numerous surface features on mars suggest that water once flowed on the red planet in the past, the new discovery - detailed in the sept. 25 issue of the journal science - adds to the evidence that has been piling up in recent years that water exists on present-day mars, in the form of subsurface ice. it also gives scientists a way to further probe the martian surface for signs of water ice.

because water is essential to life as we know it, any findings of potentially once-liquid water has implications for the search for evidence of possible past martian life.

the new finding comes just one day after scientists announced new evidence for water ice on earth's moon.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091001-mercury-bright-spot.html

be well, be love.

david

mercury's mysterious bright spot photographed up close
by andrea thompson
senior writer
posted: 01 october 2009
12:23 pm et

during its most recent flyby of mercury, nasa's messenger spacecraft caught another glimpse of the innermost planet's mysterious bright spot.

the messenger probe skimmed just 142 miles (228 km) above mercury at its closest approach as it whipped around the planet during the flyby, the last of three designed to guide the spacecraft into orbit around the planet in 2011.

the $446 million probe snapped several new images of mercury during the flyby, despite a minor data hiccup that delayed the downlink of some of the images.

one of the new images shows a bright spot on the planet's surface, a feature that scientists cannot yet explain.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/170/enceladus-offworld.htm

be well, be love.

david

enceladus off-world evidence
report #170
october 5, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

all of the evidence images in this report are associated with saturn's outer "e" ring and its moon enceladus in the "e" ring as taken from the cassini equinox mission craft as that craft was leaving the moon area and all using the same cl1 and cl2 filters facilitating comparison. note that the first three images below represent context scenes that are very distant from 88,020 to 135,669 km. these context views give us a look at enceladus as well as the evidence in space around enceladus. as you scroll down through these first three images, take special note of the evidence pointed out by the yellow arrows and their positioning on the left in each image.

[ixeos]

it's a huge ring of dust... but interesting nonetheless:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6864286.ece (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/space/article6864286.ece)

[Berry Chastain]

when i read this news article earlier today, i was reminded of this excerpt from the law of one material.

" b. who are the members of the council of saturn?

ra: they are representatives from the confederation and also those from those vibratory levels of your inner planes bearing responsibility for your 3rd density. the names are not important because there are no names.

the name concept is not part of the council. if names are requested, we will attempt them. however, not all have chosen names. to back up this council, there are twenty-four entities which offer services as requested and are called the guardians. (b1, 98)

the council has not allowed the breaking of quarantine in the time/space continuum. but permission has been granted to appear in thought form capacity for those who have eyes to see.

however, there is a certain amount of landing taking place. some are the entities known to you as the group of orion. (b1, 99)"

all of the activity surrounding the moon in this discussion must have some source. it appears that it is not some naturally occuring phenomenon and the article even hinted that the objects (evidence?) seemed to have some intelligent direction. also there was mention that the moon appeared to have an abundance of water in its ecosphere. hmmm!

i couldn't help but put two and two together and come up with the sum that science has discovered the location of the council of saturn as mentioned by ra.

another thought that came to my mind is the "quarantine" issue. i read something else today, source is unremembered (sigh) but it was in regard to the intent of the us to detonate a bomb on the surface of the moon, and the indication from the article is that it would be a failure!!! would not occur!. (happy me will you.)

i think that a time of disclosure is coming very soon, as humankind scientist are discovering and admitting that there is more out there than they can explain by conventional methods.

interesting times we live in. i am terribly excited.
l&l
berry






dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/170/enceladus-offworld.htm

be well, be love.

david

enceladus off-world evidence
report #170
october 5, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

all of the evidence images in this report are associated with saturn's outer "e" ring and its moon enceladus in the "e" ring as taken from the cassini equinox mission craft as that craft was leaving the moon area and all using the same cl1 and cl2 filters facilitating comparison. note that the first three images below represent context scenes that are very distant from 88,020 to 135,669 km. these context views give us a look at enceladus as well as the evidence in space around enceladus. as you scroll down through these first three images, take special note of the evidence pointed out by the yellow arrows and their positioning on the left in each image.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

the moon, mars and now europa...

"where there's water there's life as we know it" - nasa

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3069/jupiter-moon%e2%80%99s-ocean-rich-oxygen

be well, be love.

david

jupiter moon’s ocean is rich in oxygen
tuesday, 13 october 2009
cosmos online
europa

the strange striations on europa's surface are thought to have been caused by tidal stresses from jupiter as the ice cracks and warmer layers come to the surface. the same process may be responsible for transporting oxygen below the surface.

credit: nasa

sydney: the globe-spanning ocean on jupiter’s moon europa contains about twice the liquid water of all earth’s oceans combined, says a new study, which finds it’s packed with oxygen which could support life.

research completed by richard greenberg a planetary scientist at the university of arizona in tucson, usa, suggests that there could be as much as 100 times the amount of oxygen previously estimated. the findings were presented last week at a meeting of the american astronomical society in fajardo, puerto rico.

experts have been unsure how likely life would be, because the liquid ocean is found under a several-kilometre-thick shell of ice, which acts as a barrier to oxygen which is created cosmic rays at the surface.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

always interesting thoughts from joseph.

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/171/water-terraces-life.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars water terraces life
report #171
october 18, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the evidence here is going to be from the huge mro hirise esp_012625_1720 jp2 image. regardless of its jp2 huge file size at 169.8 mb, the evidence will be fuzzy in the closer views. it's the best i could do with it. as this reporting unfolds, you'll perhaps begin to suspect why there are resolution problems in this image. even so, it is good enough to understand the basics of what is going on here and i think you'll find it sufficiently interesting.

the above first image offers a wide-angle context view of a portion of the original image that the evidence here comes from. the darker areas you see in the above image are variations of the "ridge form" life i have reported on before. please note that some are occupying terrain with the light color horizontal thin ridge structures like levels of mushrooms on an old tree trunk. on the other hand, others are just occupying large patches of terrain without the horizontal ridge levels.

let me give you some background information that is very important to understanding what is going on here. this site is within ius chasma which is a large steep sided canyon on the southern side of valles marineris the largest canyon system in the solar system otherwise known as the mars great crack. now valles marineris is as deep as 8–10 km or 5–6 miles and that compares to earth grand canyon here in the us of only 1.6 km or 1 mile deep. in other words, in places valles marineris is 5–6 times deeper than the grand canyon. that's quite a hole in the ground and such a hole guarantees steep slopes on its sides.

when you are looking at the above first image, north and up is in the top of the image and south and down into the ius chasma is in the bottom of the image. this orientation is the same and consistent with all of the images in this report. that is important because in these images, although it may not be visually readily apparent, you will always be looking at slopes that may be from mild in places to very steep in other places in a single image in this rough rocky down sloping terrain.

as i have reported before, ridge form life flourishes best in shallow flowing water and is a mars life that is dependent on that condition. they are cooperative sharing life and orient cooperatively in rows parallel with the water flow. so, even though the water is too shallow and thin to be seen in this distant satellite imaging, you know the water flow is there and its direction by the orientation of the ridge forms. any intelligence is an unknown factor.

note the darker ridge forms and the row orientation of up/down between the light color equally spaced horizontal ridge layers. these equally spaced layers are terraces no doubt designed to retard water which tends to be too substantial in the steeper slope areas and might otherwise be a waterfall. since the interval space between the terraced ridge levels in relatively short, note that the darker ridge form life can orient as usual in rows parallel to the water flow.

however, in those patch areas where this rough terrain isn't as steep, note that the darker ridge forms collect into density without the implementation of the terraces solution to retard water flow. rather, if you will look closely in the above image and the closer views below, you will see that there is often still a need to retard the water flow and this is accomplished by darker ridge forms forming a tangle or convoluted maze in their orientations. this of course effectively retards water flow by design.

the point of this reporting is that what ever form of water dependent life this is, it can develop creative design solutions to solving its problems on these steep chasma slopes. however, planetary geologists working with this space exploration imaging will no doubt tell us that ancient long gone water erosion going down these steep chasma slopes carved out these formations from layered geological material leaving harder material projecting out and softer material eroded inward. that may sound a little plausible to you? if so, all i can say is look closely at the evidence in the following images and judge for yourself.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/091020-st-discolored-moons.html

be well, be love.

david

mysterious patches of color mapped on saturn's moons
by space.com staff
posted: 20 october 2009
09:44 am et

some of the patterns have been seen before, but others took scientists by surprise, suggesting dynamic interactions between the moons and other particles orbiting around saturn.

the maps of mimas, enceladus, tethys, dione, and rhea were created from images taken by nasa's cassini spacecraft and were presented by paul schenk of houston's lunar and planetary institute at a recent meeting of the american astronomical society.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph and what's best? you can contact him if you don't agree...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/172/spirit-rover-evidence.htm

be well, be love.

david

more spirit rover evidence
report #172
november 6, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the above large 1st image demonstrates a small shallow pit drilled in a rock via spirit rover's onboard rat (rock abrasion tool) tool that is located on the rover's articulating arm as are the mössbauer and alpha particle x-ray spectrometers that do geological testing associated with such drillings as well as the microscopic imager that took this image. the most important anomalous evidence here is of course the obvious small round disk pointed with the yellow arrow.

as you can perhaps tell by the visuals here, it seems that the rat was pressed down at an angle cutting a bit deeper on the left than on the right as the rounded cut line edge on the left is more defined in the rock than on the right. i mention this because the pit and the rock will both also be a bit of issue here and will be needing some attention as you will come to understand. yes it would have been better if the above image offered a bit wider field of view showing more of the outer edges of the pit but the close in shots do not allow for this in any of the images. the shot here is taken from one side edge of the strip to the other side and encompasses all the visual available.

before leaving this image and moving on, note the interior bottom of the shallow pit and its lumpy surface. note that it looks possible that this may have been a bit of a hollow pocket uncovered by the rat once the surface cover material was removed. the straight thin light color ridge line looks anomalous because it is so straight but it may be nothing more than an old fracture line that was filled in by fine sediment and then hardened in place in older times becoming harder than its softer surroundings. now also take note of the rocky surface material on the right edge area and how it looks. we'll be getting into that a little later.

also you should know that this object was brought to my attention for investigation by alberto remelli of verona, italy. good work and well done alberto.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

take a close look...

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/11/martian_landscapes.html

be well, be love.

david

martian landscapes

since 2006, nasa's mars reconnaissance orbiter (mro) has been orbiting mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the martian surface. on board the mro is hirise, the high resolution imaging science experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel. collected here is a group of images from hirise over the past few years, in either false color or grayscale, showing intricate details of landscapes both familiar and alien, from the surface of our neighboring planet, mars. i invite you to take your time looking through these, imagining the settings - very cold, dry and distant, yet real. (35 photos total)

[Zeke]

this only reinforces the "where there is water there is life" statement.

nasa said friday it had discovered water on the moon, opening "a new chapter" that could allow for the development of a lunar space station.

the discovery was announced by project scientist anthony colaprete at a midday news conference. "indeed, yes, we found water," he said.

the find is based on preliminary data collected when the lunar crater observation and sensing satellite, or lcross, intentionally crashed october 9 into the permanently shadowed region of cabeus crater near the moon's south pole.

after the satellite struck, a rocket flew through the debris cloud, measuring the amount of water and providing a host of other data, colaprete said.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/tech/space/11/13/water.moon.nasa/index.html

[Shrike]

yes and to make sure they reach a lot of people with that info google is helping.
look at their logo and search link for the day !

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/173/life-in-plain-sight.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars life hides in plain sight
report #173
november 19, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

the above first two images provide sample views of mars impact craters and their surrounding terrain. note that both are decent representations as to what a variety of rough raw rock and soil geology looks like in the terrain around and in these craters that does not appear to be compromised or modified by any extensive surface biological life like vegetation or surface water considerations. especially in the above 2nd image and on the right, note the many rocks and how the light and shadow plays off of them creating the rough raw geological textures. this is the typical look of visual impact crater geology.

this is in fact what true crater topography looks like when there is no need to compromise the look by image tampering applications. it is rough and raw because a rude violent event took place in this place opening up and exposing the lower geological regions and tossing geological material into the surrounding landscape. however, years ago when i first started this work dealing with old 1970's viking data, one of the very first things that i noticed was that mars crater outer slopes and inner areas seemed way too frequently to be the recipient of crude featureless smudge applications that blotted out the natural raw rock and soil geological light and shadow features in favor of smooth blank surfaces.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_8-12-2009-10-5-57#fni-2

be well, be love.

david

life on mars theory boosted by new methane study

scientists rule out the possibility that methane is delivered by meteorites into the martian atmosphere – news release
tuesday 8 december 2009

scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow (wednesday 9 december 2009) in earth and planetary science letters.

methane has a short lifetime of just a few hundred years on mars because it is constantly being depleted by a chemical reaction in the planet’s atmosphere, caused by sunlight. scientists analysing data from telescopic observations and unmanned space missions have discovered that methane on mars is being constantly replenished by an unknown source and they are keen to uncover how the levels of methane are being topped up.

researchers had thought that meteorites might be responsible for martian methane levels because when the rocks enter the planet’s atmosphere they are subjected to intense heat, causing a chemical reaction that releases methane and other gases into the atmosphere.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

way cool image.

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/dn15018-pick-of-the-pictures

be well, be love.

david

previously unseen walls and curlicues in a mysterious hexagon-shaped feature on saturn's north pole are revealed in this new image by the cassini spacecraft.

the strange hexagonal structure, which spans a distance wider than two earths, has remained largely unchanged since it was first discovered by nasa's voyager spacecraft in the early 1980s. cassini snapped this image earlier this year, as winter in saturn's northern hemisphere came to a close, and the region was once again illuminated by sunlight.

a jet stream is thought to whip around the hexagon at 100 metres per second, but scientists are still not sure what gives rise to the long-lived shape, or where it gets and releases its energy.

[LightEye]

also this link with a video.

http://www.physorg.com/news179601566.html

be well, be love.

david

saturn's mysterious hexagon emerges from winter darkness
december 9, 2009

this movie from cassini, made possible only as saturn's north pole emerged from winter darkness, shows new details of a jet stream that follows a hexagon-shaped path and has long puzzled scientists.

(physorg.com) -- after waiting years for the sun to illuminate saturn's north pole again, cameras aboard nasa's cassini spacecraft have captured the most detailed images yet of the intriguing hexagon shape crowning the planet.

the new images of the hexagon, whose shape is the path of a jet stream flowing around the north pole, reveal concentric circles, curlicues, walls and streamers not seen in previous images.

the last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by nasa's voyager spacecraft nearly 30 years ago, the last time spring began on saturn. after the sunlight faded, darkness shrouded the north pole for 15 years. much to the delight and bafflement of cassini scientists, the location and shape of the hexagon in the latest images match up with what they saw in the voyager pictures.

"the longevity of the hexagon makes this something special, given that weather on earth lasts on the order of weeks," said kunio sayanagi, a cassini imaging team associate at the california institute of technology. "it's a mystery on par with the strange weather conditions that give rise to the long-lived great red spot of jupiter."

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2009/176/dust-devils-more.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars dust devils & more
report #176
december 27, 2009
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/psp_004285_1375

the above 1st image demonstrates two side-by-side objects in the mars terrain. this kind of evidence is always officially identified as dust devils which of course reinforces the official mantra that mars is a dry as dust and essentially dead world.

some of them may very well be dust devils just as they are here on earth. however, although dust devils can be found in a large number of areas here on earth, remember that earth is a world 70% covered by water making it essentially a water world and the exact opposite of dry. so remember that dust devils on mars, just as on earth, do not necessarily indicate a dry as dust world.

some of these objects labeled as dust devils on mars may also be water geysers because they look very similar. however, an admission of that might carry a suggestion that there could be real surface water presence on mars, at least in the form of water geysers. that of course would not be desirable to a secrecy crowd now would it. that is no doubt why the first water geyser on mars discovered in the 1970s viking imaging by one of nasa's own dr. leonard j. martin of lowell observatory in flagstaff, arizona, a well respected and reputable mainstream planetary scientist, was formally acknowledged as water in the official nasa record but then was down played immediately thereafter by nasa and jpl. note my 2003 report 052 on this.

on the other hand, on a whole world with a supposedly super dry surface, you might anticipate a lot of dust devils to be present. sure enough along and along fairly plentiful dust devil presence is fed to us like the above. also, just about every dark streak found in the mars terrain, and there are a great multitude of them, is identified as the many trails of past dust devils regardless of what they may truly represent. it was even in the news recently indicating that scientist were generally agreed on this.

the only trouble is that air vortexes strong enough to create dust devils large enough to be seen in distant mars satellite imaging by definition should leave a mark of their passing on the ground just as is claimed made the great multitude of dark streaks on mars. yet, very little of the evidence demonstrates this as the dust devil is in operation just as you see above.

remember that the strong sunlight reflectivity you see in the above objects in order to be dust devils would be sunlight reflectivity off of dust and soil picked up off the ground by the vortex since the air itself is transparent. that degree of reflectivity means that the ground must be disturbed by a dust devil's passing fueling that reflectivity leaving a mark on the ground as to its path. so, if there is no mark left in the terrain, are they really water geysers being purposely misidentified as dust devils?

the answer is sometimes but not necessarily in other cases like this one. if the image resolution is decent enough to allow it to be seen, a water geyser pouring out of the ground and in the act of dumping water should have it pile up on the ground around its base and/or on the ground down wind from its point of origin. that piling up of water effect should at least leave a dark stain and/or even stronger sunlight reflectivity on the ground that we can detect and this is even more true in the mro hirise large jp2 imaging with its theoretically more detailed views.

the bottom line is that, if the dark streak or otherwise disturbed ground identifying the path of the dust devils is not there and the water presence around the base of the geyser is also not there, then what is going on? that brings us back to the evidence in the above image demonstrating the side-by-side view of two of these objects officially identified as dust devil. note my use the "dust devil" description as singular rather than plural. that's because i created the dust devil on the right. it was easy to do and it is most definitely a fake.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2010/177/dunes-trees-tech.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars dunes, trees & technology?
report 177
january 18, 2010
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/psp_007962_2635

many of you around the world have likely seen the above mars image recently circulating on the internet and in the various news media. the source of this image is the mro hirise science data and the strip is psp_007962_2635 found at the above link. the media speculative hook is that the above evidence looks an awful lot like trees on mars but isn't really. it's obviously a beautiful image with its colors and shadings produced at official level (i'm envious) and this visual impact is no doubt one of the main reasons why the media is so readily reporting on it.

the official description of what is going on in this image in a brief caption at the image site is as follows. "there is a vast region of sand dunes at high northern latitudes on mars. in the winter, a layer of carbon dioxide ice covers the dunes, and in the spring as the sun warms the ice it evaporates. this is a very active process, and sand dislodged from the crests of the dunes cascades down, forming dark streaks." in other words, this evidence looking like upright vertical forms and possibly trees is just an optical illusion.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/mars-tree-photo-illusion-100113.html

also, at the above link, there is a bit more in depth explanation along the same lines where the nasa media mouthpiece space.com interviewed a mro scientist team member about this. while you're there be prepared for the usual indoctrination crapola treatment as they stress the "illusion" concept and throw in a few buzz words like "bigfoot," etc. trying to influence popular perception toward the ridiculous.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

must be all those suv's... ;-)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8499660.stm

be well, be love.

david

hubble spots pluto blushing in space

nasa scientists say that dwarf planet pluto, on the edge of our solar system, is becoming increasingly red.

images taken by the hubble space telescope show that the planet is some 20% redder than it used to be.

experts say they believe this is because of changes in pluto's surface ice as it enters a new phase of its 248-year-long orbit.

the new images are said to show frozen nitrogen brightening in the north and becoming darker in the south.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from rh...

http://www.enterprisemission.com/phobos.html

be well, be love.

david

for the world is hollow ... and i have touched the sky!
by richard c. hoagland
© 2010 the enterprise mission

one of my favorite all-time "star treks," from my long-departed friend gene roddenberry's imaginative mind, is an episode (toward the end of the "third season") that captures perfectly this haunting theme--

it was from rik vollaert's evocative, 42-year-old script, of how "the enterprise discovers a '200-mile-wide errant asteroid' in deep space," which the crew soon determine "is on direct course toward a deadly collision with 'daran v' -- an inhabited planet supporting almost 4 billion unsuspecting souls ...."

of course, "the enterprise must stop the impending catastrophe ... by altering the asteroid's deadly course; barring that, kirk intends to simply destroy the threatening space rock ...."

until--

he discovers that the asteroid is also inhabited ... and has been artificially "hollowed out" and set upon "a centuries-long, interstellar survival journey ... by a long-extinct civilization, the fabrini ...."

the enterprise further discovers that the descendents of the fabrini -- the "people of yonada" (as the child-like asteroid-inhabitants have named their tiny "planetoid" ...)--

have no idea they have been born ... and have died ... generation after generation -- inside "a hollow, artificial world ...!"

or, that their small, wandering "ship" -- after a 10,000-year-old journey -- is now, in the last remaining hours of its millennial-long voyage, on a fatal collision course with a major, inhabited world ....

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more interesting thoughts from joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2010/183/life-vs-flipping.htm

be well, be love.

david

mars life vs. image flipping
report 183
april 7, 2010
joseph p. skipper
j. p. skipper can be contacted at: jskipper@marsanomalyresearch.com

this report is going to be both about mro hirise biological life evidence that is admittedly difficult to recognize and how just one obfuscation tactic like the flipping of an image strip can seriously and negatively impact the evidence in it. likewise, the examination of this evidence here will at the same time reveal just how overconfident the secrecy types have become over the decades in what they think you in the public can and can't figure out.

that lack of sufficient respect for you and i is their weakness and where their agenda is vulnerable. the great bulk of this website's work is a story of capitalizing on their mistakes and that weakness an d the flaws in the obfuscation that comes from this over confidence. this strip and its evidence is a fairly decent example of that at work.

[Banana123]

hey chris i hope i'm in the right forum!
ga 6 is comming woah momma!%*


www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/neo20100406.html

[LightEye]

dear friends,

more from rh.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/phobos2.html

be well, be love.

david

for the world is hollow ... and i have touched the sky! part ii
by richard c. hoagland
© 2010 the enterprise mission

as noted in part i -- as a direct result of the recent "ultra-close-approaches" of the european space agency (esa) mars express spacecraft to "phobos" -- the tiny, inner moon of mars -- a variety of scientific experiments aboard that spacecraft have now converged, after analysis of their results by the enterprise mission ... on an artificial "moon" hypothesis for "the origins of phobos"--

imminent, official confirmation of this data -- which we at enterprise have held (and published on ...) for over twenty years -- will change everything.

here (below) is an enterprise mission "noise-reduction" enhancement of the original mars express phobos imaging data ... from this latest series of "close passes"--

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2951855/nasa-evidence-of-life-on-mars.html

be well, be love.

david

by rhodri phillips
and paul sutherland, sun spaceman
published: 28 apr 2010

nasa scientists last night unveiled compelling evidence of life on mars.

a special mission to the red planet has revealed the likely presence of a form of pond scum - the building blocks of life as we know it.

nasa unveiled the results of the recent opportunity and spirit probes sent millions of miles through the solar system to discover signs of extraterrestrial life.

the results are so promising boffins have already planned a host of other missions to discover whether there is extraterrestrial life in the universe.

the recent missions have gathered evidence of sulphates on mars, a strong indication there is water on the planet and therefore life.

[Glothr]

that's amazing! hopefully this discovery sparks a fire in scientists everywhere to get to mars and see for ourselves. very exciting time indeed. the last line of the article kind of left the entire thing on a down note though:

"british physicist stephen hawking said this week aliens might be traveling through the cosmos right now - but he warned they might have evil intentions."

seems kind of odd to have this article about finding possible evidence of life then going "oh, but steven hawking thinks that aliens might want to destroy us." maybe that's just me though.

[LightEye]

dear friends

http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/event/article/id/168302/group/homepage/

be well, be love.

david

jupiter loses one of its belts

sunday morning when jupiter and the moon came up together in the east i was tempted to remain outside with the birds and growing light and observe the planet, but it had been a long night and i desperately needed sleep. as the sun continues to move away from jupiter, the planet will rise higher and in time become more conveniently placed for viewing. still, intrepid sky watchers with small telescopes may want to consider making an early morning pilgrimage to the king of the planets to see for themselves how it's gotten something of a makeover.

last winter changes were already underway as the south equatorial belt, one of the two most prominent dark "stripes" on the planet, began to fade. most years you look at jupiter and besides the four little moons lined up on one side or another of the planet, you'll see two prominent dark grey bands, the north and south equatorial belts. these and jupiter's other belts are separated by lighter-colored zones giving it a striped appearance. both belts and zones are composed of ammonia ice crystals which freeze out at 108 degrees below zero, a temperature easily attainable at jupiter's half-billion mile distance from the sun. materials like sulfur and phosphorus mixed in with the ammonia are believed responsible for creating the clouds' curious red, brown and yellow tints.

[Habit4ming]

i forwarded this article to david and thought i'd share it here, too. according to the article, there is also located within the hexagon a pyramid and what looks like the all-seeing eye:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028797_saturn_hexagon.html

[Berry Chastain]

i forwarded this article to david and thought i'd share it here, too. according to the article, there is also located within the hexagon a pyramid and what looks like the all-seeing eye:

http://www.naturalnews.com/028797_saturn_hexagon.html


david discusses in one of his convergence series book, the geometric structures of all of the planets and actually mentions the hexegon on saturn in that particular discussion. i wish i could pinpoint that information and post it on the facebook link that mike included in that article on natural news. he is asking for some good explanation of the phenomenon and david has provided the best explanation available.

[Berry Chastain]

i found where david discusses this. it is in his e-book shift of the ages chapter 11.

http://divinecosmos.com/index.php/start-here/books-free-online/18-the-shift-of-the-ages/67-the-shift-of-the-ages-chapter-11-global-grid-ii-hyperdimensional-crystals-in-planets

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1284013/do-aliens-live-saturn-moon.html

be well, be love.

david

scientists find a 'hint of life' on saturn's moon titan
by daily mail reporter
last updated at 7:33 am on 5th june 2010

scientists have found evidence that there is life on saturn's biggest moon, titan.

they have discovered clues that primitive aliens are breathing in titan's atmosphere and feeding on fuel at the surface.

the startling discoveries, made using an orbiting spacecraft, are revealed in two separate reports.
saturn's moon, titan, pictured using ultraviolet and infrared cameras on board the space probe cassini. scientists now believe that the moon could harbour life

saturn's moon, titan, pictured using ultraviolet and infrared cameras on board the space probe cassini. scientists now believe that the moon could harbour life

data from nasa's cassini probe has analysed the complex chemistry on the surface of titan - the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere.

its surface is covered with mountains, lakes and rivers which has led astronomers to call it the most earthlike world in the solar system.

organic chemicals had already been detected on the 3,200-mile wide planet. but the liquid on titan is not water but methane and the scientists expect life there to be methane-based.

the first paper, in the journal icarus, shows that hydrogen gas flowing down through titan's atmosphere disappears at the surface, suggesting it could be being breathed by alien bugs.

the second paper, in the journal of geophysical research, reports there is a lack of a certain chemical on the surface, leading scientists to believe it may be being consumed by life.

[Glothr]

i saw the earlier post here about the electric universe and thought it was very interesting. recently i came across a video and even a facebook group that both state that gravity doesn't exist and that the most logical model is the electric universe. i never actually questioned the existence of gravity before but after reading some material i find myself wondering: "is it real or not? if not, what then is that which we refer to as gravity?"

i'm not physicist or cosmologist so i don't know all of the esoteric and technical lingo used by those that are. so can anyone shed any light on the question "does gravity exist or was it a complete misunderstanding of something else?" i'm rather neutral on the outcome but just find the electric model of the universe fascinating.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=31695

be well, be love.

david

the many faces of the venus polar vortex

* source: esa venus express mission
* posted thursday, september 23, 2010

a new animation using data from esa's venus express spacecraft shows that the double eye of the giant vortex at venus's south pole has disappeared. results of a study that shows the complex, variable dynamics at the venusian south pole is being presented by dr. giuseppe piccioni at the european planetary science congress, on thursday 23d september.

orbiting around venus since april 11, 2006, the esa mission venus express is providing an extensive and unique dataset of great scientific importance, spanning from the surface to the atmosphere and its interaction with the solar wind. the virtis (visible and infrared thermal imaging spectrometer) instrument studies venus from orbit through atmospheric 'windows', which are transparent at certain infrared wavelengths and thus able to transmit the thermal radiance from very deep regions in the venusian atmosphere. it also provides information about temperature of the atmosphere and the cloud tops, from which it is possible to study the dynamics and in particular the polar vortex.

in 1979, the pioneer venus mission observed a similar polar vortex with two apparent centers of rotation in the venusian northern hemisphere. this was labeled the dipole of venus. the virtis instrument, right at the beginning of the venus express mission, observed a very similar shape in the southern hemisphere. this discovery revealed a north-south symmetry on venus and, at a first glance, confirmed the stability of the dipole. however, in the course of the mission, systematic observations with virtis showed a large number of different shapes of the vortex, with complex configurations and not well identified stable features.

"we had ironically observed it in a dipole configuration right at the beginning of the mission. but we soon discovered that this was just a coincidence, since the dipole in reality is not a stable feature on venus but just one shape among others," says dr. piccioni.

[12thUranus]

aw yes the beautiful venus. the planet of ra. the planet that has achieved indigo ray activation

i wonder what energy ray it is as we gaze upon venus. is there anyone with a gift of seeing a higher activated ray than 3rd density? it's wonderful to see venus and ponder it's energy center true activation.*

do you think that it has some energy centers in potentiation? have you ever considered the use of the word "potentiation" by ra? i try to replace the word with it's definition in the context of ra's words and it doesn't seem to make any sense. it's as if it is being used as the word potential is used versus kinetic.

***potentiation - (medicine)the working together so the total effect is greater than the sum of two drugs given simultaneously

[Berry Chastain]

this is somewhat aside from the preceding conversations. but i have been observing venus for the past few weeks as she has been becoming so very vividly brilliant in the morning sky. yes, our morning/evening star has always been one of the brightest sights in the night time skies. but what we are seening now is incredibly brighter than i ever recall seeing it.
i think i remember david mentioning that the planets are almost all becoming brighter due to the incoming energies. is this perhaps the reason/cause for the exceptional brightness we are now witnessing in our neighbor planet venus?

[weboy78]

http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=48596
thermal infrared imagery from the pioneer venus spacecraft subsequently revealed an enormous depression in the cloud blanket at the north pole. this relatively warm polar 'hole' was thought to be caused by downward movement of gases, rather like water flowing down a drain. however, detailed examination of the thick clouds and dense atmosphere over the south pole had to wait until the arrival of venus express in april 2006.

[LightEye]

dear friends,

imagine my surprise...

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/plutos-expanding-atmosphere-conf.html?ref=hp

be well, be love.

david

pluto's expanding atmosphere confounds researchers
by sid perkins on 19 april 2011, 4:04

recent observations of pluto reveal that the icy orb’s atmosphere has expanded dramatically since 2000, and for the first time researchers have detected carbon monoxide. the findings may be evidence of seasonal changes in climate linked to pluto’s most recent close approach to the sun, but scientists still aren’t sure about how those variations unfold over the course of each 248-year orbit.

pluto is the only object orbiting in the frigid realm beyond neptune that is known to have an atmosphere. that tenuous sheath of gas was discovered in 1988 when the “dwarf planet” passed between earth and a distant star, blocking some of the star’s light. although telescopic observations at various wavelengths since the early 1990s have since identified several substances in pluto’s surface ices—including nitrogen, methane, and carbon monoxide—only methane had been detected previously in its atmosphere.

now scientists can add carbon monoxide to the mix. new observations of the atmosphere’s emissions at various wavelengths, particularly at the 1.3-millimeter wavelength, betray the presence of the gas for the first time. because carbon monoxide probably could have been observed by instruments in previous studies, its newfound presence likely marks a new stage in the season-by-season evolution of pluto’s atmosphere, the researchers suggest. pluto was discovered only about 80 years ago—less than one-third of the time it takes to make a single orbit, notes team member jane greaves, an astrobiologist at the university of st. andrews in the united kingdom, so “we’re seeing everything happen for the first time.”

[coastguard2012]

has anyone noticed this in the news recently ? http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/plutos-expanding-atmosphere-conf.html?ref=hp

[Eramthin]

have you seen the forests on mars? here are a few photos...
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/101/01a-101-e0700860-spouts.jpg
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/evidence-reports/2006/101/05a-101-e0700860-forest.jpg

[Felicatra]

"a nasa spacecraft circling mercury is returning spectacular photos of the planet — and delivering some tantalizing surprises about the tiny, scorched world.

on march 17, nasa's messenger probe became the first spacecraft ever to orbit mercury. since then, messenger has already snapped more than 20,000 pictures and made observations that could help unlock long-standing mysteries of the solar system's innermost planet, researchers announced at a press conference today (june 16).

"we had many ideas about mercury that were incomplete, ill-formed," said messenger principal investigator sean solomon of the carnegie institution of washington. "many of those ideas are now having to be cast aside as we see orbital data for the first time." [latest messenger photos of mercury]"

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/06/17/mercurys-surprising-personality-revealed-for-first-time/#ixzz1pnvfmwkm

[Felicatra]

" it began as a bright white dot in saturn's northern hemisphere. within days, the dot grew larger and stormier.

soon the tempest enveloped the ringed planet, triggering lightning flashes thousands of times more intense than on earth.

the international cassini spacecraft and ground telescopes have been tracking the turbulence since last december, visible from earth as a type of storm known as a "great white spot."

"it's still going like crazy," said cassini project scientist linda spilker of the nasa jet propulsion laboratory."

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/06/spacecraft-eyes-gigantic-mystery-storm/

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

venus
2015


venus is alive – geologically speaking
http://www.esa.int/specials/venus_express/semukvznk7g_0.html

love
et

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90twpykmj0i&feature=player_embedded

love light

great info on 2003 ub313! moderator

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

new mars rover to explore water-marked crater
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2011/07/22/science-mars-rover-gale-crater.html

new moon found at pluto; neptune turns one
http://www.zdnet.com/photos/new-moon-found-at-pluto-neptune-turns-one/6262420


et

[LightEye]

dear friends,

http://news.discovery.com/space/uranus-mystery-bright-patch-amateur-astronomers-111028.html

be well.

david

there's a mysterious spot on uranus!
there's a strange brightening in the uranian atmosphere and amateur astronomers can help investigate what it is.

by mark thompson
fri oct 28, 2011 03:20 pm et

the gist
uranus isn't as boring as it looks.
reports are circulating that a bright spot has appeared in its atmosphere.
amateur astronomers are urged to help with the investigation as it may result in a closer look by hubble.
enlarge
as this 2004 infrared keck telescope image shows, uranus is tilted, plus it has structure in its atmosphere. it even has a ring system. not so boring now, is it. click to enlarge this image.
lawrence sromovsky, (univ. wisconsin-madison), keck observatory
of all the planets in our solar system, i'm usually guilty of thinking poor old uranus is pretty bland and uninteresting.

in fact, the only interesting things i can ever think to say about it are that it orbits the sun on its side... and has a pretty exciting story attached to its discovery.

other than that, well... let's look at neptune instead. no, wait! something exciting has happened on uranus!

analysis: uranus pathfinder: mission to the mysterious ice giant

uranus, like the other giant planets in the solar system (jupiter, saturn and neptune), is made up almost entirely of gas, although it differs in composition to jupiter and saturn -- it has higher quantities of water, methane and ammonia ices. unlike conventional ice, it's a super dense liquid. uranus, like neptune, is often referred to as an "ice giant."

uranus measures a mighty four-times the diameter of earth and orbits the sun at an average distance of 2.9 billion kilometers (around 20 times the earth-sun distance). from that distance it's only just visible to the naked eye under dark skies, but telescopes are needed to see any detail

[Jeia Ra Manuk]

"new research that suggests jupiter's moon europa has a body of water the size of the great lakes just two miles below its icy surface has brought scientists one step closer to determining whether or not the freezing satellite is suitable for the development of extraterrestrial life."

read more here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/europa-water-jupiter-moon-photo-video_n_1099463.html?icid=maing-grid7%7cmain5%7cdl1%7csec1_lnk2%7c113705&ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false#sb=1167340,b=facebook