Our Planets (all but Earth)

[LightEye]

Dear Friends,

"Where there's water there's life as we know it." - NASA

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...rater-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/scienceastronom...ight-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/e...s-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

[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

Originally Posted by LightEye

Dear Friends,

More interesting thoughts from Joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...s-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/3...an-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/e...races-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/scienceastronom...red-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/e...r-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/200...andscapes.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)