Our Planets (all but Earth)

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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/1...asa/index.html

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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 !

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Dear Friends,

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...lain-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.

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Dear Friends,

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandev...-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.

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Dear Friends,

Way cool image.

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/...f-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.

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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."

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Dear Friends,

More interesting thoughts from Joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...evils-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.

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Dear Friends,

More interesting thoughts from Joseph...

http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/e...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/scienceastronom...on-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.

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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.

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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 ....