Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
09-08-2017
Watch as bizarre UFOs 'fly over crop circles' in extraordinary footage
Watch as bizarre UFOs 'fly over crop circles' in extraordinary footage
A CROP circle expert claims to have captured inexplicable UFOs flying over farmland in Wiltshire as he investigated the phenomena.
Pierre Beake has spent years investigating crop circles in the south west of England, and is convinced they are a paranormal phenomenon, that cannot all be the work of hoaxers.
Mr Beake, who travels from France to investigate the activity, claims to have captured mysterious balls of light (BOLs) on video camera shooting at speed across Milk Hill in Wiltshire, a reknowned crop circle site.
He has also captured several alleged BOLs on still camera around crop circles.
Crop circles - allegedly made by landing UFOs - have been widely considered one of the world's biggest paranormal hoaxes since 1991, when Doug Bower and David Chorley were filmed showing how they made many of the reported corn field patterns discovered across the UK.
The duo said they simply used wooden planks and rope to flatten corn in a circular fashion.
The pair started the tomfoolery in the 1970s to tease locals who believed in UFOs.
In the latter half of the 1990s more "circle makers", who tried to out do each other with the most complicated designs, emerged.
Pierre Breake*Jon Austin
Pierre Break says these were paranormal orbs filmed over a Wiltshire crop circle.
But despite the hoaxers outing themselves many years ago, there are now others, including Mr Beake, who refuse to believe they could make the "highly geometric" patterns and say there may be something much more paranormal behind them.
BOLs have been long linked to crop circles by people who continue to believe they are a paranormal event and possibly connected to alien visitations of Earth.
According to Palden.co.uk: "Balls of light have been seen a number of times around crop formations.
"They seem to be yellow-orange, floating around circles with signs of pattern or intent."
Mr Beake revealed his footage and photography and the myth Glastonbury Symposium, an annual conference dedicated to the paranormal, conspiracy theories, alternative thought, and new age philosophies.
He said: "When you go for the first time in a crop circle you can't explain the feeling.
This is incredible. There were 10 people on the hill. It is very good footage of people who went to see balls of light.
Pierre Breake
The researcher showed two separate videos showing what he said were BOLs travelling at high speed over crop circle hotspots.
He said: "Look at this video, you see a bright light on camera. You see it in the distance come across the field. It is windy, but it stays at the same speed with the same force. It is a good piece of footage of a ball of light."
Another clip was filmed at known crop circle hot spot Milk Hill, near Alton Priors in Wiltshire, with a number of people in the fields.
He said: "This is incredible. There were 10 people on the hill. It is very good footage of people who went to see balls of light."
Mr Beake showed the audience an array of pictures which he said were balls of light above crop circles, that could not be explained.
Referring to one, he said: "There were two big balls of light that just disappeared. There was no rain, no moisture. It was a hot day, you just can't explain it, it is very weird."
Discussing another, he said: "At Milk Hill you see two lights. You have to be there at the right time. I can't explain it, I didn't see them at the time. It is not a plane coming towards you it is part of the Wiltshire mystery."
However, Scott Brando, who runs debunking website ufoofinterest.org, believes Mr Beake could be mistaken.
Mr Brando looked at the video footage of supposed BOLs flying over the fields and said they were just out of focus birds swooping over.
In terms of balls of lights in still photographs, he said these could be caused by light refracting inside the lens and projecting an image onto the picture, which is why the photographer would not have seen it at the time.
Other causes could be raindrops on the lens, or light bouncing of an insect or other object in the air.
Geert Creynehet licht was zo gelijk een flare dat vliegtuigen kunnen uitgooien en die oplichten, maar zoals je kan zien, is het geen vliegtuig... er gebeuren hier rare dingen, niet ver van een militaire luchthaven.
A rare "pink rainbow" was spotted in the west of England on Monday evening.
The phenomenon, seen in Bristol, Taunton and Yate, has been described as an "optical illusion" by experts.
People who photographed it described it as "amazing" and "pretty" on BBC Points West's Facebook page .
BBC Weather presenter Simon King said there was no specific name for the phenomenon, which was caused by a regular rainbow and a pink sunset happening at the same time.
"We've got a regular rainbow, which is caused by water droplets in the atmosphere reflecting the sunlight into the spectrum of different colours," he said.
"The other thing is a pinkish sunset caused by sunlight having to pass through a lot more atmosphere - due to the low sun angle late in the day - hence the shortwave colours - violets, blues, greens - are diminished and we only see the pinks and reds, giving the rainbow a pinkish colour."
Maantje Prometheus schittert tussen de machtige ringen van Saturnus
Maantje Prometheus schittert tussen de machtige ringen van Saturnus
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Adembenemend mooi deze foto, gemaakt door een ruimtesonde die op zijn laatste benen loopt.
De machtige brede A-ring aan de linkerzijde van de foto is natuurlijk niet te missen. Maar toch trekt de aandacht direct naar de ietwat spookachtige, veel dunnere ring aan de andere kant. Het is de F-ring. Veel van de onregelmatigheden in deze ring zijn terug te leiden naar een piepklein maantje dat ook op de foto is vastgelegd: Prometheus. Hoewel het maantje slechts 86 kilometer groot is, is deze met zijn zwaartekracht van invloed op het uiterlijk van de dunne F-ring.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Space Science Institute.
Grande Finale De prachtige foto werd in mei gemaakt, maar is nu pas door NASA vrijgegeven. De foto is natuurlijk het werk van Cassini, de ruimtesonde die al sinds 2004 rond Saturnus cirkelt en sinds eind april bezig is aan zijn Grande Finale. Tijdens dit deel van de missie duikt de sonde herhaaldelijk in het gat tussen Saturnus en zijn ringen.
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Benieuwd naar de hoogtepunten van de Cassini-missie? Klik hier! Of bekijk hier de mooiste foto’s die de sonde in bijna twee decennia tijd heeft gemaakt.
Nachtzijde Op het moment dat Cassini de foto maakte, was deze zo’n 1,1 miljoen kilometer van Saturnus verwijderd. Cassini keek op dat moment tegen de nachtzijde van Prometheus aan, maar slaagde er wel in om een klein deel van het zonovergoten noordelijke halfrond van de maan te fotograferen.
Terwijl Cassini onverminderd doorgaat met prachtige foto’s maken en onderzoeksdata verzamelen, is het grote aftellen toch echt begonnen. Nog iets meer dan een maand en dan zal de sonde zich in de atmosfeer van Saturnus boren. Daarmee komt een einde aan een ruimtemissie die – van lancering tot laatste signaal – bijna twintig jaar heeft geduurd.
China's ruimtelab stort mogelijk nog dit jaar naar beneden
China's ruimtelab stort mogelijk nog dit jaar naar beneden
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Maar geen paniek: Tiangong-1 zal waarschijnlijk grotendeels in de atmosfeer verbranden.
Op dit moment bevindt het ruimtelab Tiangong-1 zich op zo’n 349 kilometer hoogte. Maar dagelijks zakt het lab zo’n 160 meter. En dus nadert het moment waarop het lab in de aardse atmosfeer belandt, snel. De Chinezen verwachten dat Tiangong-1 ergens tussen oktober 2017 en april 2018 de aardse atmosfeer binnendringt.
Kleine kans op schade Berekeningen wijzen echter uit dat het grootste deel van het lab de val door de atmosfeer niet overleeft. De kans dat onderdelen van het lab voor schade zorgen in de lucht of op de grond, wordt dan ook klein geacht.
Waarschuwing De Chinese ruimtevaartorganisatie houdt Tiangong-1 desalniettemin de komende tijd nauwlettend in de gaten. Wanneer de locatie waar en het moment waarop Tiangong-1 de atmosfeer binnendringt, nauwgezetter voorspeld kunnen worden, zullen de Chinezen dat wereldkundig maken. Indien nodig zal er dan ook een waarschuwing worden afgegeven.
Tiangong-2 Tiangong-1 werd op 29 september gelanceerd. In de jaren die volgden werd er zes keer bij het ruimtelab aangemeerd door de ruimtevaartuigen Shenzhou-8, Shenzhou-9 en Shenzhou-10. Sommige van die vluchten waren bemand. Sinds september 2016 wordt het ruimtelab echter niet meer gebruikt. In diezelfde maand lanceerden de Chinezen Tiangong-2, een ruimtelab waarin astronauten langduriger dan in Tiangong-1 kunnen vertoeven.
Tiangong-1 is heel belangrijk geweest voor de grote ambitie die China heeft: een eigen ruimtestation bezitten. Tot op heden is dat alleen de VS en Rusland weggelegd. Maar alles wijst erop dat dat binnenkort gaat veranderen.
Maak kennis met de North North Temperate Little Red Spot 1 (NN-LRS-1 voor intimi).
De storm wordt sinds 1993 in de gaten gehouden, maar is waarschijnlijk nog veel ouder. Het is een hogedrukgebied: het op twee na grootste dat Jupiter rijk is en doorgaans ongeveer 6000 kilometer lang.
De kleur van dit hogedrukgebied varieert tussen rood en beige. Op dit moment is het hogedrukgebied wit van kleur. Maar deze foto – gemaakt door ruimtesonde Juno – onthult dat het hart van de storm nog steeds roodkleurig is.
Juno maakte de foto op 10 juli toen deze voor de zevende keer langs Jupiter scheerde. Op het moment dat de foto gemaakt werd, was de sonde zo’n 11.444 kilometer van de wolkentoppen van Jupiter verwijderd. De foto is bewerkt door Gerald Eichstädt en Seán Doran. Zo is de foto iets gedraaid: bovenaan zien we de gebieden nabij de evenaar, terwijl onderaan de gebieden nabij de noordpool pronken.
Ruimtesonde Juno cirkelt alweer een jaar rond Jupiter en doet onder meer onderzoek naar het magnetisch veld en de kern van Jupiter. Ook zoekt de sonde uit hoeveel water er in de atmosfeer van Jupiter zit. Daarnaast heeft Juno al heel wat mooie kiekjes van de aarde gestuurd. Zo konden we dankzij de sonde vorig jaar voor het eerst een blik werpen op de noordpool van Jupiter.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS.
En wat dacht je van deze bewerkte foto? Hier zie je Jupiters Grote Rode Vlek zoals mensenogen die zouden waarnemen als we ons in de baan van Juno zouden bevinden.
Afbeelding: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SwRI / MSSS / Björn Jónsson.
'Ontstaan van menselijk geslacht was mogelijk toeval'
'Ontstaan van menselijk geslacht was mogelijk toeval'
Caroline Kraaijvanger
Het geslacht Homo – waartoe wij allemaal behoren – is mogelijk toch niet in reactie op klimaatverandering ontstaan.
Meer dan 2,5 miljoen jaar geleden ontstond een nieuw geslacht: Homo. En het ontstaan van dat geslacht wordt in verband gebracht met een verandering in het klimaat. Maar is dat wel terecht? Onderzoeker W. Andrew Barr trekt dat in een nieuwe studie – verschenen in het blad Paleobiology in twijfel.
Een fossielenverslag is eigenlijk alle informatie die we op basis van fossiele (versteende) resten hebben over het vóórkomen en de evolutie van organismen die door de tijden heen geleefd hebben.
Clusters Wanneer in een bepaald gebied grote veranderingen optreden – bijvoorbeeld doordat het klimaat verandert – heeft dat gevolgen voor de soorten die in dat gebied leven. Sommige soorten zullen uitsterven en anderen zullen het levenslicht zien. Met dat in het achterhoofd zou je verwachten dat nieuwe soorten in clusters ontstaan. En dat zien we ook terug in het fossielenverslag (zie kader). Maar hebben al die clusters nu een aanleiding of ontstaan ze soms ook toevallig? Dat heeft Barr nu uitgezocht.
Simulaties Hij gebruikte computersimulaties om uit te zoeken hoe het fossielenverslag eruit zou zien als er geen klimaatverandering plaats zou vinden. En ook zonder klimaatveranderingen bleken nieuwe soorten in clusters te ontstaan. De omvang van die clusters was vergelijkbaar met de clusters die we in het werkelijke fossielenverslag zien en toegeschreven worden aan klimaatverandering. Wat kunnen we daaruit afleiden? Nou, dat toeval een veel grotere rol speelt in het ontstaan van clusters dan gedacht.
Elke blauwe lijn staat symbool voor een soort: het begin is het ontstaan ervan, het einde is het uitsterven ervan. In het rode kader zie je een cluster van soortvorming.
Afbeelding: W. Andrew Barr.
Kop of munt Je kunt het vergelijken met het opwerpen van een munt, zo stelt Barr. Als je een munt 100 keer opgooit, zou je verwachten dat je vijftig keer munt en vijftig keer kop gooit. Maar als je vervolgens enkel kijkt naar tien van de honderd keer dat je de munt hebt opgegooid, kan het best zijn dat je ziet dat er drie keer munt en zeven keer kop is gegooid. In feite zie je dan in een serie worpen die geheel los van elkaar staan, clusters van munt en kop ontstaan. Op vergelijkbare wijze kunnen in het fossielenverslag flinke clusters ontstaan die puur het resultaat zijn van toeval en dus eigenlijk geen betekenis hebben, oftewel geen specifieke aanleiding hebben.
En dat betekent weer dat we wellicht ook ons eigen ontstaan eens kritisch onder de loep moeten nemen. “Het idee dat ons geslacht meer dan 2,5 miljoen jaar geleden als onderdeel van zo’n cluster in directe reactie op klimaatverandering ontstond, wordt al lang omarmd in de paleoantropologie,” stelt Barr. “Mijn studie laat zien dat de omvang van dat cluster veroorzaakt kan zijn door onwillekeurige fluctuaties in de snelheid van de soortvorming. Eén implicatie is dat we onze zoektocht naar waarom ons geslacht op dat moment en die plek ontstond, moeten uitbreiden.”
Skyfest this past weekend lured several dozens of people, and at least one of them recorded a video of what he believed a UFO. John Whichelow said that he never captured anything like it ever. The air show at Fairchild AFB involved the Thunderbirds and Whichelow thought he was just recording them at first, but when he watched the video again, he noticed two different UFOs in the frame.
Whichelow said that the UFOs were likely moving incredibly fast as they appeared when the announcer said that those jets were going 500 mph. According to the amateur videographer, some suggested that they could be meteors, birds or bugs close to the camera. However, he does not think it is any of those.
The video shows a mysterious white object passes across the frame before the Thunderbirds pass each other. At around 36 seconds later, a smaller black object appears following behind the ascending Thunderbird.
Whichelow believes what Carl Sagan had stated saying that there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on the beach. With stars that many, Whichelow believes many are older than ours and humanity will get to the stars someday. Whichelow further explains that the possibility that someone has gotten here already from the older stars makes a lot of sense.
Researchers Document Large UFO in Squamish On Video
Researchers Document Large UFO in Squamish On Video
A giant orb that was captured on video near the Stawamus Chief excites London, Ontario documentary and research crew Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb. The pair has travelled to 30 cities and 11 countries in the past three years with a determination to document what is out there after being inspired by experiences during their childhood years.
The sighting is the best they got on video to date, according to Freeman, who is a senior field researcher for the scientific study of atmospheric anomalies. Freeman added that the happenings in the world are not known to many people.
The crew used night imaging technology for collecting data to see the visible and invisible. On July 22, the pair arrived in Squamish. An unnamed man at the Britannia Mine gift shop shared them a story on unusual things on the Chief trail.
When the night came, the duo entered the forest and soon after they reportedly saw a large sphere of light moving across the sky and descending into the woods.
The UFO has no sound, and they were certain it was not a plane.
While the sighting was just short, Freeman was able to record the thing. Freeman explained that the orb was in front of the trees because the trees behind the orb were all lit up.
Any scientist who publicly shares information that could challenge the belief systems of many will always come under public scrutiny and ridicule. But when you worked on space plasma technologies, nuclear fusion, and advanced space propulsion, and invented the Microwave Electro-Thermal plasma thruster using water propellant for space propulsion, people are probably going to take you seriously.
This is the case with Dr. John Brandenburg and, apart from what’s listed above, he has also worked for the Government with top-secret security clearances on various projects. He has worked on the Rocket Plume Regolith Interactions on the Moon and Mars, Vortex theory of Rocket engine design and the combined Sakharov-Kaluza-Klein theory of Field Unification for purposes of space propulsion and Mars science.
Brandenburg was also the Deputy Manager of the Clementine Mission to the Moon, which was part of a joint space project between the Ballistic Missile Defence Organization (BMDO) and NASA. The mission discovered water at the Moon’s poles in 1994. (Source: page 16 of 18)(source)(source)
He currently works as a consultant to Morningstar Applied Physics. Here is one of his latest research endeavours. Currently, Brandenburg works as a part time instructor of Astronomy, Physics and Mathematics at Madison College, and other learning institutions in Madison, Wisconsin.
He has quite the extensive background to say the least, and is now one of hundreds of people from the ‘inside’ with verified backgrounds and credentials to ‘blow the whistle’ on our world of secrecy. The fact that so many people are now stepping forward to speak allows one to listen, corroborate, and connect the dots between the testimony, as well as the verified information that’s already available in the mainstream.
It’s up to you to make your own conclusions from the information that’s available.
According To Brandenburg
“Mars presents the human race with a Darwinian intelligence test, and so-far, we are failing it. Scientists cannot connect the dots at Mars because the resulting picture is too terrifying to accept.”
In the presentation below, Brandenburg provides evidence in support of an Earth-like Mars in the past, followed by a presentation of nuclear data revealing ‘weapon-signature’ isotopes showing two massive nuclear “airbursts” in the Northern regions of Mars.
It’s important to note that, at the same time Brandenburg was giving his presentation on evidence in support of an Earth-like Mars in the past, NASA held a press conference announcing that Mars was once a planet very much like Earth, with multiple giant oceans and greenery. In the conference, the scientists also announced that that Mars could still have flowing rivers of water on it, and that there was a good probability that life did indeed exist there in the past.
A quote from the conference:
“The more we observe Mars, the more information we’re getting that it really is a fascinating planet, from the Curiosity Rover we now know that Mars once was like a planet very much like Earth, with long salty seas, with fresh water lakes, probably with snow capped peaks and clouds and a water cycle just like we’re studying here on Earth … Something has happened to Mars, it lost its water.”
– John Grunsfeld, five time space flown astronaut, Associate Administrator Head of NASA Science Mission Directive
So, just to make this clear, this is information that is well embedded into the mainstream scientific community as well. You can view that full conference below if interested.
In the conference they discuss how something happened to the planet, but state that they don’t know what, despite the fact that they probably do, as Brandenburg’s lecture would hint. He shows how “anybody who can read a map” can see that both of the nuclear explosion sites are correlated to dump their strongest shock-waves and fallout downwind on Cydonia mesa and Galaxias Chaos, two sites on Mars that have been surrounded in controversy as possible locations of ancient archeology.
In the lecture he provides evidence for a Bronze Age type of civilization consisting of millions of people, destroyed by a massive nuclear blast.
He paints a dark portrait of an entire planet beyond change and destroyed by a nuclear massacre, and that the US government has been aware of this evidence since 1976. According to Brandenburg, the civilization was not advanced enough to create such a nuclear reaction, and therefore the blast must have been initiated by another civilization.
That being said, civilizations of Earth’s past who have constructed faces and pyramids like that which are seen on Mars (more on that in the lecture), have been labelled as primitive to us, despite the fact that many scholars believe these to be extremely advanced civilizations, which they were, with technologies beyond our own so, who knows, maybe the civilization on Mars was not subjected to annihilation by another race, but rather themselves.
What’s even more fascinating is that the Pentagon gave him permission to publish his data and put it out into the mainstream, which he did so in a book he published about it. He also discusses why he was given permission to do so in his lecture.
This all paints a scenario of a planetary nuclear massacre, according to Brandenburg. He also points out that that the US government has been aware of this evidence since 1976. Brandenburg is quite certain that the government, and his/their research, points to annihilation by another intelligent force.
I’ll leave you with this quote from the end of his lecture, that clearly points to the fact he is not sharing all that he knows.
“Secrecy within government is an evil that’s sometimes necessary, but I think it’s a good thing that this cover-up on Mars is ending, and, hopefully at some point we can sit down and have a frank conversation not about what happened on Mars 250 million years ago but what is happening right now” (56:34)
Why Is This Important?
The biggest possible implication is to look inward at ourselves, and as one human race start taking the necessary steps to ‘repair’ the planet. Perhaps some type of realization like this could bring humanity closer together in some sort of way? Perhaps our species is at a critical point in its development, and ET contact plays some sort of role in that realization? Perhaps there are too many implications to contemplate.
One thing is for certain, and that’s the fact that the idea of intelligent civilizations have been visiting our planet, and have in the past, and that this is known, is really not that far fetched. Something is definitely going on.
I go more in-depth in an article I wrote earlier about the implications of ET contact, with more info about the UFO phenomenon. You can read that here.
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Large UFO caught on video in Squamish
Large UFO caught on video in Squamish
Visiting enthusiasts document atmospheric anomaly
MELANIE GREEN / SQUAMISH CHIEF
A giant orb floats across the sky above the Stawamus Chief on July 22.
Photo: Submitted photo
Alarge orb captured on video near the Stawamus Chief has excited a documentary and research crew from London, Ont.
Rob Freeman and Marcus McNabb have travelled to 11 countries and 30 cities in the past three years determined to record what is out there, after being inspired from a childhood experience.
Freeman, a senior field researcher for the Centre for the Scientific Study of Atmospheric Anomalies, said the sighting is the best footage they’ve recorded to date.
“This is such a fascinating path that we are on,” Freeman said. “Most people have no idea what’s happening in the world.”
The pair initially started out to make a documentary but McNabb now describes it as a movement.
To collect data, the crew used night imaging technology spanning the electromagnetic spectrum to see the visible and invisible, as well as a camera fondly called the “weapon of mass detection.”
When the crew arrived in Squamish on July 22, a stranger at the Britannia Mine gift shop told them special things shine on the Chief trail. “It was breathtakingly majestic,” Freeman said of the rock face.
As night fell, they entered the forest. Soon after, he said, a giant sphere of light moved across the sky and descended into the woods.
“At first we thought it was an airplane,” Freeman said. “There was absolutely no sound… then we absolutely knew it was no airplane.”
The sighting was brief, but Freeman recorded about 10 seconds after rummaging for gear.
“The trees behind the orb were all lit up,” he explained. “That means it was in front of the trees.”
They planned the trip to B.C. specifically to meet Charles Lamoureux, a Vancouver-based online skywatcher featured in local news reports.
Lamoureux documents the inexplicable phenomena, often seeing them move over Cypress and toward Horseshoe Bay. He made his own film, Nocturnal Lights, and is currently working with SFU on a paranormal program.
Orbs can vary in size, known to blink amber or white light when zipping off, he explained. On July 20, the group tracked an orb with thermal gear from Vanier Park toward the mountains.
Lamoureux suggested going to Squamish, though didn’t head out that night due to rain.
“People at the Chief have actually seen lighted orbs or spheres,” he says, citing Internet videos.
Lamoureux was disappointed to miss the sighting. He fact-checked the video the crew immediately sent, confirming it was not a plane, drone, satellite or meteor, after no such YVR documented routes were found.
The Mutual UFO Network, an international organization originating in 1969 that collects and researches data specific to sky watching, said it is incredible footage.
“This is the clearest orb video so far this year,” the spokesperson responded.
“The Chief is a sacred mountain,” Freeman said. “Lights are found in ancient spots like Peru or Norway. Whatever it is, in every single country on every single expedition, we’ve got something.”
Charles Lamoureux is a former UFO skeptic who now says he is a “true believer.” He is an avid skywatcher and amateur astronomer in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has been convinced that UFOs represent a true mystery due to the number of anomalous objects he has seen and/or captured on video. He has collected several video capture devices, including night vision and infrared, and has attached them to one device he calls a Skywatcher’s Mobile Unit (SMU).
In this interview we talk to Charles about a new documentary, Nocturnal Lights, about his skywatching and UFO research. It has just been released online, and Charles says it includes some of his best UFO videos.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Stacey Wright and Jim Mann have been running the Phoenix area chapter of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) for over a decade. Soon after, they took over the entire state as State Director and Assistant Director. Their meetings have grown from 4 people to now over 100, regularly. They also enlisted the help of Dennis Freyermuth as a Chief Investigator, who has done a spectacular job managing UFO investigations. For their efforts, Arizona MUFON was awarded the chapter of the year at the recent MUFON Symposium. It was the first time the award has ever been given.
In this interview, we talk to Jim and Stacey about how they grew the chapter, why they decided to do it in the first place, other ways they keep their group active, and about the Phoenix Lights, the most famous UFO case in Arizona, and one of the most famous in the world.
Dear NASA, My name is Jack Davis and I would like to apply for the for the planetary protection officer job. I may be 9, but I think I would be fit for the job. One of the reasons is my sister says I am an alien. Also I have seen almost all the space and alien movies that I can see. I have also seen the show ‘Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and hope to see the movie ‘Men in Black.’ I am great at video games. I am young, so I can learn to think like an alien.
The NASA post seeks someone to protect Mother Earth when space exploration missions go into the final frontier.
“NASA maintains policies for planetary protection applicable to all space flight missions that may intentionally or unintentionally carry Earth organisms and organic constituents to the planets or other solar system bodies, and any mission employing spacecraft, which are intended to return to Earth and its biosphere with samples from extraterrestrial targets of exploration,” the job post reads.
The position has been around for decades but recently went into orbit, pardon the pun, no doubt thanks to the word “extraterrestrial” in the job description. The ensuing buzz may explain why the precocious youngster from New Jersey decided to set his sights on the gig.
Dr. James L. Green, director of NASA’s planetary science division, took the time to respond:
“We are always looking for bright future scientists and engineers to help us, so I hope you will study hard and do well in school,” it read. “We hope to see you here at NASA one of these days!”
Green also worked in a little clarification about the job: “Our planetary protection officer position is really cool and is very important work. It’s about protecting Earth from tiny microbes when we bring back samples from the Moon, asteroids and Mars. It’s also about protecting other planets and moons from our germs as we responsibly explore the Solar System.”
Here are both letters, which NASA has posted on its official site:
Colleagues offer tribute to one-of-a-kind north Texas author
Colleagues offer tribute to one-of-a-kind north Texas author
Infamous North Texas author and world renowned JFK conspiracy theorist died in FW home
Kevin Reece, WFAA
When I met Jim Marrs for the first time he agreed to talk about one of his favorite subjects.
"Yeah, think it happened," he said on the 120th anniversary of the alien incident of 1897 in the North Texas town of Aurora. It's the infamous tale of an alien spaceship that allegedly crashed in the town north of Fort Worth and whose occupant was given a "good Christian burial" in the town cemetery.
Decades later Marrs and a colleague took a metal detector to the grave and found readings for possible metal fragments. But the next day the readings disappeared.
"He said I think it was the government and I said I think you're right," Marrs said with a laugh.
"The personification of a good Texas man. Honest as the day is long," said former Fort Worth Star Telegram colleague Donna Darovich. “If you looked up character in the dictionary it would say Jim Marrs. He was the personification of a character."
Marrs was a long-time reporter for the Fort Worth Star Telegram. He was also the author of a dozen books including Alien Agenda and the book Crossfire - The Plot that Killed Kennedy. The conspiracy narrative became much of the motivation for the Hollywood movie by Oliver Stone.
"Jim was one of the first people to find his niche and stuck to it and found a great audience," said Fort Worth Star Telegram columnist Bud Kennedy. "What I admire about Jim is that I don't really believe everything he wrote but I believe he knew how to sell books."
Jim Marrs died of a heart attack last week at the age of 73. Tributes poured in over social media over the weekend from across the world.
"I can't think of him as not being vibrant and alive somewhere in the cosmos," said Linda Moulton Howe, an investigative reporter in Albuquerque, New Mexico who became friends with Marrs at multiple conferences across the country. She admired him for his dogged determination to get government officials to answer long-standing questions and conspiracies.
"Jim Marrs' 12 books have helped open up minds to facts that were contradictory to US policies of denial. His work I think will live on and on because that is all that Jim Marrs wanted to do - find out the truth and report it in the face of political agendas, policies of denials and lies."
"I believe in a God," Jim Marrs told me in our conversation about aliens and UFO's. "But, I know there are UFO's," he laughed.
"A wild and wacky guy but a really sweet good ole Texas boy," said Darovich.
A good ole Texas boy, journalist, and author whose influence and who's countless questions live on.
Open Minds UFO Radio: Earl Grey Anderson is a musician who investigates UFOs. In music, he has worked as a guitarists, vocalist, singer and songwriter. When it comes to UFOs, he holds several positions with the Mutual UFO Network. He is Assistant State Director for Southern California, Chief Field Investigator, and a member of MUFON’s STAR Team.
Earl Grey is a also a listener of Open Minds UFO Radio and active member in the Open Minds UFO News Facebook group. HIs name has come up on the show and on OpenMinds.tv several times in relation to UFO sightings in California, so we decided we might as well bring him on as a guest. It is a good thing we did too, because he is even more interesting than we thought. In this episode, among other things, we discuss how Earl Great got into this field, his mother’s incredible relation to the phenomenon, and how Earl Grey got his name.
His name was Sanakhat or Sa-Nakhat and he reigned for about 18 years as an Egyptian pharaoh in the Third Dynasty during the Old Kingdom, starting around 2650 BCE. His remains were found in 1901 in a tomb, not a pyramid, near Beit Khallaf in upper Egypt, the location of a number of Third Dynasty tombs. Not much else was known about Sanakhat until a recent study took another look at his skull and bones and determined that he not only ruled over but also towered over his subjects because he was … a giant!
The report in the August issue of The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology opens with the usual caveat that the term ‘giant’ is relative to the size of everyone else living at the time, but Sanakhat’s size was unusual in a number of ways. Led by Francesco M. Galassi, from the University of Zurich, researchers took a number of new and detailed measurements of Sanakht’s skeletal remains, extrapolated his probable size and compared it to known data on the size of the average Egyptian 4,700 years ago.
Possible skull of Sanakht
(Credit: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)
What they found was big. Sanakht was at least 187 cm or 6 foot 1 inches tall. That would make him a small NBA player today but a giant among his fellow, albeit non-royal, Egyptians who averaged about 162.5 cm or 5 foot 4 inches. That huge height difference is much more than what could be attributed to the royals eating better than the commoners, so the researchers concluded that Sanakht was a true Egyptian giant. And not just any giant. Based on archeological records, Sanakht was taller than any known Egyptian pharaoh before or after him.
What made Sanakht a giant? Before anyone starts shouting “Alien!”, the researchers anticipated the question. They found that his bones showed “signs of exuberant growth” but his skull did not. Today, those are indicators of gigantism, a hormonal condition that results in abnormal and excessive growth in young children (if the growth occurs in adulthood, it’s known as acromegaly) and is generally caused by a tumor in the pituitary gland. While today it can be treated if identified early, that obviously wasn’t the case in 2650 BCE.
Relief fragment of image believed to be Pharaoh Sanakht from The British Museum
That date — 2650 BCE – is significant because it makes Sanakht the oldest known case of gigantism … if it’s really Sanakht. While the remains were found in an elite tomb in an area known for having tombs from the Third Dynasty, there’s little to identify these as Sanakht. Also, the giant size of the skeleton is unique among other short-statured Third Dynasty rulers he would have been related to. The tomb contained nothing more that would show Sanakht’s actual dates of ruling nor his place in the dynastic line.
Whether the remains are Sanakht or some other elite individual, the discovery is important because it dates the condition of gigantism further back in history – potentially explaining many other stories of giants – and it shows that, in a culture that preferred short people and revered dwarfs, a giant was also considered special.
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We Explored NASA's Concept Mars Rover, and It Was Out of This World
We Explored NASA's Concept Mars Rover, and It Was Out of This World
By Jesse Emspak, Space.com Contributor
NEW YORK — Automakers aren't the only ones who make concept cars. NASA does too, but this one is for off-roading on Mars.
The Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex's Mars rover concept vehicle arrived at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum today (Aug. 4), where it will remain on exhibit until Sunday (Aug. 6). Its arrival is part of Kennedy Space Center's Summer of Mars Experience Tour.
The Intrepid is currently hosting its Space and Science Festival. (Space.com will have a booth and display there Aug. 5 and 6.) The festival features demonstrations from NASA, local educators and universities, and NASA staffers will give talks about travel to other planets.
With input from NASA engineers and based on their specifications, Cape Canaveral, Florida-based Parker Brothers Concepts built the vehicle. The rover weighs about 5,500 lbs. (2,500 kilograms) and has six wheels designed with open structures rather than air-filled tires, similar to those on the Mars Curiosity rover currently exploring Mars. The interior looks more like an aircraft than a road vehicle, and it has seats for a driver and a co-pilot, as well as one behind those two. The interior also includes a glove box, which would hold Martian soil and rock samples.
Odds are, a real crewed Martian rover wouldn't look quite like this: A look at the pictures of prototype rovers designed by NASA shows a very different design aesthetic.
For one thing, it's unlikely to be black, since any astronaut vehicle must reflect radiation, not absorb it. Keeping the interior cool in an atmosphere like that of Mars, which has only 1 percent the pressure of Earth, is as big a problem as staying warm on a planet that can reach minus 243 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 153 degrees Celsius) at the poles. It probably would also dispense with the flashy blue LEDs on the side.
That said, the vehicle is a good look at possible future Mars rovers, Massimino told Space.com. "It's meant to inspire people," he said. "This isn't the design they'd use."
Massimino, who flew on two space shuttle missions (one of which was the last to repair the Hubble Space Telescope), notedthat even though the United States doesn't currently send humans to space on its own spacecraft (it relies on Russian Soyuz craft to get to and from the International Space Station), the country will be able to do so when the Orion crew vehicle is ready (NASA estimates range from 2021 to 2023). He is also optimistic that private spaceflight companies such as SpaceX and Boeing will come up with new designs, even as NASA tries to get the next-generation Space Launch System, which would propel Orion, ready to fly. "It doesn't all have to be NASA," he said.
In addition, Massimino noted that such concept vehicles can help define the engineering parameters that scientists, astronauts and NASA want. The glove box, for example — which, in the concept vehicle, takes up the right side of the back compartment — might change as future design iterations reflect what planetary scientists need — for example, more space for instruments.
Such a rover would be the largest object humans have ever sent to another world. The Curiosity rover weighs about 2,000 lbs. (900 kilograms), which is more than one-third the weight of the concept rover. Therefore, launching that kind of equipment would need either multiple launches or a single heavy-lift rocket. According to SpaceX, the company's current Falcon 9 rocket can lift about 4,000 lbs. (1,800 kg) to the Red Planet; SpaceX says the upcoming Falcon Heavy rocket will be able to get 16,800 lbs. (7,620 kg) there, though that hasn't been fully tested or proven yet.
Technical challenges aside, Massimino said what's really necessary is commitment — and funding is only a part of the equation. "I could see a cooperative mission," he said, in which the U.S. would share some costs with another country. "People have figuredout a lot about how to get there and [how] to stay alive," he added. "We can definitely do it."
After 5 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries
After 5 Years on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Rover Is Still Making Big Discoveries
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
Five years after touching down on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover mission is still making big discoveries.
On the night of Aug. 5, 2012, the car-size robot aced a dramatic and harrowing landing, settling softly onto the Red Planet's surface after being lowered on cables by a rocket-powered "sky crane." The success of this unprecedented (and seemingly improbable) maneuver sparked eruptions of emotion at mssion control at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California — and at late-night viewing parties all over the world.
Curiosity landed on Mars at 10:17 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, that's 1:17 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6 (0517 GMT), with the signal of its success reaching Earth 14 minutes later after crossing the 154 million miles between Mars and Earth.
Within weeks of its arrival inside Mars' 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale Crater, Curiosity hit scientific pay dirt, rolling through an ancient streambed where water once flowed. And, not long after that, mission scientists revealed a bombshell: Billions of years ago, a nearby area known as Yellowknife Bay was part of a lake that could have supported microbial life. [The 10 Biggest Moments from Curiosity's First 5 Years on Mars]
But that's not where Curiosity's story ends. The rover has continued to piece together details about the ancient Gale Crater environment — work that has led to another exciting find.
"I feel like we're arriving at a second conclusion from the mission that's just as powerful as the first, which is that habitable environments persisted on Mars for at least millions of years," Curiosity project scientist Ashwin Vasavada, of JPL, told Space.com.
Rolling up Mount Sharp
Curiosity worked near its landing site on Gale's floor for its first year on Mars. Then, the nuclear-powered rover began a 5-mile (8 km) trek to the towering Mount Sharp, which rises about 3.4 miles (5.5 km) into the Red Planet sky from Gale's center.
The mountain's foothills had long been Curiosity's main science destination, even before the rover's November 2011 launch. Mission team members wanted the six-wheeled robot to work its way up through Mount Sharp's lower reaches, studying the rock layers there for clues about Mars' long-ago transition from a relatively warm and wet world to the cold, arid place it is today.
And that's what Curiosity has been doing for the past three years. Since arriving at Mount Sharp in September 2014, the robot has climbed about 600 vertical feet (180 meters), drilling, sampling and studying numerous rocks that are part of a geological division that mission scientists call the Murray Formation.
Curiosity found that most of this rock is fine-grained mudstone — classic lake-bed deposits, Vasavada said. Such deposits on Earth generally take millions of years to accumulate, leading the team to conclude that Gale Crater's lake system was long-lasting.
That's a big deal, because Curiosity's work at Yellowknife Bay captured just "a snapshot in time," Vasavada said.
Based on the initial findings, "that lake may only have been around for 100 or 1,000 years at the minimum," he said. "There was a risk that our habitability discovery only applied to a short amount of time." [Photos: Ancient Mars Lake Could Have Supported Life]
More work to do
Curiosity has already seen some changes during its climb up Mount Sharp. For example, the mudstone was pretty much continuous at and near the mountain's base, but that finely grained stuff gets broken up by other deposits closer to the top of the Murray Formation, Vasavada said.
"There are intervals of deposits that are consistent with forming in near-shore environments where rivers are reaching the edge of the lake, or even in dry environments where the lake has presumably receded," he said. "But the lake then reappears."
And Gale Crater likely remained habitable even through such periodic dry spells, Vasavada added. That's because groundwater probably remained, even if the lake site was dry on the surface.
This groundwater also outlasted the lakes, he said. Mission scientists know this because Curiosity has spotted evidence that liquid water flowed through Gale's lake deposits after they dried out and were buried, compressed and fractured.
"So there's a whole other era of water that's, by definition, after the lakes," Vasavada said. "It suggests that the water was there even longer than the timescale of the lakes."
Vasavada and his colleagues hope to learn more about this other era, and Gale's early history in general, as Curiosity goes higher up the mountain. Ideally, mission scientists would like to reach three other rock layers that are above the Murray Formation. The first is Vera Rubin Ridge, a feature with lots of the iron-containing mineral hematite; the second is a clay-rich unit; and the third is one dominated by sulfates.
The clay unit was probably exposed to lots of liquid water in the ancient past, whereas sulfates imply that water was scarcer, Vasavada said.
"There's this idea that you go from the clays to the sulfates, and you're going to be witnessing some kind of drying out of the environment at Gale Crater," he said. "Whether that has anything to do with the global drying out of Mars we'd love to figure out. But at the very least, it's a major environmental change within Gale Crater."
Curiosity has already been eyeing Vera Rubin Ridge and should start studying the formation in earnest in the next month or two, Vasavada said. If everything goes according to plan, the rover should get to the clay unit by the end of the year and arrive at the sulfate region, which is about 650 feet (200 m) above Curiosity's current location, a year or two after that.
"In the next three years or so, we'll probably see all of those units," Vasavada said.
In good health (mostly)
Curiosity has already far outlasted its warranty; the rover's $2.5 billion mission was originally scheduled to last just two Earth years.
But there's no reason to think Curiosity won't be able to power through three more years on the Red Planet; the rover is in good shape overall, Vasavada said. (The mission team has been able to slow an initially worrying rate of wheel damage, primarily by choosing routes with softer ground, he added.)
But one major health problem continues to afflict Curiosity: The rover has been unable to use its drill since December 2016. This is a big blow, because the drill — which sits at the end of Curiosity's 7-foot-long (2.1 m) robotic arm — allows the robot to access the pristine interiors of rocks and, therefore, characterize ancient environments. (Without this capability, the rover is mostly limited to analyzing surface material such as sand, which was shaped and altered in the recent past.)
The issue lies in the drill feed mechanism, which moves the drill bit forward and backward. Until about a month ago, Curiosity engineers were focused primarily on diagnosing the problem and fixing it in a way that would restore normal drill operations, Vasavada said. But the team is now investigating an alternative drilling method — using the arm itself, not the feed motor, to move the drill.
"That requires a lot of work — to figure out if that's safe, and to figure out how to do it, and how to command it," Vasavada said. "But it's promising, and that may be where we concentrate our efforts going forward."
Though he and other mission team members are chiefly concerned with the future — fixing the drill and continuing Curiosity's climb up Mount Sharp, for example — the events of Aug. 5, 2012, still have a special place in Vasavada's heart.
"When I look at the landing video, I still get really emotional; I have a hard time giving talks when I show the video, because it takes me like a minute to recover," he said. "It's remembering the emotion of that night, where your whole career is depending on seven minutes of this stuff going right — and when it actually did work, realizing that you had a future."
Note: Space.com Senior Producer Steve Spaleta contributed to this report.
Life in the Saturn System? Cassini Has Shown It's Possible
Life in the Saturn System? Cassini Has Shown It's Possible
By Dave Brody, Executive Producer
The complex choreographyof Saturn's numerous moons displays beautiful physics, but only a few of the worlds may be friendly to life.
Oceans of liquid water, deep beneath the icy crusts of three of Saturn's natural satellites, may satisfy the conditions needed for "life as we know it," scientists say. The small, bright-white Enceladus and Dione, and the giant, orange, haze-enshrouded Titan each probably contain such subsurface seas. But the unique structure and contents of each ocean represent a different possible solution to the life equation.
The Cassini-Huygens mission — a collaboration of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency — has been a prolific pioneer of Saturn's moons. When the mission launched in 1997, 18 moons were known to orbit the planet, and 13 more were suspected. But the number of confirmed moons now stands at 53, with another nine marked as "conditional." Cassini's data revealed seven entirely unknown moons that are not observable from Earth. [The Rings and Moons of Saturn in Pictures]
This elaborate system of moons forms a complex clockwork of gravitational resonances; they perturb one another's orbits and constantly sculpt Saturn's rings. And the massive planet gravitationally disrupts the moons, warming some of them to the point of possibly swaddling life beneath their surfaces.
The first hints that something wonderful might be going on beneath the surface of the small moon Enceladus came during the 1981 flyby mission of NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft. Enceladus appeared remarkably bright and unusually smooth, with comparatively few craters. This 314-mile-wide (505 kilometers) moon turned out to be the whitest object in the solar system.
In 2005, Cassini's magnetometer readings of Enceladus raised researchers' eyebrows: The moon's magnetic signature looked more like that of a comet than that of a typical spherical satellite. The field lines seemed to bend around Enceladus' southern pole. On a pass where Enceladus was seen against the black background of space, Cassini's cameras caught plumes of water emanating from that polar region.
Several Cassini flybys confirmed that the area was about 180 degrees Fahrenheit (100 degrees Celsius) warmer than the rest of the moon's surface. The heat source was aligned with four prominent "tiger stripe" features. These turned out to be fissures — cracks in the icy crust through which geysers shoot water into space at about 800 mph (about 1,300 km/h).
Cassini sailed within 31 miles (50 km) of Enceladus' south pole on March 12, 2008. During that flyby, the probe sampled the plumes, and found that they were made of water laced with ammonia, methane and carbon dioxide. More flybys were planned. By April 2014, it was clear that some of the geyser particles were salty, flavored with potassium and sodium, very similar to Earthly sea spray. Hydrogen gas was detected in the jets, as were silicate crystals, which could only have been formed in boiling water, scientists said. [Photos: Enceladus, Saturn's Cold, Bright Moon]
This evidence, taken together, suggests the presence of a salty ocean of liquid water under the ice, in contact with a hot, rocky seafloor through which mineral-laden hot water flows. It is easy to imagine hydrothermal vents there, very similar to the "black smokers" and "white smokers" found on the bottom of Earth's oceans, where they form oases for communities of life.
Enceladus seems to be begging us to return with instruments capable of detecting amino acids, fatty acids and long-chain carbon molecules — and perhaps even imaging equipment to photograph any possible microorganisms themselves.
Titan, which is 10 times wider than Enceladus, is also a world of liquids. But the fluids flowing on Titan's surface are hydrocarbons, not water. At Titan's surface temperature, water is rock-hard. But methane, ethane and propane slosh around in all three states: solid, liquid and gaseous. The surface of this moon is nearly impossible to see from space at visual wavelengths; thick, orange smog pervades the place. This hazy atmosphere is rich with organic compounds.
Fortunately, Cassini can see in infrared and radar wavelengths. And the Cassini orbiter carried a lander called Huygens, which touched down on Titan's surface in January 2005. Huygens carried cameras down through the atmosphere. And, upon soft-landing on the shore of a hydrocarbon lake, it sent close-ups of rounded pebbles, which were probably made of water. The landforms on Titan are eerily familiar; they look a lot like coastlines and river lands on Earth.
Titan, too, must be warm inside. This moon changes shape as it orbits Saturn once every 16 days. Cassini measured Titan's tidal bulging, finding the surface rising and falling on the order of 30 feet (9 meters). If Titan were completely solid, those tides would be at least 10 times less pronounced, scientists have said.
But the floor of Titan's subsurface ocean may be compacted and frozen, not warm, scientists have said. This could prevent warm liquid water from receiving the complex mix of minerals necessary for life to arise, at least from below. Therefore, it's critical to know if the organic-rich surface of Titan can "communicate" with the subsurface seas.
One great mystery about Titan is how so much methane can be present at its surface. Methane breaks down quickly, so something must be replenishing it. If there are deep cracks, or cryovolcanic vents, through which ammonia from a salty underground ocean may rise, sunlight would break down the molecules, thus liberating lots of methane. That same pathway could let surface material and atmospheric organic material seep or slide down to the waters beneath. In that case, life may be possible within Titan's interior ocean, even if its floor is frozen. [Amazing Photos: Titan, Saturn's Largest Moon]
Like Enceladus and Titan, the Saturnian moons Dione and Tethys are subject to the warping and twisting effects of Saturn's tidal gravity. And both of these worlds show bright, relatively smooth and roughly circular surface patches where ponds of liquid water appear to have frozen across craters. They would make nice skating rinks. These events likely happened relatively recently on geologic time scales.
Dione is similar to Enceladus but, at 700 miles (1,100 km) in diameter, is about two times larger. Dione's icy crust is much thicker than that of Enceladus, boasting a substantial 60 miles (100 km) of crystallized water. But a recent study based on Cassini's gravity measurements suggests that a tremendous quantity of liquid water sloshes beneath that shell.
The floor of Dione's subsurface ocean is probably the rocky core of the moon itself, according to the study. A future submarine probe may find many sources of heat and mineral nutrients to sustain life, if biology ever began there — or was seeded from afar. Dione's waters likely have been liquid through most of the moon's history, adding the vital element of time for biology to evolve and differentiate, researchers have said.
Such "snow-globe worlds" — bodies with cold crystal exteriors housing warm liquid oceans full of particles cascading and mixing — are not unique to Saturn.
The dwarf planet Pluto may enclose such an ocean. Pluto and its largest moon Charon, which is about half as wide as the dwarf planet itself, can be considered a binary system. Their mutual attraction may heat up their interiors, and parts of Pluto seem to have been resurfaced in the recent past, scientists have said.
Giant Jupiter exerts massive tidal forces on the four large moons first noted by Galileo Galilei four centuries ago. The innermost of these moons, Io, almost seems to be turning inside out. More than 400 active sulfur volcanoes blast this moon's guts into space. Its core of molten iron singes the surface from below. Of the worlds in our solar system, Io may bear the closest resemblance to classical notions of hell. All of its water long since lost, it's the driest object in the solar system.
There are no water oceans on Io. But each of its three siblings — Europa, Ganymede and Callisto — encloses a sea beneath its surface.
Europa, which is slightly smaller than Earth's moon, holds a thin oxygen atmosphere. This world sports the smoothest surface in the solar system, with very few impact craters, implying that it's being repaved with water ice from inside, scientists have said. Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have spotted hints of water-vapor plumes emanating from Europa that may be similar to the "cryogeysers" of Enceladus.
Saturn's ocean-harboring moons get most of the press, but the ringed planet's many dry satellites are fascinating in their own right. Each Saturnian moon is a unique jewel in the majestic planet's necklace.
Some of these moons, like Mimas, look like the results of ancient, catastrophic collisions. Shady Phoebe, with its inky-black surface, pours matter out into space. It tints the rings and stains one hemisphere of Iapetus, the "next moon in" toward Saturn, with dark reddish shading. Sparky Hyperion is lightweight and spongy — almost like a giant piece of volcanic pumice — and electrically active. A few moons apparently are captured asteroids, visitors from deep space that strayed too close. And Cassini has spotted clumpy cocoons within the rings where tiny future moons may be growing. Together, the many moons of Saturn form an enthralling exhibit of nature's creativity.
For a deeper look into all that Cassini has found in its 13 years in the Saturn system, watch the 73-minute documentary "Kingdom of Saturn — Cassini's Epic Quest," available at Amazon XiveTV.
The author, @DavidSkyBrody, is the writer and director of "Kingdom of Saturn — Cassini's Epic Quest," a documentary look back at the mission, available at Amazon XiveTV. Dave Brody was formerly executive producer at Purch, the parent company of Space.com and Live Science.
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