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Mar 31, 2016 13:05:44 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 31, 2016 13:05:44 GMT -6
pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/29/ufo-strikes-giant-planet-on-st-patricks-day/ UFO Strikes Giant Planet on St. Patrick's Day!By Michael Walsh March 29, 2016 So this is weird: Astronomers have captured video evidence of a collision between Jupiter and a small celestial object, likely a comet or asteroid. Though it looks like a small blip of light, the resulting explosion was unusually powerful. As Phil Plait of Bad Astronomyreports, the collision occurred on March 17, but confirmation of the event only emerged this week. An amateur Austrian astronomer used a 20-centimeter telescope to chronicle the unexpected event, but it could’ve been some kind of visual artifact. A second video taken at the same time with a 28 cm telescope in Ireland has now confirmed it as an actual impact. From a fuller account in Slate: On March 17, Gerrit Kernbauer, an amateur astronomer in Mödling, Austria, was taking video of Jupiter using a 20 cm telescope. This is a common technique to capture thousands of frames of an object, so that the best parts of each frame can be teased out to create a high-resolution image, removing the distorting effects of the atmosphere. But he got more than he expected. At 00:18:33 UTC he captured what looks very much like the impact of a small comet or asteroid into Jupiter! As to what did the impacting, that’s less clear. It could be either a small asteroid or a small comet. Given how brief the flash was, and how bright, I’m sure it wasn’t terribly big, probably in the tens-of-meters wide range. I know that sounds small, but remember, Jupiter has ferocious gravity, and velocity is critical here! The energy released by an object slamming into another depends linearly on the mass (double the mass, double the energy), but on the square of the velocity: double the velocity,quadruple the energy. On average (and ignoring orbital velocity), an object will hit Jupiter with roughly five times the velocity it hits Earth, so the impact energy is 25 times as high. The asteroid that burned up over Chelyabinsk, Russia, in 2013 was 19 meters across, and it exploded with the energy of 500,000 tons of TNT. Now multiply that by 25, and you can see how it doesn’t take all that big a rock to hit Jupiter for us to be able to see it from Earth. Incidentally, at these huge speeds, hitting the atmosphere is like slamming into a wall. A lot of people get understandably confused how an asteroid can explode due to air, but the pressures involved as it rams through the atmosphere at these speeds are ridiculously huge. The air and rock heat up, the rock starts to fall apart, and each chunk then gets hot, and so on, creating a very rapid cascade that releases the energy of motion in just a second or two. Bang. Very, very big bang. pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/29/ufo-strikes-giant-planet-on-st-patricks-day/
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Apr 24, 2016 12:37:54 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Apr 24, 2016 12:37:54 GMT -6
www.universetoday.com/128530/how-do-we-terraform-jupiters-moons/ How Do We Terraform Jupiter’s Moons?22 Apr , 2016 by Matt Williams Surface features of the four members at different levels of zoom in each row Fans of Arthur C. Clarke may recall how in his novel, 2010: Odyssey Two (or the movie adaptation called 2010: The Year We Make Contact), an alien species turned Jupiter into a new star. In so doing, Jupiter’s moon Europa was permanently terraformed, as its icy surface melted, an atmosphere formed, and all the life living in the moon’s oceans began to emerge and thrive on the surface. As we explained in a previous video (“Could Jupiter Become a Star“) turning Jupiter into a star is not exactly doable (not yet, anyway). However, there are several proposals on how we could go about transforming some of Jupiter’s moons in order to make them habitable by human beings. In short, it is possible that humans could terraform one of more of the Jovians to make it suitable for full-scale human settlement someday. The Jovian Moons: Within the Jupiter system, there are 67 confirmed moons of varying size, shape and composition. In honor of Jupiter’s namesake, they are sometimes collectively referred to as the Jovians. Of these, the four largest – Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are known as the Galileans (in honor of their founder, Galileo Galilei). These four moons are among the largest in the Solar System, with Ganymede being the largest of them all, and even larger than the planet Mercury. In addition, three of these moons – Europa, Ganymede and Callisto – are all believed or known to have interior oceans at or near their core-mantle boundary. The presence of warm water oceans is not only considered an indication of potential life on these moons, but is also cited as a reason for possible human habitation. CONTINUE READING: www.universetoday.com/128530/how-do-we-terraform-jupiters-moons/
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Jun 16, 2016 10:10:50 GMT -6
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Jun 16, 2016 14:27:32 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Jun 21, 2016 9:31:14 GMT -6
Juno to enter Jupiter orbit July 4
By Eleanor Imster in Human World | Space | June 21, 2016
Juno will fly closer to Jupiter than any spacecraft yet, into the harshest radiation environment in the solar system.
Artist’s concept of NASA’s Juno spacecraft making one of its close passes over Jupiter. Image via NASA/JPL-Caltech.
Less than two weeks from now – on the evening of July 4, 2016 – NASA’s solar-powered Juno spacecraft will fire its main engine for 35 minutes, which will place the spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter. It’ll be the first craft to orbit Jupiter since Galileo, which arrived in 1995 and spent eight years in orbit. It’ll fly within 2,900 miles (4,667 km) of the cloud tops of our solar system’s largest planet.
Juno, an unmanned spacecraft the size of a basketball court, launched on August 5, 2011.
You can follow the Juno mission on Facebook and Twitter. It’s about to get exciting!
Juno has 37 close approaches to Jupiter planned. But, according to NASA scientists, getting this close to Jupiter comes with a price – one that will be paid each time Juno’s orbit carries it close to the planet’s cloud cover. Scott Bolton, Juno principal investigator, said in a statement:
"We are not looking for trouble. We are looking for data. Problem is, at Jupiter, looking for the kind of data Juno is looking for, you have to go in the kind of neighborhoods where you could find trouble pretty quick."
The source of the potential trouble is found inside Jupiter itself. According to the NASA statement:
"Well below the planet’s cloud tops is a layer of hydrogen that is under such incredible pressure that it acts as an electrical conductor. Scientists believe that the combination of this metallic hydrogen along with Jupiter’s fast rotation – one day on Jupiter is only 10 hours long – generates a powerful magnetic field that surrounds the planet with electrons, protons and ions traveling at nearly the speed of light."
The endgame for any spacecraft that enters this doughnut-shaped field of high-energy particles is an encounter with the harshest radiation environment in the solar system.
Rick Nybakken is Juno’s project manager from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Nybakken said:
"Over the life of the mission, Juno will be exposed to the equivalent of over 100 million dental X-rays. But, we are ready. We designed an orbit around Jupiter that minimizes exposure to Jupiter’s harsh radiation environment. This orbit allows us to survive long enough to obtain the tantalizing science data that we have traveled so far to get."
Juno’s orbit resembles a flattened oval. The spacecraft approaches Jupiter over its north pole and quickly drops to an altitude below the planet’s radiation belts as it moves toward Jupiter’s south pole. Each close flyby of the planet takes about the length of one Earth day.
See more: earthsky.org/space/juno-makes-closest-yet-jupiter-flyby-of-july-4-2016
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 16:35:19 GMT -6
Just a few more days ....
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Jun 30, 2016 20:13:24 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jun 30, 2016 20:13:24 GMT -6
Cliff I can't wait and I also can't wait for your reply here when it gets there.
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Jun 30, 2016 21:05:19 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 21:05:19 GMT -6
Here's one more for now................................
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Jul 2, 2016 15:26:23 GMT -6
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Jul 3, 2016 14:30:04 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 14:30:04 GMT -6
NASA MEDIA BRIEFING MONDAY, JULY 4TH, 12 P.M. (Check local time for your area ) " JUNO ORBITAL INSERTION AT JUPITER " www.ustream.tv/nasahdtv
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Jul 3, 2016 18:32:10 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2016 18:32:10 GMT -6
Just hearing the recordings from so far in space is exciting
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Jul 3, 2016 21:50:12 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jul 3, 2016 21:50:12 GMT -6
Thanks Cliff. I love this stuff. Amazing these sounds coming from so far away. Wish I could be around another fifty years
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NASA MEDIA BRIEFING MONDAY, JULY 4TH, 12 P.M. (Check local time for your area ) " JUNO ORBITAL INSERTION AT JUPITER " www.ustream.tv/nasahdtvEngine burn begins at 11:18 P.M. Eastern time. This will be a critical moment in the mission. Surviving the intense radiation will be another....Happy 4th !!!
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NASA MEDIA BRIEFING MONDAY, JULY 4TH, 12 P.M. (Check local time for your area ) " JUNO ORBITAL INSERTION AT JUPITER " www.ustream.tv/nasahdtvEngine burn begins at 11:18 P.M. Eastern time. This will be a critical moment in the mission. Surviving the intense radiation will be another....Happy 4th !!! Hopefully,everything goes as planned WHEN TO WATCH : Pre-orbit News 9 a.m. (Pacific) Mission Control Live - 7:30-9 p.m. ( Pacific ) / 10:30- midnight (Eastern) Post orbit news 10 p.m. Pacific / 1 a.m. Eastern
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Post by swamprat on Jul 6, 2016 20:22:30 GMT -6
Welcome to Jupiter!
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Jul 8, 2016 11:49:31 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Jul 8, 2016 11:49:31 GMT -6
Wakey Wakey! Juno Spacecraft Turns on Science Gear at JupiterBy Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer July 8, 2016
NASA's Juno spacecraft is opening its eyes to prepare for its first good look at Jupiter.
Juno's nine science instruments were off when the probe entered orbit around the solar system's largest planet Monday (July 4), to reduce complications during that night's make-or-break orbit-insertion engine burn.
The mission team powered up five of those instruments Wednesday (July 6) and plans to turn on the other four before the end of the month, NASA officials said. So Juno should be ready to gather some science data when Juno makes its next close pass by the huge planet on Aug. 27. (The probe is currently in a 53-day orbit around Jupiter.)
"Next time around, we will have our eyes and ears open," Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, of the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio, said in a statement today (July 8). "You can expect us to release some information about our findings around Sept. 1."
The $1.1 billion Juno mission launched in August 2011 and aims to help scientists better understand Jupiter's magnetic and gravitational fields, composition and interior structure — in particular, whether the huge planet harbors a core of heavy elements.
The probe's observations should shed light on when, where and how Jupiter — and, by extension, the solar system as a whole — came together, mission team members have said.
Juno will make most of its measurements from its highly elliptical 14-day science orbit, which will bring it within 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers) of Jupiter's cloud tops at its closest approach. The spacecraft will perform a 22-minute engine burn on Oct. 19 to achieve that orbit. (Juno's main engine will also fire up on July 13 for a brief "trajectory-correction maneuver," NASA officials said.)
In total, Juno will loop around Jupiter 37 times before ending its life with an intentional death dive into Jupiter's thick atmosphere in February 2018. This final maneuver is designed to ensure that Earth microbes don't contaminate the Jovian moon Europa, which scientists think might be capable of supporting life.
www.space.com/33375-juno-jupiter-probe-turns-on-science-instruments.html
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2016 14:45:47 GMT -6
SUNSET SKY SHOW: When the sun goes down tonight, step outside and look west. Jupiter and the crescent Moon are side-by-side in the sunset sky. Try to catch them before the sky fades to black. A bright conjunction framed by twilight blue is a beautiful sight! Sky maps are available at spaceweather.com
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Sept 2, 2016 20:41:59 GMT -6
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Post by swamprat on Apr 7, 2017 9:20:04 GMT -6
New Hubble image of JupiterBy Deborah Byrd in Today's Image April 7, 2017
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system – some 88,789 miles (142,984 km) at its equator. We pass between Jupiter and the sun this week, and Hubble Space Telescope looked its way.
When the Hubble Space Telescope aimed toward Jupiter on April 3, Jupiter was 4.45 Astronomical Units from Earth (415 million miles or 668 million km). Image via NASA/ ESA/ A. Simon (GSFC).
Earth goes between the sun and Jupiter this week, on April 7, 2017. And Jupiter is closer to Earth for this year on April 8. So it was an opportune time, a few days ago, for the Hubble Space Telescope to aim toward Jupiter and capture this beautiful new image. NASA said:
"Hubble reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter’s clouds as arranged into bands of different latitudes, known as tropical regions. These bands are produced by air flowing in different directions at various latitudes. Lighter colored areas, called zones, are high-pressure where the atmosphere rises. Darker low-pressure regions where air falls are called belts. The planet’s trademark, the Great Red Spot, is a long-lived storm roughly the diameter of Earth. Much smaller storms appear as white or brown-colored ovals. Such storms can last as little as a few hours or stretch on for centuries."
It’s easy to see Jupiter now! The planet is the brightest “star” in the evening sky, brightest thing up all night (with the exception of the moon) until Venus rises shortly before dawn. You can’t miss Jupiter. But in case you feel uncertain, you can also follow the arc in the Big Dipper’s handle and speed on to Spica, the bright star near Jupiter now on the sky’s dome.
earthsky.org/todays-image/new-hubble-image-of-jupiter-april-2017?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=5545096f10-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-5545096f10-394368745&mc_cid=5545096f10&mc_eid=9b2daed519
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May 26, 2017 10:39:39 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on May 26, 2017 10:39:39 GMT -6
More Jupiter Weirdness: Giant Planet May Have Huge, 'Fuzzy' Core By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer May 26, 2017
Jupiter's deep interior appears to be as strange and otherworldly as the gas giant's storm-studded exterior, new observations by NASA's Juno spacecraft suggest.
Scientists have generally thought that Jupiter either harbors a relatively compact core 1 to 10 times as massive as Earth or no core at all, said Juno principal investigator Scott Bolton, who's based at the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
But neither of these hypotheses fits with the gravity data collected so far by Juno, which has been orbiting Jupiter since July 2016.
"There seems to be a fuzzy core, and it may be much larger than anybody had anticipated," Bolton said Thursday (May 25) during a NASA press conference announcing the first detailed science results from Juno's mission.
This core may even be partially dissolved, Bolton said, adding that Juno's initial observations are also consistent with "some deep motions or zonal winds" occurring far beneath the enormous planet's cloud tops.
Diagram of Jupiter’s possible interior structure. Observations by NASA’s Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft are already helping to flesh out this picture; Juno’s gravity data suggest, for example, that Jupiter may have a surprisingly large, partially dissolved core, mission team members have said. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI
Identifying and characterizing Jupiter's core is a key goal of Juno's $1.1 billion mission, which seeks to better understand how the gas giant formed and evolved. Learning about Jupiter's history should yield insights about planet formation and solar-system evolution in general, mission team members have said.
Juno uses its eight science instruments to study Jupiter's structure, composition and gravitational and magnetic fields. The probe collects most of its information during close flybys over the gas giant's poles, which occur once every 53.5 days. (Juno orbits Jupiter on a highly elliptical path.)
This image of Jupiter's south pole was created by a citizen scientist using data from NASA's Juno spacecraft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI/MSSS/Gabriel Fiset
Juno has completed just five of these data-gathering "perijove" passes to date, so mission scientists still have a lot to learn about Jupiter's core and other characteristics. But they've already been able to determine quite a bit — that Jupiter's weird, bluish poles are very different from the gas giant's belted midsection, for example, and that the mechanisms powering auroras on Earth and on Jupiter are not identical.
"The general theme of our discoveries is really how different Jupiter looks from what we expected," Bolton said.
www.space.com/37005-jupiter-fuzzy-core-nasa-juno.html
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Oct 23, 2017 19:31:59 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Oct 23, 2017 19:31:59 GMT -6
If Jupiter was the same distance from Earth as the moon.
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Mar 6, 2019 13:53:40 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Mar 6, 2019 13:53:40 GMT -6
www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/326079/you-can-now-help-to-name-jupiters-moons You can now help to name Jupiter's moonsPosted on Wednesday, 6 March, 2019 In July 2018, Carnegie's Scott Sheppard announced the discovery of 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter—11 “normal” outer moons, and one that he called an “oddball.” This brought Jupiter’s total number of known moons to a whopping 79—the most of any planet in our Solar System.Scientists are offering social media users the chance to name 5 of Jupiter's most recently discovered moons. Last summer a team lead by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institution for Science discovered a total of 12 new moons around the gas giant, bringing Jupiter's total number of moons up to 79. Now efforts are underway to pick names for the new additions with 5 of the 12 being open to suggestions from members of the public. There certainly won't be a Moony McMoonface this time around however, as the names will have to meet certain requirements before they can be accepted by the International Astronomical Union. Jupiter's other moons are all named after characters from Greek or Roman mythology, meaning that these new moons will also need to conform to this particular convention as well. In addition, the name of each moon needs to end in either '-a' or '-e' depending on whether or not it orbits Jupiter in the same direction as the planet rotates. The full list of restrictions can be viewed - here. carnegiescience.edu/NameJupitersMoonsSubmissions must be Tweeted to @jupiterlunacy with the hashtag #NameJupitersMoons along with a short explanation of why you think the name should be picked. The deadline for sending in submissions is April 15th. Source: Live Science www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/326079/you-can-now-help-to-name-jupiters-moons
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Sept 24, 2019 14:04:00 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 24, 2019 14:04:00 GMT -6
mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/09/far-out-cases-of-people-who-claim-to-have-been-to-jupiter/
Far-Out Cases of People Who Claim to Have Been to Jupiterby Brent Swancer / mysteriousuniverse.org/author/brentswancer/September 25, 2019 Throughout history there have been on occasion those strange individuals who have stepped forward claiming to have been whisked away to other planets of our solar system and beyond. These accounts are always deeply bizarre, eyebrow raising and inscrutable, but some of the weirder of these are those accounts from the many people who claim to have traveled to the planet Jupiter. It is uncertain why Jupiter should be such a popular destination for would be space travelers, but there are quite a few accounts of people claiming to have been there through methods ranging from UFOs to astral projection, and here are some of the more bizarre of these. One of the weirder accounts of travel to Jupiter, although they are all weird, is the account by a man named Charles Jevington, who was an eccentric homeless old man who lived in the village of Thursby, near Carlisle, in North West England. He was mostly seen as a jovial, kind old vagrant who wandered about the outskirts of the village and was affectionately referred to as “Old Charlie.” For years he entertained people and was well-liked and accepted among the villagers, and then one day in 1955 he simply vanished after a local woman saw him sprinting across a field towards the woods with a haversack on. After a few days with no sign of him, it was feared that something bad had happened to him, and concerned for his safety the local law enforcement went about searching a large swath of area around the village for Old Charlie. When absolutely no sign of him was found, the local constable contacted authorities in West Yorkshire, where it was thought he had family, but they still could find no trace of the missing man. He had seemingly just stepped off the face of the earth, and maybe he had. No word or sign of Jevington was forthcoming for 5 years, and then suddenly out of the blue he appeared one day in August of 1960, wandering about and acting as if nothing had happened and he had never been gone at all. People were puzzled at this sudden reappearance, and when he was approached about it good Old Charlie had quite the tale to tell. He claimed that he had been hiking through the woods when he had come across “one of those flying saucers” and its occupants, who were apparently collecting plant samples around their craft. After conversing with these strange beings for some time, they told him to get his things and come with him for “a long ride,” and so he accepted. That was when he would be seen rushing back to their ship across that field with all of his belongings in that haversack, hoping to jin them on their strange journey. According to Jevington, these aliens took him all across the galaxy in their advanced craft, and that they had in particular spent some amount of time around the planet Jupiter, which he claimed had four rings. Indeed, according to him all of the outer planets of the solar system had rings around them. This was quite an odd detail, as at the time the planet was not known to have any rings at all, with Saturn the only known ringed planet, and so this crazy statement was considered proof that he was out of his mind. For some time he was relentlessly ridiculed, but Jevington remained adamant that he had indeed been to Jupiter, and he one day proclaimed he was going back to join his alien friends to move off to their world. True to his word, he would vanish again, this time for good, and he has never been seen since. Rather eerily, years later in 1979 the Voyager I space probe would discover that indeed Jupiter had four rings, the Thebe gossamer ring, the Amalthea gossamer ring, the main ring, and the halo ring. Not only that, but just as Jevington had claimed it would be found over the years through further exploration that all of the gas giants of the solar system did indeed have rings, it is just Saturn that has those prominent enough to be seen from Earth. Does this mean that Charles Jevington had actually seen Jupiter and other far away planets up close aboard a spacecraft or was this just a lucky guess? How would this uneducated homeless vagrant know all of this otherwise? What really happened to him during those 5 years he was missing? Who knows? There are many other such reports from the 20th century, and considering the very outlandish descriptions that we now know to be false, it seems that this all must merely be the wild imaginings of a time before we had the technology to understand our solar system, mixed with the pervasive popularity of the occult and UFO phenomena of the era. Yet such wild tales of travel to other worlds have persisted well into the modern day as well. One practitioner of astral projection named Monal Bhoyar gives a typically bonkers account of this, claiming to have traveled to Mars and Jupiter in 1975, 1976, and 1977. Bhoynar claims that his excursion to Jupiter was carried out in August of 1977, and he makes it very clear that these observations of the planet were made before the Voyager II passed the planet. Of Jupiter he would say: There is preponderance of yellow and purple colours in the sky of the Jupiter. No other colour was seen in the sky of Jupiter. There was a greenish shade in the yellow, which was in the sky. The clouds were of the purple colour, they were gathering together rapidly and disappearing rapidly. These clouds were quite thick having greater density as compared to our clouds. They moved just like moss on water. If we throw a stone in the pond, this moss quickly moves away and quickly comes together, similar was the movement of the clouds of the Jupiter. On the Jupiter there was dim light similar to the light present in Maharashtra at about 7.30 pm. in the month of September. I did not see the Sun there. The sky on the Jupiter was not blue like ours, but it was darkish. I saw three full moons in the sky situated like the sign of “therefore” in mathematics. It appeared like a triangle of the Moons. Then I saw four full moons at a time, as if a square of the Moons ia formed. Later on, I saw many moons about five to six, at a time, – all were half-moons On my right hand was their lighted half portion, while on my left hand was their dark half region. The moons were shining considerably less than our moon, and were smaller in size than our moon, about 3/4th the diameter of our moon. I saw a band of multiple black round bodies in the sky as is shown in the figure, like a scorpion. In my previous experiment of Mars, I felt that I was standing on the ground of the Mars. But this time, I could not feel that I was standing on the ground of the Jupiter; I felt that I was floating. There was black rock. There was no dust. There was no breeze of the wind. There was no sound of any kind. There was no beauty seen in the sky, as I saw in the sky of the Mars, so I did not feel enthusiastic and happy. On the contrary, I felt depressed and morose. On the Jupiter, there was no water, running or stagnant. There was no human, no beast, no bird, no insect, no plant, and no other life. I could not see any Astral body, too, on the Jupiter. This particular account was apparently published in various newspapers in India, such as the Indian Express and Tarun Bharat, among others, and the witness even claimed to have sent his amazing results to the Indian Prime Minister on 27th October 1977 and received receipts as proof. Is there any truth to it? Another perhaps well known excursion to Jupiter allegedly carried out in more modern times was that concerning the far-out tale of Ingo Swann, who was allegedly a psychic with the power of remote viewing, which basically entails being able to witness things happening in different locations far away from the person’s actual physical body. In this case it was far away indeed, because Swann would claim that in a remote viewing experiment along with fellow psychic Harold Sherman they had managed to project all the way to Mercury and Jupiter to make observations of these places before the U.S. had even launched its Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 space probes to explore these regions of the cosmos. While at Mercury, Swann claimed that he had discovered that the planet had a thin atmosphere, a magnetic field, and solar winds, and that its sky was painted with constantly shifting lights akin to the Aurora Borealis. He also claimed that Mercury had a primitive form of plant life like a sort of lichen, which covered the rocks on the surface. Shockingly, when the Mariner 10 did a flyby of the planet just 3 weeks later, it found that indeed Mercury was very much as Swann had described it, although the probe was not close enough to be able to verify the presence of lichen on the surface. It had been previously thought that Mercury had no magnetic poles or any atmosphere at all, but Swann had apparently seen this first, and the Mariner 10 findings backed this claim up somewhat. Concerning Jupiter, Swann described it as a frigid place with a noxious, poisonous atmosphere possessing a myriad of colors like a “giant fireworks display.” He also said that he had seen vast, raging tornadoes on the surface, as well as ferocious winds far stronger than any on Earth, and he claimed the planet also had strong magnetic forces and a 30,000-foot-high mountain range. Eight months later the Pioneer 10 passed Jupiter and saw that many of these predictions were all strikingly true. It was impressive enough that it was seen as very accurate, and former American astronaut Edgar Mitchell was reported as saying: He described things and gave details that were not known to scientists before the Mariner 10 and Pioneer 10 satellites flew by and got the information. These are things that Mr. Swann couldn’t have guessed or read about. His impressions of Mercury and Jupiter cannot be dismissed. Another who praised Swann’s strange findings was former scientific consultant to the U.S. Air Force’s Project Blue Book, Dr. J. Allen Hynek, who said “His impressions of Jupiter, along with his experience with Mercury, most certainly point the way to more experimentation.” It all seems very impressive, but it has over the years become apparent that the story was perhaps played up to be a lot more amazing than the actual facts suggest. One of the problems is that only the things that matched up with what was found by the space probes were apparently reported on, when in fact there were many other details that were flat-out wrong and just not mentioned. Indeed, renowned science fiction author Isaac Asimov found that half of Swann’s observations were wrong, and that the other half could have been lucky guesses based on information already available on planets in science books of the time. Even more damning still was an assessment made by famous astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author, Carl Sagan, who at one point said after looking through the whole case: Recently, two courageous American mystics made an “astral projection” trip to Jupiter, describing the nature of the planet prior to the arrival of the Pioneer 10. I was asked to examine the accuracy of their account. If their reports had been submitted in my elementary astronomy course, they would have received grades of “D.” These reports were not better than what can be extracted from the worst popularizations of planetary astronomy; they were filled with the most obvious misunderstandings both about Jupiter and Pioneer 10. There is no evidence that any mystic has done better in guessing the nature of the planets than he could do without his mystical powers but with the ability to read the better elementary astronomy books. This was pretty damning, and in the end it appears that the few things the two remote viewers had happened to stumble upon as correct were played up in news reports and a legend was born. It is important to note that in later years Swann did not stop making claims of the weird. In the 1970s he began trying to establish psychic connections with plants, and through these activities he claimed that he had learned of an impending ecological disaster through mental images projected into his mind by the plants. He wrote of these efforts and other various psychic pursuits in his 1975 book To Kiss Earth Good-Bye. Considering the time-frames involved coinciding with heavy drug culture and the damning skepticism against him, whether any of this planetary travel was achieved through the use of mind powers or the tripping of balls is left open to speculation and interpretation. Why Jupiter? Why, indeed. Maybe it is the mystery of the planet itself, or the fact that we know little about it, but one thing that should be self evident is that officially no human being has ever been there. Yet these stories persist and add to the lore of the numerous mysterious people who have claimed to have been all over the solar system. Delusion and the ranting of the unwell or something else? It is hard to say, but it is all an entertaining ride nevertheless. mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/09/far-out-cases-of-people-who-claim-to-have-been-to-jupiter/
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