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May 1, 2013 18:43:12 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 1, 2013 18:43:12 GMT -6
www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/600-chinese-citizens-join-rush-to-live-in-mars/article4670624.eceBeijing, April 30, 2013 600 Chinese citizens join rush to live in Mars Over 600 Chinese have applied to join an ambitious Dutch aerospace project that plans to send humans on a one-way trip to Mars for permanent settlement. The Dutch project, while triggering enthusiasm to explore outer space, is also under fire with the trip being viewed by some as a suicide mission, with applicants being shipped to a planet that is uninhabitable by humans. The project, Mars One, is being launched by a Dutch non-profit organisation, and is scheduled to take four humans to the Red Planet in 2023. In the first three days after it was launched this week, over 20,000 people from all over the world submitted their applications online, with more than 600 coming from China, state-run China Daily reported. Bas Lansdorp, co-founder of Mars One told the media in Shanghai that he is confident of turning the dream into reality, and plans to attract more than five lakh applicants. The Chinese enthusiasm to travel to Mars is building up as China, which has a well funded space programme focussing on Moon missions and building a space station is planning a three-phase Mars space missions to collect samples from the Red Planet by 2030. The three stages are remote sensing, soft-landing, exploration and return after collecting automatic sampling, according to Ouyang Ziyuan, China’s Chief scientist for Lunar missions. But India may steal the march as Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is bracing to launch its first Mars mission in November to become the first Asian country to accomplish it. NASA has already landed a rover on Mars remaining well ahead of other space programmes of the world. CONTINUE READING: www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/600-chinese-citizens-join-rush-to-live-in-mars/article4670624.ece
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May 2, 2013 14:28:54 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 2, 2013 14:28:54 GMT -6
www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-125_MAVEN_Name_to_Mars.html Dwayne Brown Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726 dwayne.c.brown@nasa.gov Nancy Neal Jones Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 301-286-0039 nancy.n.jones@nasa.gov Stephanie Renfrow University of Colorado, Boulder 303-735-5814 stephanie.renfrow@lasp.colorado.edu May 01, 2013 PRESS RELEASE : 13-125 NASA Invites Public to Send Names And Messages to Mars WASHINGTON -- NASA is inviting members of the public to submit their names and a personal message online for a DVD to be carried aboard a spacecraft that will study the Martian upper atmosphere. The DVD will be in NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft, which is scheduled for launch in November. The DVD is part of the mission's Going to Mars Campaign coordinated at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (CU/LASP). The DVD will carry every name submitted. The public also is encouraged to submit a message in the form of a three-line poem, or haiku. However, only three haikus will be selected. The deadline for all submissions is July 1. An online public vote to determine the top three messages to be placed on the DVD will begin July 15. "The Going to Mars campaign offers people worldwide a way to make a personal connection to space, space exploration, and science in general, and share in our excitement about the MAVEN mission," said Stephanie Renfrow, lead for the MAVEN Education and Public Outreach program at CU/LASP. Participants who submit their names to the Going to Mars campaign will be able to print a certificate of appreciation to document their involvement with the MAVEN mission. "This new campaign is a great opportunity to reach the next generation of explorers and excite them about science, technology, engineering and math," said Bruce Jakosky, MAVEN principal investigator from CU/LASP. "I look forward to sharing our science with the worldwide community as MAVEN begins to piece together what happened to the Red Planet's atmosphere." MAVEN is the first spacecraft devoted to exploring and understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. The spacecraft will investigate how the loss of Mars' atmosphere to space determined the history of water on the surface. "This mission will continue NASA's rich history of inspiring and engaging the public in spaceflight in ongoing Mars exploration," said David Mitchell, MAVEN project manager at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. MAVEN's principal investigator is based at the University of Colorado at Boulder's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics. The university will provide science operations, science instruments and lead Education and Public Outreach. Goddard manages the project and provides two of the science instruments for the mission. Lockheed Martin of Littleton, Colo., built the spacecraft and is responsible for mission operations. The University of California at Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory provides science instruments for the mission. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., provides navigation support, the Deep Space Network and the Electra telecommunications relay hardware and operations. To participate in the Going to Mars campaign, visit lasp.colorado.edu/maven/goingtomarsFor more information on MAVEN, visit: www.nasa.gov/maven MORE INFO: www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2013/may/HQ_13-125_MAVEN_Name_to_Mars.html[/color]
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May 2, 2013 17:31:49 GMT -6
Post by bewildered on May 2, 2013 17:31:49 GMT -6
If they're peacefull...killing won't be an option. Brain lobotomy's maybe..which overall..would kind of be a mercy killing ;D Heh, the way they behave right now, I thought they had already been lobotomized. ;D
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May 16, 2013 12:00:42 GMT -6
Post by auntym on May 16, 2013 12:00:42 GMT -6
news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130515-buzz-aldrin-astronaut-moon-mars-space-science/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130516news-buzzqa&utm_campaign=Content Q&A: Buzz Aldrin Discusses His Vision for Mars[/color] Former astronaut Buzz Aldrin wants humans to visit Mars—and stay there.[/size] Bill Douthitt National Geographic News Published May 15, 2013 Editor's Note: National Geographic is bringing together astronaut Buzz Aldrin and mountaineer Conrad Anker for a Google+ Hangout on Monday, May 20, at 2 p.m. ET (7 p.m. UTC). After his July 1969 history-making role on Apollo 11—the first human expedition to the moon—Buzz Aldrin has continued to seek out new frontiers. Aldrin has written seven books, produced computer games, and even recorded a rap song with Snoop Dogg. A tireless advocate for human space travel, the former astronaut developed the Aldrin Cycler, a system that allows spacecraft to orbit continually between Mars and Earth, providing regular transportation between the two planets. In his newest book, "Mission to Mars," Aldrin lays out a comprehensive plan that would lead to permanent human settlements on Mars in the next 25 years. National Geographic magazine's Bill Douthitt spoke with Aldrin about the future of space travel. You've done everything from walking on the moon to Dancing With the Stars and quite a few things in between. What interests you now?It's the challenge to try and communicate thoughts that I believe have merit to them, that could make things easier for the nation to execute a good pathway to space in the future. Plus a little scuba diving. There doesn't seem to be a strong public interest in space. Why is that?Nobody is flying right now. If another shuttle launch took place, people probably wouldn't get all that fascinated with it. But if you were on the shuttle you would. Or if you were right there hearing the noise and the shock waves and sonic booms and seeing the flash of the engines lighting up. But not everyone can witness that. And we're not doing it anymore. Your new book talks about the private sector in space-companies like SpaceX and Virgin Galactic. Will they succeed?We miscalculated when a replacement for the shuttle will be ready. I don't think we thought that we'd be sitting around with nothing in sight except maybe the commercial launchers. SpaceX might be able to take people up to the space station in a couple of years, maybe. CONTINUE READING: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130515-buzz-aldrin-astronaut-moon-mars-space-science/?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social&utm_content=link_tw20130516news-buzzqa&utm_campaign=Content
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Jun 23, 2013 22:17:26 GMT -6
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Jun 23, 2013 23:44:33 GMT -6
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Jun 24, 2013 12:20:45 GMT -6
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Jun 24, 2013 16:18:37 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Jun 24, 2013 16:18:37 GMT -6
It looks kind of like a puddle of water...or ice perhaps. Notice how the sides around it seem to slope down?
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Jun 24, 2013 18:26:19 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jun 24, 2013 18:26:19 GMT -6
It looks kind of like a puddle of water...or ice perhaps. Notice how the sides around it seem to slope down? a puddle of water?... your kidding? ... if you look close you can see some parts of it casts a shadow underneath it... did you look at the video? ... its only a minute long...
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Jul 9, 2013 7:46:48 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jul 9, 2013 7:46:48 GMT -6
mashable.com/2013/07/08/nasa-kid-letter-mars/7 Year Old Dreams of Mars, So NASA Sent Him ThisMars-journey By Amanda Wills June 8, 2013 Seven-year-old Dexter wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. So, he did what any Seven-year-old Dexter wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. So, he did what any proactive kid with an out-of-this-world dream should do: He wrote a letter to his future employer. In his note to NASA, Dexter lamented the fact he's too young for a trip to the Red Planet. "Dear NASA," Dexter wrote. "I heard that you are sending two people to Mars and I would lik [sic] to come but im 7. So I can't." NASA replied to Dexter with a note encouraging him to pursue his space dreams. Enclosed in the package was also more information about Mars, all of which Dexter's mom posted to Reddit. According to Press Secretary Lauren Worley, the letter came from NASA's Office of Public Inquiries, which responds to hundreds of thousands of public inquiries each year on a variety of topics. However, Worley says the team especially enjoys writing back to young aspiring astronauts. "NASA is working to send humans farther into space than ever before, first to an asteroid and on to Mars," Worley says. "Perhaps one of these young writers will be among the first astronauts to set foot on another planet." READ LETTER: mashable.com/2013/07/08/nasa-kid-letter-mars/
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Jul 10, 2013 13:13:13 GMT -6
Post by lois on Jul 10, 2013 13:13:13 GMT -6
mashable.com/2013/07/08/nasa-kid-letter-mars/7 Year Old Dreams of Mars, So NASA Sent Him ThisMars-journey By Amanda Wills June 8, 2013 Seven-year-old Dexter wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. So, he did what any Seven-year-old Dexter wants to be an astronaut when he grows up. So, he did what any proactive kid with an out-of-this-world dream should do: He wrote a letter to his future employer. In his note to NASA, Dexter lamented the fact he's too young for a trip to the Red Planet. "Dear NASA," Dexter wrote. "I heard that you are sending two people to Mars and I would lik [sic] to come but im 7. So I can't." NASA replied to Dexter with a note encouraging him to pursue his space dreams. Enclosed in the package was also more information about Mars, all of which Dexter's mom posted to Reddit. According to Press Secretary Lauren Worley, the letter came from NASA's Office of Public Inquiries, which responds to hundreds of thousands of public inquiries each year on a variety of topics. However, Worley says the team especially enjoys writing back to young aspiring astronauts. "NASA is working to send humans farther into space than ever before, first to an asteroid and on to Mars," Worley says. "Perhaps one of these young writers will be among the first astronauts to set foot on another planet." READ LETTER: mashable.com/2013/07/08/nasa-kid-letter-mars/ How sweet. I hope someday all his dreams come true.
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Aug 11, 2013 11:03:04 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 11, 2013 11:03:04 GMT -6
www.ufodigest.com/article/face-mars-0810August 11, 2013 THE FACE ON MARS CONTROVERSY PART 1 & 2 By Jeffrey G. Roberts Around 2035, an interplanetary craft from Earth will touch down in an area of the Northern hemisphere of Mars; an area known as – Cydonia. Location: 9.5 degrees W. longitude, 41 degrees N. Latitude. And as the crimson sands of the Martian deserts wail across the cold forbidding plains -90 F., what will the emerging crew see before them? That al depends upon what the Viking I orbiter saw in that exact same area, fifty-nine years earlier, on July 25th, 1976. And therein lies the tale that will not die, the controversy that will not go away; the conspiracy – as some call it – of a NASA cover-up more massive and pervasive than any other since the founding of the United States 236 years ago. For on its 35th orbit of Mars, Viking I, at an altitude of 1162 miles, snapped its 72nd photograph to send back to Earth – number 35A72 – and nothing would ever be the same again. For there, staring back at Viking I into the starry night, was what appeared to be the visage of a face. A face almost 2600 feet high (the Empire State Building in New York is “only” 1250 feet in height), 1.6 miles wide, and 1.2 miles wide! It appeared Sphinx-like, as if the ancient Egyptian edifice was staring straight up into space. And on the third planet from the sun – all hell broke loose. NASA imaging scientists Vincent DiPietro and Greg Molenaar were the first to discover this incredible anomaly, and dutifully brought it to the attention of their superiors, believing, rightly, that an unbiased scientific inquiry would now commence, to determine just what the face was. They realized that the discovery of an artificially constructed edifice of such titanic proportions would have the scientific world abuzz – unlimited access at their disposal, for what had the potential to be a shattering revelation – that we were not alone. But that was not what happened. Far from it. DiPiero and Molenaar were, instead, vilified, shunned, and threatened by their peers! As Shakespeare’s Hamlet said, “Me thinks he protesteth too much!” Why the attitude? Why the intellectual timidity? Perhaps some didn’t want us to know that we were not alone; or perhaps didn’t want to share the spotlight with a superior race – even if that race had been extinct for millennia. Perhaps it’s just human nature and ego. If so, it’s also intellectually dishonest. Perhaps governments and institutions of higher learning feared their vast intellect and contributions to society would be reduced to utter anachronisms overnight, should the knowledge of alien life in our planetary backyard be exposed to an eager public. Why answer the charges – when you could attack the character and integrity of the one making them? And on the 5th planet from the sun, the megalith known as The Face on Mars, continued to stare out into the cosmic void, whether the primitive creatures on the 3rd planet believed in it, or not. Like the Wizard of Oz said, “Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!” As Arthur C. Clarke said, the Biblical premise that God made man in his own image would be a ticking time bomb, in the face of such a momentous revelation. How would the religious institutions on Earth deal with such a monumental discovery? Many think they could not. And a Rand think tank study said as much, too. CONTINUE READING: www.ufodigest.com/article/face-mars-0810PART 2: www.ufodigest.com/article/face-mars-0811
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Aug 12, 2013 12:16:49 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 12, 2013 12:16:49 GMT -6
www.ibtimes.com/mars-one-draws-over-100000-applicants-eager-leave-earth-forever-1380397 Mars One Draws Over 100,000 Applicants Eager To Leave Earth ForeverBy Eric Brown on August 11 2013 Mars One has this artist's rendition of a Martian colony. Mars One Are you feeling dissatisfied with life on Earth? Why not join the growing movement of 100,000-plus people who have applied to permanently leave Earth and colonize Mars? According to CNN, more than 100,000 people have already turned in their applications to Mars One, an organization whose goal is to establish a permanent human colony on the red planet by 2023. Mars One plans to send several groups of four people each to help create a human presence on Mars, but there’s one catch: These astronauts can never return to Earth. Once they reach Mars, they’re on the planet for life. Still, that hasn’t stopped massive numbers of people from applying to leave their lives on Earth forever. “There is also a very large number of people who are still working on their profile, so either they have decided not to pay the application fee or they are still making their video or they’re still filling out the questionnaire or their resume. So the people that you can see online are only the ones that have finished and who have set their profiles as public,” CNN quoted Mars One CEO and co-founder Bas Lansdorp as saying. Back in May, Mars One officially began accepting applications from anyone and everyone interested in abandoning Earth to live on the red planet. MORE: www.ibtimes.com/mars-one-draws-over-100000-applicants-eager-leave-earth-forever-1380397
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Aug 12, 2013 14:34:09 GMT -6
Post by bewildered on Aug 12, 2013 14:34:09 GMT -6
To paraphrase Stephen Hawking, space is our only hope for survival. If you consider the overall direction of our evolution as a species, it is also the next logical step. We've already managed to escape the gravity of our home world and set foot on another one. We've been observing our galactic "neck of the woods" and have found worlds very similar to our own...more than we ever imagined possible, in fact. Imagine what we might accomplish if we weren't so consumed with expending our resources to annihilate each other.
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Aug 30, 2013 13:47:40 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Aug 30, 2013 13:47:40 GMT -6
www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/29/chemist-poses-the-idea-that-we-are-actually-all-martians/
Chemist Poses the Idea That ‘We Are Actually All Martians’Aug. 29, 2013 by Liz Klimas As the figurative saying goes, men are from Mars and women are from Venus. A chemist though argues that all life might actually be from Mars — literally. Professor Steven Benner, founder of the Westheimer Institute for Science and Technology in Gainsville, Florida, will present evidence to geochemists at the Goldschmidt conference that supports the origins of earthly life beginning on Mars. This photo released by NASA shows a view of Mars that was stitched together by images taken by NASA s Viking Orbiter spacecraft. The space agency is planning to send a spacecraft similar to the Curiosity rover to the red planet in 2020. (AP/NASA) “The evidence seems to be building that we are actually all Martians; that life started on Mars and came to Earth on a rock,” Benner said in a press release issued ahead of his Thursday speech. “It’s lucky that we ended up here nevertheless, as certainly Earth has been the better of the two planets for sustaining life. If our hypothetical Martian ancestors had remained on Mars, there might not have been a story to tell.” This hypothesis involves an oxidized mineral form of the element molybdenum, which Benner argues could have been crucial to the origin of life, from the standpoint that life arose from a primordial soup of elements. This compound would have only been present on Mars, not Earth, according to Benner. “In addition, recent studies show that these conditions, suitable for the origin of life, may still exist on Mars,” said Benner, who graduated with degrees from Yale and Harvard in the 1970s. Here’s more from the press release regarding the issues Benner thinks this hypothesis could resolve: The research Professor Benner will present at the Goldschmidt conference tackles two of the paradoxes which make it difficult for scientists to understand how life could have started on Earth. The first is dubbed by Professor Benner as the ‘tar paradox’. All living things are made of organic matter, but if you add energy such as heat or light to organic molecules and leave them to themselves, they don’t create life. Instead, they turn into something more like tar, oil or asphalt. CONTINUE READING: www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/08/29/chemist-poses-the-idea-that-we-are-actually-all-martians/SCIENTISTS ASSERTS THAT EARTH LIFE WAS SEEDED BY MARS: www.openminds.tv/scientist-asserts-that-earth-life-was-seeded-by-mars-1127/
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Sept 15, 2013 13:15:14 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 15, 2013 13:15:14 GMT -6
www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html?ref=science&_r=1&A Far-Flung Possibility for the Origin of LifeBy CARL ZIMMER Published: September 12, 2013 “We’re All Martians, Scientist Claims,” The Telegraph wrote on Aug. 28. Similar articles showed up in newspapers and on Web sites around the world. The scientist who inspired all the headlines is a chemist named Steven Benner. Headlines notwithstanding, Dr. Benner is not a wild-eyed U.F.O. advocate claiming to have seen Little Green Men. Instead, he is one of the world’s leading experts on the origin of life. “Steve is one of the master organic chemists tackling this problem,” said Robert M. Hazen, a mineralogist at the Carnegie Institution and the author of “The Story of Earth.” The cause for Dr. Benner’s new-found celebrity is a lecture he delivered at a geology conference in Florence on Aug. 29. During his talk, he did not wave satellite pictures of canals on Mars, or of Martian hills that vaguely look like a human face. Instead, he challenged his fellow scientists to look hard at the evidence we have about how life began. Depending on how you view that evidence, Dr. Benner argued, Mars might be a more likely place for life to start than Earth. The best way to determine the actual answer, Dr. Benner argued, is to look for certain types of chemicals on both planets. “I really don’t have a dog in this fight,” said Dr. Benner, a distinguished fellow at the Westheimer Institute at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., in a telephone interview after he returned from Italy. “It could go either way and I would be equally happy.” Over the past few years, Dr. Benner and his colleagues have amassed evidence for one potential path by which chemicals could have become living matter. Small organic compounds could have reacted with each other to produce string-shaped, self-replicating molecules. These strands, known as RNA, later combined into double-strands: the DNA in which we and other species encode our genes. In chemical experiments, Dr. Benner and his colleagues have demonstrated the occurrence of many of the reactions in this path. But they’ve also discovered roadblocks. For instance, the precursors to RNA can bond in a lot of ways, some good and some bad. While some reactions can lead organic molecules toward RNA, many others can turn them into gooey tar. Dr. Benner and his colleagues discovered that minerals containing borate could help life overcome this obstacle. Binding to the precursors of RNA, borate blocks them from reacting in destructive ways, so they are much more likely to form compounds that could eventually give rise to life. But even in the presence of borate, Dr. Benner and his colleagues have found, these precursors can’t make some of the final changes that turn them into RNA. And just recently the researchers found a way out of this bind. Molybdate minerals can react with the precursors to help them become RNA. While this chemistry may work in the lab, however, it may not have worked on the early Earth. Dr. Hazen and other geologists have argued that it’s unlikely that borate or molybdate were abundant on the planet. CONTINUE READING: www.nytimes.com/2013/09/12/science/space/a-far-flung-possibility-for-the-origin-of-life.html?ref=science&_r=1&
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Sept 24, 2013 13:14:52 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 24, 2013 13:14:52 GMT -6
www.space.com/22911-sick-mars-astronauts-earth-return.html?cmpid=514648Will Sick Mars Astronauts Be Forbidden from Returning to Earth?by Mike Wall, Senior Writer September 24, 2013 Landing astronauts on Mars is a tall order, but bringing them back to Earth promises to be even trickier — especially if Red Planet explorers get the sniffles on the long flight home. Sick astronauts could conceivably have been infected on Mars, some parts of which may be capable of supporting life as we know it. So the world may be reluctant to welcome such travelers home, leery of possibly unleashing an extraterrestrial superplague on Earth's 7 billion people. NASA is already thinking about how to deal with this concern as it works toward getting people to the vicinity of Mars by the mid-2030s. The key is to monitor the health of astronauts meticulously during all phases of Red Planet missions and any other deep-space efforts, said Cassie Conley, NASA's planetary protection officer. [The Boldest Mars Missions in History] www.space.com/16851-most-audacious-mars-missions-ever.html "The ability to have documentation to justify to the rest of the Earth why this really isn't some nasty disease from Mars, it's actually something totally normal and we expected it — we saw it when we went to the moon, we saw it when we went to asteroids, we know this is a result of nonliving exposure, it has nothing to do with some potentially Martian disease — that, I think, is going to be the most important aspect of doing planetary protection on human missions [to Mars]," Conley said last month during a presentation with NASA's Future In-Space Operations working group. Of course, NASA will also be doing its best to minimize the chances that astronauts could pick up a potentially pathogenic Martian organism while roaming the surface. For example, human explorers will steer clear of "special regions" — defined as areas where Earth microbes could likely survive and reproduce — and they won't set foot in a Martian locale that hasn't been visited and vetted by a robot first. These and other guidelines are laid out in a rough planetary protection protocol drawn up in 2008 by the Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), which is part of the International Council for Science. NASA and the European Space Agency have committed to follow this protocol, whose top priority is to protect Earth from any possible "back contamination" from Mars. (The policy seeks to safeguard the Red Planet against "forward contamination" from Earth as well.) But astronauts on the surface will inevitably come into contact with some Martian material no matter what precautions mission planners devise, Conley and other experts say, potentially lending a sinister edge to the slightest sneeze or cough. And Red Planet explorers are highly likely to get sick. CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/22911-sick-mars-astronauts-earth-return.html?cmpid=514648
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Sept 29, 2013 12:15:37 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Sept 29, 2013 12:15:37 GMT -6
ufodigest.com/article/mysterious-hole-0928September 28, 2013 MYSTERIOUS HOLE IN MARS CURIOSITY ROVER IMAGESBy Dirk Vander Ploeg My thanks to Fritz Goebel Sheboygan to sending this in to us. I would like to share some interesting photos I got from the Mars Curiosity Rover raw image website. They show what appears to be some kind of hole that an animal might use to access the surface when desired. When I shared them with Robert Morningstar, he thought it resembled a gopher hole. After doing some further research of my own, it seems to resemble the holes that sand crabs in coastal areas here make when the tide goes out. I have also shared the images with Diane Tessman and she thinks you might be interested in them also. In any event, they represent something worth looking at and speculation about. I am attaching the images I sent along with details of the camera that was used, and when and where the photos were taken. If you are interested in featuring them in the Digest, please feel free to do so. I would appreciate being mentioned as the person who first noticed this. MORE PICTURES & CONTINUE READING: ufodigest.com/article/mysterious-hole-0928
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Oct 30, 2013 12:12:23 GMT -6
Post by paulette on Oct 30, 2013 12:12:23 GMT -6
This is incredible - and for those who "took a trip" to Mars in our group visualization - there DEFINITELY has been running water there - and also catch basins which may even have been engineered. bit.ly/1adEucu
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Nov 3, 2013 11:53:00 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Nov 3, 2013 11:53:00 GMT -6
www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread980492/pg1WOW! Stone Hut on mars Sol 728 captured by Spirit rover ?posted on Nov, 3 2013 Well well well.. there appears to be a stone hut on mars I could go on speculating with some mombo jombo.. but I think not, your guess is as good as mine. Looks like it consist of a bunch of smaller stones Right Paannamic Camera Non-linearized Full frame EDR acquired on Sol 728 of Spirit's mission to Gusev Crater at approximately 14:24:06 Mars local solar time, camera commanded to use Filter 1 (436 nm). NASA/JPL/Cornell MORE PICTURES: www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread980492/pg1
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Nov 11, 2013 17:19:20 GMT -6
Post by swamprat on Nov 11, 2013 17:19:20 GMT -6
Mars isn't the only thing with a "face"......In this photograph, we see what looks to be the side profile of a large face on an equally large iceberg. The psychological phenomenon is known as pareidolia. The photograph was taken in Antarctica in Collins Bay between Barros Rocks and Berthelot Island (approx. 65° 19.474′S, 64° 15.560′W).
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Nov 11, 2013 20:25:29 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Nov 11, 2013 20:25:29 GMT -6
This is incredible - and for those who "took a trip" to Mars in our group visualization - there DEFINITELY has been running water there - and also catch basins which may even have been engineered. bit.ly/1adEucuThat was pretty cool. You can actually the canyons where the rivers used to be. Mars today looks very much like Earth would look in the future if there weren't any plants and oceans covering the ground up.
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Dec 17, 2013 15:06:59 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Dec 17, 2013 15:06:59 GMT -6
/photo/1 17 Dec 13 Mars OneVerified account @marsoneproject / mars-one.com Send your personal message to the surface of #Mars, printed on a parachute! /photo/1
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Jan 1, 2014 13:00:49 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 1, 2014 13:00:49 GMT -6
www.space.com/24112-private-mars-colony-1058-martian-volunteers.html?cmpid=514648 One-Way Mars Trip: 1,058 Private Martian Colony Volunteers Pass 1st CutBy Megan Gannon, News Editor December 31, 2013 All components of Mars One's settlement are slated to reach their destination by 2021. The hardware includes two living units, two life-support units, a second supply unit and two rovers. Credit: Bryan Versteeg/Mars One Mars One announced Monday (Dec. 30) that it has picked 1,058 aspiring spaceflyers to move on to the next round in its search for the first humans to live and die on the Red Planet. The Netherlands-based nonprofit wants to start launching groups of four on one-way trips to Mars by 2023, with the long-term goal of creating the first permanent settlement on Mars. More than 200,000 people applied for a spot on Mars One's list of future colonists by the time the initial application window closed on Aug. 31. The only requirement to apply was to be over age 18. Those who get to move on to the next, more rigorous selection phase were notified by email. The group's co-founder Bas Lansdorp said in a statement it was challenging to separate "those who we feel are physically and mentally adept to become human ambassadors on Mars from those who are obviously taking the mission much less seriously," adding that some even appeared nude their application videos. [Images of Mars One's Red Planet Colony Project] Of those who made the first cut, 297 are from the United States. Canada is the second best represented country with 75 candidates, followed by India with 62 and Russia with 52. All told, Mars One is looking at applicants from 107 different countries, according to figures released by the group. Nearly 77 percent of the people who made the first cut are employed, while about 15 percent are still in school. About 55 percent of the applicants are male and most are quite young: 357 are under 25 and 415 are under 35, while just 26 are over 56. The oldest person to make it to the next round is 81. "The next several selection phases in 2014 and 2015 will include rigorous simulations, many in team settings, with focus on testing the physical and emotional capabilities of our remaining candidates," Norbert Kraft, Mars One's Chief Medical Officer, said in a statement. CONTINUE READING: www.space.com/24112-private-mars-colony-1058-martian-volunteers.html?cmpid=514648
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Jan 19, 2014 3:56:05 GMT -6
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Jan 21, 2014 13:33:24 GMT -6
Post by Deleted on Jan 21, 2014 13:33:24 GMT -6
It wasn't there...then it was and they have no idea of how it did it. Maybe those of us who tried visiting Mars on the 'Mars experiment'..were not so far off the mark. I'm still sure they will find some evidence of past life there. Looking at this rock..it reminds me of the star trek episode where things kept appearing on the surface from a facility inside. news.yahoo.com/blogs/yahoo-news/mysterious-rock-found-by-mars-rover-145712301.html
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Jan 21, 2014 18:00:21 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 21, 2014 18:00:21 GMT -6
www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-says-mars-mystery-rock-that-appeared-from-nowhere-is-like-nothing-weve-ever-seen-before-9070323.html Tuesday 21 January 2014 Nasa says Mars mystery rock that ‘appeared’ from nowhere is ‘like nothing we’ve seen beforeby Adam Withnall Rock like a ‘jelly doughnut’ has left scientists ‘completely confused A mysterious rock which appeared in front of the Opportunity rover is "like nothing we've ever seen before", according to Mars exploration scientists at Nasa. Experts said they were "completely confused" by both the origins and makeup of the object, which is currently being investigated by Opportunity's various measuring instruments. Astronomers noticed the new rock had "appeared" without any explanation on an outcrop which had been empty just days earlier. The rover has been stuck photographing the same region of Mars for more than a month due to bad weather, with scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California monitoring the images it sends. Nasa issued a Mars status report entitled "encountering a surprise", and lead Mars Exploration rover scientist Steve Squyres told a JPL event it seems the planet literally "keeps throwing new things at us". He said the images, from 12 Martian days apart, were from no more than a couple of weeks ago. "We saw this rock just sitting here. It looks white around the edge in the middle and there’s a low spot in the centre that's dark red - it looks like a jelly doughnut. "And it appeared, just plain appeared at that spot - and we haven't ever driven over that spot." Squyres said his team had two theories on how the rock got there - that there's "a smoking hole in the ground somewhere nearby" and it was caused by a meteor, or that it was "somehow flicked out of the ground by a wheel” as the rover went by. "We had driven a metre or two away from here, and I think the idea that somehow we mysteriously flicked it with a wheel is the best explanation," Squyres said. Yet the story got even stranger when Opportunity investigated further. Squyres explained: "We are as we speak situated with the rover's instruments deployed making measurements of this rock. "We've taken pictures of both the doughnut and jelly parts, and the got the first data on the composition of the jelly yesterday. "It's like nothing we've ever seen before," he said. "It's very high in sulphur, it's very high in magnesium, it's got twice as much manganese as we've ever seen in anything on Mars. "I don't know what any of this means. We're completely confused, and everyone in the team is arguing and fighting (over what it means). CONTINUE READING: www.independent.co.uk/news/science/nasa-says-mars-mystery-rock-that-appeared-from-nowhere-is-like-nothing-weve-ever-seen-before-9070323.htmlAppearance of mystery rock alongside Mars rover Opportunity has tongues wagging CLICK TO READ ARTICLE www.news.com.au/technology/science/appearance-of-mystery-rock-alongside-mars-rover-opportunity-has-tongues-wagging/story-fnjwlcze-1226803349096
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Jan 21, 2014 18:03:47 GMT -6
Post by skywalker on Jan 21, 2014 18:03:47 GMT -6
They said it is composed mainly of sulphur and magnesium. Sulphur would imply that it might be volcanic in origin...or possibly from water with a very high mineral content. I don't buy that theory about it getting flicked up by a wheel though. That sounds silly.
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Jan 29, 2014 12:48:06 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 29, 2014 12:48:06 GMT -6
www.popsci.com/article/science/lawsuit-alleges-nasa-failing-investigate-alien-life NASA BEING SUED BECAUSE OF MARS ROCK Lawsuit Alleges NASA Is Failing To Investigate Alien LifeBy Colin Lecher Posted 01.28.2014 The Mysterious Rock NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell Univ./Arizona State Univ. You may recall, NASA recently announced that a strange rock had somehow "appeared" in front of its Mars Opportunity rover. The explanations for the mystery rock were straight-forward: maybe some kind of nearby impact sent a rock toward the rover, or, more likely, the rover knocked the rock out of the ground and no one noticed until later. Not so, says self-described scientist Rhawn Joseph, an author of trade books on topics ranging from alien life to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. (Sample article: "Dreams and Hallucinations: Lifting the Veil to Multiple Perceptual Realities.") The rock was a living thing, and he's filed a lawsuit to compel NASA to examine the rock more closely. Joseph is involved with the Journal of Cosmology, online publisher of some very controversial papers. In fact, this isn't the first report of alien life to come out of the journal. For the record: NASA has identified it as a rock. A very special rock, with rare properties, even. But definitely a rock. Okay? Good. The lawsuit, filed yesterday in a California court, is aimed at NASA and its Administrator, Charles Bolden, requesting that the agency "perform a public, scientific, and statutory duty which is to closely photograph and thoroughly scientifically examine and investigate a putative biological organism." Joseph is disputing the rock theory, since, "when examined by Petitioner the same structure in miniature was clearly visible upon magnification and appears to have just germinated from spores." (Joseph is the Petitioner.) The "rock," according to the lawsuit, was there the whole time, it just grew until it became visible. "The refusal to take close up photos from various angles, the refusal to take microscopicimages of the specimen, the refusal to release high resolution photos, is inexplicable, recklessly negligent, and bizarre," according to the suit. Joseph has contacted multiple NASA employees and provided them with said evidence, according to the lawsuit, but they have failed to respond. Outrage. Here are his requests of NASA: Petitioner has specifically requested and has demanded in writing the following of NASA, NASA’s chief administrator Bolden, and NASA’s rover team: A) take 100 high resolution close-up infocus photos of the specimen identified in Sol 3540, at various angles, from all sides, and from above down into the "bowl" of the specimen, and under appropriate lighting conditions which minimize glare. B) Take a minimum of 24 microscopic in-focus images of the exterior, lip, walls, and interior of the specimen under appropriate lighting conditions. C) NASA, and the rover team must make public and supply Petitioner with all high resolution photos and images of that specimen as demanded in A and B. CLICK TO READ THE FULL SUIT: www.popsci.com/article/science/lawsuit-alleges-nasa-failing-investigate-alien-lifeSCIENTIST SUES NASA: alleges it's failing to investigate alien life on Mars www.nydailynews.com/news/national/scientist-sues-nasa-failing-investigate-alien-life-article-1.1594984
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Jan 30, 2014 13:17:29 GMT -6
Post by auntym on Jan 30, 2014 13:17:29 GMT -6
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