Strange Flames on the International Space Station - June 21, 2013

Fire, it is often said, is mankind's oldest chemistry experiment.

For thousands of years, people have been mixing the oxygen-rich air of Earth with an almost endless variety of fuels to produce hot luminous flame.

Flames are hard to understand because they are complicated. In an ordinary candle flame, thousands of chemical reactions take place.

The familiar teardrop shape of the flame is an effect caused by gravity. Hot air rises and draws fresh cool air behind it. This is called buoyancy and is what makes the flame shoot up and flicker.

But what happens when you light a candle, say, on the International Space Station (ISS)?

In microgravity, flames burn differently—they form little spheres.

Recently, Williams and colleagues were doing an ISS experiment called "FLEX" to learn how to put out fires in microgravity when they came across something odd. Small droplets of heptane were burning inside the FLEX combustion chamber. As planned, the flames went out, but unexpectedly the droplets of fuel continued burning. They seemed to be burning without flames.

Ordinary, visible fire burns at a high temperature between 1500K and 2000K. Heptane flame balls on the ISS started out in this "hot fire" regime. But as the flame balls cooled and began to go out, a different kind of burning took over.

Cool flames burn at the relatively low temperature of 500K to 800K and their chemistry is completely different. Normal flames produce soot, CO2 and water. Cool flames produce carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.

It is possible that some unidentified flying orbs/spheres are related to ‘cool flame’ processes? sciencenasagov

 

Amateur Telescope See's Moon Pyramid - June 2013

A pyramid on the Moon located by an amateur telescope? 

Apollo 17 NASA Lunar photograph AS17-136-20680 shows after adjusting the contrast, a pyramid. We have many different pyramids here on earth. This Apollo photo confirm at least one type of pyramid on the moon.

Could this be another? 

Could this be a stepped pyramid on the moon? 

 So is this a pyramid captured by an amateur telescope or is it just an optical illusion?

 

Strange activities around the Sun - June 15, 2013

Solar activity will continue to increase as the solar cycle progresses toward solar maximum, expected in the 2013 time frame.

Despite 4 X-solar flares last month and a M5.9 solar flare on June 7, the sun shows little activity at the moment.

The sunspot number may be low, but the sun is far from blank. Amateur astronomers monitoring the sun report a large number of magnetic filaments snaking across the solar disk.

Weird filaments are popping up all over the solar surface and each one has a unique shape and length.

The longest one, in the sun's southern hemisphere stretches, more than 400,000 km from end to end.

If any of the filaments collapses, it could hit the stellar surface and explode, producing a Hyder flare.

The two videos show remarkable and strange activities and unknown objects around the sun which may be related to the increased number of magnetic filaments. The recordings show activities of the past two weeks.

NASA is now predicting that the Sun may generate unprecedented solar storms for a lengthy period in 2013.

Calm before the ‘solar’ storm?

 

jps.gov.au , spaceweather.com

Pole Shift News: Magnetic north pole has moved 161 miles in 6 months - June 2013

Pole Shift News.

According to Youtube user MrMaverickstar the magnetic north pole has moved 161 miles in 6 months only, this puts its arrival in Siberia in less that 2 years, and it is when it arrives there that it will have migrated 40 degrees across the northern hemisphere.

At this point the poles will shift at high speed over the equator until it reaches 40 degrees south.

Meanwhile, scientists say earth’s magnetic field is weakening and could all but disappear in as little as 500 years as a precursor to flipping upside down. It has happened before – the geological record suggests the magnetic field has reversed every 250,000 years, meaning that, with the last event 800,000 years ago, another would seem to be overdue. “Magnetic north has migrated more than 1,500 kilometers over the past century,” said Conall Mac Niocaill, an earth scientist at Oxford University. “In the past 150 years, the strength of the magnetic field has lessened by 10 percent, which could indicate a reversal is on the cards.. Continue reading here (reuters , theextictionprotocol).

MrMaverickstar: "I will tell you what I expect to happen when it goes past the 40 degrees point in the coming uploads".

 

The helical model - our Galaxy is a vortex

Our Galaxy is a Vortex.

Notes on the video below:

The Milky Way

1. The Milky Way itself travels through space at appr. 600 km/s.
2. The image used for texturing the Milky Way is NOT a picture of the 3. Milky Way. There are no pictures of the outside of the Milky Way.  4. There could either be a black hole or a central sun in the center of the Milky Way. I went with the texture image and made it shine.
5. A complete revolution around the galaxy takes 226 million years.
6. Do not confuse the Galactic Plane with the Galactic Equator: the Sun never "crosses" the Galactic Equator because the Sun is always on the Galactic Equator, by definition.

Precession Cycle

1. One precession cycle takes 25,920 years.
2. Since one revolution takes 226 mln years, this would mean that there are appr. 8692 precessional cycles in one revolution. In this animation there are only 60.

Scale and Distance

1. The Sun is 109 times bigger than the Earth. If this animation was to scale, the planets would be invisible.    2. Our Solar System should be a gazillion times smaller compared to the Milky Way. If this animation was to scale, you could not see the Solar System, the Sun or any of the planets.
3. The software used to create this animation is unable to work with extreme sizes and distances. djsadhu.com

 

Alien Craft Harvesting Energy From Sun's Corona? - June 3, 2013

Some very strange objects caught by Helioviewer, that seem to be harvesting plasma from the Suns corona.

Are they extraterrestrial craft, living beings or light anomalies...

The objects seem to disappear and reappear and then how the objects remain in the same position.  If it was a planet type object wouldn't it move left or right in the time that it sat there?

It's not first time strange objects caught by SOHO or Helioviewer which apparently use the sun as an energy source. In 2012 a giant object appears next to the sun, harvesting energy from the sun.

Despite the recording dates back to 1996, this unique phenomenon is so interesting that again the question arises whether these objects using the sun as an energy source, or perhaps it's a form of space weather control undertaken by these objects.

Video 1: Short version. Video 2: Detailed 21 minutes version.

 

Sea Of Okhotsk Earthquakes and Planetary Symmetry 2012-13

Analysis of the major Sea Of Okhotsk Earthquakes and Planetary Symmetry 2012-13.

Research and analysis of the theoretical 188.5 Earthquake cycle and its relationship with planets inside our solar system. has found some interesting aspects with the Saturn and Jupiter retrograde cycles.

The synodic period for Saturn is 378 days.

The 188 day earthquake cycle explained:

 

Huge Ring-Shaped UFO on NASA Photograph - June 2, 2013

Streetcap1 found again an amazing space object shown on a photograph. The image is from the official NASA "Gateway to Astronaut Photography" site.

Is it possible that this unknown object is man-made and part of a secret project or is this ring-shaped object extraterrestrial? Link photo

 

Approaching 2.7 km wide asteroid 1998 QE2 has its own 600 meters wide Moon - May 30, 2013

Approaching asteroid 1998 QE2 has a moon.

Researchers found it in a sequence of radar images obtained by the 70-meter Deep Space Network antenna at Goldstone, Calif., on the evening of May 29th (May 30th Universal Time) when the asteroid was about 6 million kilometers from Earth.

First radar images of asteroid 1998 QE2 were obtained when the asteroid was about 3.75 million miles (6 million kilometers) from Earth. The radar collage covers a little bit more than two hours. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/GSSR.

These findings show that 1998 QE2 is a binary asteroid. In the near-Earth population, about 16 percent of asteroids that are about 200 meters or larger are binary or triple systems Also revealed in the radar imagery of 1998 QE2 are several dark surface features that suggest large concavities.

The closest approach of the asteroid occurs on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern / 20:59 UTC), when the asteroid will get no closer than about 5.8 million kilometers, or about 15 times the distance between Earth and the Moon. This is the closest approach the asteroid will make to Earth for at least the next two centuries.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 was discovered on Aug. 19, 1998, by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program near Socorro, N.M. Via sciencenasa.gov

Strange Reality: Physics of the Hollow Earth

While Man has spared no expense to explore the Heavens, we know precious little about what's right beneath our feet. The beginnings to unlocking that mystery starts with the discussion of whether the Earth is solid or hollow.

If it's hollow, as many physicists believe, that fact has profound implications for our future. The key to endless energy may be in that void in the center of the planet.

Lost civilizations may be down there, is there a vast, secret, long-forgotten cave system through the Earth? Could this labyrinth still be in use, or capable of use?

A simple experiment (Watch video 2) makes a great argument for hollow Earth theory.

The hollow Earth is not possible in today's understanding of physical so called laws. Physics today requires gravity to be the main force. In the the electromagnetic universe theory electromagnetism is the main force in the universe.

So in this model the centrifugal forces separate the earth through densities giving a hollow core. However, the other portion of the Earth and it's atmosphere would be mainly influence by electrostatic attraction and pulling in matter from outer space, thus explaining our atmosphere being lighter in mass, yet still existing in the outer sphere of the planet.

What exactly is down there?

 

Related article: The Hollow Earth Theory

Weird expanding halo of light over Hawaii - May 25, 2013

On May 25, 2013, around 03:35 local time, a huge expanding halo of light was seen over Hawaii. This footage is from the Canada France Hawaii Telescope all-sky camera. In the time-lapse video, one frame equals one minute of real time. The halo is indicated.

The source of the Halo is maybe the testing of a missile, due to a fuel dump from a Minuteman III missile, which had launched from Vandenberg AFB just minutes before. This has happened at least once before, and was also shortly after a missile launch. The third stage of the missile opens up ports on the side that dump the fuel, which then rapidly expands in the near vacuum of the upper atmosphere, causing the bubble of light.

Another possibility is that military or astronomers testing a laser. Astronomers use lasers to simulate a fake star, this "laser guide star" is need to adjust the adaptive optics.

Or the strange halo may be caused by something unknown?

 

Mars Anomalies Mars Curiosity Rover - May 25, 2013

Here some new NASA photos taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover.

1. A photo of an Alien Probe or an Alien Craft that maybe crashed or is fossilized in some way. This object definitely looks mechanical. video

2. The first object is what appears to be a structure, like a house or maybe some type of ruins and the second object looks like a missile or some other type of metallic object. video

3. Another photo shows two objects. The first object is what appears to be an animal, the second objects looks like a very small figure covered with a kind of white haze. http://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/117298

4. The next photo shows the head of a cow or is it not what it seems to be? (see video below).

Video with more strange objects.

 

Women Space Conspiracy - May 2013

NASA:

The United States screened a group of female pilots in 1959 and 1960 for possible astronaut training but later decided to restrict astronaut qualification to men. The first American woman in space was astronaut and physicist Sally Ride, who served as mission specialist on a flight of the space shuttle Challenger in 1983.

In memory of Sally Ride and Judith Resnik. and their contribution for women's equality in the NASA Space Program. This film takes us back to a time when women were excluded from entering the Astronaut Space Program and their struggle, against all odds, to gain acceptances from NASA. Discover the untold story of women in space in this fact filled film hosted by Nichelle Nichols (Communications officer Lieutenant Uhura on Star Trek®).

 

RUSSIA:

On June 16, 1963, aboard Vostok 6, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to travel into space. After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.

Valentina Tereshkova

In 1963, Tereshkova was chosen to take part in the second dual flight in the Vostok program, involving spacecrafts Vostok 5 and Vostok 6. On June 14, 1963, Vostok 5 was launched into space with cosmonaut Valeri Bykovsky aboard. With Bykovsky still orbiting the earth, Tereshkova was launched into space on June 16 aboard Vostok 6. The two spacecrafts had different orbits but at one point came within three miles of each other, allowing the two cosmonauts to exchange brief communications. Tereshkova's spacecraft was guided by an automatic control system, and she never took manual control. On June 19, after just under three days in space, Vostok 6 reentered the atmosphere, and Tereshkova successfully parachuted to earth after ejecting at 20,000 feet. Bykovsky and Vostok 5 landed safely a few hours later. She never entered space again, and hers was the last space flight by a female cosmonaut until the 1980s.

But, was Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova the first woman to travel into space?

The Torre Bert Recordings

The Judica-Cordiglia brothers are two former amateur radio operators who made audio recordings that allegedly supported the conspiracy theory that the Soviet space program had covered up cosmonaut deaths in the 1960s.

On May 19, 1961, the Torre Bert listening station ( Judica-Cordiglia brothers) in northern Italy purportedly picked up a transmission of a woman’s voice, sounding confused and frightened as her craft began to break up upon reentry.

Is this the first woman in space?

This is the supposed recording of a Soviet space flight in 1961. In it, a Russian woman can be heard complaining about the increasing temperature inside the craft before it is destroyed attempting re-entry.

This was recorded by the Judica-Cordiglia brothers in 1961. It is reportedly one of many transmissions intercepted by the two brothers that prove the existence of the lost cosmonauts.

 

The following is a translation of what the woman is saying:

five…four…three …two…one…one two…three…four…five… come in… come in… come in… LISTEN…LISTEN! …COME IN! COME IN… COME IN… TALK TO ME! TALK TO ME!… I AM HOT!… I AM HOT! WHAT?… FORTYFIVE?… WHAT?… FORTYFIVE?… FIFTY?… YES…YES…YES… BREATHING… BREATHING… OXYGEN… OXYGEN… I AM HOT… (THIS) ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?… IT’S ALL… ISN’T THIS DANGEROUS?… IT’S ALL… YES…YES…YES… HOW IS THIS? WHAT?… TALK TO ME!… HOW SHOULD I TRANSMIT? YES…YES…YES… WHAT? OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… THIS WAY… OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… THIS WAY… OUR TRANSMISSION BEGINS NOW… FORTYONE… YES… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… IT’S ALL… IT’S HOT… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… … I CAN SEE A FLAME!… WHAT?… I CAN SEE A FLAME!… I CAN SEE A FLAME!… I FEEL HOT… I FEEL HOT… THIRTYTWO… THIRTYTWO… FORTYONE… FORTYONE AM I GOING TO CRASH?… YES…YES… I FEEL HOT!… I FEEL HOT!… I WILL REENTER!… I WILL REENTER… I AM LISTENING!… I FEEL HOT!…

In total the Judica-Cordiglia brothers released nine recordings over a period of four years. More information at lostcosmonauts.com

source: ufotv , history.com

The Sun Rips off a Comet's tail - May 15, 2013

Comet Lemmon (C/2012 F6), which is receding from the sun not far beyond the orbit of Earth, has just experienced a "disconnection event."

A cloud of dusty plasma is propagating down the comet's tail, shown here in a photo taken by Paul Mortfield on May 15th:

Disconnection events can be caused by CME impacts. A famous example is that of Comet Encke in 2007.

Comet Lemmon, however, is not on the same side of the sun as active sunspot AR1748. It's hard to see how the recent X-flares can be responsible. Nevertheless, solar activity is high and comets are very sensitive to stormy space weather.

Comet Encke

On April 20, 2007, the comet Encke had just dipped inside the orbit of Mercury, perilously close to the sun, when a solar eruption struck and literally tore the comet's tail off.

NASA's STEREO-A probe recorded a fantastic movie of the collision.

The eruption that hit Encke was a CME or "coronal mass ejection.

CMEs are fast-moving and massive, packing billions of tons of solar gas and magnetism into billowing clouds traveling a million-plus miles per hour.

Actually, it is a little surprising that a CME succeeded in ripping off a comet's tail. For all their mass and power, CMEs are spread over a large volume of space.

The impact of a CME exerts little more than a few nanoPascals of mechanical pressure.

The ripping action must have been something else.

"We believe the explanation is 'magnetic reconnection,'" says Vourlidas of the Naval Research Lab in Washington, D.C. Magnetic fields around the comet bumped into oppositely directed magnetic fields in the CME. Suddenly, these fields linked together--they "reconnected"--releasing a burst of energy that tore off the comet's tail.

Comet ISON

I wonder what would happen if an earth directed CME rips off comet ISON's tail.

source: science.nasa.gov , spaceweather

Dark 1.7 miles long Asteroid 1998 QE2 to fly by Earth on May 31, 2013

It's 1.7 miles long. Its surface is covered in a sticky black substance similar to the gunk at the bottom of a barbecue. If it impacted Earth it would probably result in global extinction. Good thing it is just making a flyby.

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will make its closest pass to Earth on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. PDT.X The space rock's name is not an homage to England's Queen Elizabeth II, or to the famous 12-deck ocean liner that was retired from service in 2008. It's just the moniker assigned by the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., which names each new found asteroid according to an established alphanumeric scheme that lays out when it was discovered.

Scientists are not sure where this unusually large space rock, which was discovered 15 years ago, originated from. But the mysterious sooty substance on its surface could indicate it may be the result of a comet that flew too close to the sun, said Amy Mainzer, who tracks near-Earth objects at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. It might also have leaked out of the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, she said.

We will know more after the asteroid zips closer to Earth and scientists using the Deep Space Network antenna in Goldstone, Calif., and the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico can get a better look at it. Astronomers at both observatories plan to track it closely from May 30 to June 9, according to a JPL release.

At its closest approach the asteroid will still be 3.6 million miles from our planet (about 15 times the distance between the Earth and the moon), but it will be close enough for these powerful radar antennas to see features as small as 12 feet across.

"With radar we can transform an object from a point of light into a small world with its own characteristics," Lance Benner, JPL's principal investigator for Goldstone radar observations, said in a statement.

NASA leads the global effort to identify potentially dangerous asteroids. Our planet has been pummeled by space rocks throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, and more strikes are in our future.

The planet got a dramatic reminder of this reality this past Feb. 15. On that day, a 55-foot (17 m) object exploded without warning over Russia, just hours before the 130-foot asteroid 2012 DA14 gave Earth a close shave, missing our planet by just 17,200 miles (27,000 km).

There is no chance that asteroid 1998 QE2 could collide with Earth this go-around, and its next close approach won't be until 2119.

Still, Mainzer said the size of the asteroid, and its potential for mass destruction, should remind us that there are some scary things flying around in space.

"This is a really big asteroid, similar in size to the one that killed off the dinosaurs, and it's getting very close to us," she said. "Fortunately we've been tracking its orbit very carefully so we know with great certainty it won't hit us.

"We don't need to panic, but we do need to pay attention," she said.

 

source: Andre Heath , jpl.nasa.gov

Bright Explosion on the Moon 2013

For the past 8 years, NASA astronomers have been monitoring the Moon for signs of explosions caused by meteoroids hitting the lunar surface. "Lunar meteor showers" have turned out to be more common than anyone expected, with hundreds of detectable impacts occurring every year.

They've just seen the biggest explosion in the history of the program.

"On March 17, 2013, an object about the size of a small boulder hit the lunar surface in Mare Imbrium," says Bill Cooke of NASA's Meteoroid Environment Office. "It exploded in a flash nearly 10 times as bright as anything we've ever seen before."

The 40 kg meteoroid measuring 0.3 to 0.4 meters wide hit the Moon traveling 56,000 mph. The resulting explosion packed as much punch as 5 tons of TNT.

Unlike Earth, which has an atmosphere to protect it, the Moon is airless and exposed. "Lunar meteors" crash into the ground with fair frequency. Since the monitoring program began in 2005, NASA’s lunar impact team has detected more than 300 strikes, most orders of magnitude fainter than the March 17th event. Statistically speaking, more than half of all lunar meteors come from known meteoroid streams such as the Perseids and Leonids. The rest are sporadic meteors--random bits of comet and asteroid debris of unknown parentage.

U.S. Space Exploration Policy eventually calls for extended astronaut stays on the lunar surface. Identifying the sources of lunar meteors and measuring their impact rates gives future lunar explorers an idea of what to expect. Is it safe to go on a moonwalk, or not? The middle of March might be a good time to stay inside.

  source: science.nasa.gov , nasatv

Solar Activity: Powerful X1.7 and X2.8-Class Solar Flares - May 14, 2013

A sunspot on the sun's eastern limb is crackling with powerful X-class solar flares.

It announced itself with an X1.7-class eruption on May 13th at 0217 UT. Associated with this event was a strong R3 Level Radio Blackout.

Quickly followed by an X2.8-class flare at 1609 UT. These are the strongest flares of 2013, and they signal a significant uptick in solar activity. More eruptions are in the offing.

Both of today's flares have produced strong flashes of extreme ultraviolet radiation. The explosions also hurled coronal mass ejections (CMEs) into space. the CMEs appear to be on course to hit NASA's Epoxi and Spitzer spacecraft on May 15-16.

When the flaring began, the sunspot was hidden behind the sun's eastern limb, but now solar rotation is bringing the active region into view.

The next 24 to 48 hours should reveal much about the sunspot, including its size, magnetic complexity, and potential for future flares.

For the moment, there is no reason to expect the explosions to stop.

Update:

A X3.2-class Flare on May 14, 2013.
This is the strongest flare this year so far. NOAA estimate a 40% change of more X-flares during the next 24 hours.
Earthquake update: A M7.0 quake 39km W of Agrihan, Northern Mariana Islands on May 14, 2013.

 

NASA's video shows how it plans to catch an asteroid ‘the stepping stone to Mars’

Charles Bolden, NASA's administrator, has said that a human mission to Mars is the space agency's top priority.

Experts predict that NASA could put a team of astronauts on Mars by 2033 if plans to capture an asteroid in 2025, which could lead to a base for a Mars mission, are a success.

1. The first part of getting to Mars is an asteroid capture mission scheduled for 2025.
2. NASA is to find an asteroid which is between 23 and 33 feet wide.
3. They would then tow or push it towards Earth so that it ends up in a stable orbit near the moon.
4. In 2021 astronauts would then use an Orion capsule - a manned spacecraft - to land on the asteroid and bring back soil and rock samples for analysis.
5, This asteroid would also be used as a stop-off point for astronauts on their way to Mars, as missions could launch without having to escape the Earth's atmosphere. Read more

 

source: via dailymail , ukdailynews999

Zoom around and discover your own MARS anomalies 2013

Hosted on Gigapan, MPJ released 360-degree super size color images (15 images) from the surface of Mars.

The extreme large size of the images gives onlookers the ability to zoom around and see an unreal close-up and some extreme details of the martian terrain.

Many people believe they spotted UFOs, bones, fossils, animals and other strange and unnatural objects in the massive pictures.

Take a look and discover your own Mars anomaly!

Here is the link to MPJ Homepage: http://gigapan.com/profiles/MPJ
Additional:
Here is the link to the amazing Panaroma view of Yellowknife Bay Area: http://gigapan.com/gigapans/124472

Enjoy!

source: MPJ , Gigapan

Eric Dollard: The sun is a converter from another dimensionality

Eric Dollard has done over 4 years of research on the Sun at Sonoma State University before his lab was taken from him.

Here he reveals astonishing truths about the sun never before heard in such frank and straight speak.

Note: Eric's story... an answer to the question, why so many UFOs are reported near the Sun?   

source: techzombiescave