Updated: Is There Life in Europa’s Huge Ocean?

“Probably the best chance of finding current life in our solar system right now would be on Europa.”

- Richard Greenberg, Ph.D., Univ. of Arizona

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The icy surface of Europa is cracked like an egg from the tug and pull of Jupiter's gravitational stretching. Below the ice is a 100-miles-deep liquid water ocean and new data indicates more oxygen than expected reaches that ocean from the icy surface. Water plus oxygen could mean life there right now. Image from Galileo spacecraft, 1995 - 2003, by JPL, NASA and Ted Stryk.
The icy surface of Europa is cracked like an egg from the tug and pull of Jupiter's gravitational stretching. Below the ice is a 100-miles-deep liquid water ocean and new data indicates more oxygen than expected reaches that ocean from the icy surface. Water plus oxygen could mean life there right now. Image from Galileo spacecraft, 1995 - 2003, by JPL, NASA and Ted Stryk.
NASA released this image of Europa as true color of the moon's icy surface full of cracks. The slightly reddish tint of the surface cracks is still a mystery, but the hypothesis is that sulfur compounds are responsible. Image courtesy NASA/JPL.
NASA released this image of Europa as true color of the moon's icy surface full of cracks. The slightly reddish tint of the surface cracks is still a mystery, but the hypothesis is that sulfur compounds are responsible. Image courtesy NASA/JPL.

Updated November 2, 2009, with podcast and Europa book information at end of report from Tucson, Arizona - There is a moon in our solar system that is about the size of Earth's moon, but beneath its icy surface is a liquid water ocean 100 miles deep. That moon is Europa, one of 49 known moons that orbit Jupiter, of which Europa, Io, Ganymede and Callisto are the largest.

 

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How Long Will Our Sun Remain Quiet and Cosmic Rays Increase?

We don’t have records prior to 1874 that give us details about the sun. Compared to the past 130 years, our sun now is unprecedented as far as how slow this Solar Cycle 24 is taking off - or not taking off!”

- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA Heliospheric Team Leader

        

NASA'S Advanced Composition Explorer satellite (ACE) launched August 1997 to study solar particles and galactic cosmic rays. It has nine instruments onboard that helps it track solar wind and galactic cosmic rays from interstellar space beyond the heliosphere. ACE serves as a space weather station while in orbit. ACE can provide a one-hour advance warning of any geomagnetic storms that are caused by coronal mass ejections. Strong solar coronal mass ejections can disrupt radio, TV and telephone communications on Earth. Logo by NASA.
NASA'S Advanced Composition Explorer satellite (ACE) launched August 1997 to study solar particles and galactic cosmic rays. It has nine instruments onboard that helps it track solar wind and galactic cosmic rays from interstellar space beyond the heliosphere. ACE serves as a space weather station while in orbit. ACE can provide a one-hour advance warning of any geomagnetic storms that are caused by coronal mass ejections. Strong solar coronal mass ejections can disrupt radio, TV and telephone communications on Earth. Logo by NASA.

 

October 30, 2009  Huntsville, Alabama - For twelve years, NASA has had a satellite positioned a million miles in front of Earth with the sun about 92 million miles beyond. Its mission has been to study particles that come near Earth from our sun, the solar system and the galaxy. The satellite is called Advanced Composition Explorer, or ACE, and some of the highly energetic particles ACE has been monitoring are cosmic rays.

 

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Update on 2009 H1N1

“The new H1N1 is like the avian flu on steroids. It really is a new beast, so to speak.”

- Sherif Zaki, M. D.,
CDC Chief of Infectious Disease Pathology

 

 Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report by CDC showing novel H1N1 flu virus is widespread throughout the United States as of October 17, 2009. See website links for more information at the end of this Earthfiles report.
Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report by CDC showing novel H1N1 flu virus is widespread throughout the United States as of October 17, 2009. See website links for more information at the end of this Earthfiles report.

“Contrary to the perception among many people that this influenza, the novel H1N1, is mild, (new) data vividly demonstrate that this influenza can make you very, very ill.”

- William Schaffner, M. D.,
Vanderbilt University Flu Expert

Click for podcast. New England Journal of Medicine on October 8, 2009, reports CDC research that indicates 7% mortality in U. S. 2009 H1N1 cases - higher than normal seasonal flu. H1N1 cases began doubling each week in September 2009. Further, a virulent strain of H3N2 is coming north from Southern Hemisphere. Novel 2009 H1N1 photomicrograph by CDC.
New England Journal of Medicine on October 8, 2009, reports CDC research that indicates 7% mortality in U. S. 2009 H1N1 cases - higher than normal seasonal flu. H1N1 cases began doubling each week in September 2009. Further, a virulent strain of H3N2 is coming north from Southern Hemisphere. Novel 2009 H1N1 photomicrograph by CDC.

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October 30, 2009 - Atlanta, Georgia, and Houston, Texas -   On Friday, October 23, 2009, President Barack Obama declared the H1N1 pandemic to be a U. S. national emergency. He said, “The rates of illness continue to rise rapidly within many communities across the nation, and the potential exists for the pandemic to overburden health care resources in some localities.” The goal now is to lift bureaucratic requirements to help hospitals and health care facilities deal more easily with the pandemic emergency.

 

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High Strangeness in Overton and Basingstoke, Hampshire, U. K.

“Our Society  has videotape shot at night of a U.K. farm animal abduction where you can see the helpless creature as it goes up into the craft!”

- Kenneth J. Parsons, Chmn., British Earth
and Aerial Mysteries Society  

 

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Part 7: 1980 Animal Mutilation High Strangeness Files

“As the ‘helicopter’ rose upward, it seemed to turn into a ‘ball shape’ and I yelled for my mother-in-law to run out into the yard ... She said as the object rose, it changed into a ‘square shape.’”

- John Cumby, Littleton, Colorado

September 23, 1980, 7 PM Mtn., a shape-shifting aerial craft appears over cattle pasture near home of John Cumby in Littleton, Colorado, a suburb southwest of Denver.
September 23, 1980, 7 PM Mtn., a shape-shifting aerial craft appears over cattle pasture near home of John Cumby in Littleton, Colorado, a suburb southwest of Denver.

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October 28, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following continues from Parts 1- 6 about the 1980 animal mutilation high strangeness summary I typed up for my private research files and am now sharing for the first time in this Real X-Files series. This segment continues on September 22, 1980, after the high strangeness at Iona Hoeppner's Briggsdale, Colorado, high school lab.

 

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Part 2:  Silbury Hill “Quetzlcoatl Headdress” and Mysterious Tall Blonds

“The police officer says that the tall men moved very fast, as if you were watching a video or DVD in fast forward mode.”

- Andy Russell, Investigator

Silbury Hill “Quetzalcoatl Headdress” about 350 feet in diameter first discovered July 5, 2009, around 4:30 AM by documentary film crew that had been camped all night atop Silbury Hill and were first into the extraordinary pattern. Aerial image © 2009 by Lucy Pringle. For other images and information: Cropcircleconnector.
Silbury Hill “Quetzalcoatl Headdress” about 350 feet in diameter first discovered July 5, 2009, around 4:30 AM by documentary film crew that had been camped all night atop Silbury Hill and were first into the extraordinary pattern. Aerial image © 2009 by Lucy Pringle. For other images and information: Cropcircleconnector.

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July 16, 2009  Silbury Hill, Wiltshire County, England - Three days after the “Quetzalcoatl Headdress” appeared across the Roman Road from ancient Silbury Hill, a website called The Truth Hides printed a peculiar news item on Wednesday, July 8, 2009, allegedly from a Wiltshire police officer's phone tip.

 

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Part 6: 1980 Animal Mutilation High Strangeness Files

“I did careful microscopic exam on the tissue cut from the calf's belly.
It was not a cut, not a laser burn. No cells were destroyed. The excision
was separated between cells, cell by cell.”

- Iona Hoeppner, Briggsdale High School Science Teacher

From Fort Collins to Briggsdale to Sterling, Colorado, the red dots on the map include some of the ranching communities where animal mutilations were reported repeatedly in the 1970s and 1980s.
From Fort Collins to Briggsdale to Sterling, Colorado, the red dots on the map include some of the ranching communities where animal mutilations were reported repeatedly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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October 20, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following continues from Parts 1- 5 about the 1980 animal mutilation high strangeness summary I typed up for my private research files and am now sharing for the first time in this Real X-Files series. This segment continues on September 19, 1980, after Iona Hoeppner's Briggsdale, Colorado, high school lab was broken into and all her mutilated calf samples from the Roland Ball ranch were stolen.

 

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Moultrie Game Camera Manager Puzzled by “Milk Bottle” Images

“This is the first time that our Moultrie game trail camera people have ever seen anything like those ‘milk bottle’ images. The head of Moultrie engineering, research and development now has the photos, but so far no explanation.”

- Gene Matchen,
Manager, Moultrie Customer Service

 

“Milk bottle” aerial object caught by game trail camera behind tree branch on December 1, 2008, between 11:05 PM and 11:29 PM Central in Edom, Texas. Image provided by camera owner.
“Milk bottle” aerial object caught by game trail camera behind tree branch on December 1, 2008, between 11:05 PM and 11:29 PM Central in Edom, Texas. Image provided by camera owner.

 

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Part 5: 1980 Animal Mutilation High Strangeness Files

“There was a chemistry sophistication in the actions of whoever broke into my lab and took all the calf samples.”

- Iona Hoeppner, Briggsdale High School Science Teacher

From Fort Collins to Briggsdale to Sterling, Colorado, the red dots on the map include some of the ranching communities where animal mutilations were reported repeatedly in the 1970s and 1980s.
From Fort Collins to Briggsdale to Sterling, Colorado, the red dots on the map include some of the ranching communities where animal mutilations were reported repeatedly in the 1970s and 1980s.

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October 17, 2009  Albuquerque, New Mexico - The following continues from Parts 1- 4 about the 1980 animal mutilation high strangeness summary I typed up for my private research files and am now sharing for the first time in this Real X-Files series. This segment follows up on Briggsdale science teacher, Iona Hoeppner's, investigation of the two steer mutilations on the Roland Ball ranch five miles west of Briggsdale discovered Tuesday, September 16, 1980. On Thursday, September 18, the Balls took Iona out to the pasture to take tissue and fluid samples from the freshest dead calf. A month later on October 15, 1980, I talked with Iona by phone about her investigation.

 

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