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"It is not yet clear if atmospheric turbulences may be induced by rough topography below the clouds."
- ESA
April 3 , 2007 Paris, France - New images and data from the European Space Agency’s mission to Venus provide more details about the turbulent and noxious atmosphere of Earth’s sister planet. What causes violent winds and turbulences? Is the surface topography playing a role in the complex global dynamics of the atmosphere?
“We didn’t expect to find anything so strangely shaped and so rapidly rotating. It’s the fastest, large rotating object in the solar system."
- Michael E. Brown, Ph.D., Cal Tech
March 30, 2007 Pasadena, California - For the first time in astronomical history, a huge, bizarre rock beyond Neptune has been linked to other orbiting bodies out there. Some how the big rock called 2003 EL61, which is almost the size of Pluto, got into orbit out in the Kuiper Belt where most every other object is made of ice. Not only is this huge rocky object there, it is the only object in our solar system shaped like an American football and tumbling long end-over-end every four hours.
"Man is two men in one. One is awake in the darkness. The other asleep in the light."
- Red-haired extraterrestrial communication to Brian Scott, 1971.
February 3, 2003 Windsor, Colorado - After Brian Scott encountered the large disc in the summer of 1971 near the Superstition Mountains east of Phoenix, he found himself onboard the craft with eight to nine foot tall non-humans with bright red hair, clear blue eyes, and very white skin. (See Earthfiles, Part 4.) With the tall, red-haired beings were equally tall creatures with big heads, very long ears, long noses, sunken eyes and very thick arms, legs and torsos. Brian was told by the red-haired beings that they had originally built the ancient megalithic Tiahuanaco temple at Lake Titicaca with the aid of the grey-skinned creatures. Brian understood that one of the red-haired extraterrestrial supervisors of the stone constructions was named "Viracocha," which the local humans worshiped as a god. Viracocha means "he who walks on the foam of the water," and Tiahuanaco means the "home of Viracocha."
"It would not surprise me if it caused the destruction of at least one working satellite and maybe a couple. I would be surprised if it was bad enough to cause the destruction of many satellites."
- Jonathan McDowell, Ph.D., Harvard Astrophysicist
January 19, 2007 Cambridge, Massachusetts - Craig Covault in Aviation Week & Space Technology online reported January 17, 2007, that "U. S. intelligence agencies believe China performed a successful anti-satellite (asat) weapons test at more than 500 miles altitude (new estimate is 530 miles up) on January 11, 2007, destroying an aging Chinese weather satellite target with a kinetic kill vehicle launched on board a ballistic missile.
"It’s a little confusing this time around, actually. We haven’t had this problem before ...but indicators (of big solar maximums) that have agreed and worked in the past don’t agree this time."
- David Hathaway, Ph.D., NASA
January 13, 2007 Huntsville, Alabama - If you could fly near the surface of the sun, there would be a lot of humming and sonic booms. At Stanford University and the University of California-Berkeley, physicists have processed radio signals from the sun and produced audio files. The sun vibrates with a hum that goes up and down every five minutes. Stanford scientists call it "the singing sun."
"Without dark matter, there would have been insufficient mass in the universe for structures to collapse and galaxies to form. ...Normal matter - including stars, galaxies and gas - is built inside an underlying scaffolding of dark matter."
- NASA/JPL
Age of Universe: 13.7 billion years
Composition: .4% glowing matter such as stars. 3.6% "normal" matter as we know it in planets and stars. 23.0% cold, invisible "dark" matter detectable only by its gravitational influence on "normal" matter. 73.0% invisible "dark" energy.
January 6, 2007 Pasadena, California - NASA's JPL reports that scientists now have "definitive evidence of the presence of lakes filled with liquid methane" on Saturn's moon Titan. The radar data was published in this week's journal Nature cover story. Radar imaging data from a July 22, 2006, fly-over by the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft provided convincing evidence for large bodies of liquid methane. on Titan today.
"Imagine trying to see fireworks at night from across a crowded city. If you could turn off the city lights, you might get a glimpse at the fireworks. We have shut down the lights of the Universe to see the outlines of its first fireworks."
- Alexander Kashlinsky, Ph.D., NASA Goddard Astronomer
"A portion of the organic material in the samples is unlike anything seen before in extraterrestrial materials."
- Scott Sandford, NASA's Ames Research Center
Also see 120106 Earthfiles report about Deep Impact study of Comet Tempel I.
December 15, 2006 Pasadena, California - NASA reports that scientists have found a new class of organics in comet dust captured from comet Wild 2 in 2004 by NASA's Stardust spacecraft. [ See December 15, 2006 issue of Science Express online. ]
