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September 24, 2012September 25, 2017

Updated: Why Is NASA Faking Gale Crater Images On Mars?

“Since we know that the Google Mars image is older, and of higher
resolution than the fake Photoshopped image, then perhaps as it got closer to the Curiosity Landing date, and the Mars Orbiter was used to take more photos of the Curiosity landing zone ... perhaps NASA saw something that hadn’t been in earlier photos ... and needed to be covered up.”

- Retired U. S. Navy Captain

“I find it interesting that in Google Earth->Mars, there are two high-resolution image strips of the Curiosity landing area with a big gap between them, and that whatever they're hiding falls in that gap.”

- Daniel

The original Martian Gale crater aerial image on the left was taken by a Mars-orbiting spacecraft and distributed by NASA/JPL. There is no "lake" with appendages. But in a later NASA/JPL image on the right, for unknown reasons, the "lake" with appendages has been pasted in to cover up what? Further, the "lake" was copied and retouched from an actual feature on a high-resolution NASA image discussed below. Source images by NASA/JPL.

Editorial Note: The word "lake" in quotation marks is used throughout this Earthfiles report to denote the darker, lake-like patterns, but does not literally mean liquid water, which cannot last long on the surface of Mars without sublimating into the atmosphere. Speculation is that the darker colored patterns that resemble lakes are mineral residues that are currently unidentified on what appear to be the bottoms of ancient lake beds.

Extreme close up on the Gale Crater "lake pattern" discussed in this report to show the ripple patterns of the presumed ancient lake bed surrounding the three "islands" in the "lake," including this largest "island" that was retouched out of the copy/paste digital manipulation of the Gale crater landscape described in this Earthfiles report. Image source NASA/JPL.

Updated September 24, 2012 Albuquerque, New Mexico - On September 21, I received an email with the following YouTube URL posted on September 19, 2012, by “SunsFlare.” I was asked to view what was described as deliberately faked Gale Crater images on Mars. Gale Crater is where the Curiosity Mars Science Lab rover landed on August 5, 2012, at 10:31 PM Pacific to explore for evidence of water and chemistry of life on the Red Planet.

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August 17, 2012October 25, 2017

Arctic Ice Melt Shrinks At Record Pace, While Greenland Also Melts.

“I don’t think it is the 0.1 centigrade (0.18 degrees F.) warming around northern Greenland which is five times the global warming average that the Defense Department worries about as much as coming wars over water, food, fossil fuels and other Earth resources.”

- Andreas Muenchow, Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Earth, Ocean and Environment, Univ. of Delaware

August 17, 2012 Newark, Delaware - The U. S. National Snow & Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado, reports, “The average pace of Arctic ice loss since late June 2012 has been rapid at just over 38,000 square miles per day (100,000 sq. km). However, this pace nearly doubled for a few days in early August during a major Arctic cyclonic storm.”

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July 29, 2012November 12, 2017

Updated: Was Biggest Canyon in the Solar System Scarred by Plasma? Was Biggest Canyon in the Solar System Scarred by Plasma?

“Valles Marineris looks like nothing more than an electric arc
blasting across the surface of Mars and removing immense
amounts of material from the planet.”

- David Talbott, Video Producer, The Lightning-Scarred Planet Mars

Valles Marineris, our solar system's biggest canyon, runs along the Martian equator for 2,500 miles (4000 km) at depths up to 4 miles (7 km ). For comparison, Arizona's Grand Canyon is about 500 miles long (800 km) and 1 mile deep (1.6 km). Valles Marineris spans one-fifth of the entire distance around Mars! NASA 1980 global mosaic image by Viking 1.

Updated with mp.3 audio. July 29, 2012 Albuquerque, New Mexico - The 19th Annual National Philosophy Alliance (NPA) conference was held July 25 - 28, 2012, at the Marriott Pyramid North hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Presentations ranged from quantum physics and relativity to the electric universe hypothesis. Electric universe researcher David Talbott argues that Valles Marineris on Mars was sculpted by large bolts of plasma, not by water or continental drift forces seen on Earth. Further, Wallace Thornhill from Chapman in the Australian Capital Territory near Canberra, presents new evidence that hourglass-shaped and filamentous galactic nebulae are linked to electrical behavior more than gravity.

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July 27, 2012May 10, 2020

Updated Part 1: Is There A Large Pyramid Underground Between Mt. McKinley and Nome, Alaska?

Updated with mp3 audio of interview.

“My father was 're-recruited' by the military to join a group of other experts to study and work at an underground structure in Alaska that in his words they called the‘Dark Pyramid.’”

- July 27, 2012 email to Earthfiles

“What the geologists said they found in this byline news story (Anchorage TV Channel 13) story was under Alaska, they found a pyramid bigger than the one in Egypt.”

- Douglas A. Mutschler, Chief Warrant Officer, U. S. Army Counterintelligence

Mount McKinley is north of Anchorage. Nome is upper left red circle on Norton Sound west of Mount McKinley. The region between Mount McKinley and Nome is where the large pyramid structure was allegedly found during geophysical studies of the May 22, 1992, Chinese underground detonation of a large nuclear bomb at Lop Nor.

Updated August 10, 2012 / Original Report July 27, 2012 - I continue to receive email from a wide variety of professionals with comments about the possible underground pyramid structure in Alaska between Mount McKinley and Nome said to be larger that the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt. One particularly noteworthy email is dated July 27, 2012.

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July 2, 2012November 8, 2017

Part 6: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey – Was Underground Cappadocia Another Escape from Catastrophe?

“Cappadocia was a huge underground refuge, and I believe
many areas might date back thousands of years, perhaps even to the
end of the last ice age 12,000 years ago when Gobekli Tepe was constructed.”

- Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., Geologist, Boston University

Above: The Cappadocia region is southeast of Ankara, Turkey, in the Nevsehir Province and bounded by the four cities of Kirsehir (top left red circle); Aksaray (far left red circle); Nigde (lowest red circle in black outlined Cappadocia); and Kayseri (far right red circle in black outline). Urfa and nearby Gobekli Tepe are the red circle in lower right near Turkey and Syria border. Below: Anatolian Balloons firing up on June 11, 2012, before sunrise to take tourists for balloon rides over the spectacular and eerie volcanic landscapes of Cappadocia where Anatolians have carved homes in pointed lava ash domes and made underground cities for millennia. Balloon image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe. — **Above:** The Cappadocia region is southeast of Ankara, Turkey, in the Nevsehir Province and bounded by the four cities of Kirsehir (top left red circle); Aksaray (far left red circle); Nigde (lowest red circle in black outlined Cappadocia); and Kayseri (far right red circle in black outline). Urfa and nearby Gobekli Tepe are the red circle in lower right near Turkey and Syria border. **Below:** Anatolian Balloons firing up on June 11, 2012, before sunrise to take tourists for balloon rides over the spectacular and eerie volcanic landscapes of Cappadocia where Anatolians have carved homes in pointed lava ash domes and made underground cities for millennia. Balloon image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Robert Schoch's Cappadocia balloon group rising from ground at sunrise on June 11, 2012.

Above and below: Anatolian and other balloons rising over volcanic landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey, on June 11, 2012. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Fairy chimneys of Pasabag and Monks Valley where historians of the region say that Saint Simon in the 5th Century A.D. moved into one of the fairy chimneys to be alone after rumors that he created miracles. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Tufa cones from Goreme in the Kiliclar Valley of Cappadocia, Turkey. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Uchisar gets its name from a Hittite castle built long ago on the ancient Silk Road in the pinkish-beige volcanic rock formations. Today there are large apartment buildings that house many people. The temperature inside remains the same allthrough the year. Expansions occur by simply carving into more surrounding volcanic rock. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

The Bible's Acts of the Apostles describes how Saul of Tarsus, Anatolia, was traveling to Damascus, Syria, when a strong light appeared in the sky that caused Saul to fall off his horse. A voice from heaven said, “Saul, why do you persecute me?” Saul asked, “Who are you, Lord?” The voice replied, “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting.” (Acts of the Apostles 9:5) Saul changed his life to champion Christ and became known as St. Paul. In the Cappadocia volcanic rocks of Antakya, the first church dedicated to Christ was carved. Since then, many churches have been carved into Cappadocia volcanic rock such as the one above. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Mount Erciyes rises 12,848 feet (3,916 meters) above the Cappadocia plateau in foreground that is covered with volcanic ash mounds and “fairy houses” from this central Turkey region that had persistent volcanic eruptions millions of years ago from half a dozen volcanoes. Those continuous ancient eruptions produced the Mid-Anatolian Plateau with masses of lava and ash that are 656 feet (200 meters deep). It is possible that the Hipparion ancestor of the modern horse was killed off by all the volcanic eruptions. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

July 2, 2012 Cappadocia Region southeast of Ankara, Turkey, in ancient Anatolia - The western frontier of Asia known as Asia Minor was the region of Anatolia that encompassed the central uplands of modern Turkey from the coastal plain of the Aegean Sea east to the mountains on the Armenian border and from the narrow coast of the Black Sea south to the Taurus mountains and Mediterranean coast.

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June 28, 2012November 8, 2017

Part 5: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey – Another Artificial Covering Over Mount Nemrut

“Mt. Nemrut is clearly an artificial peak on top of the mountain.
It’s piled up with gravel purposefully ... of a certain size,
of a certain shape so ... it’s actually a very sophisticated pile of gravel.”

- Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., Geologist, Boston University

Mount Nemrut: 37° 58' 54.0012" N, 38° 44' 27.9996" E Mount Nemrut 25 miles north of Kahta, Turkey, and north of Gobekli Tepe, is another artificially covered mountain top above large stone heads of people and animals spanning cultures of Roman, Persian, Hellenistic, and Anatolian history. The artificial mountain top rises 164 feet above the carved statues that appear to have Greek-style facial features, but Persian clothing and hairstyling. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

2,000 years ago these similar-sized stones were piled up artificially for 164 feet on top of Mount Nemrut, Turkey, apparently as a burial tumulus for Antiochus I. Image © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

Mount Nemrut is the red circle on the right near Kahta, Turkey, that is north of the Gobekli Tepe archaeological site (green circle). Istanbul is the larger red circle on the left.

June 28, 2012 Mount Nemrut 25 miles north of Kahta, Turkey - On June 11, 2012, we traveled to see the “8th Wonder of the Ancient World,” Mount Nemrut. It's a 7,000-foot-high mountain (2,134 meters) north of Gobekli Tepe and about 25 miles (40 km) north of Kahta, Turkey. Historically, the astounding mountain burial monument disappeared from world consciousness for two thousand years until re-discovered in 1881 by a German engineer named Charles Sester, who was studying Ottoman transport routes. Then it took until 1953 for any professional archaeological research to be done.

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June 26, 2012November 6, 2017

Part 4: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe, Turkey – Interview with Geologist Robert Schoch.

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“All the work Gobekli Tepe builders put into carving those pillars,
erecting them, erecting walls between them at a later stage... is in many
ways dwarfed by the amount of time and work and energy
they put into covering them over again.”

- Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., Geologist, Boston University

Yellow marker at coordinates for Gobekli Tepe: 37.223237° N, 38.922546° E Gobekli Tepe in Turkish means “Potbelly Hill,” an archaeological site about eight miles northeast of Sanliurfa not far from the Syrian border. The region's water comes from the Euphrates, the longest river of Western Asia, that originates upstream from Keban, Elazig Province in eastern Turkey.

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June 26, 2012 Gobekli Tepe, Turkey - After the sun had risen to completely light up Gobekli Tepe, I interviewed geologist Robert M. Schoch, Ph.D., inside the Gobekli Tepe excavation. I asked him if given that Gobekli Tepe's creation and purpose is perhaps the greatest archaeological and historical mystery on the planet today, what does Dr. Schoch speculate happened a thousand years after the elegant, bizarre, strangely eerie pillars, totem, Urfa man and other sculptures were erected in circles over 30 hilltop acres to cause Someone to cover the whole site back over with dirt?

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June 21, 2012November 6, 2017

Part 3: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe – Buried to Escape Incoming Comets? Meteorites? Huge Solar Flares?

“Nanodiamonds only form under very high temperatures
and pressures consistent with a major cosmic impact event.”

- Douglas Kennett, Ph.D., Univ. of Oregon

Gobekli Tepe, Turkey: 37.223237° N, 38.922546° E — Gobekli Tepe, Turkey: **37.223237° N, 38.922546° E**

Gobekli Tepe in Turkish means “Potbelly Hill,” an archaeological site about eight miles northeast of Sanliurfa/Urfa not far from the Syrian border. Urfa city lights in background.

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June 21, 2012 Gobekli Tepe 8 miles northeast of Sanliurfa, Turkey - Who made the 30 acres of elegantly carved Gobekli limestone pillars in circles? And why? More baffling, who? or what? was gathering up tons of soil and carefully piling it over the 30 acres of 19-foot-high, T-shaped limestone pillars - covering them up a thousand years after the pillars had been sculpted by Someone? These 12,000-year-old circles of limestone pillars, cemented bases and brick walls are more than twice the age of Mesopotamia! Was Gobekli being protected because Gobekli creators had foreknowledge about a coming catastrophe? The effort needed to erect so many large stone circles over some 30 acres - and then have to bury all those pillars again centuries later – is beyond understanding. What exactly was the process to re-bury all the pillars?

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June 18, 2012November 6, 2017

Part 2: Mysterious 12,000-Years-Old Gobekli Tepe – Odd Pillar Creatures, Bizarre Totem and Mouthless Man

“The T-shaped pillars have an anthropomorphic identity. But who are they?As their faces are never depicted, they seem very likely to be related to supernatural beings, beings gathered at Gobekli Tepe for certain,
but so far unknown, purposes.”

- June 2012 Issue of Actual Archaeology Magazine-Anatolia,
“The First Temple of the World: Gobekli Tepe.”

South (top), West (right), North (bottom) and East (left) view over the main excavation area at Gobekli Tepe. In the foreground Enclosure D, to the left Enclosure C, in the background Enclosures B and A. Image © 2012 by DAI, N. Becker, June 2012 issue of Actual Archaeology Magazine-Anatolia, “The First Temple of the World: Gobekli Tepe.”

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June 18, 2012 Gobekli Tepe 8 miles northeast of Sanliurfa, Turkey - As the sun rose on the eastern horizon June 13, 2012, I first faced the sun and then turned 180 degrees to face the opposite point in the west. Below me in the Gobekli Tepe Section C, a large pillar is cemented to a rectangular base like an altar. On that altar-pillar is a long-bodied animal that doesn't quite match any known Earth animal today. With the sun shining on my back, that pillar animal was facing me on an east-west axis.

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June 16, 2012December 9, 2017

Part 1: Mysterious 12,000-Year-Old Gobekli Tepe

“What was so important to these early people that they gathered to build (and bury) the stone rings? The gulf that separates us from Gobekli Tepe's builders is almost unimaginable.”

- Smithsonian Reporter Andrew Curry

12,000-year-old circles of limestone pillars each weighing from 10 to 20 metric tons or more have been excavated in Gobekli Tepe, Turkey, about 9 miles (15 km) northeast of Sanliurfa, formerly known as Urfa or Edessa. More than twice the age of Mesopotamia, 40 standing T-shaped columns have so far been revealed in four circles between 30 feet and 98 feet (10 to 30 meters) in diameter. Ground-penetrating radar indicates there are still 250 more pillars buried in 16 circles extending over another 22 acres of the 30-acre Neolithic site. Image © 2008 by Haldun Aydingun.

Yellow marker at coordinates for Gobekli Tepe: 37.223237° N, 38.922546° E Gobekli Tepe in Turkish means “Potbelly Hill,” an archaeological site nine miles northeast of Sanliurfa not far from the Syrian border. The region's water comes from the Euphrates, the longest river of Western Asia, that originates upstream from Keban, Elazig Province in eastern Turkey.

Gobekli Tepe is an artificially constructed “potbelly hill” that rises 1,000 feet above the valley floor. On a dirt path to the top on June 13, 2012, Robert Schoch, Ph.D., a geologist from Boston University, led our group to the hilltop excavation in time for sunrise. Tall poles and wires lassoed to pillars to keep them erect can be faintly seen against the sky humming eerily in the wind. Images above and below © 2012 by Linda Moulton Howe.

June 16, 2012 Gobekli Tepe 8 miles northeast of Sanliurfa, Turkey - On Wednesday, June 13, 2012, as the sun rose I was standing on the Gobekli Tepe hilltop in southern Turkey not far from the Syrian northern border. Carbon dated to 12,000 years ago, Gobekli is older than Egypt, Sumeria, classical Greeks and Stonehenge. Ramps have been built to walk around the archaeological excavations of mysterious 10 to 19-foot-tall, elegantly carved limestone pillars placed carefully in circular patterns. There are at least 30 acres of the pillar circles a thousand feet above the valley floor. Each pillar weighs 10 to 20 metric tons. Many are sculpted with odd, even unrecognizable, animals, insects and humanoid figures to be detailed in Part 2. A few unfinished pillars have been found that are 23 to 30 feet long, much larger than any of the finished standing pillars found so far. There is evidence that the pillars were roofed and that the central pair of tallest pillars may have supported a roof. The floors are made of burnt lime, similar to Roman terrazzo. The limestone slabs were quarried from bedrock pits located around 100 meters (330 ft) from the Gobekli hilltop.

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