Thursday, September 12, 2013

Mars - Facts and Theories

Updated 7.3.2014 This article deals with the planet Mars both from the scientific and esoteric point of view. As we look at Mars in the night sky, it's quite fascinating to think that there is something man-made on the surface of that reddish planet. And that one day humans will set their foot there as well. But will they be the first terrestrial beings there, and who else have inhabited Mars before us? Time will tell.

MARS DATA
Circumference (equatorial): 21344km (13263 miles) - 53% of Earth's
Radius: 3396km (equator), 3376km at the radius - about half of Earth's
Diameter: 6792km
Mean distance from Sun: ca 230 million km (1.5 AU)
Distance from Earth: Both Earth and Mars are following elliptical orbits around the Sun. Sometimes the planets are close together, and other times they’re on opposite sides of the Sun. And although they get close and far apart, those points depend on where the planets are on their particular orbits. So, the Earth Mars distance is changing from minute to minute. 2018 should be a very good year, with a Mars looking particularly bright and red in the sky. Last closest distance from Earth was in year 2003: some 55 million kilometers (0.372719 AU). Before that it occured 57617 BC, and the next time it will be that close will be in 2287.
Temperature: on average about  -80 degrees F (-60 degrees C). In winter, near the poles temperatures can get down to -195 degrees F (-125 degrees C). A summer day on Mars may get up to 70 degrees F (20 degrees C) near the equator, but at night the temperature can plummet to about -100 degrees F (-73 C).

THE TWO MOONS OF MARS
Phobos - radius 11.1km (6.9 mi). Discovered 1877. The US astronaut Buzz Aldrin, second man on the Moon,  referred to a "Phobos monolith" in a July 22, 2009, interview with C-SPAN: "We should go boldly where man has not gone before. Fly by the comets, visit asteroids, visit the moon of Mars. There's a monolith there. A very unusual structure on this potato shaped object that goes around Mars once in seven hours. When people find out about that they're going to say 'Who put that there? Who put that there?' The universe put it there. If you choose, God put it there."

There is new evidence of the monolith, as explained by Richard Hoagland on CoastToCoastAM(5m12s) - pictures taken by Mars Express  (sent to Mars by the European Space Agency in 2003).

There are even claims that Phobos might not be natural but an artificial moon, some sort of space station - put forward in 1966 by two major astronomers Iosif Shklovsky and Carl Sagan. Richard Hoagland is convinced the moon is hollow and artificial which means there could be extraterrestrial life there. Since it wasn't detected earlier, it could be speculated (Hoagland) that it was placed there at some point between 1875 and 1877 during Mars opposition - awaiting for the discovery by A. Hall in 1877. 

Investigating Phobos has not been easy.  Although Mariner 9 in 1971, Viking 1 in 1977, and Phobos 1988 managed to obtain some valuable information, there has been all sorts of mishaps and many space probes have been lost. In 1988 Russian Phobos-1 passed by the target while Phobos-2 disappeared at 50 m from the moon's surface. In 1999 Mars Climate Orbiter was lost near Phobos' orbit, and Mars Polar Lander vanished hardly touching the Martian atmosphere. In 2003 Beagle-2 (UK) shared the destiny without any firm conclusion of the loss.  In 2012 Russian probe Phobos-Grunt crashed on Earth and all hope of investigating the little Martian moon vanished in the blink of an eye. The question remains: who put the monolith on Phobos? And is it  rectangular at all, but instead a pyramide like Chris Joseph suggests.

Links: CoastToCoastAM:PhobosMonolith(5m12s) - Cydonian Imperative   -  MessageToEagle -  The Phobos Monolith(Efrain Palermo) -

Deimos - radius 6.2km. Discovered 1877.


SPACE MISSIONS TO MARS
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1971-0528 Launch of Soviet Mars space probe Mars 3 - first soft landing on Mars, Dec 2, 1971.
- Exploring Mars -

Mars is currently host to five functioning spacecraft:
- three in orbit – the Mars Odyssey, Mars Express and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 
Check here - provided by NASA - Curiosity's twelve first months in two minutes!


COLONIZATION OF MARS
Is it possible for us humans to live on Mars? This high quality video UFO-TV: Life Quest Mars (52m25s)
attemps to answer that. There is at least no shortage of people willing to take that journey - even if they initially could never come back! Mars is a much friendlier place than the Moon, and there would definitely be resources to use for a self-sufficient life over there. But would that new frontier be welcoming us?

There is an excellent survival thriller with the title The Martian by Andy Weir - gives you a good idea what it could be like to be on the Martian soil.   


MARS ANOMALIES
Seems like the Moon is not the only one with alien structures if you are to believe some of the new evidence, like this one.

Face on Mars
The picture of the Face on Mars in the Cydonia region was first taken by NASA's Viking 1 on July 25th, 1976. The American author and ufologist Richard Hoagland has widely suggested that there has been intelligent life on Mars, and that the Face on Mars (as well as a few other things there) is proof of that - but that NASA and the US goverment have conspired to keep these facts secret. Richard Hoagland on Mars(6m55s) - Space -  YouTube(6m55s) -

Perhaps we finally get to the truth about Mars when the first humans land on Mars in a decade or so. Or perhaps the truth will be, once again, withheld from us as the astronauts come face to face with the real Martians, or remnants of them. Time will tell.


MARS IN THE NEWS
1952-0414 Science: Calling All Martians - SB (Time) ENG
1969-0725 The Moon: Next, Mars and Beyond -SB (Time) ENG
1969-0926 Space: The Price of Mars - SB (Time) ENG
1971-1213 Science: Is There Life on Mars? - SB (Time) ENG
2001-0407 La NASA lanza su tercera sonda espacial en dos años para buscar... (El País) SPA
2001-1011 Una tormenta de polvo y arena azota la superficie de Marte (El País) SPA
2002-0527 Una nave de la NASA detecta nuevos indicios de agua helada en Marte (El País) SPA
2003-0602 Europa se estrena en la exloración planetaria con el lanzamiento de... (El País) SPA
2003-1203 El 'Mars Express' envía sus primeras imágenes del planeta rojo (El País) SPA
2003-1219 El robot 'Beagle2' se separa con éxito de la sonda 'Mars Express' (El País) SPA 
2004-0122 La NASA pierde contacto con el 'Spirit'en Marte (El País) SPA
2004-0125 El robot de la NASA 'Opportunity' envía sus primeras imágenes... (El País) SPA
2004-0126 Space: Mission to Mars - SB (Time) ENG
2004-0302 La NASA revela que "hubo un ambiente habitable" en Marte... (El País) SPA
2004-0323 El 'Opportunity' abandona el cráter en el que se posó para explorar... (El País) SPA
2004-0323 Misteriosa imagen en Marte (El Universal/Mexico) SPA
2004-0329 La nave europea 'Mars Express' detecta gas metano en la atmósfera de... (El País) SPA
2005-0223 La 'Mars Express' descubre un mar helado en el planeta rojo (El País) SPA
2006-0921 La 'Mars Express' fotografía la 'Cara de Marte' (El País) SPA
2008-0731 La luna marciana Fobos, al detalle (El País) SPA
2009-1213 Dos lunas marcianas juntas (El País) SPA
2010-0323 Il viaggio su Marte ora si prova a terra (Corriere della Sera/Italy) ITA
2011-1126 Lancement du robot Curiosity - video (Le Journal de Québec) FRE
2012-0413 Il mistero del "monolite" su Marte (Corriere della Sera/Italy) ITA
2012-0802 Marsin tutkimus tuottaa tietoja myös Maasta (SS/Finland) FIN
2012-0808 Mars-mönkijä lähetti ensimmäisen värivalokuvan (SS/Finland) FIN
2012-0812 El planeta rojo visto por las naves (El País) SPA
2013-0304 Terveisiä Marsista (SS/Finland) FIN
2013-0530 "Mars-jyrsijä" yllätti avaruusharrastajan - mikä Nasan kuvaan tallentui? (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-0716 Sobrevolar el gran cañon de Marte - contains a video(4m47) (El País) SPA
2013-0919 Uutta tietoa Marsista: "Tämä ei ole hyvä uutinen" (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-1002 En Marte explotaron supelvolcanes hace miles de millones de años (El País) SPA 
2013-1003 Supertulivuoret repivät Marsia aikojen alussa - tuhoutuiko elämä?  (IS/Finland) FIN
2013-1022 India's Mars Orbiter Mission to be launched on November 5 (ZeeNews/India) ENG
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