Mars Anomalies
This section reveals the many unusual geographical features on the Martian surface that appear to be evidence of a once ancient civilisation that may have lived on the red giant.
Nasa's
Phoenix spacecraft has discovered evidence of past water at its
Martian landing site and spotted falling snow for the first
time, scientists reported. Soil experiments revealed the
presence of two minerals known to be formed in liquid water.
Scientists identified the minerals as calcium carbonate, found
in limestone and chalk, and sheet silicate. But exactly how that
happened remains a mystery.
A laser aboard the Phoenix recently detected snow falling from clouds more than two miles above its home in the northern arctic plains. The snow disappeared before reaching the ground. Phoenix landed in the Martian arctic plains in May on a three-month mission to study whether the environment could be friendly to microbial life. One of its biggest discoveries so far is confirming the presence of ice on the planet.
Scientists long suspected frozen water was buried in the northern plains based on measurements from an orbiting spacecraft. The lander also found that the soil was slightly alkaline and contained important nutrients and minerals. Scientists think there could have been standing water at the site in the past or the ice could have melted and interacted with the minerals.
"Is this a habitable zone on Mars? I think we're approaching that hypothesis," said chief scientist Peter Smith of the University of Arizona. "We understand, though, that Mars has many surprises for us and we have not finished our investigation."
Mars today is frigid and dry with no sign of water on the surface, but researchers believe the planet once was warmer and wetter. Nasa extended the three-month mission through the end of the year if Phoenix can survive. With summer waning, less sunlight is reaching the spacecraft's solar panels. Phoenix will be out of touch with ground controllers briefly in November when the sun is between Earth and Mars, blocking communications.
Scientists are racing to use the remaining four of Phoenix's eight tiny test ovens before the lander dies. The ovens are designed to sniff for traces of organic, or carbon-based compounds, that are considered the building blocks of life. Experiments so far have failed to turn up definitive evidence of organics.
Article courtesy of MSN
Our Thoughts...
In an unprecedented week of openness, NASA have amazed Ufologists the world over with the release of thousands of Mars images, and the announcement that there is evidence for contemporary liquid water movement on the Martian surface. The timing of these releases cannot be coincidental, begging the question; is there more to come? Ever since the Viking lander experiments seemed to negate the possibility of life existing on the surface of Mars, scientists have distanced themselves from suggestions that Mars is more than just a dead world. With no evidence to back them, NASA scientists have repeatedly stated that dry river beds seen by Mars Global Surveyor were formed billions of years ago, and that any notion of water flow on Mars in recent times was preposterous. The atmospheric conditions simply would not allow water to exist in liquid form, leaving only theoretical underground reservoirs as potential aqueous environments on the Red Planet.
Yet the new Mars Global Surveyor images, held for so long by Malin Space Science Systems of San Diego, California, lead us in an altogether different direction. With their release comes the announcement of gullies where recent flow of water is evident, along with a new model to explain this anomalous finding. Now NASA are talking “life-on-Mars” again. As Dr Weiler of NASA says in the JPL briefing: “The debate has moved to present-day Mars. The presence of liquid water on Mars has profound implications for the question of life not only in the past, but perhaps even today. If life ever did develop there, and if it survives to the present time, then these land-forms would be great places to look.”
The NASA team say that the incidence of the gullies, which are made up of a deep channel with a collapsed region at its upper end and accumulated debris further down the slope, is ‘quite rare’, only a few hundred locations having been discovered so far. From our viewpoint, that makes these gullies commonplace, given how little of Mars has been analyzed to this degree of detail. They are scattered over the Martian surface, implying that these are points where the waters of Mars bubble up occasionally from immense underground aquifiers. This is eerily reminiscent of the science fiction of Kim Stanley Robinson, in his series of books detailing how humans would terra-form Mars. Since the release of 27,500+ high definition images of the Martian surface by Malin, anomalies researchers have been pouring over the data in the race to find the best evidence yet of intelligent activity on the red planet. We have not had to wait long.
Strange Anomalies That Appear Anything But 'Natural'
‘Cosmic
Conspiracies’ are excited with the images contained in these pages: Outstanding
images of miles of translucent piping in canyons, structured objects in canyons,
bright channels winding through the plains (which seem to contain water or ice),
and, exclusively to this site, massive dark land-forms that appear to us as
‘writing’ on the Martian surface, an unbelievably clear shot of a 'Dolphin'
or 'Whale' in the mountains of Cydonia, and a 'Dome' and 'Crop Circle'. we think
you won't find these images anywhere else on the net (not yet anyway).
Martin,
our diligent Internet researcher, has unearthed these remarkable images from
literally thousands released by NASA. The dark patches don’t appear to conform
to the terrain, in the sense that they should represent shadowing on the landscape,
but appear to be random dark areas that, together, give the impression of unknown
letters, or words. We aren’t sure what they are, and would welcome ideas. Check
these incredible pictures out for yourselves!
So what’s going on here? Are we
to believe that NASA had no previous inkling of these anomalous terrain features,
including the evidence for the recent movement of liquid water? While the Martian
research carried out by anomalies researchers has been largely condemned by
NASA scientists, have they really covertly known about this evidence all along?
If so, then why is this material surfacing now? What else is being held back?
We at ‘Cosmic Conspiracies’ have long argued that the various probes
‘lost’ to Mars may be sending secret information back to a ‘black project’ Mars
Mission, over-riding and distorting the findings of civilian NASA scientists.
It has been our contention that we have been fed false data, implying that Mars,
and the Moon, are lifeless worlds. A tactic designed to bore the public into
losing interest in planetary research, and switch attention away from our nearest
neighbours. The new evidence seems to bear us out. We refuse to believe that
NASA have made a simple mistake with their analysis of Mars up to now. We, with
you, await further ‘findings’ with keen interest.
Below we have included a few interesting images which we have discovered while browsing through some of the photographs released by Malin Space Science Systems in June, 2000 (27,500+ images were actually taken on the latest mission!).
These are just a few of the pictures we have found (so far) of MARS which show anomalous objects.
The
following pictures have not been tampered with or 'hoaxed'. This is how it appears
on the Malin Space Science Systems Website. We have provided a link above so
you can go check these images yourself. The glass Tunnels picture is frame #M0400291.
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The amazing picture here was recently found by Dr Tom Van Flandern, and received worldwide coverage in the news and media. It seems to show a face with a crown on it. Dr Van Flanderns site also has many other interesting Mars discoveries and I have provided a link at the bottom of the page for anyone interested in visiting his site. |
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'Nefertiti face': This anomaly shows an amazing degree of detail present. Even features as small as the eyelashes over the eye, visible in the artists inset on the right, are present at the site where this anomaly appears! |
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The amazing picture above was discovered by Richard Hoagland |
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The Following Images Were Found On the Malin Mars Pictures Site By Cosmic Conspiracies
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Whilst looking through a few of the new Mars Surveyor images released by Malin, we came across this anomaly that looks like a 'crusader' with a sword and shield. The original picture taken by the Mars Surveyor can be seen by clicking on the picture to the right... |
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This is another picture found on the Malin site which we've called 'The Termite'. Click on the picture to view the original. |
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The Mars Global Surveyor has been very busy of late. It re-photographed the Cydonia region of the Mars plains on 5th April 1998, a controversial area which includes such apparently artificial structures as The Face, the Fortress, the D&M Pyramid and the City Square. These highly anomalous structures were originally gleaned from the Viking footage of 1976. I refer interested parties to the work of Richard Hoagland and colleagues who have reviewed and extended the work of the early Cydonia researchers Messieurs Dipietro and Molenaar . This issue is a contentious one, for which I don’t pretend to be an expert, but I would like to offer a few observations: The layout of the structures at Cydonia bear mathematical and geometrically accurate relationships to on another the seem well beyond the realm of chance.
The Mariner photographs were taken from the zenith, whereas those released from
Global Surveyor were taken from a more horizontal inclination, thereby moving
the goalposts considerably. The images from the Global Surveyor were vetted
by Dr Malin prior to their arrival on the desks of NASA scientists.
However, the Global Surveyor images were certainly not
good news for advocates of artificiality. They appeared in the media with
the air of finality as another “hoaky” (Hoagy?) theory bites the dust.
The conventional media love this sort of thing, because it allows them to exercise
the sort of high and mighty judgementalism that is their trademark in dealing
with “crank” theories. One-Nil to the officiates of the Space Administration.
Check out our Phobos article in the NASA section...
Phobos
and Diemos (the moons of Mars) have alledgedly disappeared? were they genuine
Moons in the first place or something more sinister?
Stories include 60km Underground City
found by Infrared Camera on Mars!!!
Anyone
interested in viewing more Mars Anomalies can see some excellent examples
by clicking the following link.
Dr Tom Van Flandern's
Mars Images Page