Alternative Areology and Archeology

Candor Chasma, Mars 6°S, 72.5°W Detail from image above. Pyramid on Mars 5 km side length Elysium region 16.6° N, 198.4° W. See news entry June 6, 2010.

I'm sure you are all aware of the extremely grave potential for cultural shock and social disorientation contained in this present situation if the facts were prematurely and suddenly made public without adequate preparation and conditioning. [Dr. Heywood Floyd in 2001: A Space Odyssey] News and Comments Links to external sites and short news postings. Comments by Holger Isenberg. This website is not updated since 2012. Visit my areo.info for recent articles and news.  Oct 7, 2023 Perseverance Rover Color Images and archive of previous Mars missions on areo.info   April 13, 2021 Comments and News now via Google+   March 31st, 2012 I've started to post news and comments on Google+ which offers not only direct report of changes to subscribed readers but also allows for discussion on each entry. Above you see the last 5 entries. Click on them for complete text with images and feel free to add me in your circles on Google+. Tenacious water on Mars!   August 4th, 2011 Data from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter confirms Research paper by Palermo and England from 2001 about seasonal water-related surface variances on eroded slopes! News about Great Pyramid Gantenbrink's Door: Pictures from backside!   June 24th, 2011 In September 2002 a 15mm hole was drilled through the Gantenbrink Door which was now used for a remote controlled micro camera to take pictures from the backside of the blocking stone. The dead end of the 60m long 20cm wide shaft was discovered in 1993 with the robot Upuaut constructed by German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink. An important discovery back then were two copper fittings on the frontside of the blocking stone which are the only metal objects ever found in the Pyramid masonry, next to their counterparts later found in the 2nd similar shaft. The backside pictures now reveal the fixture method used for the metal fittings, but they does not help to solve the mystery about their function. The reason for using a bitumen like sealing on the fittings is still unknown. The current explorations of the shafts are conducted by the international team Djedi chosen by Zahi Hawass. The robot was constructed by a group from University of Leeds and Dassault Systèmes. The camera and parts of the robot are provided by Scoutek Ltd. Charles Shults presents his discoveries on WLTX-TV   June 1st, 2011 Strange rocks resembling marine life fossils on Mars: shultslaboratories.com Final command sent to Mars Exploration Rover Spirit   May 25th 2011 May the spirit prevail like on this very day 50 years ago! Color pictures from the 2210 Sols of MER Spirit The Lightning-Scarred Planet Mars (Video)   February 14th 2011 The researchers and scientists of thunderbolts.info give an introduction into the electriccally induced landscape forming on Mars. That does not exclude the existence of water before those events. The most famous site of areomorphologic landscaping   August 1st 2010 Most pictures of current Mars orbiters are taken during local noon which is preferred for some remote sensing analysis but prevents seeing the surface relief like during the low Sun on the famous picture 35A72 taken by Viking Orbiter 1 on July 25th 1976 of the Cydonia region at location 40.7°N 9.5°E. The most recent picture of this site was taken as PSP_003234_2210 by HiRISE camera on April 5th 2007 and published a few weeks later. On July 30th 2010 that image was picked up again by some online sources: list on news.google.com, list on news.google.de. For interpretation of this artifact the following facts should be kept in mind: On the same latitue you find a destroyed or unfinished duplicated platform of same shape and size and same tilt angle. The orbit parameters of Viking Orbiter 1 had been set long before launch to a periapsis and inclination on 39.3°N to capture that latitude with highest image resolution as Cydonia was the primary landing site for Viking 2 until that very image 35A72 was taken. The latitude equates with 10km accuracy the angle defined by the two mathematical fundamental constants e and π. On Earth a similar but smaller platform was created some hundreds years ago: Malik Shah Tepe in todays Iran. Famous designer and landscape architect Isamo Noguchi conceived in 1947 of a large abstract face sculpture to be seen from space: Memorial to Man. At the time of the founding of NASA, 1958, famous Comic book artist Jack Kirby created the story The Face on Mars, Harvey Comic book Race for the Moon Issue #2. In 1999 Daniel Perez saw a strange correlation between the city plan of Washington DC and the Cydonia region on Mars: Washington, District of Cydonia. Eclectic shapes in Elysium Planitia   June 6, 2010 Carl Sagan pointed out these polyhedral bedrock exposures in the flat alluvium via a Mariner 9 image in Cosmos (chapter 5). The base of this one is shaped like a square with 5km side length and the nearby actual "Sagan Pyramids" show equilateral triangles. Maybe the high resolution of 28cm/pixel will solve the mystery of their creation process. The classic geological explanation of eolian erosion processes by wind from mostly steady directions is questionable. The same image shows in the camera's color channels another mystery: Bluegreen tinted crater floors. See news entry on March 18, 2002. The image location was selected via the public target suggestion program HiWish and provided by courtesy of NASA/JPL/University of Arizona. Many thanks! Image: ESP_017574_1965, HiRISE, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. JPEG picture (2000x3600): ESP_017574_1965_RED.browse.jpg Color JPEG (part only): ESP_017574_1965_RGB.nomap.browse.jpg Original image (28000x47000) for viewing via Java-Webstart: ESP_017574_1965_RED.ias.jp2 Spirit to explore soil secrets   February 28, 2010 Sol 2182 The powdery white soil digged from below by the wheels stills shows signs of salt remains by evaporating brine. The outline shape of the new bright white spot on this picture looks like having been caused by a fluvial process. See also old news entry from May 23, 2007 below. Opportunity to discover even more strange things   February 11 and 28, 2010 A strange blue green loosely coated rock, resembling lichens on Earth. Sol 2147, 2144 und 2145. The automatic creation of relativly true color images from the raw data of both MER Rovers is operating again on areo.info. Update February 28, 2010: Microscopic picture mosaic of that bluegreen layer Discussion What the MER tell us about Mars   November 8, 2009 Xenotech Research answers common questions. MER 3d panorama viewer and archive browser: Midnight Mars Browser  August 17, 2008 Midnight Mars Browser is a program used to download Mars Exploration Rover (MER) images and view them in slideshow and panorama format. You can select the different camera datasets, view Pancam images in raw RGB color and move along the Rovers' tracks from Sol to Sol. Highly recommended! Colors at the northern artic circle.   June 14, 2008 Data source: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Phoenix Lander dares the horizon   May 28 2008 First color picture from Phoenix Lander   May 27, 2008 Image sources: University of Arizona and NASA / JPL First pictures from Phoenix Lander   May 26, 2008 Phoenix Mars Mission   May 22, 2008 Planned landing time: Sunday May 25, 23:36 UTC Location: 68°N 233°E News during landing: Phoenix Landing Blog RGB color picture, taken with the Surface Stero Imager (SSI) RGB color picture, taken with the Robotic Arm Camera (RAC) Brightest ever star explosion observed   March 21, 2008 On March 19 2008 4:12 UTC the biggest ever Gamma-Ray Burst was detected. By its after-glow in the visual light spectrum, this burst was the most distant object in space ever visible by the naked human eye. The absolute light intensity was 2.5 million times stronger than any supernova before. With a count of 4 Gamma-Ray Bursts that day, this was also by number a maximum for the Swift satellite since it observation began in 2004. TV tip: Gibt es Leben auf dem Mars? (Is there Life on Mars)  October 14, 2007 Documentary about the Phoenix Lander which will arrive May 2008 in the Martian north polar region. ZDF dokukanal, daily repeated October 15 - 19, schedule detail. Cyanobacteria create spherule colonies  May 29, 2007 Some Cyanobacteria on Earth live in colonies of 1cm small gelatinous spherules. The spherules of that genus (nostoc pruniforme) not only live on or in fresh or salt water, but can also be seen on soil soon after rain. Cyanobacteria are sometimes called blue-green algae because of their usual dark blue-green color and their macroscopic appearance like algae, although they are no algaes (plants). Cave entrances or "Dark Matter"?  May 28, 2007 Temperature data from early morning infrared images (THEMIS-IR) indicate cave entrances, where the new detail image in visible light (HIRISE) shows "barrier islands" on the northern rim of the lightabsorbing area. That would mean, the black area was a flat surface. All "Martian holes" have been discovered near the equator, so the directly visible bright surface is no ice. Update: On August 9 2007, a 2nd image was taken. This time during afternoon with lower Sun incidence angle. Now a cavern wall is revealed which means it isn't a black surface at all. The diameter of the hole is about 150m with a depth of at least 78m. Some possible causes for these white soil deposits: Evaporating salt water, Silica (Silicon salts), Biofilm.   May 23, 2007 Slope streaks in Antarctic Dry Valleys similar to those seen on Mars!   February 18, 2007 The current doctrine about Martian slope streaks being the result of dry dust avalances isn't verified yet be experiments. Hence the observation of visual correlation of Martian and Antarctic slope streaks presented in this paper from Brown University leads to a more realistic approach to that topic. Presented on Lunar and Planetary Science Conference 2007. NASA/Google collaboration on data visualization to be announced   December 26, 2006 Discoveries and Reports by Holger Isenberg Launch of Phoenix Lander today at 5:26 a.m. EDT   August 4, 2007 The northern polar region was chosen as landing site near 67.5°N 240°E to make chemical and microscopic soil analysis. Some of the on-board scientific instruments are a mass spectrometer, an optical microscope and a special type of electric microscope. The landing is scheduled for May 25, 2008. Geodetic Nasca Lines?   April 14, 2006 Challenge to all researchers having influence on controlling the Mars-Rovers' cameras!   March 26, 2006 Find out if this white soil in the wheel tracks builds up within seconds or minutes after driving. Maybe it is salt crystallizing as soon the moisture evaporates from the plowed soil or for lower temperatures, as soon as the water ice sublimates. See also: Sol 455, Sol 429, Sol 426 The best evidence for a biological creation of the "blueberries" is the fact of their unilayered distribution on the Martian surface. With an origin by mineral aggregation a random clustering in multiple layers would by observable.   January 30, 2006 Infrared Differences near Opportunity   November 3, 2005 Marshrooms?   March 5, 2004 Daily automatically created Spirit & Opportunity PanCam color pictures   February 13, 2004 Giza, Center of Earth   19.Oct.2003   Spaceflight in ancient Indien Mahabharata epos   10.Jun.2002 Original image data of Mariner 9 "Sagan-Pyramids"   17.Feb.2001 Original image data of Mariner 9 "Airport-Terminal"   11.Feb.2001 Articles in Magazin 2000plus   13.Sep.2000 Mars, Planet B (10/2000), Mars 2001 (9/2001) Orion Constellation on surface of Mars? 11.Apr 2000 Louis P.McCarty's knowledge about secrets of the Pyramid from 1907, confirmed by Gantenbrink's discoveries   20.Feb 2000, Updated 10.Apr The Pathfinder ImageFinder Java-Applet   22.Dec 1999 2001: A Mars Odyssey?   27.Nov 1999 It's not quite that Red!   Sep 1999 Ancient City found on Mars! Blue Sky and Life on Mars - An alternative way of colorizing images of Mars Was the Great Pyramid built in the center of all land-areas?   Plugin for loading EDR-images from NASA-PDS database in The Gimp The Mahabharata - modern technology in the ancient indian epos   Mar 2000

News and comments 2006

• German-French search engine Quaero stumped?   26.12.2006   December 26, 2006
  
• Congressional request: Investigation about alleged concealment of NASA science data   December 17, 2006
  Reason for investigation seems to be a political campaign about socalled "global warming": Scientists reject interference
  
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• High resolution image from HIRISE presents Opportunity (near Victoria Crater)   October 7, 2006
• First images taken by HIRISE camera on Mars Reconaissance Orbiter   October 3, 2006
  
• Snake on a Planet   September 17, 2006
  Spirit, Sol 960.
  
• The Face on Mars, comic story from 1958!   March 11, 2006
  In 1947, 29 years before the Face on Mars was photographed by Viking Orbiter 1,
  Isamu Noguchi created the model for the unrealized 1km large surface relief Memorial to Man,
  later called Sculpture to be Seen from Mars.
  Then in 1958 that comic story^* was published about an expedition discovering a giant sculpture
  on the Martian surface. (Anybody owning a copy of that book please send scans!)
  Again a decade later, another preview. In 1968 the Face appeared
  in the movie 2001: a space odyssey: 2001: A Mars Odyssey?.

  ^* Rediscovered by enterprisemission.com.
  

News and comments 2005

• Infrared Differences near Opportunity   November 3, 2005
• Japanese probe Hayabusa lands on asteroid Itokawa on November 19th   November 13, 2005
  
• Bluegreen colored libyan desert sand shows similarities to "crater spots" on Mars (detail).   June 26, 2005
  
• Experiments with electrical discharges create objects similar to Martian Blueberries and domed craters.   April 5, 2005
  Further scientific research on plasma discharges and electrical effects in the solar system: thunderbolts.info
• Subterranean Life On Earth - and Mars?   March 5, 2005
  Bacteria produce cave pearls on Earth, similar to the Martian Blueberries.

News and comments 2004

• Expedition report about the petrified Cart Ruts on Malta   December 16, 2004
  The article sets new standards for real archeological research and analysis.
• On Proving Ancient Megalith Construction by Jim Solley.   November 28, 2004
  A must read which prevails with logic and multidisciplinary thinking
  over some dogmatic and primitive believe systems of Egyptology and Archeology.
  All other theories, mostly invented by Egyptologists, are that much hot air, that you could fill a giant hot air ballon to lift a whole pyramid with it!
• International Mars Conference, Ischia, September 19-23   August 21, 2004
  According to the Lectures Programme the latest results from the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on Mars Express are discussed, which might be about the possible discovery of ammonia, formaldehyde and other gases indicating biological activity.
• New pictures from Spirit   August 15, 2004
       
• Mars Express Spectrometer (re)discovers Ammonia (NH₃) in atmosphere   August 14, 2004
  There are two possible sources of Ammonia which can exist only for a short time under UV-light in the atmosphere:
  volcanoes or life.
• An opportunity at Fram crater for better colors   May 27, 2004
  
  5 MB panorama, 750 kB panorama
  This 6m diamater crater was taken by Opportunity's PanCam on sol 88.
  A different color interpratation in JPL-corporate-identity-red can be viewed here.
• Craterdunes   May 17, 2004
  
• Sensational discovery by Mars Express?   May 8, 2004
  The fourier spectrometer (PFS) on board Mars Express has possibly discovered more organic chemicals, which hint to current life as they are destroyed quickly by UV-light in the atmosphere. Named are: formaldehyde, ammonia and benzene. Because of the low concentration in the thin atmosphere, more measurements are required before the PFS-Team will publish an official statement.
• Dried lake in the southern polar region   May 5, 2004
  
• Lake at crater bottom?   April 23, 2004
  
• Methane and ammonia were assumed by IR-spectra in Mars atmosphere already in 1969 after the Mariner 6 und 7 missions!   March 27, 2004
  Infrared Imaging Spectroscopy of Martian Volatiles
  Maybe more interesting data will be found on the recently rediscovered and not until then calibrated raw data:
  1969 Mariner 7 IRS: Data Set Recovery and Calibration
• F... Fossils!   March 21, 2004
  NASA overlooked something important.
  

  A tricky job. Shortly after the NASA "summercamp" a few participants visit the place, where the space agency had hidden the test rover. They were curious, how well it performed. As they determined, the rover had driven around the California desert - nearby of several pieces of petrified wood. But nobody in the control center recognized these on the views through the rover camera. The researchers got frustrated. [GEO, 05/2003, "Mission Mars", p.56]

  The summercamp which is mentioned here by an employee of a NASA contract company to the GEO author is the "FIDO" (Field Integrated Design & Operations) from 9. to 19. August 2002. JPL/NASA-engineers and scientists there simulated with an almost complete replica Spirit/Opportunity rover the remote controlled navigation and scientific analysis: http://fido.jpl.nasa.gov/internal.html, http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mer/fido/index.html

  Petrified wood like this or that was overlooked.
  

• Fossile Crinoids found by Opportunity?   March 13, 2004
• Marshrooms?   March 5, 2004
  
• Daily automatically created Spirit & Opportunity PanCam color pictures   February 13, 2004
• Strange blue spheres growing on rocks!   February 8, 2004
  Pic 1: Blue Spherules, Pic 2: spherule in detail, Pic 3: other spherule
  These spheres of unknown origin are a few mm in diameter.
  It's now to check if they are lifeforms or created by anorganic chemical reactions.
  Original data: Opportunity Sol 13 - 15

  There are similar objects on Earth known as The Moqui Marbles but these are of very hard smooth rock and not
  growing out of a another rock like this one on Mars!.

• NASA admits: IR filter used made the planet look more red.   January 29, 2004
• Mars Express HRSC shows green spots at Spirit landing site   January 28, 2004
  Similar observations are known since 1978 by Viking Orbiter 1
  and were confirmed last year with THEMIS-pictures of the same region by 2001 Mars Odyssey:
  Viking 663A23,
  THEMIS V04608008,
  THEMIS V06468021,
  THEMIS V05719013,
  THEMIS V05744008
  
• Spirit-Lander in true colors, derived from MAESTRO-data   January 28, 2004
  
• Biological Soil Crusts: Martian soil on Earth?   January 25, 2004
• Total Success with Opportunity   January 25, 2004
  Pic: Arnold Schwarzenegger at JPL
• MGS aquired with new technique image of Spirit on surface   January 24, 2004
  
• New pictures and data from Mars Express   January 23, 2004
  More pictures on www.DLR.de.
• How to martianize the skies   January 19, 2004
• Another view on the "NASA-Colors"   January 19, 2004
• First color picture from Mars Express   January 19, 2004
  Europe's Mars is sand colored.
• Spirit analyzes strange shaped rock   January 18, 2004
  image source
• Russian Mars Mission in 2014?   January 14, 2004
  
• President Bush Announces New Vision for Space Exploration Program   January 14, 2004
  Visualisation of the Mars Reference Mission: 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16
  Pictures: Towards: Mars by Bob Sauls, taken from NASA-TV
• Mars in 3D     January 11, 2004
  
• The day, JPL stole the true blue   January 9, 2004
  
• First color picture from Spirit Rover   January 6, 2004
  
  Source: PIA04995
•   Interestingly shaped 4km large monolith in Ganges Chasma.   January 4, 2004
  Noteworthy are also the bright white color and the alignment towards the 4 cardinal points!
  It almost looks hypo real!
  data source: THEMIS V04359003
  
• Spirit sends first pictures from Mars surface!   January 4, 2004
  spirit1.jpgspirit2.jpgspirit3.jpg

News and comments 2003

• Landing of Beagle 2 and orbit insertion of Mars Express: 12/25 3:00 UTC.   December 22, 2003
  Internet Live-Stream from ESA-Controlcenter at Darmstadt: http://esa.capcave.com
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  News about Mars Express und Beagle 2: http://mars.esa.int

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• Beagle 2 lander successfully released from Mars Express orbiter!   December 19, 2003
• Nozomi failed   (other source at isas.ac.jp)   December 10, 2003
• Mars Express: First Picture from 5.5 Million Kilometers   December 3, 2003
• Mars Odyssey: interesting (almost) true color picture of Melas Chasma   November 17, 2003
• Japanese Marsorbiter Nozomi (Hope) will arrive on December 14.   November 15, 2003
  This probe will be the first in Mars orbit with a true-color camera.
• Do the Owls want to shut down Richard C. Hoagland?  November 12, 2003
  The 2002 Cydonia IR story in context. Idolos i vacas de los collasvios. idolosivacas deloscollasvios. carnero negro. (Huaman Poma de Ayala)
• More liquid water in Martian soil than previously assumed. (automatic translation)   October 28, 2003
  Scientists at the DLR (German Space Agency) proved experimentally that the Martian soil has sufficient chemically bound water, to make live possible as in permafrost soil on Earth.
• Solving the color calibration problem of Martian lander images (Ron and Gilbert Levin)   October 11, 2003
• MGS sends new detailed picture of D&M-Pyramid at Cydonia   September 17, 2003

  For comparison, some pictures from Iran:

  • Dadan Rock,   Dadan Rock, side view,   Dadan Rock, rooms and water basins cut out of stone
  • Malik Shah Tepe,   Malik Shah Tepe, side view
  • Pasargadae,   Pasargadae, detail
  • Havah

  Picture sources:
  Persepolis and Ancient Iran, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago.
  THEMIS image of Cydonia, NASA/JPL/Arizona State University.

• Ice-Towers on Mars   August 4, 2003
  Mars Global Surveyor has already taken some pictures of these ice-volcanoes (Abb.3).
• Mars Express obtained true color picture of Earth and spectrometer data   August 4, 2003
• MER-B (Opportunity) launched on July 7, 11:18pm EDT   July 8, 2003
• The Race to Mars: current placings   June 18, 2003
  
• Surprise at Gusev Crater?   June 16, 2003
  Mars Odyssey took a picture of Spirit's landing site.
• Planned arrival time of current missions   June 14, 2003   (updated on November 15, 2003)
  
  • Mars Express Orbiter with Beagle 2 Lander: December 25, 02:54 UTC
  • Nozomi (Planet-B): December 14
  • Spirit (MER-A): January 4, 04:11 UTC
  • Opportunity (MER-B): January 25, 04:56 UTC
• The first of the two Athena Mars Exploration Rovers (MER 2003) will be launched on Tuesday 1:58 PM EDT from Cape Kennedy (aka Cape Caneveral).   June 9, 2003
  Test pictures of the Panorama Camera:
  • Panorama (B&W)
  • Minerals (Color)
  • Sundial for color calibration (again, as on Pathfinder, no standardized color chart)
  The German participation on this mission:
  • Moessbauer Spectrometer for chemical surface analysis
    The same instrument is used on the Beagle 2 Lander and can identify, via chlorophyll-detection, living algaes, lichens of cyanobacteria.
  • APXS for chemical soil and rock analysis.
• At 19:47 MEST Mars Express will be launched on a Soyuz-Fregat from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.   June 2, 2003
  The onboard Highres Stereo Camera developed by the German Institut of Space Sensor Technology and Planetary Exploration will transmit the best ever true color pictures when arriving in december.
  Also transported onboard will be the Beagle 2 Lander, with life detection experiments and a color camera.
• Odyssey 2001 sends with 18m/pixel the highest resolution ever color pictures of Mars' surface!   May 1, 2003
  The first 806 color pictures are now published by the THEMIS-Team
  at Arizona State University on http://themis-data.asu.edu.
  Some interesting examples:
  V03233002 (White Rock), V01875014, V01657007,
  V01518003, V03149001, V02038002, V01751001, V03340004, V01812007
  
• First color picture of White Rock, a 15km longrock in Pollack Crater, presumably consisting of limestone!   April 4, 2003
  A previously taken synthetic color picture from MGS, show similar colors, where here the green color channel was "guessed" by the red and blue ones.
  The new pictures shows a very bright ivory color, which would portend to limestone, if the formation would be found on Earth.
  Limestone was created on Earth by sedimentation of clam shells.
  The picture was taken with the THEMIS color camera of the Mars Odyssey 2001.
  The original data: V03233002
• Sir Arthur C.Clarke is wondering about NASA according to his article in the current edition of Aviation Week & Space Technology.  March 26, 2003
  Clarke: "And talking about stupidity, I feel that a current example is the refusal by everyone to recognize that we've already discovered life on Mars.
  How else can you explain the Mars Observer Camera's M08-04688 striking resemblance to banyan trees?
  I'm beginning to wonder if there is intelligent life at NASA."
• New Odyssey data show moderate radiation levels and interesting Thorium and Potassium distribution over the planetary surface  March 18, 2003
  The averaged radiation dose in Martian orbit ist about 440 mSv/year.
  In comparison to this, the critical value for radiation exposed workers is about 500 mSv/year measured on the skin.
  As a consequence, there is a radiation strain for the astronauts, but not really harmful, as it is only 2.5 times larger than in the orbit of the ISS.
• Caltech: The Martian polar caps are almost entirely water ice  February 14, 2003
• LA Times: Nuclear Rocket project Prometheus to get big boost  January 17, 2003
  NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe spoke in an interview with The LA Times about the possible official announcement on 1/28 about the launch of the nuclear rocket project for manned interplanetary space travel as the top research priority. With that propulsion system it would be possible for humans to reach Mars in a two-month journey.
  nuclearspace.com: more Information on nuclear engines

News and comments 2002

• Magnetic field of Mars satellite as strong as Earth's   December 12, 2002
  Moscow, December 6, 13:35 GMT, (Itar-Tass)
  Russian scientists have come to the conclusion that Phobos, a tiny satellite of Mars, has a magnetic field as powerful as Earth.
  The director of Moscow's Institute of Magnetism and Radio Wave Propagation, Viktor Orayevsky, told Itar-Tass on Friday that a mishap helped the discovery. The Soviet Union's probe Phobos-2 reached Mars in March 1989, entered the orbit of Phobos and carried out for four days measurements under a plan of the mission control center. However, control of the probe was lost before the beginning of a main research program, and telemetric returns from it ended up in the center's archives as useless. It was 13 years later that scientists of the Institute of Magnetism examined the discarded data and found out the magnetic field of Phobos, which in only 22 kilometers in diameter, is as strong as Earth's.
  According to the scientists, this suggets more than one-third of the satellite is made up of a magnetic substance, and in this sense it is unique in the solar system.
  History of the Space Magnetic Research Lab.
  IZMIRAM Russian Academy of Sciences: Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere and Radiowave Propagation
• Finally, also NASA presents their first color picture from Odyssey   December 8, 2002
  First color picture was shown by "Woodlock" on November 16, see below.
• Slope Streaks on Mars: Correlations with Surface Properties and the Potential Role of Water   November 27, 2002
  Previous research on this topic: Efrain Palermo, Jill England (link via the large Internet Archive: www.archive.org)
  An interesting picture, showing streaks with different brightness: M18-01166
• An alternative approach on the origin of Lunar and Martian rilles and craters   November 27, 2002
• First color picture taken by 2001 Mars Odyssey!   November 16, 2002
  For some unknown reasons, neither NASA, JPL, ASU nor AMES was capable to publish a color picture.
  This picture was created by amateur areologist Woodlock from original data of the THEMIS camera.
  The crater in center has a diameter of about 19.5km.
• Archeological Sites in todays Iraq   November 10, 2002
  The sites look like what coming Mars Expeditions could discover...
• THEMIS: Cydonia in Infrared at night (4:44 AM local time)   October 31, 2002
• TransOrbital Inc. will send robot to the Moon next year   October 25, 2002
• How Richard Hoagland got Hoaxed (article by "alien54)   October 12, 2002

  My comment on the "real IR image" story:
  As you may have read my name in the latest article on The Enterprisemission (TEM), you might be interested in my evaluation on the topic. As I wrote shortly after release of TEM's article "A Tale Of Two Cities", on several discussion forums, the socalled "real IR image" was, in my estimation, a sophisticated hoax created by some still unknown 3rd party, to discredit TEM and all other further research on the possibility of subsurface ruins on Mars.

• Alien-Bitstream in Crabwood cornfield, Hampshire, England   August 24, 2002
• Methane producing microorganisms grow in simulated Martian atmosphere August 21, 2002
• "Gantenbrink-Door" in Great Pyramid will be opened on September 16.  August 14, 2002
  9 years after Rudolf Gantenbrink's discovery of the blocking stone at the end of the southern shaft of the socalled Queen's Chamber by a small robot vehicle, the mystery about this artefact with copper fittings will be solved.
  With live TV coverage by National Geographic via FOX-TV, a NASA robot will peek behind the stone with fibre optics or by drilling.
  Hopefully, the German engineer Rudolf Gantenbrink will be credited for his discovery on March 23, 1993.
• The Mars Gravity Biosattellite Project   August 9, 2002
  A 7 weeks study of effects of 1/3g on a mice population.
• 25% of magnetic material in ALH84001 was produced by bacteria   August 3, 2002
  An older report with photos: spacescience.com December 20, 2000
• Cydonia in infrared during daylight.   July 24, 2002
  Composed pseudocolor picture from 3 IR-bands.
  The spectral spread is too small to use this image scientifically.
• Russia wants international manned Mission to Mars in 2014   July 5, 2002
  
• NASA cancels press conference on discovery of frozen oceans without any explanation!   May 30, 2002
  
• Evidence of frozen oceans confirms alternative theories on Mars   May 30, 2002
  Gilbert Levin already showed 25 years ago via the data from the Viking Mission, that there is not only a sufficient amount of water in the upper soil layer, but also at least bacteria or algae live there.
  Richard Hoagland presented before this new NASA release a theory about Mars as a former moon of the 5th Planet, which disintegrated into todays Asteroid Belt. Mars was tidal locked in orbit of this planet, like the Moon to Earth, which deformed Mars and caused higher water concentrations at two antipodal regions at the equator. These two regions were now confirmed by 2001 Mars Odyssey.
  The politic important issue on this new official NASA release is the now simplified and largely cost reduced manned mission to Mars, as oxygen and hydrogen are now abundant resources on location for life-support of the expedition crew and fuel for the return flight.
  A press conference on this discovery will be shown live on the Internet via NASA-TV on Thursday May 30, 16:00 GMT.
• US National Research Council urges NASA to sent Mars astronauts only to areas with lowest possibility for life!   May 2, 2002
• D&M-Pyramid and Face on picture from Mars 2001 Odyssey!   April 13, 2002
  However, the on-bord camera has better capabilities. It could deliver a true color image with at least the same resolution.
• Search for spectral signatures of chlorophyll at Pathfinder site   April 4, 2002
  a poster presentation on 2nd Astrobiology Science Conference at NASA AMES
• Steven Spielberg to the three on ISS: Take care of yourselves up there, and thanks for helping E.T. phone home again and for providing celestial guidance to his home planet.   March 20, 2002
• NASA scientiests published theory on Planet V between Mars and Asteroid Belt   March 20, 2002
• Clear indication for chlorophyll in dark spots on Martian surface   March 18, 2002
  Chlorophyll mainly absorbes red light and only relativly small amounts of blue light, which causes lifeforms containing chlorophyll to appear as black spots in red-filtered images where in blue-filtered ones of the same area, the objects are almost not distingishable from the soil.
  This effect was discovered by Rex G. Carnes on this MGS picture, when he tested his new patented device to detect camouflaged military gear from plants via a spectroscopic method on satellite images.
  The discovery confirms observation results published in September 2000 by Dr. Serguei M. Pershi, who wrote, he detected chlorophyll by analyzing color picture taken by the Hubble space telescope.
  Scientists at ESA say, these spots warrant a close lock
  Picture of the same area, taken byViking 1 in 1978.
  West of the MGS-picture, you can see larger darkbluegreen spots inside craters.
  new Update: If these spots consists of lifeforms, they are most probably Cyanobacteria (Blue-Green Algae), which use chlorophyll like plants and contaminate their environment with toxic compounds, so that other bacteria are killed in their area.
  This symptom is visible, as the area around the bluegreen spots is very bright relative to the darker surrounding soil.
  Maybe the reason for the dark seeps on slopes are also cyanobacteria as it is on Earth: see 2nd picture from bottom on this page.
• MARIE on 2001 Mars Odyssey is OK now   March 15, 2002
  With MARIE the radiation dose for future manned missions can be estimated.
• Mars Odyssey 2001: first scientific results: large water-ice reserves in south polor region   March 1, 2002
• First images from Mars Odyssey on March 1st 7:00 PM GMT   February 27, 2002
• Buzz Aldrin suggests plan to NASA for Earth-Mars cruise ships in 2018   February 7, 2002
• 2001 Mars Odyssey completes aerobraking   January 11, 2002
  Now, scientiests try to reactivate the failed MARIE device for measuring possible radiation hazards for forthcoming manned expeditions on the Martian surface.
• Richard C. Hoagland (Enterprisemission) & RKO Pictures: Movie project about Mars on the big screen!   January 9, 2002
  This was announced on todays Art Bell - Coast To Coast AM.
• Mesopotamians made synthetic Basalt 4000 years ago   January 3, 2002
  from Brookhaven National Lab & Stony Brook University, June 25, 1998
  same story on BCC
  original article in Science magazine

News and comments 2001

• The Observer: Pyramids made of concrete?   December 30, 2001
• Pyramid stone replicated from geopolymer concrete   December 29, 2001
• Ruins in 2200 feet deep water near Cuba! - Atlantis?   December 29, 2001
• Artificial mound Malik Shah in Iran resembles Cydonia Face  28.12.2001
  If you know other than the following aerial photographs by Erich Schmidt from 1937, please email me:
  image 11g9, image 11g8
  
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke asks NASA in an open letter to solve the riddle about these pictures from MGS.   November 15, 2001
  • M08-03419 preview for slow connections dark spots, like a colony of bacteria
  • M08-03500 preview geysers
  • M08-04688 preview showing large areas of vegetation
  • M10-01311 preview the clincher - nucleus sending out tendrils
  • M14-01568 preview
  • M14-01838 preview the scariest one - jungle trail made by, or for, something big
    Image captions in cursive are ACC's own words.
• Vangelis' concert Mythodea was chosen by NASA to accompany 2001 Mars Odyssey   November 11, 2001
  Vangelis was awarded by France the title of Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur after the performance of Mythodea at the Temple of Zeus in Athens on June 28th.
• First data from 2001 Odyssey - Surface temperatur above 0°C at 70°South!   November 1, 2001
• 2001 Mars Odyssey arrived in Orbit - first pictures announced for next week   October 24, 2001
• NASA Administrator Daniel Goldin will depart November 17.   October 18, 2001
• 2001 Mars Odyssey will reach orbit on October 24   October 17, 2001
• Hungarian scientiests found evidence of living organisms near Martian southpole   September 8, 2001
  detailed Report by Eors Szathmary and Andras Horvath (PDF-Format)
• Mysterious Monolith in Abusir with the proportions 1:4:9, known from 2001: A Space Odyssey!
  detail view, more pictures from Egypt on Tatjana Ingold's website   September 7, 2001
• New amazing Cropcircles in England   August 23, 2001
• NASA takes a 2nd view on Levin's life detection experiment data after 25 years   August 22, 2001
  Information about this experiment, based on radiation measurement of release radioactive C¹⁴: Viking Lander Labeled Release Experimenter's Notebook
• Radiation detector on Mars Odyssey 2001 failed   August 21, 2001
  
• A new model of Mars a a former captured satellite   August 10, 2001
  see also: The Exploded Planet Hypothesis
  Bi-modal distribution of key features due to ancient tidal stress?
  This paper is about the model of Mars as a former moon of the exploded planet in the orbit of todays asteroid-belt. Most prominent hints for this, are the antipodal bulges on Mars, caused by tidal forces. In these bulges, water is present today, which causes black seeps when flowing on the surface. These black spots are made of iron sulphite, which is produced by the huge abundance of sulphur on the surface. After some time, the spots bleach out, they are are oxidized to iron sulphate.
• FMARS - Simulating a Mars-Expedition in the Arctic   August 9, 2001
• Unusual hot surface temperatures  August 7, 2001
  20-30°C between equator and 50. latitude. More data from TES.
• Liquid Water seen today on Mars!  August 1, 2001
  This 1 mile wide lake of snowmelt water was found by Paul Mcleod on an MGS image of the south polar region in Martian spring.
  original image M09-01354
• 25-year-old data shows signs of life on Mars   July 28, 2001
  old topic, see research by Gilbert V. Levin
  more information with experiment data
• Cause for shallow craters found: Water+Lava   June 14, 2001
• Flares have been sighted on Mars   June 8, 2001
• Arthur C. Clarke Stands By His Belief in Life on Mars   June 8, 2001
• German newspaper Die Welt: "From Marsface to Lionshead"   May 25, 2001
  The Lion/Sphinx-Thesis on the Marsface was published a few years ago by R.C.Hoagland.
  And even in the 50s, there were the Space Cadett Sci-Fi stories about this very topic!
• New picture of Face on Mars!   May 24, 2001
• Crystal Microbes found in Meteorite   May 11, 2001
• Letters on D&M-Pyramid   April 14, 2001
• 2001 Mars Odyssey launched! - arrival: Oct 24, 2001   April 7, 2001
• Strange crater feature found by Richard Sauder.   original image data, on M0800063   April 5, 2001
• NASA And NIMA Continue Joint Review Of Mars Polar Lander Search Analysis   March 27, 2001
• Spy Agency May Have Located Mars Polar Lander   March 20, 2001
• Discovery of recently flowing liquid on Mars!   March 20, 2001
• A Geo-Biological Mars?   March 9, 2001
• NASA Chief Administrator Dan Goldin points out need for reform in human spaceflight.   February 28, 2001
  on the other side JSC Director George Abbey wants to curtail funds for manned Mars Mission
• Sir Arthur C. Clarke: "I'm fairly convinced that we have discovered life on Mars."   February 28, 2001
• More geysers and plant-like features on Mars   February 25, 2001
• Revisiting the Mariner 9 archives   February 11, 2001
  No more than 2 years ago, the original data from all Mariner 9 images, taken in 1972, has been published on the Internet. Although, some of the images are better than the ones from the later Viking-Orbiter and also the lighting conditions are better than on the new MGS shots.
• Malin Space Science Systems and JPL celebrates end of MGS primary mission
  with release of new pictures from Cydonia   January 31, 2001
  
• The mysterious 2001-Monolith of Seattle   January 2, 2001
  ... disapeared one day later

News and comments 2000

• Geysers on Mars   December 22, 2000
  This picture was found by John Dyck, similar images were found several weeks ago by others on the TEM BBS.
• Magnetic crystals in Mars meteorite made by bacteria   December 22, 2000
  
• DNA Test of Tutankhamun's mummy postponed by Egypt Council   December 13, 2000
  

  Planet of The Apes (1968) source: Spleenworld

• Plants live in Martian Atmosphere!   December 8, 2000
• Micro fossils in lunar rock samples   December 6, 2000
• Sedimentary Rocks on pictures from Mars Global Surveyor   December 5, 2000
  
• The "Age of Horus" Dawns - The Time is Now   December 3, 2000
  The new article from the Enterprise Mission about our julian/gregorian calendar and its connection to Sirius in the year 2000:
  Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6
  see also: New Year's Age of Horus by Daniel Perez
  
• The public gets slowly prepared for the truth: Dried-up sea beds found on Mars   December 3, 2000
  
• NASA to Announce Major Mars Discovery on Dec.7   December 2, 2000
  
• Gil Levin's Life detection experiment dismissed again for Mars-Mission   December 2, 2000
  
• Giant lichens or fungus on Mars: original picture, fibonacci branching marked (URL now correct)   October 15, 2000
  info about Fibonacci branching (points to life)
• Russian scientist finds organic chlorophyll pigments via pictures from Hubble   September 27, 2000
  
• The Face Image in a Different Light   August 16, 2000
  

  © Mark Kelly

  • Tom van Flandern: The Proof
  • Animation of face-image correction
  • last image of the anomation (if not Quicktime installed)
  
  
• Archeologists must rethink their theory about the first steps toward culture and art.   August 7, 2000
  In Anatolia, a 11000 year old temple was found! Article from Bild der Wissenschaft 8/2000:
  The oldest temple of the World, The first paleolithic settlement
• NASA discusses again 20 year old data from Viking Labeled Release Life Detection Experiment August 4, 2000
• German newspapers debunking the Cropcircle-Mystery   July 7, 2000
  They say: Roebucks rotating in circles around does caused them.
• Liquid water on Mars   June 24, 2000
  Since almost 20 years, scientific reports were published about liquid Water on Mars:
  
  • Article from Leven & Levin (198x)
  • Water Spout, found by Dr. Martin (1980)
  • Images from MGS (2000)
  • Article in Science (2000)
  • MGS homepage
• Major Mars Announcement From NASA? June 20, 2000
  NASAwatch.com-Editor's note: 3:50 PM 19 June: Word has it that NASA recently briefed the White House on a potential major discovery on Mars. An announcement of some sort is rumored to be planned for next week and that it involves Mars Global Surveyor.
• Ancient City found, irradiated from atomic blast June 9, 2000
• New propulsion system: 2 month journey to Mars! June 5, 2000
• Beagle 2, the very next Lander on Mars on Dec 26, 2003 May 23, 2000
• Old Data Holds New Hope for Life on Mars 19.May 2000
  Circadian rythm of Mars-bacteria found?
• New images from Mars Global Surveyor 8.May 2000
  Use my MOC-Finder to search the image database.
• Mystery balls fall from the sky   2.May 2000
  
  • similar incident in May 1994
    
  • debris from Delta rocket?
• Lowell's Channels confirmed by MGS   21. Mar 2000
  
  © Terry James
  • GSFC NASA: Subsurface Water Channels, 2000
  • GSFC NASA: View inside Mars reveals rapid cooling and buried channels
  • Pictures to GSFC article
  • Mars by Percival Lowell, 1895
  • Lowell's book, plate XII
    
  • update: Eric Crew's article about subsurface channels on Mars from 1994!
    page 1, page 2, page 3

• Brian De Palma's new movie Mission To Mars: Its background story is stranger than fiction.
  Just count together one, two, three, and four. (note Astronaut Story Musgrave's cameo appearance in the movie)   15.Mar 2000
• Dr.Ellmann found traces of ancient planetary collision with Earth!   3.Mar 2000
• Europa: Landen verboten!   21.Feb 2000
   
  Images Courtesy of Turner Entertainment Co. / Time Warner
• Reports about falling ice from clear sky, published in 1919   10.Feb 2000