Gushing geysers on Saturn's Moon

Like sprinklers hidden beneath the surface, a series of geysers — more than previously thought — are gushing water ice from fissures near the south pole of Saturn's icy moon Enceladus, new images reveal.

The newly released images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft show the geysers of Enceladus in stunning detail. The photos caught a bounty of previously unknown plumes alongside known ones, and show at least one gusher that's lost power since NASA's last look at the moon.

The new images were taken during Cassini's flyby on Nov. 21, 2009, and include the best 3-D look ever obtained of a "tiger stripe" — a fissure that sprays icy particles, water vapor and organic compounds. They also show regions of Enceladus that were not well-mapped in previous flybys, including a southern area with crudely circular tectonic patterns.

Both large and small plumes were seen spouting from these famed tigers stripes along Enceladus' south pole. In one mosaic, created by two high-resolution images captured by the narrow-angle camera, 30 individual jets can be seen. More than 20 of them had not been identified before.

By photographing the jets over time, Cassini scientists can study the consistency of their activity.

"This last flyby confirms what we suspected," said Carolyn Porco, Cassini's imaging team lead at the Space Science Institute in Boulder, Colo. "The vigor of individual jets can vary with time, and many jets, large and small, erupt all along the tiger stripes."

The scientists also combined the visible-light images with heat data to create a map of a 25-mile (40-km) segment of the longest stripe, known as Baghdad Sulcus. The map illustrates the link between the geologically youthful surface fractures and the anomalously warm temperatures that have been recorded in the south polar region.

In these measurements, peak temperatures along Baghdad Sulcus exceed minus 135 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 93 degrees Celsius), and may be higher than minus 100 degrees F (minus 73 degrees C).



The temperatures, considered warm for Enceladus, probably result from heating of the fracture flanks by the warm, upwelling water vapor that propels the moon's ice-particle jets.

The fractures are chilly by Earth standards, but they're a cozy oasis compared to the numbing 50 Kelvin (minus 370 Fahrenheit) of their surroundings," said John Spencer, a composite infrared spectrometer team member based at Southwest Research Institute also in Boulder. "The huge amount of heat pouring out of the tiger stripe fractures may be enough to melt the ice underground."

Some Cassini scientists infer that the warmer the temperatures are at the surface, the greater the likelihood that jets erupt from liquid.

The Nov. 21 flyby, which brought the spacecraft to within 1,000 miles (1,600 km) of the moon's surface, was the eighth targeted encounter with Enceladus. It's the last look at Enceladus' south polar surface before that region goes into 15 years of darkness, NASA officials said.

And now that the Cassini mission has been extended through 2017, with 11 Enceladus flybys slated for the extension period, there are plenty of chances to capture more images of this icy moon. The spacecraft launched in 1997 and has been orbiting Saturn since 2004.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35565930/ns/technology_and_science-space/

We are all Personal Time Travelers. The personal time dilation theory...

I was taking a walk today and during my walk, I looked at my watch and I noticed that it ended up being about 5 and a half minutes fast from normal time. When I did that, it was like a spark of inspiration, a download hit me and I received information on this situation.

All of us experience moments in time where our physical body is actually ahead or behind several minutes in comparison to normal time. It could be defined as relative time dilation contained within your own personal space.

Have you ever noticed that when you set your watch to the exact time of "normal time" and you check up on it a few days later, it can either be a couple minutes fast or a couple minutes slow? It's not because of the watch's battery, it's because of you.

This is why when you see people and meet them for the first time, they can tell you their age and it seems as if they look a little younger or older than their age suggests. Relative time dilation through our own physical body.

So how does this happen? At times where you forget or ignore that time exists being contained in the now moment. This can lead to a simple matter of seconds of entering a coalescent timeline in the future or time dilating back to a few seconds in the past. Your watch tells it all.

So this is an experiment you can try. Have a digital watch, make sure the battery is strong and check to see that it is synchronous with normal time. Over a span of two weeks, compare your watch to normal time and see if there is any displacement in between your watch's time and normal time. If you notice displacement say a couple minutes behind or a couple minutes ahead, etc. that means at sparatic times during those two weeks, you have shifted ahead or behind in the coalescent timeline and have aged or reverse aged yourself from those matter of seconds or minutes shown on your watch.

This shows how powerful we truly are. That its not our environment that is progressing ahead or behind in time, it is simply us. We can be the puncture of the time field. This is a working theory, but in accordance to my own personal guidance, it makes so much sense in regards to my watch phenomenon. But try this experiment and see how long you can go ahead in your own personal time or go behind in your own personal time. Have fun!

The opportunity of a successful, prosperous timeline ahead (2012-2050)

This was posted on the Atlas City Project forums, but I've also added some more information to this original posting as well:

With a lot of the researching I've been doing and my own personal guidance, I feel I've come up with a pretty good timeline ratio after the transitional shift of consciousness after 2012. This data again is all opportunistic but it can be achieved if we are committed to staying on this path where Atlas City becomes a solid reality.

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TIMELINE 2012-2015:

The RBE city phenomena will grow more stronger. It will be the start of foundations becoming built as the first cities begin to grow. One of such can be that of Atlas City. By this time, the monetary system will literally become dead in the water and others may look to trade or barter. By looking at the example of the RBE, more people around the world favor this idea through the passion of the RBE builders.

TIMELINE 2017-2025:

Several cities are becoming constructed amongst the planet. The RBE foundations are beginning to show a lot of promise. Other advances will begin to shine forward including interstellar travel as the ability to travel through our star system will be as public as driving a car to a grocery store (between 2020-2025).

TIMELINE 2025-2033

Much of Earth has become part of a resource based economy. Some of the national borders have been removed. There is no idea of division between nationalities or labelling others through a nationality. Humanity begins to understand it's connection to nature and the universe. This will also allow open contact with other civilizations from beyond Earth to also assist us in increasing our means to see more of what lies beyond Earth and our star system. (Open contact will start very small around 2015 and will continue to build to a larger first contact summoned through us to them that will initiate an Association of Worlds between Earth and other civilizations before the year 2050.)

TIMELINE 2033-2050

All the ailments of the past that involved governance through a monetary system will literally be completely abolished around this time. Earth is now a collective of humans who truly see themselves as one with the planet. Our Earth will become more cleaner, healthier and more alive than it has ever been. Earth is now a complete Resource Based Economy. The idea of monetary gain or trade or swap will be completely unheard of. There will be no such thing as diseases, homelessness, starvation, corruption. It will all be swept away because we have truly awoken to what is. Earth looks like an entirely different planet. Nothing of what it is like today. The question of "Are we alone?" was a question of arrogance. Civilizations from beyond the Earth will be part of our new family to guide and assist us in becoming an official member of their Interstellar alliance by 2050. Meeting new civilizations, interacting with beings on other planets as easy as it is to pick up a telephone and dial a number. Our own abilities will be greatly accelerated psychically. We will literally become a peaceful collective: Telepathy, telekinesis, healing, manifestation will eventually become as simple as breathing to us.

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Some may be wondering "Well that's too long to wait, I'll be old by then. I want to see this progression in my lifetime." The news I have for you is that if you are passionate in seeing this progress pass 2050, you will.

The technology is available now to allow a human being to live up to a life span of 200 years. Within the next several years, not only technologically will we have the ability to bring forth a life span of up to 1000 years, but consciously, we will be able to achieve this also. So for example, living up to a life span in your 500's would give you the physical appearance of a person in their 20's.

Now that you are aware of what awaits us through this momentum, doesn't that give you the passion to create what best benefits you in the now? Rather than concerning yourself with trivial distractions based on the NWO, or economic collapse, or any form of corruption, look at the momentum of the big picture.

So what do you need to do to achieve being part of this timeline?...Letting go. Following your passion to the letter. Even the simplest forms of passion are the avenues that lead to the divine manifestations of a reality such as this. When you dive into suffering, you are only becoming part of the problem and not the solution. When you give into fear or uncertainty, you taint your abundance that is capable of bringing you exactly what you wish to pursue through excitement.

When some one asks you, "aren't you tired of the problems in the world today?" You can gladly say "I'm not affected by them because I don't join in with the problems, I follow the world of solutions." There are literally are two themes of Earths that you can openly choose. The one where you remain with the problems and taint what you wish to truly experience, and the other where there are solutions based on feelings of passion and excitement to guide you. Two earths. Which one will you choose. The choice is entirely up to you.

This is the future that awaits us if we are passionate in pursuing the opportunity. Sounds like a good future doesn't it?

The Bedini Coil: A free energy system available through a kit

The future of many of our free energy needs: the Bedini coil. And best of all, you can actually order a kit to put this technology together. The kits are available at www.potentialtec.com

Are Crop Circles Also Blueprints to Design a Space Ship?

Through these videos below, you will discover how some of the crop circles that have appeared in the past are actually blueprints to help design space ships. This is something you will need to see to understand:

Scientists Discover the Secret to Aging

One of the biggest puzzles in biology – how and why living cells age – has been solved by an international team based at Newcastle University, in north-east England.

The answer is complex, and will not produce an elixir of eternal life in the foreseeable future.

But the scientists expect better drugs for age-related illnesses, such as diabetes and heart disease, to emerge from their discovery of the biochemical pathway involved in ageing.

The Newcastle team, working with the University of Ulm in Germany, used a comprehensive “systems biology” approach, involving computer modelling and experiments with cell cultures and genetically modified mice, to investigate why cells become senescent. In this aged state, cells stop dividing and the tissues they make up show physical signs of deterioration, from wrinkling skin to a failing heart.

The research, published by the journal Molecular Systems Biology, shows that when an ageing cell detects serious damage to its DNA – caused by the wear and tear of life – it sends out specific internal signals.

These distress signals trigger the cell’s mitochondria, its tiny energy-producing power packs, to make oxidising “free radical” molecules, which in turn tell the cell either to destroy itself or to stop dividing. The aim is to avoid the damaged DNA that causes cancer.

The Newcastle discovery plays down the role of telomeres, the protective tips on the ends of human chromosomes, which gradually become shorter as we grow older.

“There has been a huge amount of speculation about how blocking telomere erosion might cure ageing and age-related diseases,” said Tom Kirkwood, director of Newcastle’s Institute of Ageing and Health. “The telomere story has over-promised and the biology is more complicated.”

He added: “Our breakthrough means that we stand a very much better chance of making a successful attack on age-related diseases while at the same time avoiding the risk of unwanted side-effects like cancer.”

His colleague Thomas von Zglinicki emphasised caution in the research’s next stage – to investigate ways to prevent cellular senescence.

“It is absolutely essential to tread carefully in trying to alter processes that cause cells to age, because the last thing we want is to help age-damaged cells from breaking out to become malignant,” said Mr von Zglinicki.

Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/436a39a0-1a6e-11df-a2e3-00144feab49a.html?nclick_check=1

The Planet Pluto is getting Brighter and Brighter and NASA Buries their Head in the Sand

Pluto is ready for its closeup.



It's Pluto like you've never seen it before – up close and colorful, courtesy of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.

The images released Thursday reveal that Pluto seems to be getting brighter around its northern polar region and more red-colored in general over a two-year period; but the reasons are mysteries for now.

Some researchers theorize the sphere’s dark, molasses color is residue possibly created by ultraviolet radiation from the faraway sun breaking up methane in Pluto's atmosphere. A composite video of the icy cold dwarf planet’s rotation was also captured by the Hubble.

There were crude photos taken of the planet by its discoverer in 1929, but there have never been any shots as revealing as the several hundred Hubble images taken between 2002 and 2003.

It took scientists four years and 20 computers to analyze and sharpen the pictures of the world - 3.5 billion miles from the sun.

These recent images are a just a preview of Pluto, which is due to be visited by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft in 2015. Launched in 2006, the spacecraft is equipped to take a much closer look, map the sphere’s surface and analyze its atmosphere.

In addition to a cargo of high-tech equipment, the spacecraft is carrying some remains of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh on its trip across the universe.

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2010/02/05/2010-02-05_pluto_gets_a_closeup_pictures_show_the_planet_looking_reddish_brighter_than_befo.html

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This is a perfect example of NASA covering up information. In accordance with David Wilcock's research and findings, he has discovered that all the planets in our solar system are undergoing massive planetary warming. This only proves the data a step further. NASA obviously isn't talking and simply wishes to bury their head in the sand in regards to planetary changing patterns. Once again, this shows that our solar system is dramatically changing even at its farthest reaches. I highly recommend checking out David Wilcock's "A New World If You Can Take It" Seminar or his "Awake and Aware" Seminar through Project Camelot in September of 2009 as he speaks more on this. You can also find more of this data in the Module 5 segment of Approaching Critical Mass.

David Wilcock "A New World If You Can Take It" Conference - July 2009

This is a video archived playlist of a very fascinating conference featuring David Wilcock as he shares his research based on Extra Terrestrial Life, Psychic Ability, 2012, crop circles and much more! There are 28 videos contained within this playlist. A long video series, but definitely worth every minute of it:

Scientists find Water on One of Saturn's Moons

PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists working on the Cassini mission to Saturn have found evidence of liquid water on the planet's icy moon Enceladus, suggesting the possibility of life below its surface.

Scientists working on the Cassini space mission have found negatively charged water ions in the ice plume of Enceladus. Their findings, based on analysis from data taken in plume fly-throughs in 2008 and reported in the journal Icarus, provide evidence for the presence of liquid water, which suggests the ingredients for life inside the icy moon. The Cassini plasma spectrometer, used to gather this data, also found other species of negatively charged ions including hydrocarbons.

“While it’s no surprise that there is water there, these short-lived ions are extra evidence for sub-surface water and where there’s water, carbon and energy, some of the major ingredients for life are present,” said lead author Andrew Coates from University College London’s Mullard Space Science Laboratory.

“The surprise for us was to look at the mass of these ions. There were several peaks in the spectrum, and when we analysed them we saw the effect of water molecules clustering together one after the other.” The measurements were made as Cassini plunged through Enceladus’ plume on March 12, 2008.

Enceladus thus joins Earth, Titan and comets where negatively charged ions are known to exist in the solar system. Negative oxygen ions were discovered in Earth’s ionosphere at the dawn of the space age. At Earth’s surface, negative water ions are present where liquid water is in motion, such as waterfalls or crashing ocean waves.

The Cassini plasma spectrometer, originally designed to take data in Saturn’s magnetic environment, measures the density, flow velocity and temperature of ions and electrons that enter the instrument. But since the discovery of Enceladus’ water ice plume, the instrument has also successfully captured and analysed samples of material in the jets.

Early in its mission, Cassini discovered the plume that fountains water vapour and ice particles above Enceladus. Since then, scientists have found that these water products dominate Saturn’s magnetic environment and create Saturn’s huge E-ring.

At Titan, the same instrument detected extremely large negative hydrocarbon ions with masses up to 13,800 times that of hydrogen. A paper in Planetary and Space Science by Coates and colleagues in December 2009 showed that, at Titan, the largest hydrocarbon or nitrile ions are seen at the lowest altitudes of the atmosphere that Cassini flew (950 kilometers (590 miles). They suggest these large ions are the source of the smog-like haze that blocks most of Titan’s surface from view. They may be representative of the organic mix called “tholins” by Carl Sagan when he produced the reddish brew of prebiotic chemicals in the lab from gases that were known to be present in Titan’s atmosphere. Tholins that may be produced in Titan’s atmosphere could fall to the moon’s surface and may even make up the sand grains of the dunes that dominate part of Titan’s equatorial region.

The new findings add to our growing knowledge about the detailed chemistry of Enceladus’ plume and Titan’s atmosphere, giving new understanding of environments beyond Earth where prebiotic or life-sustaining environments might exist.
More information: http://saturn.jpl.nasa.gov/index.cfm

Hubble Space Telescope Detects a Mysterious Shaped Object Travelling 11,000 MPH

Hubble has discovered a mysterious X-shaped object traveling at 11,000mph. NASA says that P/2010-A2 may be a comet, product of the collision between two asteroids. Or a Klingon Bird of Prey. Either way, UCLA investigator David Jewitt is excited:

This is quite different from the smooth dust envelopes of normal comets. The filaments are made of dust and gravel, presumably recently thrown out of the nucleus. Some are swept back by radiation pressure from sunlight to create straight dust streaks. Embedded in the filaments are co-moving blobs of dust that likely originated from tiny unseen parent bodies.

OK, David, we will believe you until Jerry Bruckheimer finish his next movie, in which a "comet" suddenly stops, turns to Earth, and starts firing anti-matter rays against our underpants.

The weirdest thing, however, is not only the prettyful X-shaped debris pattern, but the fact that its 460-foot-wide nucleus is outside the dust halo and separated from the trail. This behavior is something which has never been seen before in a comet or any other solar-system-swooshing object.



The images—taken by Hubble between January 25 and January 29—lead NASA to believe that this is a product of the collision of two asteroids. The nucleus would be the "surviving remnant of a hypervelocity collision:

"If this interpretation is correct, two small and previously unknown asteroids recently collided, creating a shower of debris that is being swept back into a tail from the collision site by the pressure of sunlight. The filamentary appearance of P/2010 A2 is different from anything seen in Hubble images of normal comets, consistent with the action of a different process.

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So once again, NASA doesn't know what it is and cooks up another half-baked alibi on what it definitely is not.

Source: http://gizmodo.com/5462539/hubble-detects-mysterious-spaceship+shaped-object-traveling-at-11000mph

More footage of the UFO craft around the Sun and Venus

Obama axes NASA moon plan in new budget

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - President Barack Obama wants to end NASA's moon program, turn over space transportation to commercial companies and jump-start technologies needed for future human exploration of Mars and other destinations, officials said on Monday.

The plan is part Obama's budget for the fiscal year to September 30, 2011, which was unveiled on Monday and must be approved by the Congress.

NASA, which currently receives about $18 billion a year, has been working to develop a replacement for the space shuttles, which are being retired this year after five more missions to complete construction of the orbiting International Space Station, a $100 billion project of 16 nations.

NASA currently spends more than half of its budget on human space programs.

Obama's budget ends work on the shuttle follow-on vehicle, known as Orion, as well as a pair of rockets developed to fly astronauts to the space station, the moon and other destinations in the solar system.

"We are proposing canceling the program, not delaying it," Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management and Budget, told reporters during a conference call.

Funds previously earmarked for the Constellation program, initially intended to return U.S. astronauts to the moon by 2020, instead would be used for research projects that include robotics and other technologies needed to prepare for an eventual human mission to Mars, Orszag added.

NASA already has spent $9 billion on Constellation and likely would owe millions more to cancel existing contracts. Prime contractors on the Ares rocket program include ATK Launch Systems, Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and Boeing Co.

Lockheed Martin is the lead contractor on the Orion capsule.

A space advisory panel, tapped by Obama to review the Constellation program, determined that without a $3 billion-a-year budget boost, the program was doomed.

The board also recommended NASA help commercial firms develop space taxis to ferry crewmembers to and from the space station, a service the United States currently is paying Russia to provide at a cost of $50 million a seat. Obama apparently has decided to take its advice.

Advocates say turning over space transportation to the private sector will create more jobs per dollar because the government's investment would be leveraged by millions of dollars in private investments.

"NASA investment in the commercial spaceflight industry is a win-win decision," Bretton Alexander, president of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation, said in a statement. "Commercial crew will create thousands of high-tech jobs in the United States, especially in Florida, while reducing the spaceflight gap and preventing us from sending billions to Russia.'

NASA already has contacts with Space Exploration Technologies and Orbital Sciences Corp. to deliver cargo to the station. SpaceX and other firms also are developing spaceships that can carry passengers to orbit and back.

Source: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35182959/ns/technology_and_science-space/