Dr. Michael Clarage shares new observations of some of the complexities of the Earth’s electrical environment. The Sun and Earth are connected in ways very similar to how man-made electrical equipment is connected. These similarities are examined in light of the idea of the entire solar system behaving as a…
Today, we review one of the great ongoing mysteries in the history of Mars exploration. In January of 2004, the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity arrived at the red planet about three weeks apart. Due to the extreme dustiness of the Martian environment, it was believed that the rovers would…
Mar 20, 2015 After four years in orbit, MESSENGER is nearing the end of its life. On August 3, 2004, NASA launched the Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging (MESSENGER) experiment from Cape Canaveral. After traveling nearly eight billion kilometers, the 485 kilogram spacecraft initiated orbital insertion…
Mar 19, 2015 Electric Universe theory assumes Earth and the Sun are electrically connected. Previous Picture of the Day articles discuss the linkages between the flow of electric charge through the galaxy, solar electric currents, and terrestrial electric currents. Earth’s environment is also driven by those cosmic electrical circuits, but…
Mar 18, 2015 “It really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong, I’m right…” The Max Planck Institute added more fuel to the black hole physics fire: the ejection of a “supermassive black hole” (SMBH) from its parent galaxy. Researchers in the department of Extraterrestrial Physics measured what appear to be…
Mar 16, 2015 Recent images of the star CH Cygni reveal the electrical circuitry that drives it. Radiation in radio (blue), optical (green), and X-ray (red) highlight the several inner components of the plasma discharge. The outer red circle (large optical image) is composed of radial filaments. This is a…
Science news headlines around the world tell of a baffling mystery on the planet Mars. In March of 2012, amateur astronomers spotted enormous plumes jetting from the Martian surface. The plumes were more than 250 KM high and several hundreds of kilometers in length. Similar bright, enormous plumes have occasionally…
The subject of this video series by Dave Talbott is the ancient experience of towering celestial forms that are no longer present. From a single snapshot of the configuration, we can work backwards to the first appearance of these bodies out of an undifferentiated cloud or sea of dusty plasma….
Mar 13, 2015 The features on Saturn’s moon Titan are not caused by flowing liquids. The Cassini-Solstice spacecraft has been analyzing information from the planet Saturn and its family of moons for more than eleven years, now. Its primary mission target continues to be Titan, the largest moon in…
Mar 12, 2015 Previously detected “plumes” on Europa are no longer visible. When Voyager 1 flew by Europa on March 1979, planetary scientists were surprised to see that the moon seemed to be completely encased in water ice. Another surprise was that Europa exhibited few craters. Instead, its surface is…
