October 2, 2020 The Solar System was chaotic a few thousand years ago. The features on all the moons and rocky planets support that idea. How many thousands of years ago that chaos occurred isn’t important, since it is not millions of years, or even hundreds of thousands of years…
October 1, 2020 What brought methane to the Red Planet? According to a recent press release, measurements taken by NASA’s Curiosity rover show a “higher than expected” amount of methane in the Martian regolith. Planetary scientists believe that methane is important, since one way it forms is through biological processes….
September 30, 2020 Evidence for past Solar System alignment? Comets are among the best sources for data about the electric Universe. Many articles and video presentations discuss hot comets, as opposed to the “dirty snowball” hypothesis. Comets are rocky, sandy, and dry. They are not frozen denizens from deep space…
September 29, 2020 Uranus is an anomaly in the Solar System. The gas giant planet, Uranus is 50,724 kilometers in diameter at the equator, making it the third largest object in the Solar System. A unique aspect of Uranus is that its equator is tilted almost 90 degrees. Most of…
September 28, 2020 Various plasma instabilities are found on Jupiter. NASA launched the Juno spacecraft on August 5, 2011. Its primary mission includes analyses of Jupiter’s massive plasmasphere: how do its electromagnetic influences affect the Jovian system. Since Jupiter radiates more energy than it receives from the Sun, astronomers think…
Previously, in Part One of this presentation, our guest Andrew Hall began his Seventh Episode of “Eye of the Storm” – a series devoted to exploring some of the most dramatic and puzzling geological features on planet Earth. In Part 2 of his visual essay for “Eye of the Storm”…
September 25, 2020 It has been awhile since the latest report about comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Rosetta spacecraft crashed into it on September 30, 2016. Aurorae on Earth are cause by charged particles from the Sun. As previously written, the U.S. Navy satellite, TRIAD, recorded electromagnetic disturbances as it passed over…
And Then Came Dragons by Andrew Hall Dragons are real, folks. This chapter may be hard to get your head around because we’ve been taught dragons are myth. But they are not figments of imagination; they come from the laws of physics. They also come from the bowels of the…
September 24, 2020 New insights from four Cassini instruments reveal mysteries in Saturn’s rings. Saturn’s rings are approximately 416,000 kilometers wide, but are estimated to be a mere 50 meters thick, possibly as little as 10 meters. This means that Earth-based telescopes detect only a thin wire extending across the…
September 22, 2020 Previous Pictures of the Day discuss the possibility that there is frozen water on the Moon, although the idea was not given much credence. The Moon is thought to result from a collision between a planet the size of Mars and Earth. It was torn-out of Earth…
