Tag: artificial satellite
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phobos: appearance artificial underneath worn surface
Russia launched Phobos-Grunt spacecraft on Nov 8, a ten minute video of event is available here. Phobos-Grunt’s mission to obtain soil samples from Martian moon’s surface, returning in 2014 to Earth. A picture taken, at left, shows expected landing site, but worn away areas where light brown turns to green certainly appears artificial! The picture…
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What Will Phobos Grunt Mission Uncover?
Russian space probe Phobos Grunt set to launch December 25, 2011. The probe would achieve orbit around Mars, December 2012. Mars Express probe captured images in March 2010 during a flyby at a distance of just 60 miles.
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phobos mystery
Why does Martian Moon Phobos generate intense interest? In 1959, Russian Samuilovich Shklovsky, an astronomer, suggested Phobos may be artificial, since he concluded the moon’s orbit was decaying and could only be due to a very low density, possibly, even hollow. Buzz Aldrin, former astronaut, touted Phobos to President Obama as key to permanent space…
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mystery hexagon of saturn
In 1979, as Voyager 1 passed by Saturn, the satellite returned pictures of a hexagon on Saturn’s North Pole. The Cassini spacecraft confirmed, in 2006, the hexagon is still there! A brief You Tube video, “The Mystery Hexagon of Saturn” provides a fascinating look in less than two minutes. Discovery News provides a brief article and video,…
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is moon artificial satellite?
Zen Gardner alleges in article, “NASA Photos Confirm Moon is Artificial?”, summarizes many points of irregularity in relation to our lunar satellite. Gardner recalls the “ringing like a bell” references of Apollo missions which imply a hollow sphere. An observation is made the bottom of the craters are convex not concave the opposite of expectations for an…