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Topic started on 14-1-2012 @ 12:06 PM by openminded2011
There is a lot of opinion on how we will finally contact ET, if ever. I recently thought about it and and came up with the following conclusion. The BEST chance we have for finding proof of extraterrestrials at least in a human lifetime, would be the discovery of an alien artifact, a probe, or an installation, in our solar system. My idea for the best candidate would be a probe that came here possibly millions or even billions of years ago and is still in orbit around the sun or possibly sits on the surface of a planet or moon. There are millions of photos from Voyager, the Mars missions, the Gallileo probe and some of the newer missions, that might contain an image of such an artifact. I think our chances of finding something like this are at least as good as the SETI programs chances. So I did some searching and came up with one that is very intriguing



The Mars "golf ball"

This is very unusual, it may be a dune but I dont think I have ever seen one with such symmetry.It is several hundred feet across, and I would love to see a hirise picture of this.





I am sure when we send probes with ultra high resolution to the Jovian and Saturnian moons, we might happen upon something that does not belong there. Also I am wondering if any asteroidal or cometary bodies might have an orbit that could betray an interstellar origin, I would look for one that has an orbit so weird it couldn't have been captured naturally. There could be an abandoned base somewhere as well. OK I just wanted to put this out there.


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 12:19 PM by sonnny1
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What a clear,beautiful picture!

Looks like wind spread dunes,in a crater.

Edit to add:

Could that be Ice also,as flat as it is, next to the dunes?



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reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 12:39 PM by ArMaP
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No ice on that region, that's just an extremely fine blueish powder that exists in several places on Mars and that has also been photographed by the rovers on the surface.


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 12:46 PM by Doc Holiday
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If by definition...."aliens" and you believe we landed on the moon......yes in short, we are surrounded by alien space junk...
Hence once we set foot on the moon, we became aliens....by definition...


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 12:49 PM by woogleuk
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So is that a true or false colour image? If it's true colour, it is fascinating.


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 01:03 PM by ArMaP
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It's an approximate true colour, because HiRISE doesn't have a red, a green and a blue filter to make a real RGB image, it only has an infrared, a red and green+blue fliter, so they make what they call a "synthetic blue" with the green+blue channel and the red channel.

From what I have seen, when compared with ground photos from the rovers, the colours are not much different from the real colours, but we can never really know.


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 01:22 PM by woogleuk
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I thought the colours seemed a bit "enhanced", especially the blue. There is that many false colour images of the solar system floating around it's hard to know when you are looking at a true colour image, unless it states. Most of the true colour images I have seen from Mars have been the rusty / copper colour types (orange through my telescope), so I was dazzled by the blues.


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 02:52 PM by Aliensun
Originally posted by ArMaP
Originally posted by Aliensun
But we only can make that judgment because those two key clues slipped by NASA and were released because they didn't pick up on them at the onset. That taught them a lesson. Malin was engaged thereafter to scrutinize images and withhold any that was deemed not ready for prime time.

Could you explain that a little better? Thanks in advance.


Yes. Phobos has a large percentage of what has been called voids. This was know from early on from the Viking Orbiter probes. There was much discussion about it in NASA at the time,. (I'll bet that most of that has pulled.) First, they thought it might be ice, having a weight per mass less that rock by about half. But that meant a lot of ice! Finally, they concluded that it was composed of debris that clumped together there in that orbit with these voids inbetween. The problem is that the Viking orbiters showed definite ridges that meant that the whole body seemed to be once a larger chunk itself of something like--heaven forbid--a larger body (maybe a planet?). So the mystery of the voids was never adequately solved and they don't want to talk about it. Or release the thousands of images taken of the little moon since the Vikings.

The key to the whole business of Phobos is with the grooves. And again, they have discussed and discussed what has caused the grooves some of which are perfect straight lines and some of them cross intersect others at large angles.

The answer to that is the grooves were caused not by mining, but by the placing of Phobos in its orbit around Mars which, you might know, is virtually a perfect orbit and unusually close to the planet. The grooves were caused by loose boulders, etc.sliding around on the surface of the on the former asteroidal body and sometimes off of the body as it was maneuvered, turned and decelerated to its fine, little orbit around Mars.

That is the quick and dirty explanation. There was a far more detailed article on the Sightings website, but it didn't last long for some strange reason.

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reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 05:25 PM by woogleuk
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Sorry this is a little off topic.....(it's not in a sense)

I'm currently using a 8" reflector, which is great for all things lunar/solar system/nebula, but it's not the most portable of contraptions, especially when climbing the fells in the lake district (the mount itself weighs as much as a very small elephant).

So, I'm thinking of switching to one form of Cassegrain, when I do I plan on doing some photography with it. Can you save me some googling of reviews and what not and perhaps recommend a reasonably priced camera that can be easily mounted?


reply posted on 14-1-2012 @ 05:59 PM by ArMaP
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Unfortunately, I can't, I don't know a thing about that.
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