Monday May 26

May 26th, 2008 Posted in May 2008

L aunched by NASA on August 4 2007, the module Phoenix landed on Mars at 1:38 on the night of Sunday to Monday, after a course of 711 million kilometers. The scientific leader of the operation, Peter Smith, said that the mission must also determine if the area is habitable, with a future inhabited base on Mars. The event was broadcast on NASA TV. The last 6 minutes:

A 125 km from the surface, Phoenix entered the Martian atmosphere at 19,311 km / h. He was slowed by friction up to 8 km / h. A heat shield protected the lander extreme temperatures generated during this entry. Antennas located behind the shield were used to communicate with one of the three devices are in orbit around Mars. They are used to relay signals that inform the Earth conditions of the mission. After déccéléré Mach 1.7 (1.7 times the speed of sound), the parachute was deployed. Shortly thereafter, the heat shield was jettisoned, the approach radar activated, and media module of 350 kilos were deployed. It continued its descent into the Martian atmosphere to an altitude of 1 km from the surface. Then, the platform has seconded the parachute, with a few seconds behind. Then she déccéléré further reducing the power of its retro-rockets.

When Phoenix reached a height of 12m, with a displacement of 2.4 m / s, the device has stabilized its speed. Amarissage engines were cut off when sensors located at the ends of the media have documented contact. Fifteen minutes later, Phoenix has deployed its solar panels. In a few days, it will activate its robot arm 2.5 m to pick up the first soil sample.

T he crystal skulls are at the center of the new episode of Indiana Jones, directed by Steven Spielberg. Whitley Strieber has made its editorial: "Two crystal skulls are in the British Museum in London and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC . A new study using an electron microscope showed that it is false, because they were created with tools that did not have the ancient Maya and the Aztecs. He adds: "It does not mean that ALL skulls of this type are false. "

BBC News, Paul Rincon Reports about the archaeologist Ian Freestone: "There are at least a dozen of these crystal skulls. It was in the 60s we began to show interest. The British Museum and another who is in Paris, were already known. It is this craze in the New Age movement and its attractiveness for crystal. Since that time we began to manufacture them. Some are remarkably executed, others appear to have been produced with simple means at the bottom of a court. Some had thought that a fairly coarse could spend more to be done in a traditional society. It was a wrong vision, because the architects of the time were more sophisticated. They did not have modern instruments but they were working. " The use of electron microscope showed that the skulls were probably shaped rotary discs with copper or other metal. An abrasive was also used to facilitate the size of the object.

However, analysis of other genuine original Aztec and Mixtec have shown that these artisans used stone tools with a wooden handle.
"The skull of the British Museum was built with corundum or diamond. But the diffraction analysis of X-rays revealed another material, carborundum, was used for the Smithsonian.
The Carborundum is a synthetic abrasive which was not used before the 20th century: "We think now that date from the 1950s or a little later," said Professor Freestone - who was assistant curator at the British Museum .
The authors of the skulls are unknown. But the British Museum, suspicions point to an antique to a French 19th century named Eugene Boban. Professor Freestone think it had purchased, or executed by an artisan somewhere in Europe. These latest findings will probably disappoint fans and collectors, the skulls are part of a folklore, the subject has often been repeated in films and novels. "Many legends circulate about the meeting of 13 crystal skulls. The Paris is at the Musée du Quai Branly.

Spf33 and Nekitamo now have more precise data, obtained by a laser rangefinder, and began to publish the first assessments on the forum of the Drone Research Team.

Spf33 began with the location of Stephen: "Calculations indicate that an external diameter of 3.5 m to the ring adjacent to 775 meters and 156 meters, produces the shadow that we noticed on Tree number 5. It is the ring bearing the number 16 in the CARET Inventory. " Whatever one thinks about the reality of California drones, one can not appreciate the talent and use software and tools, as the "relief of terrain in Google Earth, or streetview on Google Maps. Means of calculations that are now widespread and could clarify or verify other evidence observations ufology.