The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an
independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal
government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics
and aerospace research.
President Dwight D. Eisenhower established NASA in 1958 with a
distinctly civilian orientation encouraging peaceful applications in space
science. Since its beginning, most US
space exploration efforts have been led by NASA, including the Apollo Moon
landing missions, the Skylab space station, and later the Space Shuttle.
Currently, NASA is supporting the International Space Station and is overseeing
the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, the Space Launch
System and Commercial Crew vehicles. NASA
science is focused on better understanding Earth through the Earth Observing
System, advancing heliophysics through the efforts of the Science Mission
Directorate's Heliophysics Research Program, exploring bodies throughout the
Solar System with advanced robotic spacecraft missions such as New Horizons, and
researching astrophysics topics, such as the Big Bang, through the Great
Observatories and associated programs.
For
a month or so, NASA had been waiting for
the right moment to launch clouds of red and blue-green vapor out into space. On June 29, that moment finally came. A NASA
sounding rocket launched at 4:25 a.m. EST from the agency's Wallops Flight
Facility in Virginia, shot out 10
canisters about the size of a soda can, according to the agency. The cans deployed blue-green and red vapor,
which brightly colored puffs of " tracer vapors " that were seen from
New York to North Carolina. These clouds
allow scientists on the ground to visually track how and where particles move
in space.
The
rocket was originally supposed to launch on May 31, but poor visibility and bad
weather conditions delayed the mission a number of times. These space clouds
weren't merely for show, however. The experiment was one of many missions in an
international " Grand Challenge " initiative aimed at helping
scientists probe two gaping holes in Earth's protective magnetic shield, called
cusps. The magnetic bubble that
surrounds our planet is vital to life, since it deflects the sun's constant
wind of high-energy particles - and protects against the occasional solar storm
. Without this invisible force field, Earth may have gone the way of Mars,
which lost its magnetic dynamo billions of years ago. That allowed the sun to
blow most of the Martian atmosphere into deep space , turning a once wet and
potentially habitable world into a dry and nearly airless global desert .
After
launch, the rocket flew to an altitude of 118 miles, according to NASA. According to NASA, the facility received
nearly 2,000 reports of the cloud sightings from New York, Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, and North Carolina. While that
is interesting the following news is not amusing ! - Nasa has been forced to deny a bizarre
conspiracy theory that it is running a child slave colony on Mars.
The
theory was cooked up by an ex-CIA case officer who made the wild allegations on
a US national radio show yesterday. In response, a Nasa spokesman said that
'there are no humans on Mars', and dispelled another rumour that the agency
faked sending rovers to the red planet. The agency's statement comes just days
after a rumour surfaced that it was soon to announce the discovery of alien
life. The hacker collective Anonymous set conspiracy theorists abuzz this week
after it claimed Nasa is on the verge of announcing the discovery of alien
life.
In
a video, shared to an unofficial YouTube channel said to be affiliated with the
vigilante group, a masked presenter cited snippets of a recent talk by Nasa
Associate Administrator Dr Thomas Zurbuchen to support their prediction. But
shortly afterwards Nasa confirmed that no such announcement is on the way. Dr
Zurbuchen took to Twitter on Tuesday to assure that the reports were false, and
said that we still do not know if we are alone in the universe. Guy Webster, a
spokesman for Nasa on Mars exploration, told the Daily Beast: 'There are no
humans on Mars. There are active rovers on Mars. There was a rumor going around
last week that there weren't. There are.
'But
there are no humans.' The child colony
rumour surfaced on the national radio programme The Alex Jones Show, hosted by
an eccentric conspiracy theorist of the same name. Mr Jones has previously claimed that the
notorious Sandy Hook shooting never happened and that the Boston bombings were
a government hoax. The bizarre Mars colony
comments were made by Robert David Steele, a former CIA case officer who was a
guest on this week's programme. Mr Steele, who runs his own conspiracy theory
blog, claimed that children have been secretly shipped to Mars over the last
two decades to work as slaves. 'We actually believe that there is a colony on
Mars that is populated by children who were kidnapped and sent into space on a
20-year ride,' Mr Steele said.
'So
that once they get to Mars they have no alternative but to be slaves on the
Mars colony.' Mr Jones agreed, saying 'clearly they don't want us looking into
what is happening' because 'every time probes go over they turn them off.' 'Look,
I know that 90 per cent of the Nasa missions are secret and I've been told by
high level Nasa engineers that you have no idea. There is so much stuff going
on,' he said.
Nasa
has been forced to deny a bizarre conspiracy theory that it is running a child
slave colony on Mars. The theory was cooked up by ex-CIA case officer who
spouted the wild allegations on a US national radio show on Thursday. Nasa rarely comments on wild conspiracy
theories, and the agency's statement comes just days after a rumour surfaced
that it was soon to announce the discovery of alien life. A spokesperson of Nasa Science Mission Directorate stated - ‘Are
we alone in the universe? While we do not know yet, we have missions moving
forward that may help answer that fundamental question.’
With
regards – S. Sampathkumar
1st
July 2017.
News
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