‘NASA is hiding life on Mars’: Here’s what’s really going on in red planet ‘explosion’ IMAGES
RT,
24
October,2018
Conspiracy
theorists went into overdrive after spotting a ‘mysterious plume of
smoke’ near a dormant Martian volcano, with many claiming this as
proof that alien life exists on the red planet and we’re being lied
to here on Earth.
Allegations
of a NASA-led cover up spread like wildfire online, with popular
conspiracy theory YouTube channel secureteam10 producing an
eight-minute long exposé entitled, ‘Something
MAJOR Happened On Mars.. Are They Hiding It?’
"There
was an explosion – I don't know whether it was a volcano or
something detonated," Tyler
Glockner of secureteam10 told his audience, during a video which has
amassed almost 390,000 views since publication on October 20.
One
commenter on the video drew upon his welding experience to lay bare
the terraforming operations already underway on Mars, citing craters
formed by lightning strikes as evidence of alien technology reshaping
the planet’s atmosphere. “Too
many coincidences here to ignore any more. NASA needs to stop being
the police of the scientific community.”
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“NASA
is a BS agency, staffed by self-sanctimonious liars. Mars is a living
planet, as anyone who has studied Mars for the last 50 years
[knows],” another
commenter agreed.
This
secureteam10 video was then picked up by a British
tabloid,
which fanned the conspiratorial flames while connecting the disparate
dots of NASA’s clever ruse: the Mars Curiosity Rover suffered a
mysterious glitch, rendering it offline for months after a huge dust
storm in late Spring; the Hubble and Chandra telescopes were recently
put in “safe
mode”allowing
for only basic functionality; and NASA was conspicuously silent about
the 2,000km-long plume of smoke stretching across Martian skies. Wake
up, sheeple!
Reddit was
also abuzz, though the comments were more climatological than
conspiratorial, discussing atmospheric conditions that might lead to
such cloud formations. To spoil the fun and settle the debate, RT.com
contacted the ESA for an explanation of the contentious images of the
red planet.
“No
ground or space based observations of Mars or its atmosphere have
produced any credible evidence for active volcanism occurring in the
present day or recent history,” party-pooper
and planetary scientist Elliot Sefton-Nash, who works on several ESA
projects including Mars
Sample Return, ExoMars and Mars
Express,
told RT.com.
“Observations
made on 24th September by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) aboard
ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, show a cloud oriented approximately
east-west and around ~2,000km long, as well as the shadow that it
cast onto the Martian surface below.”
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“Clouds
are known to form seasonally in this region, and are associated with
the volcanoes because their topography influences atmospheric
conditions,” he
continues. “This
is a well documented phenomenon and several scientific articles exist
documenting and explaining the process and highlight the seasonal
regularity of the occurrence in this region.”
For
comparison, Sefton-Nash highlighted a very similar cloud caused by
these topographical forces at Arsia Mons, observed in 2015 (in higher
resolution)
by the Indian Mars Orbiter Mission.
Right
now, the ESA is concentrating on Mercury, which is posing some
interesting questions about the formation of our Solar System.
"We have a problem with #Mercury..." because it’s falling out of our overall understanding of the Solar System. We don't understand how such a planet could have formed and evolved, so we not only need to send outstanding instruments there: we send a full laboratory #BepiColombo
WOW, incredible close up images now in from the remote cameras at the launch site during yesterday’s #BepiColombo launch. Enjoy!esa.int/spaceinimages/… (Credit: ESA–S. Corvaja)
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