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SOL0107-GB-LXTT-IPF-4.jpgClose-up on the Surface of Gale Crater - Sol 107 (An Image-Mosaic in RAW Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation) 81 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumDic 09, 2012
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SOL0050-GB-LXTT-IPF-1.jpgCuriosity and the Distant Horizon of Gale Crater - Sol 50 (An Image-Mosaic in Calibrated Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation) 91 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumDic 09, 2012
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SOL0107-GB-LXTT-IPF-1.jpgThe Surface of Gale Crater - Sol 107 (An Image-Mosaic in RAW Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation) 74 visitenessun commentoMareKromiumDic 09, 2012
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Orion_on_Barolo.jpg"The Great Hunter" over Barolo - Italy (by Dr Gianluigi Barca/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)108 visite"...Multiplicity is only apparent, in truth, there is only one mind..."
Erwin Schrödinger - "The Oneness of Mind", as translated in "Quantum Questions: Mystical Writings of the World's Great Physicists" - edited by Ken Wilber in 1984
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Enceladus_and_Titan-PIA14617-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgSo close, and yet so far... (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)96 visiteThe Saturnian moon Enceladus can be seen partially (as a matter of fact, we have to say almost completely) eclipsed by the shadow of its Gas-Giant Parent Planet, in this really fascinating view, taken by the the NASA - Cassini Spacecraft, which also features another Saturnian moon, such as Titan, in the distance. The Cassini Spacecraft flew by Enceladus, shown in the upper left of the picture, at a distance of about 16.000 miles (such as approx. 26.000 Km).
The Terminator - such as the Line separating the day from the night side - of Enceladus (whose dimension is approx. 313 miles, or about 504 Km across) can be barely seen on the very far left of the moon itself, while the shadow of Saturn runs all the way across from its Middle Northern, until the South Polar Regions. Titan (whose dimension is approx. 3200 miles, or about 5150 Km across), as we already mentioned hereabove, is well visible in the lower right of the frame, and, at the time that the picture was taken, it was about 684.000 miles (such as approx. 1,1 Million KiloMeters - MKM) away from the Spacecraft.
This view looks toward the Saturn-facing Sides of both Enceladus and Titan; North is up (obviously for both moons) and the image was taken in Visible Light, with the Cassini Spacecraft Wide-Angle Camera on October, 1st, 2011. The view was obtained at a Sun-Enceladus-CASSINI Spacecraft, or Phase, Angle of 29°. The Scale in the original image was approx. 2 miles (such as a little more than 3 Km) per pixel on Enceladus. The original image was also contrast enhanced and magnified by a factor of 1.5, so to enhance the visibility of a few Enceladian Surface Features (and in fact, if you look carefully, while Titan is - as usual, when observed from a great distance - completely featureless, a few Impact Craters and some Surface Striations, can actually be seen in the Northern Regions of the icy moon Enceladus).
This picture (which is an Original NASA - Cassini Spacecraft b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 14617) has been additionally processed and then colorized, according to an informed speculation carried out by Dr Paolo C. Fienga (LXTT-IPF), in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Cassini Spacecraft and then looked outside, towards the Saturnian moons Enceladus and Titan), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among others, the existence of different Elements present on the Surface of Enceladus and in the Atmosphere of Titan, respectively, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.MareKromiumDic 04, 2012
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Saturn-North_Pole-Vortex-Cassini_1024-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgPeering into the Storm (Absolute Natural Colors - Credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)94 visiteThe NASA - Cassini Spacecraft has been traveling the Saturnian System in a set of inclined, or "tilted", orbits that are giving to the mission scientists a vertigo-inducing view of Saturn's Polar Regions. This perspective has yielded images of roiling Storm Clouds and a swirling Vortex at the center of Saturn's famed North Polar Hexagon. This phenomenon mimic what Cassini found at Saturn's South Pole a few years ago. The Spacecraft has also seen several Storms circling Saturn's North Pole in the past, but only in InfraRed Wavelengths, since the North Pole was in complete darkness. But now, with the change of the Saturnian Season, the Sun has finally begun to creep over the Gas-Giant Planet's North Pole, which has therefore become visible even in the Wavelenghts of Visible Light. This particular image was taken on November, 27, 2012, with Cassini's Narrow-Angle Camera. The Camera, at the time the picture was obtained, was pointing toward Saturn from approximately 224.618 miles (such as about 361.488 kilometers) away.
This picture (which is an Original NASA - Cassini Spacecraft b/w frame identified by the n. IMG004677-br500) has been additionally processed and then colorized, according to an informed speculation carried out by Dr Paolo C. Fienga (LXTT-IPF), in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Cassini Spacecraft and then looked outside, towards the North Pole of Saturn), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among others, the existence of different Elements present in the Atmosphere of Saturn, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition. MareKromiumDic 04, 2012
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Enceladus-PIA14599-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgEnceladian Night (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)75 visiteBelow an almost completely darkened Enceladus, huge Plumes of Water Ice, coming from at least 4 (four) different Sulci (---> cracks of the Surface) located its South Polar Regions, are backlit in this view of one of Saturn's most dramatic moons. The lit Terrain seen here is on the Leading Hemisphere of Enceladus (whose diameter is approx. 313 miles - such as about 504 Km). North is up.
The picture was taken in Visible Light with the NASA - Cassini Spacecraft Narrow-Angle Camera, on February 20, 2012. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 83.000 miles (such as approx. 134.000 Kilometers) from Enceladus, and at a Sun-Enceladus-CASSINI Spacecraft (also known as "Phase"), Angle of 165°. Image scale is 2628 feet (801 meters) per pixel.
This picture (which is an Original NASA - CASSINI Spacecraft b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 14599) has been additionally processed and then colorized, according to an informed speculation carried out by Dr Paolo C. Fienga (LXXT/IPF), in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - CASSINI Spacecraft and then looked outside, towards the Saturnian moon, Enceladus), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team. Different colors, as well as different shades of the same color, mean, among other things, the existence of different Elements (Minerals) present on the Surface of Enceladus, each having a different Albedo (---> Reflectivity) and Chemical Composition.MareKromiumDic 04, 2012
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Channels-Dao_Vallis-PIA15215-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgFeatures of Dao Vallis (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)76 visiteDao Vallis is a Martian Channel that, as the peculiar texture and color of its bottom and edges show us quite well, was not carved by Molten (and very fluid) Lava, but by real Water instead. Dao Vallis runs South/Westward into the Hellas Planitia Region, and it has been identified (among others, by Dr M.H. Carr) as a so-called Outflow Channel. Dao Vallis has a main Tributary Channel, known as Niger Vallis, and it extends on the Martian Southern Hemisphere's Surface for over 1200 Km. Its name, just out of curiosity, apparently comes from a Thai word meaning "star" (and God only knows why the IAU made such a bizarre and, in our opinion, pointless choice...).
However, talking again about our today's APOD Surface Feature, we can say that we know that the (possible) sources of Dao Vallis are near an extremely old Martian Volcano, called Hadriaca Patera; it is thought by many Scientists that the Water that formed it came out from the Subsurface when a huge quantity of hot Magma, erupted from Hadriaca Patera, melted, in a very short time period (in a case like this, we might be talking about minutes), huge amounts of Ice that was caught in the otherwise already frozen Ground. Anyway, much of this Water may have also been released during the occurrence of a few very large "Outburst Floods".
In addition to the above, and after a carfeul examination of Dao Vallis' now completely desiccated Riverbed, we, as IPF, strongly believe that, whatever the actual origin of the Channel might have been, Dao Vallis must have carried liquid Water for a very long time, before drying up. As a matter of fact, and as it is clearly visible in this NASA - 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter frame, on the bottom of the Channel can be identified several layers of dried material (Mud, likely) that, in our opinion, make the physical evidence that the desiccation process of Dao Vallis took some time before it was complete. In other words, the desiccation (or, like some Scientists say, evaporation and/or sublimation) of the Waters that ran through the Channel, was far from being semi-instantaneous or (this, of course, relatively speaking) rather fast. Furthermore, the almost complete lack of Impact Craters on the Riverbed, if seen and evaluated in direct contrast with the strong presence of Impact Craters (of various size and shape - meaning both Primary and Secondary Craters) that exist and is VERY well visible on both the edges of the Channel, proves us that, when Liquid Water ran through Dao Vallis, the strong meteoric activity which scarred most of the Surface of the Red Planet, was already ended. In other words, Dao Vallis hosted liquid and running Waters until a very (always relatively - and geologically - speaking) recent time.
Picture Data: Orbit Number: 44201; Latitude: 39,4843° South and Longitude: 86,4444° East; Instrument: VIS; Captured: December, 1st, 2011; Mars Local Time (M.L.T.): 17:39 (Late Aftrnoon)
This frame has been colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - 2001 Mars Odyssey Orbiter and then looked down towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.MareKromiumDic 04, 2012
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Channels-Marte_Vallis-Streamlined_Islands-PIA16507-PCF-LXTT-IPF.jpgStreamlined Island in Marte Vallis (Absolute Natural Colors; credits for the additional process. and color.: Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)62 visiteToday's APOD is a frame taken by the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter which shows us a so-called "Streamlined Island" that formed in the Northern Channel known as Marte Vallis. This Martian Channel is about 185 Km long and it has been identified as an Outflow Channel, carved in a quite distant geological past by the action of catastrophic releases of Water from Aquifers existing beneath the Martian Surface.
Orbit Number: 47605
Latitude: 12,4105° North
Longitude: 182,426° East
Instrument: VIS
Captured: September, 6th, 2012
This frame (which is an Original Mars Odyssey Orbiter b/w frame published on the NASA - Planetary Photojournal with the ID n. PIA 16507) has been additionally processed and then colorized in Absolute Natural Colors (such as the colors that a human eye would actually perceive if someone were onboard the NASA - Mars Odyssey Orbiter and then looked down, towards the Surface of Mars), by using an original technique created - and, in time, dramatically improved - by the Lunar Explorer Italia Team.MareKromiumDic 04, 2012
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Gravitational_Lensing.gifGravitational Lensing116 visiteLensing by a Black Hole. This is an animated simulation of a phenomenon known as "Gravitational Lensing" and as caused by a Schwarzschild-type Black Hole moving in front of a background Galaxy. A secondary image of the Galaxy can be seen within the so-called "Einstein's Ring" of the Black Hole, on the opposite direction of the one of the Galaxy. The secondary image grows (still remaining within the Einstein's Ring) as the primary image approaches the Black Hole. The surface brightness of the two images remain constant, but their angular size varies, hence producing an amplification of the Galaxy Luminosity as seen from a distant observer. The maximum amplification occurs when the background Galaxy (or, like in the present case, a bright part of it) is exactly behind the Black Hole.MareKromiumNov 30, 2012
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SOL0088-CR0_405291420EDR_F0050104CCAM05087M-PR-LXTT-IPF.jpgLifeform?!? - Sol 88 (Credits for the research: Pierluigi Ruggeri/Lunar Explorer Italia/Italian Planetary Foundation)208 visiteNel ringraziare il nostro Nuovo Amico e Compagno di Viaggio, Pierluigi Ruggeri, per l'interessantissima segnalazione, desidero quotare quanto da lui scrittomi quando gli ho parlato, a proposito del contenuto di questo frame, di "possibile Scoperta": "...sono convinto che non si scopre niente, ma si ritrova sempre qualcosa...".
Si, è vero: parole di grande Saggezza ed Equilibrio. Quella Saggezza e quell'Equilibrio che, quando leggo le dichiarazioni degli Amici di Pasadena - oppure di altri Scienziati e Ricercatori "Professionisti" i quali si occupano dell'investigazione "a tutto tondo" del Pianeta Rosso -, proprio non riesco a trovare.
A leggere costoro, si passa con estrema nonchalance dal "nulla di nuovo sotto il Sole" alle "possibili Scoperte Epocali", e poi ci si ritrova SEMPRE a discutere del solito niente. Mai un seme di Speranza o di (sano) Possibilismo, mai una Voce "fuori dal Coro", mai un'Ipotesi - anche quietissima, ci mancherebbe! - di "sorpresa" nell'analisi di quelle che sono, sempre e comunque, "Cartoline da un Mondo Alieno".
Nulla.
Tutto ciò che si osserva è SEMPRE e COMUNQUE parte del "prevedibile", del "si supponeva", del "conferma quanto si sospettava o si sapeva già da tempo". Va bene. Ne prendo atto. Ne prendiamo atto. La nostra Scienza, evidentemente, ha già capito tutto (o quasi tutto), e l'Investigazione di altri Mondi è solo finalizzata alla ricerca di conferme.
Bene.
Io, però - e lo dico e scrivo sinceramente -, nonostante un abbondante quarto di secolo trascorso a studiare ed a documentarmi (a livello Universitario ed oltre), non mi ero proprio accorto che fossimo così "avanti". No, proprio non me ne ero accorto. Mi scuso e faccio ammenda.
Ed a questo punto esprimo la mia (umilissima ed insignificante, lo so) opinione: a mio parere la nostra Scienza ci ha insegnato TANTO. Anzi: TANTISSIMO! Ma questo "tantissimo", laddove paragonato a quello che dobbiamo (e dovremmo, se avessimo anche solo un minimo di Umiltà) ancora imparare, è parente stretto del nulla.
Dello Zero. A mio modo di vedere, quello che oggi fa la Scienza "Convenzionale" è "rassicurare". E' dirci (e ripeterci, sino alla nausea) che "va tutto come doveva andare, come pensavamo che fosse e come avevamo già dimostrato dovesse essere".
Perchè questo atteggiamento? Non saprei. Io credo che l'Equilibrio, nella Scienza come nel vivere quotidiano (che di "scientifico", purtroppo, ha men di niente), sia essenziale, e che il tempo dei "proclami", specie in un ambito come quello che trattiamo su queste pagine, debba essere dimenticato.
Tuttavia, tra il "proclamare" (appunto) scoperte inesistenti (o altamente questionabili o, magari, ancora in fieri) ed il restare sulle linee continue della "mancanza di meraviglia" e della (a ben vedere) "investigazione canonicamente eseguita" ma, ahinoi, assai di frequente (e lo scrivo per ESPERIENZA DIRETTA!) "superficiale e strabica", ce ne passa!
Quante foto di "sassi" (si: dei banalissimi "sassi", ancorchè Marziani), ampiamente commentate e studiate dalle "Best Minds" della NASA e delle Maggiori Università Americane (e non) abbiamo visto negli ultimi anni? Incontabili.
E, d'altra parte, quante immagini "intrinsecamente stupefacenti", per contenuto ed implicazioni possibili, abbiamo visto commentate e studiate, sempre negli ultimi - diciamo - 8/10 anni, dai medesimi personaggi di cui sopra? Semplice: nessuna.
O forse una, ottenuta dal Rover Spirit oltre 8 anni fa e riguardante una (comunque, ed a parere della NASA, "spiegabilissima") "Striscia di Luce" apparsa nel tardo Cielo Marziano, sopra il Cratere Gusev.
Noi, come Gruppo di Ricerca Lunar Explorer Italia (e, da qualche mese, anche come Italian Planetary Foundation), negli ultimi otto anni, abbiamo proposto centinaia di immagini "controverse" ed abbiamo lanciato pietre in uno stagno (perdonatemi la metafora) le cui acque sono, a dir poco, immote.
E sapete che cosa abbiamo ottenuto, nonostante ci si sia mossi SEMPRE con pragmatismo, cautela e, nei limiti delle nostre capacità e competenze, Professionalità? Nulla. Anzi: ci siamo pure beccati (io per primo) qualche bella serie di insulti (ovviamente provenienti da anonimi codardi).
E perchè?
Perchè "abbiamo (ed ho, spesso, in prima persona) messo in dubbio la Scienza" ed i suoi "Canoni" (oltre che i suoi "Contenuti").
Beh, se uno Scienziato è VERAMENTE tale, io credo che il suo compito debba essere, istituzionalmente, SOLO UNO: dubitare. Sempre. Di tutto. Perchè solo dubitando si cresce (come persone e come professionisti), si cerca di più e meglio, si scopre qualcosa di nuovo (a volte) e, alla fine, si può anche arrivare - chissà... - a "riscrivere la Scienza e la Storia".
Ma la tristissima Verità è che, oggi, non c'è posto per coloro che dubitano, nè negli Atenei, nè nelle Istituzioni di Ricerca ultra-Universitarie. C'è bisogno di conferme. Di ulteriori conferme. E di omologazione: di idee, processi, fatti e Leggi. Nulla di più. E chi "esce fuori dal coro", deve essere "isolato" e, preferibilmente, "sputtanato" - sorry per la volgarità. Deve essere (per ora non ancora "fisicamente", ma quasi...) eliminato. Messo "out". Fuori.
Uno scenario deprimente, ma visibilissimo: basta (saper) cercare e leggere...
Tutto ciò premesso, ritorno all'inciso iniziale di Pierluigi: "scoprire no, ritrovare si". Ecco, in questo semplice e correttissimo inciso, il Valore del nostro Comune Lavoro: forse (anzi, CERTAMENTE) non scopriremo mai nulla, ma QUALCOSA, DI CERTO, finiremo con il ritrovarla".
E, forse, di "cose ritrovate", su queste pagine ("cose" che hanno l'apparenza, il colore e, a volte, anche il "sapore" della "Vita", nel senso più ampio e profondo, e perciò Universale, del termine) ce ne sono davvero tante. L'ultima, in ordine di tempo, ma certo non la meno importante, è quella che Vi proponiamo in questo frame, il quale è passato - direi ovviamente... - inosservato ed incommentato.
Un rilievo "tubolare" (sconcertante nella sua chiarezza e molto ben evidenziato dall'aumento di contrasto operato sul frame Originale NASA - Curiosity), che tanto ci ricorda alcune Forme Vitali Acquatiche Terrestri, sia Marine, sia Lacuali e Fluviali.
E' un fossile? E' una "testimonianza" di qualcosa che c'era una volta ed ora non c'è più? E' esso stesso una "Forma Vitale Indigena"? A queste domande, lo sapete, noi non possiamo rispondere. Però il "dubbio" che tutto quanto ci sia stato raccontato sino ad oggi, a proposito di Marte (e non solo...) dalla "Scienza Convenzionale" (o "Ufficiale", come dicono alcuni) non sia proprio esatto, ci è venuto.
Ed è proprio su questo Dubbio, così simile ad un terreno sdrucciolevole e periglioso, che noi, poveri mortali, cerchiamo quotidianamente di muoverci, di camminare e, a volte, anche di correre. Il tutto restando SEMPRE ben saldi nella TESTA e sulle GAMBE!
Pensateci sopra...
Un Grande Ringraziamento a Pierluigi Ruggeri, ed ancora "Benvenuto"!
Dr Paolo C. Fienga - Lunar Explorer Italia - Italian Planetary FoundationMareKromiumNov 27, 2012
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Night_Beauties-ES.jpgNight Beauties (by Ermes Sansottera)129 visite"...A man can be destroyed but not defeated..."
Ernest HemingwayMareKromiumNov 27, 2012
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