Posted on 09/20/2019 8:31:03 PM PDT by amorphous
At midnight on Mars, the red planet’s magnetic field sometimes starts to pulsate in ways that have never before been observed. The cause is currently unknown.
That’s just one of the stunning preliminary findings from NASA’s very first robotic geophysicist there, the InSight lander. Since touching down in November 2018, this spacecraft has been gathering intel to help scientists better understand our neighboring planet’s innards and evolution, such as taking the temperature of its upper crust, recording the sounds of alien quakes, and measuring the strength and direction of the planet’s magnetic field.
As revealed during a handful of presentations this week at a joint meeting of the European Planetary Science Congress and the American Astronomical Society, the early data suggest the magnetic machinations of Mars are marvelously mad.
In addition to the odd magnetic pulsations, the lander’s data show that the Martian crust is far more powerfully magnetic than scientists expected. What’s more, the lander has picked up on a very peculiar electrically conductive layer, about 2.5 miles thick, deep beneath the planet’s surface. It’s far too early to say with any certainty, but there is a chance that this layer could represent a global reservoir of liquid water.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalgeographic.com ...
That's not a planet!
Somebody’s got to put this to music, what with the magnetism of the Martian midnight, and all....
Well i hope that magnetic field doesn’t pull Uranus towards Mars.
That’s gotta hurt.
(someone had to make an incredibly immature comment using Uranus and I’m just the man to do it!) :)
I have developed a theory of variable G which basically predicts that all objects thought to be less massive than the earth have in fact even less mass than constant G would predict, and conversely all objects more massive would be even heavier than we thought.
This theory would predict that Mars has the density of about 1.1, in other words, largely a water world. And massive ruptures of the thin crust from asteroid strikes would cause the observed water erosion on a large scale, not some past climate where Mars had a dense atmosphere and rainfall.
The theory also predicts that the Moon is hollow, and that the larger “gas giant” planets have more metallic content in their interiors (although still large amounts of methane in their thick atmospheres), and that the Sun is a largely solid object.
I am hoping that accidentally this theory will be proven one day. G is thought to be constant because it seems constant in earth laboratory experiments, but these remove all magnetic influences which I would propose are intermediate forms of variable G. So the experiments are going to miss the variability of G by eliminating any environment that represents it.
Ironically, the 19th century view was that the Sun was solid and that sunspots were areas of this solid core exposed to our view by magnetic disturbances removing the atmosphere of plasma. So why is the Sun so hot if solid? Its gravity attracts large numbers of energetic particles which then are repelled in magnetic storm episodes.
The hollow Moon theory is backed by observations of how moonquakes behave, the outer crust rings like a bell.
The other implication is that as you go to smaller and smaller scales of mass, G would locally be larger than we think (this is how variable G has to work, since we know the value of the product G x M). Since the electro-magnetic force is said to be many orders of magnitude stronger than gravitation, this is why — it is gravitation at that level.
I expect this will be discovered as a unified field theory eventually, whether in my lifetime or some later date, may take a century or many centuries. But when you think about it, why should there be two different forces, gravitation and electro-magnetism?
Those Klipsch speakers can really thump...
It's just a little midnight basketball to keep the thugs off the streets.
-PJ
Cranking up the shattering ka-boom.
Whoa. Right when I’m trying to get to sleep. Now I’ll be up all night!
okay, that there’s some funny!!!
p
Interesting, kinda spooky, but I was thinking more along the lines of swing or vocal pop standards, like “ fly me to the moon.”
It’s an egg!
“At midnight on Mars” What are they talking about?
Running in a separate tab as I peruse the net. Twelve hours on, twelve hours off. Perfect timer.
You state several parts to your “Theories” yet, in so stating you provide NO Empirical Evidence to back any of it up.
I am interested in your suppositions. So, please provide documented and peer reviewed scientific observations that support what you state here.
If I were to make statements such as you have made here or on ANY Forum I would provide links to peer reviewed documentation which gives some credence to my “Theories”.
Not busting your balls here. Just wish to understand if you are serious or, just spouting off on this forum for whatever reason.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt that you may be serious I am asking for empirical data or, peer reviewed theoretical data to back up your assertions.
I caught that too. It’s always midnight somewhere on Mars. . . 180º from noon on Mars.
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