Thursday, October 01, 2015

Alien Threat: Mars Water Means Space Microbes May Pose Real Danger to Earth.

Alien Threat: Mars Water Means Space Microbes May Pose Real Danger to Earth

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Now that liquid water has officially been found on Mars, scientists are warning of the risk of interstellar contamination that may put our planet’s ecosystem in danger.


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Solar System Rocked by Discovery of Water on Mars

After decades of research and exploration of the Red Planet, NASA announced Monday the definitive existence of surface water on Mars. And where there is water, there’s likely life.

Germs resistant to highly inhospitable environments — hot, salty, devoid of light — have been found and studied here on Earth. Astrobiologists have long suggested this same kind of highly resilient, primitive life could be possible on other planets, too. The announcement of water on Mars this week suggests they may be right.

Sure, science has no limits, but what about Earth’s security? How can the highly specialized materials used on interplanetary missions, which may come in contact with extraterrestrial microbes, be secured so that they don’t bring home dangerous Martian contamination?

NASA’s “safety instruction” for planetary exploration, NPD 8020.7G, dating back to 1999, addresses the challenge. In theory, at least.

“The conduct of scientific investigations of possible extraterrestrial life forms, precursors, and remnants must not be jeopardized. In addition, the Earth must be protected from the potential hazard posed by extraterrestrial matter carried by a spacecraft returning from another planet or other extraterrestrial sources,” it reads.

NASA Concerned With Earth Bacteria Infecting Mars on 2020 Mission

Earlier this year, astrobiologists raised concerns on the issue in reverse: contaminating other worlds with Earth’s bacteria. Several NASA planetary protection officers stressed that there is an urgent need to develop a strategy to ensure that bacteria doesn’t travel from Earth out to the cosmos.

Modern missions are even more susceptible to transporting bacteria than earlier Mars expeditions were, as the latest spacecraft contain complex, sensitive equipment which cannot be sterilized as thoroughly.

Traditionally, a spacecraft is cleaned with the application of extremely high temperatures that destroy any bacteria. NASA’s 1976 Viking lander, for example, was doused extensively with thermal heat. Newer spacecraft, though, contain complex, sensitive equipment that can’t be subjected to the same kind of processes.

SOURCE
sputnik news

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Witness Claims To Have Seen UFO With Mayan Markings - United Kingdom

Mysterious flashing UFO with 'Mayan' markings moves across pre-dawn sky

The images show a 'coin-like' object with eerie markings soaring through the atmosphere during the early hours.


UFO spotted by Julie and Anthony Abbott early in the morning

These incredible images clearly show a UFO seen flying through the pre-dawn sky.

In the pictures, a flashing 'coin-like' object with eerie markings is captured as it soared through the atmosphere in the early hours of this morning.

The strange celestial body was spotted by husband and wife Julie and Anthony Abbott at around 5.30am.

Julie, 36, said: "My husband saw it as he took the bins out this morning.

"He shouted for me to come quickly and look.

"He said 'Oh my god can you see that?'


"There was a flashing object moving through the sky.

"It was moving so fast it was really hard to take a picture of it - I took about fifty but most of them didn't come out.

"It just wouldn't stay still.

"But when I zoomed in it had these strange markings - like Mayan runes or crop circles.



"We stood and watched it for an hour.

"It was amazing.

"I've never seen anything like it in my life."

Anthony, 40, has always been keen to spot a UFO - but Julie is more of a sceptic.

However she has no explanation for what she saw in the sky above the couple's Stoke-on-Trent home this morning.

"I know Mars was supposed to be visible last night, but this was in completely the wrong part of the sky.

"My husband has always wanted to see a UFO, but I am a big critic.

"I have been researching all day and I can't work out what it could be.

"He is so excited, but reserved because it could be something explainable.

"I'm not saying it's aliens or anything like that, but I don't know what it is."

Julie says she would love to know if anyone else saw anything similar in the sky last night.

"It can't be a planet

SOURCE
educatinghumanity.com