A camera aboard NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured these photographs looking back to Earth — the bright circle in the right-hand image — on Sept. 25, 2018.
Credit: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe
NASA's Parker Solar Probe will never return to Earth — but it can still look back on where it came from.
On Sept. 25, the sole camera aboard that spacecraft, which launched on Aug. 12, captured a photo of Earth shining brightly in a field of stars. That camera is called WISPR (Wide-field Imager for Solar Probe) and is actually on board to allow the spacecraft to photograph the structure of the sun's upper atmosphere,the corona, as the spacecraft approaches — becoming the cosmic equivalent of a dashcam.
Earth is the bright spot near the center of the right-hand image. (The bow-shaped brightness below is just an artifact of how imaging technology designed to work inside the sun's atmosphere responds to an individual, particularly bright spot, according to a NASA statement.)
The above image zooms in on Earth to reveal a lump on the right side of the planet — which marks the moon.
Credit: NASA/Naval Research Laboratory/Parker Solar Probe
But there's another secret hidden in the image. The scientists behind the mission zoomed in on Earth and spotted a strange bulge on the right side of the planet in the image. But Earth isn't really misshapen: That lump happens to be the edge of the moon, visible from behind our planet.
When Parker Solar Probe captured this image, it was about 27 million miles away from Earth. Since then, it has continued its speedy journey toward the sun, thanks to a trajectory adjustment created by flying by Venus for the first of seven times.
The $1.5-billion spacecraft is beginning a seven-year mission to study the sun in greater detail than ever before, with scientists hoping that the project will help them understand the incredibly hot corona and how the solar wind, a river of charged particles that flows off the sun, is formed. The mission is due to complete its first solar flyby on Nov. 5.
Earth certainly seems small and insignificant. We've seen images of "tiny speck Earth" before but this is -I believe,and I am excluding aliens passing through the System- the furthest we've seen Terra from.
But are you telling me that none of those great "UFO hunters" spotted the flying saucer following our probe? Seen as solid and greyish toward bottom of the photo...
Blonde-haired, very large eyes. Someone saw me post this elsewhere and asked about it. They were well up on all the UFO abduction and alien hybrid literature but had not seen this one.
Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest is a 1935 science fiction novel by the British author Olaf Stapledon. The novel explores the theme of the Übermensch(superman) in the character of John Wainwright, whose supernormal human mentality inevitably leads to conflict with normal human society and to the destruction of the utopiancolony founded by John and other superhumans.
The novel resonates with the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and the work of English writer J. D. Beresford, with an allusion to Beresford's superhuman child character of Victor Stott inThe Hampdenshire Wonder (1911). As the devoted narrator remarks, John does not feel obliged to observe the restricted morality of Homo sapiens. Stapledon's recurrent vision of cosmic angst – that the universe may be indifferent to intelligence, no matter how spiritually refined – also gives the story added depth. Later explorations of the theme of the superhuman and of the incompatibility of the normal with the supernormal occur in the works of Stanisław Lem, Frank Herbert, Wilmar Shiras, Robert Heinlein and Vernor Vinge, among others.
1935 well before the alien hybrid agenda. Yet some strikingly similar themes. Themes and images repeated over the decades and finding a new lease of life in the current Jacobs-fuelled alien abduction agenda.
There are even sketches of the Hubrids (human hybrids) that look as though they were traced from this book cover.
This is the reason why I have stated repeatedly for ten years or more that we need to note what these abduction researchers are doing (those who have not had practice licences revoked or chit-chat about their fetishes) but delve into those cases we have recorded prior to Hopkins, Streiber, Mack and especially Jacobs screwing investigation and research up. I'll point out that I supported all of them in their work, especially Budd who was a nice and well meaning person who wandered off the path.
I have to say that I had thought European UFO groups might be far more cooperative than those in the United States where there is no interes...
I know of a Spanish Ufologist who was once 100% behind UFO reality and the possibility that the origins were extraterrestrial. He now dec...