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Title: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Apr 11, 2015 10:06 pm
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-nasa-dawn-ceres-20150410-story.html


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Apr 11, 2015 10:26 pm
Very peculiar, it may even resemble an artifact, we'll know in a few days if it is the leftovers of ancient alien civilizations or just plain ice & soda....salt.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Apr 12, 2015 03:14 am
Very peculiar, it may even resemble an artifact, we'll know in a few days if it is the leftovers of ancient alien civilizations or just plain ice & soda....salt.

i like your take on it... anthropological and geological possibilities... one of these days... it would be nice if it was in our life time..




Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Apr 17, 2015 07:56 am
http://m.newser.com/story/203268/mission-may-unravel-mystery-of-ceres-2-bright-spots.html


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Apr 18, 2015 03:22 pm
The recent reports do not shed much more light, even though the ice hypothesis appears to be the most likely

http://www.nature.com/news/mystery-of-ceres-bright-spots-grows-1.17313


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Frenchies Off Beat on Apr 29, 2015 04:04 am
You earthlings are quite nosy. That is one of our vacation hideouts.

                                                        Frenchies off Beat


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Apr 29, 2015 04:13 am
You earthlings are quite nosy. That is one of our vacation hideouts.

                                                        Frenchies off Beat

Hmmm   

http://www.express.co.uk/news/nature/572657/NASA-know-YOU-think-Ceres-lights-proof-aliens-naturally-caused


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on May 22, 2015 02:51 am
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/space/dawn-probe-gets-closer-look-ceres-white-spots-mystery-endures-n362261
http://www.ufosightingsdaily.com/2015/02/dwarf-moon-with-electric-white-lights.html?m=1


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on May 22, 2015 09:42 pm
Thanks Steve, pls keep us updated, I'm really looking forward to see if we end up with a reasonable explanation of the White spots on Ceres surface.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 11, 2015 06:25 pm
http://m.space.com/29633-ceres-bright-spots-dawn-photos.html
Thanks Steve, pls keep us updated, I'm really looking forward to see if we end up with a reasonable explanation of the White spots on Ceres surface.




Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 12, 2015 03:19 pm
Still a mistery, but ice seems to be a likely candidate. We'll see later on...


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 19, 2015 07:10 am
Still a mistery, but ice seems to be a likely candidate. We'll see later on...
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=latest+pictures+of+ceres+lights&view=detail&id=B42E18E175BBC846D2A54DA1135B5C6AFECF42CB&first=48&count=1&FORM=IDFRIR

UFO? It looks more like a big dark whole... a crater?


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 19, 2015 08:41 am
The edges of the white spots appear to be very irregular, that would be against it being an artifact...They seem to be inside a crater, which might have protected the ice if it is ice...


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 19, 2015 11:36 am
The edges of the white spots appear to be very irregular, that would be against it being an artifact...They seem to be inside a crater, which might have protected the ice if it is ice...

It would be a crater within a crater? Since you can see a larger round basin that the white spots are placed in. How do we explain the dark whole or object in the ridge? It does look like the edges are irregular as though it is salt or ice fading out.

Interesting; Ceres rotates about every 9 days so if there were lites it seems like they would show up when it is dark. All the pictures seem to be in the lite. This is also of interest:

https://www.technology.org/2015/06/18/ceres-has-lots-of-bright-spots/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 19, 2015 05:20 pm
The question being this: did they just plan on Dawn being on the lite side of ceres? Because if it ever traveled on the dark side we certainly would not see lites if it was salt or ice.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 19, 2015 10:18 pm
As far as I understood, Ceres has a rotation period of 9 earth days, so Dawn should be able to see all its surface in such a cycle.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 19, 2015 10:30 pm
As far as I understood, Ceres has a rotation period of 9 earth days, so Dawn should be able to see all its surface in such a cycle.

My point being that if Dawn is always on the lite side it is very difficult to know if they are lites. If dawn went to the dark side it would b obvious. It appears as though Dawn is mostly moving downward at this time and perhaps always has been on the lite side.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 19, 2015 10:40 pm
Ah, KK, that would require a very technical explanation, type of photo sensors, their receptivity to light, filters, softwares and so on. I'm pretty sure they can do just about everything with those images. Also, sunlight is probably pretty faint out there. I never saw light with that shape even though an alien civilization may like them irregular and despise everything with a regular geometric shape!


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 20, 2015 09:10 pm
Ah, KK, that would require a very technical explanation, type of photo sensors, their receptivity to light, filters, softwares and so on. I'm pretty sure they can do just about everything with those images. Also, sunlight is probably pretty faint out there. I never saw light with that shape even though an alien civilization may like them irregular and despise everything with a regular geometric shape!

For sunlight being so faint the lite coming from Ceres is sure brite. But then again it may not have much of an atmosphere.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 21, 2015 12:07 am
Hope the mistery can be solved by closer images... planetary geomorphologists are the experts in this fields, might try and find some forum with their opinions


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jun 21, 2015 12:16 am
By a quick search I didn't find any more detailed material on the Ceres' bright spots but found soem interesting website like this one. I'll have to read some material myself, Some planet like Mars are being studied like they were a hill in front of us.

https://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 21, 2015 03:36 pm
By a quick search I didn't find any more detailed material on the Ceres' bright spots but found soem interesting website like this one. I'll have to read some material myself, Some planet like Mars are being studied like they were a hill in front of us.

https://planetarygeomorphology.wordpress.com/

i found your link much more convincing especially since we have found: "Titan’s largest distinct and highly reflective surface feature, named Xanadu, is located close to the equator." We can extrapolate very easily that this phenomena is likely other places as well.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 25, 2015 04:54 am
http://mysteriousuniverse.org/2015/05/new-photo-of-ceres-shows-lines-but-avoids-the-lights/

What is Nasa up to?


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: SpiritImage on Jun 25, 2015 05:08 am
I think that's an older story, this is dated today

http://www.gizmag.com/dawn-white-spots-pyramid-mountain-ceres/38170/



Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: SpiritImage on Jun 25, 2015 05:28 am
(http://www.hevanet.com/jfine/ceres.jpg)


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jun 25, 2015 06:53 am
(http://www.hevanet.com/jfine/ceres.jpg)

Quite fascinating!


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jul 01, 2015 05:40 pm
Did they relocate some gambling joints from Vegas to Ceres?


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jul 11, 2015 02:29 pm
The latest claim: Salt and not ice.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2015/07/10/the-weird-white-spots-on-ceres-might-not-be-ice-after-all/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: SpiritImage on Jul 11, 2015 10:39 pm
Personally I don't think so.


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jul 12, 2015 12:08 pm
Personally I don't think so.

SI is looking forward to  splurge his last dollars in Ceres' casinos!


Title: Explanations for the light spots.
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jan 24, 2016 03:50 pm
http://www.cnet.com/news/8-possible-explanations-for-those-bright-spots-on-dwarf-planet-ceres/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Feb 21, 2016 03:31 am
The edges of the white spots appear to be very irregular, that would be against it being an artifact...They seem to be inside a crater, which might have protected the ice if it is ice...


From these pictures at those lowest altitude Dawn will drop to it looks like these are salt patches.

http://www.universetoday.com/123942/dawn-unveils-new-bright-features-ceres-striking-close-ups/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Feb 24, 2016 01:16 am
Or salt and ice brine... We'll see what's going to be the final word of the planetary geomorphologists


Title: Ocean under Ceres?
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Mar 16, 2016 11:48 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/something-unexpected-happening-those-mysterious-163417488.html


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Mar 24, 2016 06:33 am
".....when we’d finally get our clearest view of the famous “bright spots”. Spectral observations have shown that the patches are consistent with a magnesium sulfate called hexahydrite that resembles the more familiar Epsom salts here on Earth. Scientists think these salt-rich areas were residue left behind when water-ice sublimated in the past. Impacts from asteroids could have broken into Ceres’ crust and possibly unearthed salt-rich ices. Exposed to the vacuum of space, the ice would have sublimated (vaporized), leaving the salt behind."

It looks like Nasa is concluding that these white areas are salt.

http://www.universetoday.com/128013/finally-ceres-white-spots-close/


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Mar 24, 2016 12:35 pm
That sounds like a technically sound interpretation


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Apr 20, 2016 04:03 pm
https://www.yahoo.com/news/landslides-hidden-treasure-spotted-dwarf-181148974.html


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Jul 05, 2016 12:03 am
Finally read this on yahoo news. So maybe this solves the mystery.

When NASA’s Dawn spacecraft visited Ceres, the largest world in the asteroid belt, its brightest feature was a huge surprise. In the center of Occator crater, a large (but not the largest) feature on Ceres’ moon-like surface exhibits a series of bright, white spots along the crater floor. As Dawn flew closer, it was able to perform a distant chemical analysis, determining that this wasn’t ice or aliens, but rather salts that were so reflective. The dome-like structure is at a depth of 4 km (2.5 miles) below the surface, deeper than anything else known. But the big surprise, as new analysis shows, is that the salts are sodium carbonates, not magnesium sulfates, indicating that at least the surface ...


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: mccoy on Jul 06, 2016 02:44 pm
...sodium carbonate is good for indigestion, whereas magnesium sulphate would have been good for constipation.

Wonder when  are they going to mine that crater


Title: Re: Ceres
Post by: Jitendra Hy-do-u-no-us? on Dec 14, 2017 09:21 pm
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/nasa-video-explains-the-300-bright-spots-on-ceres/ar-BBGG6Vp?OCID=ansmsnnews11