Have you ever seen pictures of the Amazon rainforest? It’s mostly flat, but in the wildest, most remote parts of the Amazon near the Peruvian border, there’s a mountain that rises half a kilometer above the flat forest. This mountain, known as Cerro El Cono, is believed to be the peak of an extinct volcano….
Europa, the fourth largest of Jupiter’s 95 moons, holds a special place in our solar system. It is the sixth closest moon to Jupiter and, along with Io, Ganymede, and Callisto, was among the first moons discovered beyond Earth. These moons, known as the Galilean moons, were first observed by the Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei,…
N = R*•fp•ne•fl•fi•fc•L “In 1961, Carl’s close friend, fellow astronomer Frank Drake, created an equation for calculating the number of intelligent civilizations in the galaxy.” The Drake equation is: N = R*•fp•ne•fl•fi•fc•L where: N = the number of civilizations in our galaxy with which communication might be possible (i.e. which are on our current past…
NASA has launched four probes into space to communicate with extraterrestrials. Along with that it is used for the study of the universe, the planets of the solar system and so on. Voyager 1 and 2 in 1977. Before this, they were Pioneer 10 in 1972 and Pioneer 11 in 1973.(Out of which Voyager 1…
Thousands of bubble-like mounds of grass are found on a grass field near Olympia in Washington, DC, in the northwest. These humps are called Mima Hills, also known as Mima Prairie, and are more than two meters high and large. Ever since the discovery in 1841 by Charles Wilkes, a U.S. Navy officer and explorer,…
The most recent of these was the revelation by former U.S. Air Force officer Robert Salas and his associates of the nuclear disarmament caused by the 1967 invasion of a nuclear base. As recently as 1967, Robert Sales, then head of the United States, told the world at a press conference that some flying saucers…
If you ask which planet is most likely to be inhabited by aliens, in a nutshell it is ‘Teegarden B’.The planet will be discovered in June 2019.The fourth closest planet to Earth, similar to Earth, is the most likely planet for extraterrestrial life. The planet orbits the red M-type star. The red star is known…
