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Conspiracy theorists went into overdrive after spotting a 'mysterious plume of smoke' near a dormant Martian volcano, with many claiming this as proof that alien life exists on the red planet and we're being lied to here on Earth.
Allegations of a NASA-led cover up spread like wildfire online, with popular conspiracy theory YouTube channel secureteam10 producing an eight-minute long exposé entitled, 'Something MAJOR Happened On Mars.. Are They Hiding It?'
"There was an explosion - I don't know whether it was a volcano or something detonated," Tyler Glockner of secureteam10 told his audience, during a video which has amassed almost 390,000 views since publication on October 20.
One commenter on the video drew upon his welding experience to lay bare the terraforming operations already underway on Mars, citing craters formed by lightning strikes as evidence of alien technology reshaping the planet's atmosphere. "Too many coincidences here to ignore any more. NASA needs to stop being the police of the scientific community."
"NASA is a BS agency, staffed by self-sanctimonious liars. Mars is a living planet, as anyone who has studied Mars for the last 50 years [knows]," another commenter agreed.
This secureteam10 video was then picked up by a
British tabloid, which fanned the conspiratorial flames while connecting the disparate dots of NASA's clever ruse: the Mars Curiosity Rover suffered a mysterious glitch, rendering it offline for months after a huge dust storm in late Spring; the Hubble and Chandra telescopes were recently put in "safe mode" allowing for only basic functionality; and NASA was conspicuously silent about the 2,000km-long plume of smoke stretching across Martian skies. Wake up, sheeple!
Reddit was also abuzz, though the comments were more climatological than conspiratorial, discussing atmospheric conditions that might lead to such cloud formations. To spoil the fun and settle the debate, RT.com contacted the ESA for an explanation of the contentious images of the red planet.
"No ground or space based observations of Mars or its atmosphere have produced any credible evidence for active volcanism occurring in the present day or recent history," party-pooper and planetary scientist Elliot Sefton-Nash, who works on several ESA projects including
Mars Sample Return,
ExoMars and
Mars Express, told RT.com.
"Observations made on 24th September by the Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) aboard ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, show a cloud oriented approximately east-west and around ~2,000km long, as well as the shadow that it cast onto the Martian surface below."
© ESA - European Space Agency
"Clouds are known to form seasonally in this region, and are associated with the volcanoes because their topography influences atmospheric conditions," he continues. "This is a well documented phenomenon and several scientific articles exist documenting and explaining the process and highlight the seasonal regularity of the occurrence in this region."© NASA JPL
Reader Comments
By the way, there is atmosphere on Mars, it's just thin.
I'm personally not convinced this is a cloud, and not a ash/smoke plume. However, in recent months there was lot of activity (dust storms) on Mars, not seen previously, so maybe it is a dust cloud formed as they say... Maybe they do form. I sure hope it is a volcano, though.
NASA, who knows, are they going to have a press conference to say they don’t know, ‘yeah, we saw that, we don’t know, no further questions.’
SOTT
Or it might be a Russian plot to distract so many people in America on Election Day that they fail to go out and vote. Watch out for a storm of comment on social media about the cookout on Mars on Monday November 5th, all paid for personally by Vladimir Putin out of the trillions of dollars he has stolen from Russian old-age pensioners and disabled veterans.
It's funny having this article without any flatters. I guess the article already adresses NASA's lying so they have nothing to say.
have a nice day
The recognition of Plasma Cosmology is being walled out by a refusal inability or mandate against coming out and saying so.
Electrical discharge effects account for the features of so much that 'have scientist puzzled' and 'are not what we expected'.
The Electrical Understanding of phenomena would undermine the investment of corporate investment, institutional reputation and the models for Climate - so as they say, don't let truth get in the way of a good story. Meanwhile people have to learn to repeat dumb things and be treated like dumb things,
It isn't that this is not known, but that it is insider information - and fringe or non consensus 'science'.
I also have a firm understanding of Mr Tesla's AC power.
therefore, I agree with you that gravity is most likely related to electromagnetism. and not to mass. ( as is taught in college)
if that is what you were trying to say... that is.
Same story as the moon ... Theia collided with the Earth, leaving behind two perfect spheres and no other evidence
1973 - Mariner 10 launched in 1973 and imaged Mercury in 1974
2008 - Messenger launched in 2008 and entered orbit 2011
2018 - BepiColombo launched in 2018 - expected to arrive in orbit 2025