Is Our Moon Really Hollow?

 “What in blazes is our Moon doing way out there? It’s too far out to be a true satellite of Earth  , it is too big to have been captured by the Earth. The chances of such a capture having been effected and the Moon then having taken up a nearly circular orbit about the Earth are too small to make such an eventuality credible. . . . But, then, if the Moon is neither a true satellite of the Earth nor a captured one, what is it?” – Isaac Asimov, Asimov on Astronomy,” Doubleday, 1974; Mercury Press 1963; also quoted in Don Wilson’s book, Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon (1975).

 

The Moon is the eye in the sky to the inhabitants of Earth. It provides us with the natural tidal cycles which are said to maintain the equilibrium of all species on the planet. Peculiarly, certain phases of the Moon cycle are even known to affect our moods and emotions. Most will likely never question the existence or makeup of the Moon as it does its usual routine of lighting up the night sky and circling the planet, however many scientists are not convinced that the narrative of its origin is as ‘solid’ as we are lead to believe. Much controversy exists around the origin and makeup of the Moon today, and one of the largest arguments surrounding the satellite is the solidity (or lack thereof) of its center and the process by which we got our Moon in the first place.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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http://www.collective-evolution.com/2013/12/11/hold-on-for-this-one-the-moon-is-hollow-and-this-is-why/#sthash.tlc1MaME.dpuf

Mars Rock Found Dubbed 'Jelly doughnut Rock'?

Mars may not have aliens, but it does have “jelly doughnut” rocks — and NASA scientists are baffled.

   Speaking at a special event to honor the decades-long mission of the Mars Opportunity Rover, lead scientist Steve Squyres of Cornell University broke the news of the sudden appearance of the mystery rock and what it means for the red planet.

“It’s about the size of a jelly doughnut,” Mr. Squyres told Discovery News. “It was a total surprise, we were like ‘wait a second, that wasn’t there before, it can’t be right. Oh my god! It wasn’t there before!’ We were absolutely startled.”

     Mr. Squyres believes that the odd specimen may have been unearthed by wheels of the Rover or the impact of a nearby meteorite.

   “Mars keeps throwing new stuff at us,” the scientist told Discovery. “It obligingly turned upside down, so we’re seeing a side that hasn’t seen the Martian atmosphere in billions of years and there it is for us to investigate. It’s just a stroke of luck.”


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Mysterious "Roar" in Space?

  With headlines reminiscent of something out of a science fiction story, scientists at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center announced that they have recently received a mysterious roar of radio signals coming from an unexplained source, according to an article available at Space.com. The announcement was made at 213th meeting of the American Astronomical Society on January 7th.

    NASA scientists were researching for signs resonating in outer space of the original stars in the galaxy and were expecting only faint signals when, instead, they received a mysterious roar of radio waves emanating from space.

      "Something new and interesting going on in the universe...the universe really threw us a curve," team leader Alan Kogut stated in an announcement, "Instead of the faint signal we hoped to find, here was this booming noise six times louder than anyone had predicted."

   According to scienceblog.com, the readings were recorded by a NASA air-balloon instrument named ARCADE, Absolute Radiometer for Cosmology, Astrophysics, and Diffuse Emission. The posting goes on to explain that ARCADE receives and records the background radio static, a form of electromagnetic radiation, that permeates the universe and emanates from every celestial body. However, the radio waves that roared in recently were unaccountably high, and there simply aren't enough galaxies in the direction ARCADE was looking to account for the signal.

    NASA's official website for ARCADE states that the unit is designed to measure the heating of the universe by stars as the universe transitioned out of dark matter into stars and galaxies following the big bang. The period before this transition is referred to as the "cosmic dark ages." ARCADE measures the relatively small degrees the universe was heated by this period through distortions from a blackbody spectrum. The measuring device was borne up to the edges of our planets atmosphere through a scientific balloon that is part of NASA's Balloon Program Office (BPO). BPO has sent a variety of devices into the outer reaches of our atmosphere since the program was founded in 1982.
As to the mystery roar itself, the source remains, for now, to be anyone's guess. MSNBC reminds readers in an article on the story that the radio signals traveled at the speed of light from a region far, far from Earth and thus represent an earlier period in the universe's history.

"We really don't know what it is," said team member Michael Seiffert in an MSNBC article.

Source: http://voices.yahoo.com/mysterious-roar-outer-space-baffles-scientists-2493165.html?cat=58