The Red Planet
"2001 Space Odyssey" was a movie written by Authur C. Clarke in the 1960's. It was really the first movie depicting people from Earth traveling to other planets in our solar system in spaceships run by computers. The sequel was another movie entitled: "2010: Odyssey Two" by Arthur C. Clarke. The highlight of the movie comes near the end when a message from Jupiter's moon Europa repeats..."All these worlds are yours, except Europa... ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."
The movies have inspired many astronomers to theorize how Earthlings could travel to other worlds in our solar system. In April of 2001, NASA and JPL launched a spacecraft to Mars that was named the "2001 Mars Odyssey" spacecraft. The spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at Mars in October 2001 after a 200 day trip. To find out THE LATEST INFORMATION on the odyssey spacecraft go to: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/
2001 Mars Odyssey 
The spacecraft is designed to orbit
Mars for three years, conducting a detailed analysis of the planet's surface
from orbit and measuring the radiation environment. The orbiter will also
act as a communications relay for future missions to Mars.
Can Mars be brought back to Life???
TheNEW
IMAGE of Mars as shown by NASA's/JPL's most
recent old vs new or present vs future image logo of Mars, reveals that
NASA and JPL think that Mars can be "Terraformed" which would make it "Earthlike"
in the future.
Recent studies of Mars has revealed new evidence that the planet was once thriving with running water and life. Ancient tidal bulges at the Tharsis rise and the Arabian rise indicate that Mars may have long ago been a tidally locked moon of the exploded planet whose partial remains litter the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
Catastrophy in the Solar System?
Recent findings by Earth spacecraft
exploring the solar system has lead to the theory that something catastrophic
occurred in our solar system about 65 million years ago...
A large planetlike
body may have collided with "Planet V" in which Mars was once a moon of
that Planet in our ancient solar system. The asteroid belt may be
the remains of some of the planet(s).
Mars long ago
had an abundance of liquid water and a much thicker atmosphere. Where
did the water and atmosphere go?
Saturn, Jupiter and Neptune's
outer moons all show evidence that they were captured due to their retrograde
motion.
Pluto
is most likely an escaped moon from Neptune or another planet. Mercury
may also fit into this category of being an escaped moon as it has more
properties of a Gas Giant Moon and the fact that there are some moons that
are larger than the planet Mercury.
Uranus is tipped
on its side, it's pole position at the equator due to a TITANIC COLLISION.
The orbits of the moons are also tipped. The Uranian moon Miranda
appears to have been blown apart then reassembled by gravity.
Venus may
also fit into this category of being in a collision as it's rotation is
in retrograde motion or 180degrees upside down!
Some Asteroids
such as EROS, surveyed by the NEAR spacecraft indicates that most of EROS'
surface is pyroxene and olivine, minerals which originate from molten rock,
indicating that the asteroid may have once been a part of a larger planet
which had volcanism. Olivine (an iron-magnesium silicate) is thought
to be a major component of the mantles of the inner “rocky” planets and
is bought to the surface by volcanic eruptions.
Mars' RED COLOR
is due to the heavy Iron-oxide (rust) on the surface. It is highly
possible that an iron rich asteroid such as the material known to exist
at the core of a terrestrial type planet, hit Mars causing the iron to
combine with the oxygen on the planet.
Mars has two
large asteroid moons the size of Manhattan island which are most likely
captured asteroids.
The southern hemisphere
of Mars is much more heavily cratered than the much more smooth and less
cratered northern hemisphere.
Sixty-Five million years ago,
90% of all life on planet Earth including ALL of the Dinosaurs became extinct
when an asteroid six miles (10km) wide slammed into the Yucatan Peninsula
in Mexico.
Some REFERENCES on this topic
of planetary mysteries and catastrophism.
Woolfson, M., Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 304,
195-198 (1999); “The satellites of Neptune and the origin of Pluto”, R.S.
Harrington and T.C. Van Flandern. Icarus 39, 131-136 (1979)
“Solar System Evolution: A New Perspective,” S. R. Taylor, Cambridge University Press, 1992
“Record Of Oxygen From Ancient Atmosphere Seen In Rocks” http://unisci.com/stories/20003/0804002.htm
Alvarez, L. W., Alvarez, W., Asaro, F., and Michel, H. V., 1980, “Extraterrestrial cause for the Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction”: Science, v. 208, p. 1095-1108
“Oceans or seas in the Martian northern lowlands: High resolution imaging tests of proposed coastlines,” by M.C. Malin and K.S. Edgett, Geophysical Research Letters, v. 26, p. 3049-3052,1999 http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/grl_99_shorelines/
"A NEW MODEL OF MARS AS A FORMER CAPTURED SATELLITE":
BI-MODAL DISTRIBUTION OF KEY FEATURES DUE TO ANCIENT TIDAL STRESS?
Richard C. Hoagland (Principal Investigator,
Enterprise Mission); Michael Bara (Executive Director, Formal Action Committee
on Extraterrestrial Studies). http://www.enterprisemission.com/tide.htm