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New scientific reports may provide insights into catastrophic events
that once occurred on the planet Mars.
Scientists at an observatory in Northern Ireland
have conducted analysis of nine asteroids that orbit Mars, called Trojans,
and they've come to the conclusion that the asteroids are the remains of a former planet.
The team discovered that the so-called Trojans appear to be composed of the same material
including the mineral olivine which only forms at extremely high temperatures
and is thought to be associated with planetary collisions.
The team has concluded that the asteroids orbiting Mars are pieces of a former mini planet
or planetesimal which was destroyed eons ago by collisions.
Those who have followed The Thunderbolts Project may understand
why neither mechanical collisions nor a hypothetical former planet
are necessary to explain the asteroids formation.
For decades, the chief principals of The Thunderbolts Project,
Dave Talbott and Wal Thornhill, have proposed a very different history for Mars
and all of the planets in the inner solar system.
In ancient myth, Mars was identified as both the warrior hero
and as his own weapon, the cosmic thunderbolt.
Thornhill and Talbott state that Mars was devastated by electrical discharges
in an epoch of planetary instability in the relatively recent past,
perhaps several thousand years ago in prehistory.
As "radical as a theory may seem"
it explains and in fact continues to successfully predict countless discoveries
that only prove puzzling to planetary scientists.
More than six miles of crustal depth
was mysteriously removed from the Martian northern hemisphere.
Consider also the many millions of cubic kilometers excavated from Mars
in the formation of the stupendous feature known as Valles Marineris.
Material from Mars still occasionally strikes the earth
in the form of mysterious meteorites.
Indeed, the discovery of Martian meteorites was treated with great initial skepticism
since astronomers could not envision the escaped material
reaching the necessary velocities to bring the material to Earth.
If electrical discharges did in fact devastate the Red Planet from pole to pole,
both the, so called, Trojan asteroids
and the presence of the mineral olivine are to be expected.
No collisions with former planets are necessary.
The mineral olivine presented a puzzle
when it was discovered, completely unexpectedly, on a comet.
Such was the case with the Stardust's next mission to the comet Wild 2 in 2004.
NASA investigators were amazed to discover olivine,
and other minerals that only form at super hot temperatures,
and dust samples from a so-called "dirty snowball."
As NASA curator Michael Zolensky said at the time,
"That's a big surprise. People thought comets would just be cold stuff that formed out ...
where things are very cold.
It was kind of a shock to not just find one but several of these,
which implies they are pretty common in the comet."
In fact, in the Electric Universe hypothesis, comets, asteroids and meteoroids
did not accrete billions of years ago in the solar system's infancy
but they were in fact torn from planetary surfaces by electrical discharges.
NASA scientists were also amazed to discover the mineral tridymite, on Mars,
which only forms at extremely high temperatures
and is thought to result from a kind of volcanism never suspected on Mars.
As NASA geochemist Richard Morris said of the discovery,
"It's really nifty, but we were shocked ...
There is no evidence for plate tectonics on Mars.
That's why it's such a surprise to find this tridymite."
However, as noted in a recent Space News report,
tridymite has been reported to form as a product of lightning in a roofing slate,
as documented in the book The Data Of Geochemistry.
In the feature-length documentary film, The Lightning Scarred Planet Mars,
detailed analysis is given of countless geological features on Mars
that find ideal analogs in laboratory experiments with electrical discharges.
One such example is the towering Olympus Mons, a nearly 22 kilometer high,
so-called, shield volcano and the tallest mountain of any planet in the solar system.
As noted in the film, this shield volcano interpretation of Olympus Mons
presents far more enigmas than answers.
The defining feature of a shield volcano
is a gentle extrusion of fluid or low viscosity lava.
Shield volcanoes on Earth do not present a scarp
whereas the scarp of Olympus Mons towers a nearly four miles high.
A NASA report freely acknowledges,
"The scarp is of unknown origin..." And... "The steep cliff around Olympus Mons
is peculiar and not characteristic of terrestrial shield volcanoes."
But perhaps most striking of all may be the blanket of incredibly fine
filamentary ridges and ravines within the terrain of Olympus Mons.
In fact, the continuing discovery of perplexing dendritic patterns on Mars
is a key prediction of the Electrical Scarring hypothesis.
New images taken by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
reveal precisely the kinds of features expected from electrical discharges.
Consider this recently released image of the terrain
within the 10-kilometer Zunil crater on Mars.
Scientists insist that the crater was produced by an impact
but they have no real explanation for the raised dendritic features
associated with secondary craters within the crater.
NASA's description of the image reads as follows,
"Secondary craters form from rocks ejected at high speed from the primary crater,
which then impact the ground at sufficiently high speed
to make huge numbers of much smaller craters over a large region....
In this scene, however, the secondary crater ejecta
has an unusual raised-relief appearance, like bas-relief sculpture."
The best guess that NASA can offer is that the so-called impact crater
has been mysteriously weathered over eons of time.
The agency states,
"One idea is that the region was covered with a layer of fine-grained materials
like dust or pyroclastics about 1 to 2 meters thick
when the Zunil impact occurred (about a million years ago),
and the ejecta served to harden or otherwise protect
the fine-grained layer from later erosion by the wind."
But experimental research within the Electric Universe community
provides far more promising possibilities.
One such experiment, conducted by Billy Yelverton,
produced raised dendritic ridges simply by applying intense vibrations to soil.
Consider also this experiment, performed by YouTube user diveflyfish,
subjecting aluminum foil to electrical discharge.
Indeed we have called the Martian environment a "laboratory in space,
ideal for testing the concepts of electric universe geology."
It was well over a decade ago that physicist dr. C.J. Ransom of Vemasat laboratories
was able to reproduce the mysterious, so-called, Martian blueberries
by blasting quantities of hematite with an electric arc.
Only one of many such pathways of investigation,
as repeatedly outlined on this series
as well as many dozens of The Picture Of the Day articles on Thunderbolts.info.
Electrical discharges produce effects that could account
for much of the consistently bizarre Martian geology.
Space discovery today routinely provides surprising discoveries
about the Martian environment.
As human exploration brings Mars into ever finer focus,
we confidently predict that the evidence will continue to mount for catastrophic events
that left their indelible imprint on the Red Planet.
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