Guest guest Posted November 3, 2002 Report Share Posted November 3, 2002 Sunday, November 03, 2002 8:36 PM [allplanets-hollow] Chapter 04. The Cold Winds of Mercury > Hey People, > > Here is some of Jan Lamprecht's stuff from the book Hollow Planets on > Mercury. The " ice " perceived lying around the polar caps and the > brightness could be a matter of radiations, not in the visible band, pouring > out of the inner part of the planet through the polar openings and > reflecting the radar right back. How 'bout that! > > The puranas of India tell of the ancient king named Puru who was from > Mercury, and who married into the Lunar dynasty and produced a great king in > that dynasty names Yayati. > > From Jan's web site- > > > Chapter 04. The Cold Winds of Mercury > > We know less about Mercury than about any other planet except Pluto. > > One of the big surprises of the space program was the discovery that Mercury > had a magnetic field. Various theories have been advanced but all of them > are problematic. > > Mercury's rotation has always been a mystery to astronomers. For almost a > century the finest astronomers in the world agreed that Mercury kept the > same face pointed to the Sun and rotated about its axis in 88 days. Since > Mercury has no atmosphere and is heavily cratered one would expect it to be > relatively easy to determine this planet's rotation period since features on > its surface are always visible. And yet, it was only in 1965 when radar was > used that Mercury's actual axial rotation was determined to be 58.6 days. > This caught everyone by surprise. How is it possible that Mercury's rotation > could be such a mystery? Scientists keep likening Mercury to the Moon with > its craters and its dormant surface. Determining Mercury's rotation period > should be as simple as picking a single bright or dark spot and monitoring > it for a period of time. But in almost a century not a single astronomer > came even close to the real figure. Why? > > Mercury is not quite as dead a world as it appears to be. NASA satellite > photos show it to look almost exactly like the Moon, but the reports of > astronomers, professional and amateur alike tell a whole different story. > Mercury's surface is constantly changing. In the 1920's the great astronomer > Antoniadi, made a convincing case that Mercury not only had an atmosphere > but clouds also which were affecting the visibility of its surface. Many > astronomers have commented over the years at the surprisingly fast changes > which take place on the planet's surface. No one has ever explained this. > > A bigger surprise occurred in the early 1990's when radar now picked up > something new. Ice at its polar caps! This was surprising because the NASA > Mariner photos from 1974 show no ice. So scientists concluded that the ice > lay under a thin layer of dust, and had been there for billions of years. > Nice theory that, except it flies in the face of drawings done by many > astronomers over the years which show Mercury's surface changing in > brightness. Sometimes Mercury's polar caps become exceptionally dark to the > point of disappearing from view completely. At other times these same polar > regions light up and become the brightest part of the planet. Richard Baum, > (Director of the Mercury & Venus sections of the British Astronomical > Association), has often commented on this. In the 1990's he wrote of > instances in the past where astronomers drew very obvious ice caps on > Mercury which then waxed and waned as the planet rotated. Is the ice at the > poles really billions of years old or are there dust-storms and ice-falls > taking place all the time on Mercury? Richard Baum openly tells other > astronomers to study Mercury because it is not as dead a world as the > textbooks would have us believe. > > Observations of Mercury during its transits across the face of the Sun add > to the picture of a temporary atmosphere which comes and goes. Indeed, as > one studies Mercury's atmospheric phenomenon one realises that its > atmosphere must indeed be temporary. Could Mercury be hollow? Could it be > that air leaks out of the planet's polar regions by way of Polar Holes? > Mercury's polar regions are the most variable areas of all changing from > being very bright to being very dark. Could this be because of dust-storms > caused by air coming out of the planet which then causes snow-falls? And > what then? Does the air leak back into the planet and remain there? Does an > Inner Mercury undergo various weather phenomenon which cause air to be > expelled on to the outer surface and which later returns inside? > > The last thing one expects is water in an atmosphere on Mercury, and yet, > the evidence suggests that moisture-laden air is expelled from inside > Mercury on to its outer surface and this may be the cause of all the strange > weather phenomenon seen on that planet. > > Does Mercury have Polar Holes in its polar regions? The nature of the > weather phenomenon leads me to believe this is so. Why then do the Mariner > photographs show us nothing? Or is it that NASA actually edits these > photographs? I would strongly urge astronomers to look into the issue of > discrepancies between NASA's photographs of the polar regions of Mercury and > the subsequent sightings dating back more than a century showing the polar > regions of that planet waxing and waning. Recent drawings (1997) published > in the British Astronomical Association Journal show the polar regions of > Mercury to be the brightest part of the planet. Is that because a polar ice > cap is sitting there in full view for all to see? allplanets-hollow: allplanets-hollow/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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