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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?

 

 

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