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A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New

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Vast areas <strong>of</strong> the hemispheres <strong>of</strong> planets and moons<br />

show stark differences in the amounts <strong>of</strong> cratering<br />

they have.<br />

Both sides <strong>of</strong> the Moon showing cratering and altitude<br />

Credit: JAXA - SELENE<br />

This rather noticeable phenomenon is especially<br />

apparent on the Moon and on Mars. Since both<br />

these bodies rotate, any meteor shower to account<br />

for this strange distribution <strong>of</strong> cratering would need<br />

to have arrived rapidly all at once and from a single<br />

direction. I have already mentioned that relatively<br />

small rocks in space will not congregate in dense<br />

showers, so together with our earlier dismissal <strong>of</strong><br />

a ‘Late Bombardment’ type event, plus the absence <strong>of</strong> any other serious explanation, this notion goes beyond<br />

highly unlikely into the fanciful. Instead, it is much more plausible that a ‘large area plasma discharge’ is<br />

responsible - this being a torrent <strong>of</strong> relatively small plasma discharges all acting on the surface <strong>of</strong> a body at the<br />

same time and probably emanating from another closely passing and differentially charged large body.<br />

The idea <strong>of</strong> Birkeland currents extending through space between bodies as discharge currents is significant.<br />

However, it is supported by facts such as there always being available the medium <strong>of</strong> plasma in space for<br />

currents to flow through and that the power those currents are able to transport being considerable. These<br />

highly energetic events would likely be triggered between planetary and moon sized bodies when their<br />

respective magnetospheres/ plasmaspheres meet, whereupon an electrical imbalance would be established and<br />

forces to mitigate that state <strong>of</strong> imbalance would<br />

NORTH<br />

take over. In the image <strong>of</strong> Mars shown here we<br />

see a stark difference between the north and<br />

south hemispheres where the relatively smooth<br />

and uncratered north has had a great amount <strong>of</strong><br />

material removed to leave an average elevation<br />

(in blue) that is significantly lower than that <strong>of</strong> the<br />

cratered and rubble-strewn south (in red). What<br />

could have removed such an amount <strong>of</strong> material<br />

from only one side <strong>of</strong> Mars?<br />

SOUTH<br />

Mars’ vastly different hemispheres - Credit: NASA/JPL MOLA<br />

151 | The <strong>Electric</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> answers I see

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