A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New
A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New
A Beginner's View of Our Electric Universe - New
You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles
YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.
In terms <strong>of</strong> the rilles on a large body like<br />
Mars, material would first be ‘electrically<br />
pulverised’ by a traversing discharge event<br />
then drawn upward from the surface as<br />
all grades <strong>of</strong> debris, some <strong>of</strong> which would<br />
fall back to the planet to form rocky debris<br />
fields and some <strong>of</strong> which would be carried<br />
on into space as wandering meteoroids.<br />
Echus Chasma (1) Rille on Mars<br />
Credit ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<br />
One need only consider basic physics and<br />
geology concepts while studying the now<br />
widely available detailed images <strong>of</strong> Mars’ surface to see that flowing liquid, surface crust movements and<br />
the assumed collapse <strong>of</strong> self-supporting kilometres wide lava tubes could never have produced the complex,<br />
smoothly formed and debris free rilles that <strong>of</strong>ten crisscross each other and indicate that if liquid were involved<br />
then it would have needed to flow in ways that defy basic physics. It seems clear instead that a traversing plasma<br />
discharge has been responsible for gouging rilles and for producing other significant surface features as well.<br />
Echus Chasma (2) Rille on Mars<br />
Credit ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<br />
It is somewhat ironic that we have until now<br />
had NASA and ESA as the main originators and<br />
distributors <strong>of</strong> high-resolution imagery returned<br />
from their MRO (Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter)<br />
and Mars Express missions. These organisations<br />
are committed to releasing (usually slowly)<br />
imagery sent back from these missions into the<br />
public domain, but are at the same time the best<br />
known public adherents to standard theories.<br />
Detailed inspection <strong>of</strong> images by independent<br />
experts may then be the activity from which the<br />
abundant clues being revealed go on to prove<br />
beyond doubt how rilles and other Martian<br />
surface features have actually been formed.<br />
160 | The <strong>Electric</strong> <strong>Universe</strong> answers I see