Cydonia: the Long-Awaited Nighttime View
 … with a few Surprises

By Richard C. Hoagland
© 2002 The Enterprise Mission

 

 

From the beginning -- as we stated in our last article (see "More IR Lies From Bamf") -- what we have really wanted is a nighttime IR THEMIS image of Cydonia.  The reason is elegantly simple: examine the color image at the top of this page.  This is a nighttime, real color view (not an infrared) from the space shuttle – taken about as high above the Earth as the current Odyssey spacecraft is orbiting above Cydonia.  It is a night shot of New York – with all its millions of candlepower streaming upward into the darkness into space.

 

There can be NO DOUBT, from even a casual examination of this image, that we are looking down at an intelligently-designed complex here on Earth.

 

This conclusion does NOT require any knowledge of the details of this image, what the lighted area is made of, or, that the light is caused by power plants generating millions of kilowatts of electrical energy to drive the lights.  The image could be a thermal infrared shot, for all we need to know.  Again, it’s not the details that are important--

 

It’s the striking, repeating geometry itself.

 

My departed friend and colleague, Carl Sagan – perhaps the best-known proponent of the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence – left us with a crucial guiding principle for any successful planetary “ET search” decades ago.  Carl said:

 

“Intelligent life on Earth first manifests itself in the geometric regularity of its constructions ….”

 

For, it is by geometry -- and geometry alone – that we can even recognize Intelligence via remote sensing … be it here on Earth, as in a shuttle image of the lights of New York City … or at Cydonia, on Mars.

 

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In one of those repeating ironies of history, as the preceding words were being written for a slightly different paper on this subject, NASA/ASU suddenly released -- on October 31 (Halloween!?) -- another “trick or treat” on the American people:

 

A nighttime IR image of Cydonia.

 

However, first impressions of the new image -- published as a comparison (below) with the daytime IR shot released July 24th – immediately revealed some interesting potential problems ….

 

 

Like, where did this “daytime” comparison image come from?!”

 

The official ASU caption for the new release says:

 

“This pair of THEMIS infrared images shows the so-called ‘face on Mars’ landform viewed during both the day and night. The nighttime THEMIS IR image was acquired on Oct. 24, 2002; the daytime image was originally released on July 24, 2002. Both images are of THEMIS's 9th IR band (12.57 microns), and they have been geometrically projected for image registration …."

But, a comparison with “band 9” from the actual July 24th release (below), reveals the first of some troubling discrepancies.

 

 

To begin with, “band 9” of the July 24th daytime IR is listed on the original ASU graphic as being “12.58 microns”; but, on the October 31st comparison, it’s cited as “12.57 microns.”

 

So … what gives?  How can a set of glass filters, literally glued over an array of CCD detector elements on a NASA spacecraft ~100 million miles away from Earth, “magically change” … between July 24th, 2002 and October 1?  Just what the heck is really going on with the THEMIS team at ASU!!??

 

Well, it turns out that -- depending on which official THEMIS document you reference -- you get a different “center wavelength value” for the infrared filter strips on the THEMIS camera CCDs!

 

This (below) is the IR filter reference from the official Odyssey Proposal Information Package (PIP), “Table 4-1”:

 

 

It’s obvious this was where “Bamf” (the screen name of the official THEMIS computer Software Manager, Noel Gorelick, who “hung out” all summer at the Enterprise Mission Conference) got the original IR band information that he subsequently placed on the July 24/25 “9-band daytime Cydonia IR graphic.”

 

But, for his latest “tour de force” – the October 31st nighttime Cydonia IR – Bamf/Gorelick apparently used another official source … the THEMIS FAQ from the ASU website (which he actually may have written).  And, the numbers for the IR band centers on that website were, in turn, apparently taken from “Tables 1a&b,” of the following official JPL THEMIS document (below):

 

“Thermal Emission Imaging System, 2001 Mars Odyssey, THM-EDR &THM-RDR SOFTWARE INTERFACE SPECIFICATION.”

 

 

So, what’s the point?  Is this just another example of Bamf’s continuing propensity to spread disinformation, cited previously?  Or, is this part of a more calculated, larger plan: a deliberate, carefully designed effort by the entire THEMIS team to confuse everyone … about all aspects of the real THEMIS mission?!

 

Even more troubling than this perplexing “filter change,” is the simple fact of the image itself -- as James Keene, in the on-going Enterprise Conference, first publicly pointed out.

 

In the July 24th original (below, left), the image “footprint” cuts off two mesas at the top of the scanned strip; in the October 31st “version” of the same image (below, right), there is clearly significantly more surface detail captured northeast of those mesas.

 

 

Two provably different image “footprints” …for what has been categorically maintained by NASA, ASU and JPL for months now is only one July 24th image!?

 

Remember the shrill accusations of “hoax” and “fraud” leveled at both Laney and myself  … for even suggesting a few months ago that there could exist two different versions of this image?  The blatant publication on October 31st of now demonstrably two officially different versions is elemental proof that we were right:

 

There is “something” seriously wrong at ASU ….

 

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That being said, what -- if anything -- is to be gained by taking seriously the contents of this “first nighttime Cydonia IR” – THEMIS image number 20021031A? 

 

In our last published article, we conclusively proved that “Bamf” simply and repeatedly lied about the feasibility of early nighttime Cydonia infrared.  That being the case, what should we believe now regarding what he’s suddenly placed on the official THEMIS website (a site which, remember, he insists is “his… to do with what he wants”).  Bamf (and whomever is behind him) seem to be deep into “playing games.”  Is this new image simply more of “messing with our heads,” or -- like the carefully coded “333 by 1947 pixels” of the original July 24th release -- is there actually some bonafide information buried in this latest nighttime image?

 

First of all, just looking at the image, something’s clearly wrong: the data itself is just too “noisy” for a Martian summer image.

 

Even a casual comparison with a nighttime IR we’d cited in our previous paper (below), reveals that the noise level of this new nighttime Cydonia IR is comparable to THAT image … which was taken in the “dead of Martian winter” in the northern hemisphere, March 21, 2002.  The current Cydonia image, by contrast, was supposedly acquired October 24th – 8 months later – just after the beginning of Martian summer in the northern hemisphere. 

 

So … why is it so noisy?

 

 

One basic reason could be that Bamf has simply lied … again:

 

That the truth is that, yes, this is a nighttime Cydonia IR image … but … it was taken (as one of a series of “hidden Cydonia images”) much earlier in the current Odyssey Mission than publicly admitted -- when it was simply a LOT colder at Cydonia.  That, after the publication of our latest article on October 20th, Bamf (and those managing his actions on the THEMIS team) hurriedly put out “something” on nighttime Cydonia IR -- just to shut us up.

 

So … he reached into the THEMIS “hidden Cydonia drawer” and pulled out an older, “colder” (and partially sanitized) “new” image … which he then simply labeled as one taken “on October 24, 2002. “

 

But, why “October 24th?”

 

Because -- for an Agency so demonstrably steeped in rituals -- that date was simply irresistible: it being precisely one year … to the day … since Odyssey was placed in Martian orbit!

 

Well, it’s a nice theory … but, as I can hear “Bamf’s” staunch defenders screaming even now…

 

“Where’s the proof?”

 

Fortunately, science furnishes us a precise means this time to actually test when this latest nighttime IR image was acquired … to without question, see if Bamf has lied to us -- again.

 

Because we know the latitude of Cydonia (~41 degrees N.), and the tilt of Mars on its own axis (~25 degrees), we can easily calculate – by observing the details in the image, and comparing them to the geometric position of the sun at any time of the Martian year – when this image HAD to have been acquired.  Essentially it’s “Astronomy 101.”

 

And this is the simple equation that allows us to derive this crucial geometric information:

 

                                                Sin D  =  sin a / (cos b) squared

 

Where D = max deviation (north or south) of the rising or setting sun from an east/west line. 

 

And:

a  =  planetary obliquity ( its tilt)

 

With:

b  =  the latitude of the observer

 

“D” is also defined as the “summer or winter solstice”: i.e. the longest days of summer, or the shortest days of winter, in that hemisphere.

 

Half way between these two farthest excursions of the sun, north and south along the horizon, is the geometric position of the “spring and fall equinoxes.”  [The word derives from the Latin, meaning “equal night”: i.e. the length of the days and nights at that position in Mars’ annual solar orbit (year) are approximately equal (Mars’ orbit being decidedly elliptical).]

 

Applying this calculation to the new Cydonia image, we can derive – with absolute scientific certainty – when this image had to have been taken!  And, we don’t need to “trust” NASA, Bamf or ASU ….. 

 

The science in the image … will finally tell us the truth.

 

We begin with the orbits of Mars and Earth (below).  Courtesy of Dr. Bob Zubrin, this little schematic of the two planetary orbits allow us to graphically convert from any date and season here on Earth to its equivalent on Mars (for a full explanation, go here).

 

On the diagram, we’ll position two dots – blue to represent the Earth, and red representing Mars -- at their appropriate positions for Mars Odyssey’s arrival in Mars’ orbit, October 24, 2001.

 

 

As can be seen by referring to Bob Zubrin’s clever “analog orbital computer,” Odyssey arrived (red dot – October 24th ) just after the Martian winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

 

If we now advance our dots to correspond to Bamf’s claim that the new nighttime IR Cydonia image was taken on that one year Anniversary -- precisely 12 Earth months later, October 24, 2002 -- it can be seen that the new image would have been taken over Mars just after the Martian summer solstice in the northern hemisphere (below).

 

 

How does this irrefutable celestial geometry match with what we see in Bamf’s new “nighttime” image?

 

Because he arranged (deliberately?) both images – day and night – at the same but opposite “symbolic” angle to the Martian equator in his graphic (~ seven degrees -- close-up, below), it’s a simple matter to match the illumination of the features seen in the images with the true Martian coordinates – and compare that with the calculated sun angles for any particular Martian season derived from the equation cited earlier, in terms of the orbit diagram above.

 

 

When we overlay (within an error of +-3 degrees) the calculated angle of 35 degrees (green, below) -- for the maximum summer and minimum winter illumination angles (solstices) to an east/west line (which determines the angles at which slopes receive the last rays of the setting sun … and thus which will be warmest throughout the night.) -- a VERY interesting picture, regarding when this “nighttime IR image” was actually taken … begins to emerge.

 

 

 

In the “natural model,” the only source of energy to warm the Martian surface is solar illumination.  For objects on that surface to “glow” in the thermal infrared at night and be detectable by the THEMIS camera, therefore, requires that they be dense enough to retain a significant amount of solar energy for hours after sunset ... AND be angled essentially “face on” toward those last warming rays of the setting sun.

 

If we examine the nighttime Cydonia landscape Bamf’s now given us, several intriguing aspects of this model nicely come together.

 

Apart from “the Face” (that we’ve all become familiar with across the years), there is another distinctive feature at Cydonia, which got its nickname -- “the Island” -- from its obvious visual resemblance.  It’s a roughly rectangular mesa, several miles due east of the Face, with a flat surface area of several square miles -- standing a few hundred feet above the surrounding plane.  Its two western, relatively steep vertical cliffs face northwest and southwest … roughly in the directions of the summer and winter solstice sunset points (below).

 

 

Examination of the “daytime thermal image” (above, left) clearly shows the afternoon sun coming from the southwest, casting distinct cold shadows off the mesa’s northeastern cliff (dark band, upper right).  The top, northwestern cliff, though illuminated, is almost as dark as the shadowed eastern cliff, indicating that sunlight is reaching it at “grazing incidence.”  There’s also a distinct (colder) “darkening” extending back from the western “tip” along this northwestern cliff – indicating an “outcropping” at the tip, creating a distinct (thus colder) shadow extending about a mile ….

 

Even though Bamf claims (in an Enterprise “chat,” and also in several private e-mails to some Members) that this image was taken on May 5th, one can confidently state from this solar geometry (mathematically extrapolated to the sunset point), that the July 24th image HAD to have been taken approximately half way between the northern Martian hemisphere winter solstice (just before Mars Odyssey arrived, October 24th) … and the Martian spring equinox.

 

In other words, on Earth, some time in January, 2002 … and not May 5th!

 

“Coincidentally,” this was the precise time frame of the final “tweaking” of Odyssey’s Mars orbit (after aerobraking), which was advertised as a means to achieve the final mapping orbit for the formal Science Mission, which was to begin February 18th.

 

If Cydonia was (and is!) a “hidden priority” for this entire Mission – as certain official Odyssey Mission press statements, the released Cydonia imaging data, and “Bamf’s” own still-inexplicable, summer-long “Enterprise disinformation campaign on nighttime infrared capabilities at Cydonia” all strongly now suggest – January, 2002 would have been the perfect time, while adjusting the orbit of the spacecraft for the main Science Mission, to include some “trims” … that would allow Cydonia to quietly be imaged very early in the Mission – in fact, even before the “formal” Mapping Mission (and unwanted press attention) “formally” began!

 

So, what about Bamf’s latest claim -- that the recent nighttime Cydonia IR image was acquired on October 24th, 2002?

 

Referring to the right hand portion of our graphic (below), if you look carefully at this enlargement of the nighttime image you will notice that the brightest “thermally glowing” cliffs are once again facing west – toward the setting sun.  This critical geometry is simply due to that being the last input of solar energy to these exposed rocks… before the onset of the frigid Martian night.

 

 

Remarkably (for when this image supposedly was taken), the most heated portion of “the Island’s” cliffs in this nighttime shot is the southwestern section (lower green arrow) … and only a very small portion (that previously described “outcropping”) of the northwestern-facing cliff.

 

If the sun were anywhere near the northern Martian summer solstice (upper green arrow) – ~ October 24, 2002 -- when this image was acquired—

 

This entire northwestern cliff would have been directly heated by the setting sun … and brilliantly glowing after sunset—

 

And it is NOT!

 

From this simple (but irrefutable) solar geometry, the truth behind this image is now obvious:

 

THEMIS image 20021031A – the “nighttime IR image of Cydonia” -- could NOT have been acquired (no matter what Bamf says) on “October 24th, 2002.”  The ONLY time, according to this solstice geometry (lower green arrow) in the entire Odyssey Mission, this Cydonia image could have been taken, was—

 

In the same time frame as the July 24th daytime IR image release … sometime in January, 2002!!

 

This now also explains the other, totally inexplicable discrepancy about this image … the nighttime Cydonia surface temperatures -- reportedly recorded at the “height” of Martian summer ….

 

In our previously-cited March 21st “near Cydonia nighttime IR image” (I01180002 -- above), the temperature range – from the coldest region in the image to the “warmest” – was cited in the PDS as “–56 degrees Centigrade to –40 degrees Centigrade” – a spread of about 16 degrees C.  An image, remember (according to the data in NASA’s official PDS) that was taken during the shortest period of Martian daylight, and on one of the coldest, longest nights -- around the northern winter solstice ….  An image taken only about a hundred miles east of Cydonia itself.

 

By sharp contrast, the official caption for the “October 24th” nighttime Cydonia image -- taken at the same latitude and in the same geologic province (a non-trivial matter) … and (ostensibly) just after the northern summer solstice -- mysteriously reports much colder nighttime temperatures.  According to the official ASU October 31st release:

 

“The temperature in the daytime scene ranges from -50 °C (darkest) to -15 °C (brightest). At night many of the hills and knobs in this region are difficult to detect because the effects of heating and shadowing on the slopes are no longer present. The temperatures at night vary from approximately -90 °C (darkest) to -75 °C (warmest) [emphasis added] ….”

Huh?!

 

Let me get this straight:

 

The coldest reading (-56 C) in the nighttime March 21 winter image, was only 6 degrees C. colder than the coldest daytime temperature (-50 C) in the “July 24th” image.  But, the lowest surface temperature in the nighttime “October 24th image” (-90 C), taken near the summer solstice, was a “46 degrees C. colder than the coldest winter temperature on that March 21st image ….

 

Oh, and the highest temperature recorded in that new nighttime Cydonia image (-75 C) – again, reportedly taken at height of Martian summer – was 35 C degrees colder than the peak nighttime winter temperature (-40 C), measured in that nearby March 21st winter nighttime image?

 

Why are the readings taken on a “balmy Martian summer night,” compared to the dead-of-winter nighttime readings taken “just across the hill” … so impossibly much colder??!!

 

Unless --

 

They’re not really “summer” nighttime readings … because Bamf (if not the entire THEMIS team behind him, from Christensen on down) just blatantly lied to us … again.

 

That’s what the objective science in these images now tells us –and  from two totally independent disciplines … planetary orbital geometry and THEMIS’ own radiometry of Mars.

 

Having satisfied ourselves that this data has been deliberately withheld -- more than likely, because it contained “some critical new corroborative information” on the “intelligence hypothesis” (otherwise, why bother to conceal it at all … and for so long?) -- we can now move on to consider what genuine anomalies might lie hidden here … even in this “sanitized” version of the latest “trick or treat.”

 

Remember: in order to be believed … some “truth” must be continually mixed in with all the lies ….

 

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The most striking “Cydonia anomaly” in the newest NASA/JPL/ASU release is … the almost complete “disappearance” of the Face!

 

In a side-by-side presentation (below), the Face -- as seen in the July 24th daytime IR image (close-up, left), compared with its nighttime “October 31st” counterpart (close-up, right) -- is essentially completely missing!  Why?

 

 

 

Did NASA just blatantly erase it?!

 

No.

 

Remember: these are thermal IR scans.  What we are seeing – in both the day and nighttime THEMIS images – is infrared radiation due to solar energy, being reflected back and/or emitted from, the (slightly!) sun-warmed Martian surface.

 

In the afternoon close-up (above, left), the THEMIS camera is recording reflected long-wave solar energy (thus shadowed surfaces are very dark – i.e. extremely cold), as well as re-emitted thermal radiation from the exposed sunlit portions of the “mesa,” externally heated by absorbed radiation from the sun.

 

In the nighttime image (right), the only radiation being picked up by the Odyssey camera is this re-radiating stored solar energy (this, of course, in NASA’s “externally warmed, natural model” …).

 

This being the essential physics of these images, why is the nighttime close-up of the Face, compared to it’s daytime counterpart, of such obvious lower quality and resolution?  Why indeed ….

 

Because it’s filled with noise.

 

Part of the reason, we now know, is due to the fact that the image was taken much earlier than Bamf let on in all his extensive “Enterprise conversations.”  This image was taken literally at the coldest period of northern Martian winter – sometime in January, 2002!  The frigid ground temperatures reported in its official caption -- -90 C to –75 C. -- quietly confirm this … even if we didn’t have the “seasonal lighting geometry” to cinch it.

 

In such a bitterly cold environment, and at night (!), the solar energy absorbed during the day – even by materials capable of efficiently retaining such solar radiation – is naturally going to be relatively weak.  So, we would expect a nighttime IR “signature” to be significantly noisy … if the image was actually taken in January, 2002, as we’ve now proven.

 

On the other hand, if you examine the pixel details of this “nighttime Cydonia IR image,” it is also obvious that “someone” carefully added a significant amount of noise …in an obvious effort to obscure certain geometric patterns that were recorded – even in this image!  Fortunately, knowing this, it is possible to significantly reduce their final impact and amplify the real geometric patterns.  In fact, in the official presentation of this data by the THEMIS team (that Bamf “lovingly prepared” for “his” ASU website) there are “coded” instructions in the caption for precisely what to do ….

 

“Both images are of THEMIS's 9th IR band (12.57 microns), and they have been geometrically projected for image registration [emphasis added] ….”

 

In other words … place one image precisely over the other (“image registration”) … as THAT (as every astronomer, physicist and imaging specialist knows! ) will significantly reduce the “noise.”

 

Which, of course, we would have done anyway ... but Bamf’s careful preparation of both images -- already precisely scaled and tilted by the appropriate amounts -- made it FAR easier to carry out ….  Keith Laney prepared this “averaged” version of both images (below) in a couple of minutes, thanks to Bamf’s “helpful” presentation ….

 

 

Immediately, the Face pops out (top, center) … as well as a number of other, highly intriguing thermal anomalies across this image – which we will deal with later in this document.

 

In our own close-ups (below), we’ve taken the procedure (which has many variations) one step further – and prepared “colorized versions” of each image (below, left), which we then combined in PhotoShop for a significantly “noise reduced” version (below, right).

 

 

 

The Face is revealed in the nighttime IR to be a perfectly rectangular “box” – with lots of internal rectilinear geometry inside! 

 

Even in a simple contrast-adjusted and “gaussian blurred” version of the “raw” image (below, right), the striking geometric linements are plainly visible.  As is the “squared off” proportions matching the daytime image (below, left). 

 

 

One intriguing feature that appears in the nighttime version, but does not appear in the daytime image, is the “symmetrical extension” below the “chin” (red outline).  Clearly, something close to the surface – but underground – is warm enough in the nighttime IR to allow its heat to “leak” up through the overlying layers of sand and dust … and reveal its symmetrical presence underground.

 

The brightest (warmest) sections of the Face are clearly those highest on the feature – the left “eyebrow ridge,” and the “nose” -- consistent with their retaining the most heat from being exposed the longest to the “last rays of the setting sun.”  The rest of the mile-long “mesa” – remarkably, for a “rocky, eroded outcrop” -- has almost blended into the very frigid Martian surface, clearly having cooled off very fast after sunset ….

 

Why?

 

With this nighttime IR image, apart from the highly anomalous “glowing” internal geometric structure of the Face – which strongly reinforces the “non-natural, constructed model” -- this key question, “Why is the whole of the Face so cold … if it’s just a ‘naturally eroding mesa,’ with ‘exposed rock surfaces all over …?’” must be seriously addressed by those advocating such a natural model.. 

 

In the new Author's Foreword to the 5th Edition of "The Monuments of Mars," I predicted months ago precisely what we're now seeing in this latest nighttime image:

 

"The [Mars Odyssey] camera's long-wavelength ability to sense and image subtle temperature differences …will allow detection of cooler geometric artificial structures against the warmer natural background deserts (especially at night) - the same way suspended bridges and skyscrapers on Earth cool first, before surrounding landscapes [emphasis added] …."

With this nighttime IR image, that key prediction of the "artificial model" has been (pardon the pun) "glowingly fulfilled."

For, in addition to the highly anomalous internal geometric structure of the Face - which now strongly reinforces the "non-natural, constructed model" - the unnatural coldness of this structure must also be addressed.  "Why is the whole of the Face so cold … compared to the surrounding background … if it's just a 'naturally eroding mesa,' with 'exposed rock surfaces all over?'" 

This now is the key problem for the "natural model."

One obvious answer is that it's NOT a "natural mesa."  That the Face, as we've suspected all along, is composed of other types of manufactured materials …and in a form that quickly allows the daytime heating from the sun to be dissipated after sunset.  This requirement would be satisfied if the composition was some kind of "conducting material" - like a metal - and if this material was significantly porous ("honeycombed" - thus allowing very efficient night air cooling) to boot!

 

One indication of how anomalous these nighttime thermal properties of the Face truly are, is to compare it to it’s nearest “neighbor mesa” to the southwest (see, below).  In the nighttime image (top), THAT “mesa” (which also looks remarkably “geometric” in this nighttime view …) is glowing nicely from many different sections -- all of them facing roughly southwest, as they should if they were heated by the “January” setting sun.  In addition, “flat” portions seen in the daytime IR image (bottom) are also significantly warmer than their surroundings … also as they should be, if this object is behaving more “normally” to solar input.

 

 

But the Face …

 

Even some of its unquestionably vertical surfaces facing southwest (the entire western “platform edge,” for instance, from previous shape-from-shading analyses) are “at ambient” with the much cooler background surface radiation.  They’re clearly way too cold, compared to their vertical counterparts “just next door” … unless they’re made of “something” which is clearly different … both from the composition of their nearest neighbor … and … from a feature composed of merely “eroded rocky outcrops,” that all the official NASA press releases on Cydonia keep endlessly repeating ….

 

Clearly, something is definitely “anomalous” with this one feature, regarding the nighttime thermal properties of its external surface … which is precisely what we were expecting—

 

If it’s artificial!

 

Is this why Bamf and company kept this nighttime image – as noisy as it is -- “under wraps” for so damn long …?

 

Ranging farther out across Cydonia ….

 

Close-ups of other “average mesas” on this landscape – some of which, remember (like the Face) are located precisely according to the unique “Hyperdimensional Geometry” that’s overwhelmingly “coded” here – also seem to be exhibiting “anomalous” thermal properties (below).  Anomalous, that is, for “mere outcroppings of erosively resistant rocks” ….

 

 

In these close-ups (above), this otherwise average-looking but obviously three-dimensional Cydonia mesa (in the daytime image, bottom) is strikingly transformed in the nighttime view (top).  In that image, its entire southern perimeter (NOT just the sides facing the setting sun!) appears extremely “warm” (by winter Martian standards …), while, the flat (black!) interior appears to be one of the coldest surfaces in the entire region … roughly –100 C!!

 

Obviously, this is NOT your “average Martian mesa.”

 

Look at these four views (bottom), each showing a different aspect of this feature.  Is the striking “bright wall”/“black interior” seen in the night IR (below, top right) explainable because the “wall” (July 25th IR image – below, top left) is made of some dense (high-strength), extremely heat-retaining substance (note the anomalously persistent, “high” temperature of the long-shaded, eastern side in the night IR– to right) … while the interior is made of something very different?  Is the interior (within the “wall”) actually a “hollow-like” container … covered with some kind of IR-absorbing material -- like GLASS! – thus allowing short wave sunlight to easily pass through (bottom image, left), but preventing any longer wave IR from escaping and reaching the THEMIS camera?

 

This would effectively make the interior seem “cold” – i.e. to be radiating much less thermal infrared than anything else on the same Cydonia landscape.

 

 

Or, has the interior structure and former covering of this object simply been eroded … forming an “open box” -- into which eons of (low thermal conductivity) wind blown Martian dust has slowly been accumulating … within the shell of another immense and long-abandoned Martian arcology …?

 

Remarkably, this feature uncannily resembles those “anomalously cold IR mesas” in Hydaspis Chaos (below), the nighttime image released at the first Odyssey Press Conference in March.  Those too exhibited remarkably warm (bright) “geometric” walls … while possessing darker (cooler) “flat” interiors.

 

Curiously, the Cydonia “mesa” has an even colder interior … indicating that the explanation for its similar appearance is related to … but is not necessarily the same … as those below.

 

 

Then there’s this.

 

Look carefully at this image( below, bottom left):

 

It’s the daytime IR close-up of another group of mesas, located at the top (north) of the new image strips Bamf published on October 31st.  A comparison with the previously noted “anomalous mesa” to the south (below, middle right) also reveals some striking – and increasingly perplexing -- similarities.

 

 

The nighttime IR view presents even more enigmatic puzzles.

 

A close nighttime look at the southernmost “mesa” in the infrared (above, top left) reveals a “warm” and complex internal geometric structure, in addition to the striking triangular external geometry visible in the daytime IR image.  Like its nearby neighbors (and the peculiar mesa to the south – comparison, middle right), this object shares another peculiar and recurrent theme: a remarkable parallel alignment with all the other “mesas”…. 

 

They all point south.

 

This nighttime image also presents another fascinating puzzle: a mysteriously cold (black), narrow triangular “fan” of … “something” … extending northward across the landscape and the other, nearby “mesas” -- beginning at the tip of the southernmost triangular-shaped structure pictured in the close-up (see also inset, above right).  Curiously, this peculiar thermal feature seems NOT to be associated with any of the three-dimensional topography, nor with any “brighter” (more reflective, thus cooler) areas present in the daytime IR.  It DOES appear to be segmented into sub-geometric patterns –closely associated with specific visible sections of these “mesas.”

 

If this mysterious dark “fan” is NOT the result of some type of “cold surface coating” – from a volcanically eruptive “fallout” that was blown north (and there’s NO other evidence of volcanic activity in the entire region) -- then it’s striking geometric association with these specific “triangular-shaped mesas” – and their internal “sub-triangles” -- could be evidence of another type of “IR absorbent material” … i.e. more potential glass.

 

In other words, additional evidence of long-abandoned, ruined Cydonia architecture!

 

Which brings us, finally, to our familiar “D&M.”

 

In striking contrast to the Face – which all but “disappears” in this nighttime IR image – the highly geometric “DiPietro/Molenaar Pyramid” once again continues to present more fascinating mysteries when seen illuminated only by its nighttime thermal radiation ….  Unlike many of the familiar surface features at Cydonia, which seem barely able to retain any daytime thermal energy, the D&M (below) is almost incandescent in this nighttime view.  In fact, it’s “lit up like a Christmas tree” -- almost as if … it were internally still warm!

 

 

Even casual examination of this blatantly “illuminated” pattern reveals that a) the thermally “hot” areas are not restricted just to the “sunset side” (as with many other sun-warmed features on this landscape), but are all over the familiar five-sided/six-sided geometric form (below, left).  Further, b) these “hot patterns” outline their own internal geometric structure – irrespective of the sun’s exposure! -- which is revealed as strikingly symmetric and consistent with engineering principles (below, right), right down to the dark (cold), perfectly centered apex inside a perfectly symmetric five-side “supporting ring” on top (above).

 

 

This remarkable pattern of internal structural detail is reinforced in this false color overlay of the nighttime IR image (pink and red -- below) superimposed on a visible light view (prepared by Enterprise Conference Member, James Keene).  The high degree of internal organization visible here CANNOT in the slightest be considered “natural.”  But it is elegantly consistent with massive (heat retaining), internal architectural supports and engineering features … of a mile-wide, half-mile-high … artificial structure .…

 

As we’ve maintained for almost twenty years.

 

An otherwise strikingly symmetric structure, it is also once again apparent that the D&M has been massively deformed … and from inside.  The distorted internal geometry visible by it’s own thermal infrared emission throughout the right hand side (red), is consistent with the major internal explosion that we’ve long-inferred from the visible light images.  In support of this important confirmation, this new nighttime IR image has also provided remarkable, direct external evidence of this internal and extremely serious explosion.

 

 

Detectable only in this nighttime IR image … extremely cold, finely divided insulating material – apparently directly resulting from this massive internal detonation -- is now beautifully apparent, as part of the D&M’s entire southeastern side’s collapse.  The fine material (black – violet arrow) has fallen in a fan-shaped pattern downward from the apex of the pyramid, pooling at the bottom and literally flowing outward and around the pyramid’s perimeter in a thinning distribution -- partially covering the southeastern buttress (violet dotted lines) and thereby shortening its apparent length (compared to the southwestern buttress).  If you look carefully, however, you can actually see the faint extension of that shortened buttress underneath the ground (below, right)… conducting heat faintly through the overlying layer of blanketing material.

 

This is totally consistent with the literal pulverization of millions of tons of whatever architectural materials fell – from over half a mile! -- from the D&M’s apex after the explosion (think “World Trade Center” towers, amplified about a million times ….), before coming to rest in the extremely dark, thermally cold “pools” of finely powered debris that flowed and then collected (violet outlines) … primarily around the southwest, south and southeastern edges of this awesome structure.

 

 

Finally, and perhaps most important (in terms of being able to reach even these preliminary conclusions, based on this one, mysteriously-withheld image), this extremely regular, internal and external thermal pattern in and around the D&M is far above the “background noise.”  Thus, there can be no question that this remarkable geometry is “real.”

 

There is even definite new indication of an eighth “buttress” in this nighttime IR image (green line, below) – additional evidence that the THEMIS camera is detecting significant conducted heat from beneath the apparent visible surface of this structure.

 

 

In short, the D&M Pyramid … at a place called “Cydonia,” on Mars … in the nighttime thermal infrared, now exhibits all the characteristics predicted for a somehow still powered, awesomely designed and extremely ancient … artificial structure!

 

Is this why this image was apparently one of the first clandestinely acquired by the Odyssey Mission, even before any other science was begun?  And, at literally the coldest period of Martian northern winter – the best time to determine (with the low-noise thermal background) if “the lights were still on” … somewhere at Cydonia!?

 

Is this why the image Keith Laney was leaked on July 25, 2002 has an eerie resemblance to this image?  As if it was a combination of a high-quality daytime IR … overlaid on a another nighttime image?!  Is this why the D&M in Laney’s multi-band version of the NASA July 25th image has this astonishing “transparent aspect” (below) -- because it’s a much more noise-free (averaged) version of what we’ve been discussing?!

 

 

The only logical conclusion one can reach regarding this whole elaborate charade, is that “someone” went to a LOT of trouble to conceal “something critical” regarding this entire, early focus of the Odyssey Mission on Cydonia … and on this nighttime image!

 

And now, another “group” inside – apparently increasingly unhappy with this whole clandestine scheme to continue to hide the truth regarding what we’ve really found on Mars from the American people and the world – have begun a quiet “inside revolution” of their own … to ultimately expose the entire corrupt “game” – by bringing to light, one by one, the entire series of carefully constructed NASA lies around the truth! 

 

And, of course, as part of their own “game” ... these “Roosters” will (must!) continue to categorically deny any knowledge of (or participation in) such an “operation.”  I mean, how else can one rationally explain “continued stupid lies and ridiculous technical excuses” – and on this Mission -- from people who are obviously “light years away” from truly being “stupid?!”

 

And, given this pattern of “inept revelation,” what other surprises do these images contain …that will also be “stupidly” revealed … in time?  Wouldn’t you give anything to see the “playbook” for this game – which has at stake the literal Past and Destiny of Human Civilization …?

 

As always, because they Know we’re watching … just stay tuned.

Addendum

11/20/02

 

 Enterprise has just learned some additional, critical new information regarding the latest nighttime Cydonia IR ….

 

A member of the MarsNews.com Forum posted on November 11th another “chat” with one “Bamf,” aka “Noel Gorelick” (remember, the official “THEMIS software Manager at ASU”).  In terms of our working “political model” – that the “stupid mistakes and ‘oops admissions’” constantly being made at ASU by “Bamf” (and several others), over the issue of “Cydonia,” are actually revealing hidden aspects of a “carefully orchestrated Plan” leading to ultimate “Disclosure” – this latest conversation is quite revealing ….

 

 

<Os> Bamf! A question please? Why did you only post one band of the nightime IR?


<Bamf> Because we were posting a comparison of the daytime and nightime.


<Bamf> We also cropped them to show only the parts that overlapped.


<Os> So will we be getting the other bands on the Themis site?


<Bamf> Of course.


<Os> Lol Bamf. Thanks. But soon?


<Bamf> Depends on what you consider soon.


<Os> Well, sooner than the PDS dump.


<Os> I mean YOU make the choice of what goes on that site right?


<Bamf> No. That would be a bad idea. All "official" data goes through the PDS, so people don't fuck it up and claim they got it from us that way.


<Os> At least that is what I told the guys over at mars.news. Lol


<Os> Well thanks for answering Bamf. Appreciated.


<Bamf> I could do a 9-band IOTD like the 7/24 image, but since we've already done of it [sic], I don't think we'll do another one.


<Os> Can I pass on your message verbatim?


<Bamf> Uh, sure.

 

 

Jim Burk, Editor-in-Chief of MarsNews.com, immediately responded:

 

 

“Os, thanks for posting your chat with Gorelick. It is incredible to me that he feels no obligation to post the entire raw data set for the night-time image if he has it. If he had nothing to hide, he would have done that on Oct 24th (the day it was acquired.) I would even give him 24 hours for any conversions/etc [sic] that needed to take place. I have never understood why they always take days, weeks, or months to give the public anything. I'm quite sure that what eventually (after MONTHS) shows up in the PDS is not the whole story ….”

 

Burk’s initial strong reaction was totally appropriate: the obvious arrogance and sheer elitism inherent in Gorelick’s casual admission is almost incomprehensible – certainly for any responsible university manager posing as a “public servant”—

 

“I could do a 9-band IOTD [Image of the Day] like the 7/24 image, but since we've already done of it [sic], I don't think we'll do another one [emphasis added] ….”

 

Astonishing ….

 

But, there are also some additional, extremely revealing implications to Bamf’s “off the cuff” and totally arrogant remark: did he really mean to publicly imply that THEMIS has acquired all nine bands of nighttime infrared across Cydonia -- in addition to the one he’s “deigned” to publish?

 

Because, his statement cannot be interpreted in any other way; Gorleick couldn’t (literally!) tease us with his “I could do a 9-band IOTD ….” unless … the spacecraft had in fact acquired all of them!  And that brings with it some major political implications ….

 

To begin to understand the magnitude – and meaning -- of Bamf’s “little slip” (if, in fact, that’s what it truly was – see below), simply glance at the current global IR map of Mars.

 

 

This is a plot (above) of all the nighttime infrared strips currently released to NASA’s PDS as of October  – something like “a couple hundred images.” 

 

Now, look at this representative data block (below) from just one of those nighttime IR photos-- our “showcase” image, I01180002 … taken just a hundred miles east of Cydonia itself.  Notice that there are only three bands listed in the table – bands 4, 9, and 10.

 

 

A random check of about 50 (of the approximately two hundred nighttime) images currently displayed on the ASU THEMIS Archive Website, revealed exactly one other image which was acquired with all nine bands (other than Bamf’s new claim about Cydonia) … in the entire THEMIS library.  If carried through, this is a rate of only 2%.

 

In other words, if Bamf’s telling us the truth (always a serious consideration …), a nine-band data set of nighttime Cydonia IR – according to ASU’s own records – represents an almost “singular” occurrence ... in terms of other “nighttime images of Mars!”

 

Now … why am I not totally surprised?

 

For what Bamf’s “slip” has once again confirmed is but another, unequivocal example of the extraordinary, secret focus on Cydonia of Odyssey’s entire Mapping Mission!

 

Clearly, acquiring a full nine-band nighttime IR -- of a region which has repeatedly been termed “scientifically uninteresting” by the entire THEMIS team -- can only be additional corroboration of the clandestine nature of the Odyssey Mission from the beginning (see above) … as well as further confirmation (if we needed it!) as to “why” there have been so many “systematic lies” even about “when” images are being taken of Cydonia.

 

“Someone” is truly scientifically obsessed with the IR composition of Cydonia … and is doing all they can to hide that (because of Bamf’s amazing actions …) increasingly obvious obsession ….

 

So, did Bamf truly “slip”-- in revealing this new gem (what did we say earlier … about “non-stupid people repeatedly doing apparently ‘very stupid things?’”)?  Or, was this another in an increasing number of “fortuitously timed … carefully thought out … inside revelations” -- about what’s truly going on inside this Mission !?

 

Because of his latest “stupid statement,” we now know that “someone” was VERY interested in a complete nighttime thermal spectrum of Cydonia … even before (as we’ve now proved – above) the formal beginnings of the Mapping Mission.  Which means, we must now demand that all nine bands of this nighttime Cydonia IR be made publicly available – immediately!

 

This color version of THEMIS image I01180002 (close-up, below) is a stunning example of what proper ENVI processing -- of even the limited three-band “color” from the nighttime IR -- can reveal, in the way of meaningful differences in Martian heat retention and surface composition.

 

 

Given what we’ve already found and reported in this article -- re the one released band of nighttime Cydonia IR imagery -- can you imagine what Keith Laney (armed with ENVI) could do … if he had access to those eight more Cydonia nighttime bands … and in thermally-revealing color?