First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 10

 

It took the Ancient Astronauts over one hundred years to send spacecraft powered by warp drive to Mars with the intention of migration. They landed at various locations around the planet.  Besides Cydonia the Blocks of Aram may also been a place for Ancient Astronauts habitation and there is more besides these two places

 

Cydonia Face (top right) and Pyramid city (lower left)

Cydonia is a region on the planet Mars, that has attracted both scientific and popular interest for some time the name originally referred to the albedo feature (a distinctively colored area) that was visible from earthbound telescopes. The area borders the plains of Acidalia Planitia and the Arabia Terra highlands.

Early Plant Life on Mars

 

By about 5 Ga. something similar to modern oxygenic photosynthesis had probably developed on Mars, which made the sun’s energy available not only to autotrophs -plants, algae and certain bacteria but also to the heterotrophs-animals, fungi and protozoa that consumed them.  This type of photosynthesis, which became by far the most common, used the abundant carbon dioxide and water as raw materials and, with the energy of sunlight, produced energy-rich organic molecules (carbohydrates).  Moreover, oxygen was released as a waste product of the photosynthesis. At first, it became bound up with limestone, iron, and other minerals. There is substantial proof of iron-oxide rich layers in the geological strata of Mars that correspond with this period- this also helped gave the planet its color.

The ALH84001 meteorite may be the proof for life on Mars we are looking for:  the meteorite weighs 1.93 kilograms (4.3 lb.). The sample was ejected from Mars about 17 million years ago and spent 11,000 years in or on the Antarctic ice sheets. Composition analysis by NASA revealed a kind of magnetite that on Earth is only found in association with certain microorganisms. Then, in August 2002, another NASA team led by Thomas Keptra published a study indicating that 25% of the magnetite in ALH 84001 occurs as small, uniform-sized crystals that, on Earth, is associated only with biologic activity, and that the remainder of the material appears to be normal inorganic magnetite.

 

Bacteria on Earth that is similar to that found in the meteorite ALH84001

The extraction technique did not permit determination as to whether the possibly biological magnetite was organized into chains as would be expected. The meteorite displays indication of relatively low temperature secondary mineralization by water and show evidence of pre-terrestrial aqueous alteration. Evidence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons has been identified with the levels increasing away from the surface. Some structures resembling the mineralized casts of terrestrial bacteria and their appendages (fibrils) (could also be freeze-dried worms) or by-products (extra-cellular polymeric substances) occur in the rims of carbonate globules and pre-terrestrial aqueous alteration regions. The size and shape of the objects is consistent with Earthly  fossilized bacteria. In November 2009, NASA scientists said that a recent, more detailed analysis showed that the meteorite "contains strong evidence that life may have existed on ancient Mars.

 

Atlas of Mars

Cydonia lies in the planet’s northern hemisphere in a transitional zone between the heavily cratered regions to the South, and relatively smooth plains to the North. Some planetologists believe that the northern plains was once part of the Northern Ocean, and that Cydonia may have been a coastal zone.  More than likely plant and animal life began to exist on the planet when that occurred. The Martian city in Cydonia was very large and on the coast.  It had some very large structures and a large number of  Ancient Astronauts could have lived there:

 

The City of Cydonia and Region

Many want to believe that just because Ancient Astronauts built pyramids on Mars they would come to Earth and show men how to construct them.

Close up of a Martian Pyramid

I disagree with this theory.  The structures that were built on Mars would have been built of different materials and for different purposes.

There is also the face on Mars not far from the City of Cydonia some think it was put there because the Sphinx was built near the pyramids in Egypt.  The problem is no one is sure who built the Sphinx and what its real purpose was although theories abound.  On Earth, it is a mythical creature with a lion’s body and a human head.  The face on Mars looks nothing like that. 

My Drawing of the City of Cydonia

(1) Instead of a pyramid there is a dome on the west side of the city:

 

 

(2) Then they built a pyramid next to it as you go into the city:

(3) After that you enter the city you enter the plaza:

(4) Then you come to the City center:

(5) After that the East Pyramid:

 

(6) After that you would come to a plaza overlooking the Northern Ocean:

Then to the west  of the East Pyramid you would come to the Ancient Astronaut Space Base:

 

First Civilization Part 2 Chapter 9

 

 

 

Scientists have long speculated about the possibility of life on Mars owing to the planet's proximity and similarity to Earth. Fictional Martians have been a recurring feature of popular entertainment of the 20th and 21st centuries, but it remains an open question whether life currently exists on Mars, or has existed there in the past.

The Mariner 4 probe performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface in 1965. The photographs showed an arid Mars without rivers, oceans or any signs of life. Further, it revealed that the surface (at least the parts that it photographed) was covered in craters, indicating a lack of plate tectonics and weathering of any kind for quite some time. The probe also found that Mars has no global magnetic field that would protect the planet from potentially life-threatening cosmic rays.  The probe was able to calculate the atmospheric pressure on the planet to be about 0.6 kPa (compared to Earth's 101.3 kPa), meaning that liquid water could not exist on the planet's surface. But when Mars was young the atmospheric pressure was much higher maybe half of that of Earth since it would have still had it's atmosphere, and water probably existed on the planet's surface.. After Mariner 4, the search for life on Mars changed to a search for bacteria-like living organisms rather than for multicellular organisms, as the environment was clearly too harsh for these.

 

 

How early Mars might have looked

 

This story will explain why this planet’s environment is as we see it today. Although this story could have really happened- if not in this way then in some similar manner.  However, there is life on Mars now and in the past. It requires a human mission to go the planet not a roving computerized satellite controlled machine to find it: since scientists can argue over a machine’s discoveries and make the finds inconclusive or explain the discovery away.

 

 

This is where life on Mars might exist Today

Science has led us to believe that liquid water is necessary  life as we know it. That it cannot exist on the surface of Mars under its present low atmospheric pressure, and temperature, except at the lowest shaded elevations for short periods, and liquid water does not appear at the surface itself. However, in June 2000, evidence for water currently under the surface of Mars was discovered in the form of flood-like gullies. Deep subsurface water deposits near the planet's liquid core might form a present-day habitat for life. However, in March 2006, astronomers announced the discovery of similar gullies on the Moon, which is believed never to have had liquid water on its surface. The surface water on the moon was later confirmed by the LRO/LACROOS  mission.  There is just one major problem with this discovery- Mars is not the moon !  They are two completely different planets.

Ice discovered beneath the soil by Phoenix Mission

 

In March 2004, NASA announced that its rover Opportunity had discovered evidence that Mars was, in the ancient past, a wet planet. This  raised hopes that evidence of past life might be found on the planet today. ESA confirmed that the Mars Express orbiter had directly detected huge reserves of water ice at Mars' South Pole in January 2004. On July 28, 2005, ESA announced that they had recorded photographic evidence of surface water ice near Mars' North Pole. The Phoenix Mars Lander from NASA, which landed in the Mars Arctic plain in May 2008, confirmed the presence of frozen water near the surface. This was confirmed when bright white crystalline material, exposed by the digging arm of the Lander, was found to have vaporized and disappeared in 3 to 4 days after exposure. This has been attributed to sub-surface ice, exposed by the digging and sublimated on exposure to the atmosphere. So there is still water on the planet it is in the form of ice under the surface.  This could indicate that liquid water could exist deep underground where conditions would be more favorable.

 

The North Pole of Mars in the early Amazonian Period

Recent analysis of Martian sandstones, using data obtained from orbital spectrometry, suggests that the waters that previously existed on the surface of Mars would have had too high a salinity to support most Earth-like life.. This analysis found that the Martian water in the locations they studied all had water salinity, aw = 0.78 to 0.86—a level fatal to most Terrestrial life.  Haloarchaea, however, are able to live in hypersaline solutions, up to the saturation point. It means that Humans could not existed using such water but who is to say if the Ancient Astronauts could not have used it or any kind of life that lived naturally on the planet, and since the Ancient Astronauts were not native to the planet they could have constructed desalination plants to purify the water had it been toxic to them.

 

The Face on Mars (inset Viking Mission. Large face HR by later mission)

 

The Face on Mars is one of the most striking and remarkable images taken during the Viking missions to the red planet. Unmistakably resembling a human face, the image caused many to hypothesize that it was the work of an extraterrestrial civilization.  When it was first imaged, and into the 21st century, the "Face" was near universally accepted to be an optical illusion, an example of pareidolia- a natural geological feature resembling a human face. After an analysis of the higher resolution Mars Global Surveyor data NASA stated, "A detailed analysis of multiple images of this feature reveals a natural looking Martian hill whose illusory face-like appearance depends on the viewing angle and angle of illumination".

 

The Sphinx and Pyramids on Earth.  Is there any precedence for it from Mars?

The Cydonia facial pareidolia inspired individuals and organizations interested in extraterrestrial intelligence about visitations to Earth from the Red Planet.  The images were published in this context in 1977.   Some commentators, most notably Richard C. Hoagland,  believe the "Face" to be evidence of a long-lost Martian civilization along with other features they believe are present, such as the pyramids of Cydonia on Mars, which they argue are part of a ruined city.  However, the ruined city may have actually have been a ruined city.  The face may not be a face even though both are in the same area.  There are also many other features on Mars that indicate the possibility of habitation there by someone.