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The IMAGE mission, launched on March 25, 2000, is providing scientists the first opportunity to image magnetospheric regions on a global scale. The magnetosphere is the region of space controlled by the Earth's magnetic field. IMAGE uses three-dimensional imaging techniques to study the global response of the magnetosphere to variations in the solar wind (the supersonic stream of charged particles flowing out from the Sun). IMAGE was one of the first two science missions selected by NASA's Office of Space Science for its Medium-Class Explorer (MIDEX) program.
Originally posted by rat256
reply to post by Rigel
There will always be those who remain unconvinced by physics... either because the physics is too difficult to understand, or just simply not appealing enough an explanation!
"But... The same sciencifikillistical theoretism explains for years that if every satellite map doesn't plainly shows the pole (you know, that famous black spot on almost every sat imaging...), that IS because satellites can NOT take pictures of it as they can NOT fly by such polar areas... "
satellites can fly over the poles and photograph them... whats your point?
IMAGE is part satellite imaging/sensor readouts and part computer program to make sense of it all.
Given that IMAGE is only interested in effects in the magnetosphere there is a polar region where the magnetic effects are neutral. this is the black dot you see, its a region where nothing that IMAGE is interested in happens!
Hollow earth to me is laughable because geology and physics dictates that if the earth was hollow it would simply implode under the pull of its own gravity and mass.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Rigel
An inner sun. Yeah, hey, that's a good one. So tell me, why is it, if we have an inner sun, that these "pole holes" are always dark? Shouldn't the numerous from-space images of out planet show beams of light emanating from both poles? For that matter, why hasn't the Arctic Ocean or the Antarctic ice cap boiled away from the massive amounts of heat and radiation that would be billowing out of these holes?
Originally posted by rat256
reply to post by Rigel
can't image the poles??? what, see below!
earthobservatory.nasa.gov...
there are weather satellites out there whose whole purpose is to fly in an orbit that takes them over the poles so they can track weather patterns!
"Given that IMAGE is only interested in effects in the magnetosphere there is a polar region where the magnetic effects are neutral. this is the black dot you see, its a region where nothing that IMAGE is interested in happens!
Are you kidding Mr Rat256 ? Does it cost much to the USA citizen to give the entire picture ? "
what i mean is that NOTHING happens there to see, whether we wanted to see it or not. The magnetic effects are neutral, if something happened there we'd see it, as nothing does happen there we don't!
an inner sun... what? I'm sorry, someone, Olaf Jensen, was clearly not paying attention in geology 101, you can call me mainstream if you like but i'm not buying that. a violent nuclear reaction going on inside the planet? life on earth would simply never have exsisted if that were the case. in fact the planet probably wouldn't exsist either.
Originally posted by TheWalkingFox
reply to post by Rigel
An inner sun. Yeah, hey, that's a good one. So tell me, why is it, if we have an inner sun, that these "pole holes" are always dark? Shouldn't the numerous from-space images of out planet show beams of light emanating from both poles? For that matter, why hasn't the Arctic Ocean or the Antarctic ice cap boiled away from the massive amounts of heat and radiation that would be billowing out of these holes?
Back to the topic as for those NASA datas, the tiny black spot can't be explained by some optical weakness inherent to such a technology as IMAGE sat', does it ?