Every year is a crazy amount of time for one reason or another, and no one will deny it. Drug lords constantly manage to stage impossible escapes, Jon Snow from Game of Thrones is strangely reborn, and the most inexplicable objects we have ever seen are constantly found in the oceans. It seems that we have everything to think about, it seems that there is nothing to surprise us with!
And the more time passes, the less likely we are to solve some of the most mysterious secrets Earth. They accumulate for centuries! For example, the year 2017 is no different from all the previous ones, and a lot of inexplicable things also happened in the world. Here are 10 mysteries that prove our planet is a crazy place.
space junk
No wonder all kinds of space debris revolve around us. In fact, many of these items pose a real danger to astronauts and even the well-being of the Earth itself! In October 2016, scientists noticed a huge piece of space debris and named it WT1190F. Everyone thought that it would actually enter the Earth's atmosphere and fall directly into the Indian Ocean, but our earth shell is much stronger. The object was burned to the ground as soon as it approached Earth last November, but one thing is not clear - scientists still don't know what it was! They think it could be a rocket fragment, but they have no idea what it is. It's still a mystery!
Where is Hayat Boumedienne now?
The woman was charged in connection with the deadly terrorist attacks on Paris in January 2016. She was the wife of one of the three attackers who orchestrated this. While three of them were killed, Boumedienne escaped and her whereabouts are still unknown. Investigators believe that she went to Turkey and then went to Syria, where she allegedly hides from the authorities to this day. She is one of the most wanted criminals in the world!
An 8000 year old puzzle
Dmitry Day noticed these geoglyphs when he was looking for ancient pyramids using maps on the Internet. Scientists have no idea why they were built! The oldest of the objects was built 8000 years ago, and many believe that they were used to track the movements of the sun. NASA was so taken aback by this discovery that it is now working to unravel the mystery, using the latest technology in the process.
El Chapo's Great Escape
Nobody thought it was possible to break out of prison strict regime Altiplano, but the leader of the Mexican drug trade, Guzmán, also known as El Chapo, made this impossible escape. He drilled a hole in the shower chamber and escaped on a bicycle through a specially made underground tunnel! He was in a safe place long before the guards noticed that he was missing. This story deserves a TV show! His whereabouts remained a mystery for a long time until he was recaptured during a raid by Mexican Marines.
Ghost ships filled with corpses
More than a dozen boats, which were filled with corpses, sailed to the northwestern coast of Japan. They were all filled with decomposing bodies, but there was no evidence that they had been killed and put into boats on purpose. The authorities could not understand the reason why people on wooden ships died, and also could not figure out where the ships came from. Some of them bore the remains of a North Korean flag, but investigators are still unable to figure out exactly what happened. The first boats appeared in 2013 and they are still coming to the shores!
Life on Saturn's moon
NASA's Cassini spacecraft reached Saturn and its 62 moons last October. The "brave" piece of space technology even made a daring dive into an icy eruption on Enceladus, one of the planet's moons, which is an extraterrestrial ocean. Too bad Cassini isn't equipped with gadgets that can detect life forms.
120,000 antelopes died in just two weeks
More than a third of the entire population of antelopes died out in Kazakhstan in just two weeks. This is the biggest and most tragic case of its kind! Scientists still do not know what caused this, although it may have been due to significant biological and environmental issues. Many blame rocket fuel and noise pollution, which have been caused by many space rocket launches.
What happened to flight MH370?
Back in March 2014, a Boeing 777 took off on its flight MH370 from the Malaysian capital and disappeared from radar. The fact that the plane can disappear with everyone modern technologies shocked the whole world. A tiny piece of this aircraft recently appeared off the coast of Reunion Island in Indian Ocean. Investigators believe it's part of a flaperon from the plane. However, where the rest of this huge aircraft is is still unknown!
Siberian failures
Something really strange has been discovered on the Yamal Peninsula in Siberia. Due to an inexplicable explosion, a 100-meter hole appeared. After some time, there were several more failures. Scientists believe that gas explosions may be the cause of the formation of these holes. But they still don't know what specifically caused these holes to appear. They even sent a team to investigate one of these holes to confirm their theories, but alas! They still can't prove anything.
What is hidden under Stonehenge?
Good old Stonehenge still has a few tricks up its sleeve. New underground mapping technology has revealed something really strange - it looks like there are shrines, pits and mounds hidden under the ruins of Stonehenge that are more than 5,000 years old. Historians have always thought it was a stand-alone structure, but a new study changes everything! This new information could completely change what we know about the Stonehenge complex.
In the last 2 months there have been new facts about UFOs. Alien saucers appear in different parts of the Earth and even on the Moon and Mars. Why they became active is not yet clear.
UFO filmed on the moon
Recently, a record appeared on the network, which shows that there is strange object, very reminiscent of alien ship. The recording was taken with a powerful telescope. It shows how spaceship flies above the surface of the satellite at a low altitude. The flying object quickly appeared and disappeared suddenly.
It's worth saying that alien ships appear on the Earth's satellite quite often. However, the reliable facts that aliens exist or not. But there are indirect confirmations in the form of photographs from telescopes and the ruins of ancient buildings found.
UFO in Iran
In the province of Taran, the military saw brightly glowing ball. He slowly flew straight at them, so the soldiers decided to fire on him.
The object was not like any other aircraft of people. He moved without making noise, had no wings, propellers. The shelling did him no harm. After the soldiers started firing, UFO just turned around and flew away.
Aliens and Trump
The helicopter of US President D. Trump is constantly escorted UFO. They also appear when Trump flies on an airplane. At the same time moving alien ships at such a high speed that people do not see them, and only cameras capture objects.
Ufologists believe that the figure of the current US president is so ambiguous that it is interesting not only to people, but also to aliens, and guests from parallel world. Perhaps it was otherworldly inhabitants who helped Trump win.
UFO on Mars
NASA rover caught a strange object in the camera. The pictures were taken in black and white, but they have a lot of interesting things. So in the photographs you can see how it flies over the ridges of the planet UFO with cabin. But this does not mean that aliens are sitting in it, the object can be a drone.
Disc over Zealand
Teenager from Zealand recently captured on video disc white color. It originated over Blenheim in New Zealand. It was definitely not a plane, not some other object, known to mankind. The object appeared immediately after the thunderstorm had passed.
At first, it just hung over the Earth for 40 minutes, and then disappeared behind the clouds. Since the action took place at night, there was a feeling that the stars were drawn to the UFO, and it looked just fantastic.
The video received by the young man was sent for examination, but the scientists could not identify the object. That is, with a high degree of probability it was alien ship.
It would seem that we have studied our planet up and down and the conquest of space is next in line. But no matter how. Every day, scientists make discoveries and observe phenomena that prove that this planet still has many surprises.
We didn't get to the Earth's mantle
Seismologists believe that the inner core of our planet is solid, while the outer core is liquid and hot. Above is the mantle, on which the crust of the Earth seems to slide. However, we still do not know what this mantle consists of, because we never got there. It is located at a depth of 30-2,900 km, and the deepest "pit" that people have dug is the Kola well in Russia, which goes deep only some 12.3 km.
Poles can change
The magnetic poles of the Earth can shift and even completely change their direction. By examining volcanic rocks, scientists have found that the magnetic field of our planet has changed many times. The last such event was almost 10 million years ago and is likely to happen in the future. However, it is still not known exactly why this happens.
We had 2 moons
According to astronomers, approximately 4.6 million years ago, the Earth had two satellites. The second was about 1,200 km in diameter and rotated in the same orbit until it collided with the "main" Moon. Scientists have called this event a "giant slap." Such a catastrophe could explain why the two sides of today's moon are so different from each other.
Moonquakes
By the way, about the satellite of the Earth. Not everyone knows, but earthquakes also happen on the moon. True, unlike the earth, moonquakes are not so strong and occur very, very rarely. There is an assumption that their occurrence is associated with the tidal forces of the Sun and the Earth and the fall of meteorites.
The earth is spinning incredibly fast
The earth rotates at a speed of 1,600 km/h. It also revolves around the Sun at an even greater speed - 108 thousand km / h. In fact, we can only feel movement if its speed changes. Due to the constancy of the speed of rotation of the Earth and the force of gravity, we do not feel it at all.
Time becomes more
620 million years ago, a day on Earth lasted 21.9 hours. Over time, the Earth slows down the speed of rotation, but this happens very slowly, about 70 milliseconds in 100 years. It would take 100 million years for a day to have 25 hours.
Strange gravity
Due to the fact that our planet is not a perfect sphere, there are points on Earth with low and high gravity. One such gravitational anomaly is Hudson Bay in Canada. Scientists have found that the low gravity in this place is associated with the low density of the Earth due to the rapid melting of glaciers.
The hottest and coldest places on Earth
The hottest place on our planet is located in El Azizia (Libya). The temperature here rises to +58 °C. And the coldest is Antarctica. In winter, the temperature there drops to -73 °C. But the most extremely low temperature (-89.2 ° C) was recorded at the Russian Vostok station on July 21, 1983.
The planet is heavily polluted
Perhaps this is not news to many. However, what is interesting is that, according to astronauts, the view of the Earth from space in 1978 was very different from the current one. Because of a large number space debris and waste green-white-blue planet becomes brown-gray-black.
Earth is made up of iron, oxygen and silicon
If we wanted to divide the planet by composition, it would look like this: 32.1% iron, 30.1% oxygen, 15.1% silicon and 13.9% magnesium. It is believed that most of the iron (about 90%) is located in the core. And oxygen is the most earth's crust(about 47%).
Once upon a time the earth was purple
Ancient plants did not use chlorophyll to absorb sunlight, but another pigment - retinal. Thanks to retinal, they absorbed green light, and reflected red and purple, when mixed, purple was obtained. By the way, retinal exists to this day in some bacteria.
hidden ocean
At a depth of 410-660 km below the surface of the Earth, scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of water 2.7 billion years old. This liquid was found thanks to the ringwoodite rock that makes up the earth's mantle. Water is under enormous pressure, and its quantity is enough to fill all the oceans of the Earth 3 times. Thanks to this discovery, a theory arose that the earth's oceans appeared from an underground ocean that had burst out.
Despite the active study of exploration, space is still full of mysteries for mankind. Only quite recently, gravitational waves were considered only a theory, and today their existence has already been scientifically proven.
Despite the active study of exploration, space is still full of mysteries for mankind. Only quite recently, gravitational waves were considered only a theory, and today their existence has already been scientifically proven. Who knows what secrets these gloomy dark depths of the universe conceal in themselves. Nevertheless, even among what has already been discovered by scientists, there are a lot of extremely amazing things, the existence of which is hard to believe...
Alcohol
This discovery was recently made by an international team of scientists working on a 30-meter telescope in the Sierra Nevada mountains in the south of the Iberian Peninsula. They found that Comet Lovejoy, codenamed C/2011 W3, contained as many as 20 types of different organic molecules, including sugar and alcohol molecules. This periodic comet was discovered in November 2011. By all indications, its diameter should be at least 500 meters. In addition, it is one of the brightest comets known to science. So far, it is not completely clear where all this organic matter came from in the gas and dust tail of Lovejoy's comet. It is possible that they were "picked up" somewhere in the process of the comet's journey through space.
Another version says that these compounds could have arisen from a huge interstellar molecular cloud that formed the solar system.
planet of diamonds
An exoplanet with the complex name PSR J1719-1438 b was discovered in 2009. It is located in the constellation Serpens at a distance of 3900 light years from our solar system. But what is remarkable about this planet is that, by all accounts, it is almost entirely composed of crystalline carbon. PSR J1719-1438 b was one of the first of its kind, but far from the only one. To date, scientists are aware of at least five such carbon planets. It is assumed that they also have an iron core, but the basis of their surface is mainly silicon and titanium carbides, as well as pure carbon. According to scientists, on such planets there may be areas completely covered with kilometers of diamonds.
Huge rain cloud
And here, without any metaphors, this is really a gigantic accumulation of moisture, which can conditionally be called a cloud. This cloud is 10 billion light-years away and is believed to envelop a supermassive black hole. Moreover, when the term “huge” or “giant” is applied to something in space, then this should be understood on a completely different scale. No, this cloud is not the size of the continent of Eurasia, for example. It is so huge that it is about 100,000 times the size of the Sun.
cold stars
A hot ball that, with the help of a thermonuclear reaction, produces great amount energy, light and heat. In any case, our native Sun is just such a star. But the truth is that some stars can have very unusual conditions for them. Such stars, for example, are brown dwarfs. These are, if I may say so, dying stars, in which the reserves of nuclei are almost completely used up. thermonuclear reactions they still go, but not with such activity and not with such a strong release of heat.
For example, the star WISE 1828+2650. It is the coldest of all known brown dwarfs. Its surface temperature is only 25 degrees Celsius. Quite comfortable to walk around the star in shorts and a T-shirt.
Possible ocean life
Titan, Saturn's largest moon, is the most likely candidate for discovering an ocean of extraterrestrial life. At least that's what NASA scientists think. Conditions on the surface and in the atmosphere of this satellite are extremely harsh. The average temperature is minus 170–180 degrees Celsius. In some places, methane-ethane rivers flow and even lakes form. And most of the surface consists of water ice. However, in the conclusions of researchers, Titan is very often compared with our native Earth in the early stages of its development. It is not excluded that the existence of the simplest forms of life on the satellite is possible, in particular, in underground reservoirs, where conditions can be much more comfortable than on the surface.
Lightning
modern science It is already well known that lightning is not only an earthly phenomenon. electrical discharges registered in the atmospheres of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and other planets. But few people know that the strongest lightning occurs not on planets, but around black holes. Those very relativistic jets or jets that escape from the centers of quasars, black holes and radio galaxies can, in fact, also be considered lightning. Extremely powerful, huge. Their nature is still very little studied. Scientists believe that such discharges are formed due to the interaction of magnetic fields with the accretion disk around black hole or a neutron star.
real hell
If there is a real hell somewhere, then it must definitely be the planet CoRoT-7 b. It orbits the star COROT-7 in the constellation Monoceros, about 489 light years away. The planet's problem is that it is too close to its star and always turns only one side to it. Due to such conditions, a huge ocean of hot lava formed on the illuminated side of the planet. Its temperature is +2500-2600 degrees Celsius, which is higher than the melting point of most known minerals. Therefore, on the "warm" side of the planet, almost everything melted.
Moreover, the entire atmosphere of CoRoT-7 b mainly consists of this evaporated rock, which then falls to colder areas in the form of stone precipitation. It is assumed that once this planet was a gas giant the size of Saturn, but the star literally "evaporated" it to the core. Now it is only one and a half times the size of the Earth.
magnetars
Our Sun rotates around its axis in about 25 days, gradually distorting the magnetic field around it. Now imagine a dying star collapsing and shrinking into a tiny ball of matter in its death throes. Enormous, giant star, sometimes larger than the Sun, turns into a ball with a diameter of only a few tens of kilometers. All the while, it spins faster and faster. Like a twirling ballerina clasping and spreading her arms, this star spins in exactly the same way with its magnetic field.
According to scientists, sometimes the magnetic field of a magnetar can be a million times stronger than the earth's. For comparison: a magnetic field of this strength could disable your phone at a distance of hundreds of thousands of kilometers. It would seem that there is nothing so terrible here, it is enough just to keep your electronic devices away from magnetars. But this magnetic field is so strong that it can affect matter itself, twisting atoms into thin cylinders.
Orphan planets
Since the school bench, everyone knows that there are stars around which planets revolve, around which, in turn, their satellites can revolve. However, there are exceptions to all rules. Imagine that in the vast cold space there are planets that are not attached by gravity to either stars or other planets. They are usually called orphan planets or wanderer planets. It is interesting that if an orphan planet is in a galaxy, then even if it is not attached to the stars, it still revolves around the galactic core. Of course, the circulation period in such cases is very long. But it may also be that the planet is in an absolutely empty intergalactic space and then it does not revolve around anything at all.
Time Machine
In general, the entire cosmos and the entire Universe imagine one big time machine, in which even the distance for clarity is measured in years, light years, of course. However, given that the size of our galaxy is about 100,000 light years, then any event that happens on one of its edges will be noticeable on the other only after 100,000 years. But this does not mean that the speed of information propagation in the Universe is limited only by the speed of light. If you look at space in the infrared, you can see something that has not yet happened for us. A simple example: the famous "Pillars of Creation" is a region in the Eagle Nebula. According to the Spitzer infrared telescope, the "Pillars of Creation" were destroyed by a supernova explosion about 6,000 years ago. But since the nebula itself is located at a distance of 7,000 light years from Earth, we will see them for about a thousand years, although they themselves have long been gone.
It would seem that a person has studied the planet up and down and there is nothing left unexplored for him. But no matter how. Every day, scientists make discoveries and observe phenomena that prove that this planet still has many surprises.
Seismologists believe that the inner core of our planet is solid, while the outer core is liquid and hot. Above is the mantle, on which the crust of the Earth seems to slide. However, we still do not know what this mantle consists of, because we never got there. It is located at a depth of 30-2,900 km, and the deepest "pit" that people have dug is the Kola well in Russia, which goes deep only some 12.3 km.
Poles can change
The magnetic poles of the Earth can shift and even completely change their direction. By examining volcanic rocks, scientists have found that the magnetic field of our planet has changed many times. The last such event was almost 10 million years ago and is likely to happen in the future. However, it is still not known exactly why this happens.
We had 2 moons
According to astronomers, approximately 4.6 million years ago, the Earth had two satellites. The second was about 1,200 km in diameter and rotated in the same orbit until it collided with the "main" Moon. Scientists have called this event a "giant slap." Such a catastrophe could explain why the two sides of today's moon are so different from each other.
Moonquakes
By the way, about the satellite of the Earth. Not everyone knows, but earthquakes also happen on the moon. True, unlike the earth, moonquakes are not so strong and occur very, very rarely. There is an assumption that their occurrence is associated with the tidal forces of the Sun and the Earth and the fall of meteorites.
The earth is spinning incredibly fast
The earth rotates at a speed of 1,600 km/h. It also revolves around the Sun at an even greater speed - 108 thousand km / h. In fact, we can only feel movement if its speed changes. Due to the constancy of the speed of rotation of the Earth and the force of gravity, we do not feel it at all.
Time becomes more
620 million years ago, a day on Earth lasted 21.9 hours. Over time, the Earth slows down the speed of rotation, but this happens very slowly, about 70 milliseconds in 100 years. It would take 100 million years for a day to have 25 hours.
Strange gravity
Due to the fact that our planet is not a perfect sphere, there are points on Earth with low and high gravity. One such gravitational anomaly is Hudson Bay in Canada. Scientists have found that the low gravity in this place is associated with the low density of the Earth due to the rapid melting of glaciers.
The hottest and coldest places on Earth
The hottest place on our planet is located in El Azizia (Libya). The temperature here rises to +58 °C. And the coldest is Antarctica. In winter, the temperature there drops to -73 °C. But the most extremely low temperature (-89.2 ° C) was recorded at the Russian Vostok station on July 21, 1983.
The planet is heavily polluted
Perhaps this is not news to many. However, what is interesting is that, according to astronauts, the view of the Earth from space in 1978 was very different from the current one. Due to the large amount of space debris and waste, the green-white-blue planet becomes brown-gray-black.
Earth is made up of iron, oxygen and silicon
If we wanted to divide the planet by composition, it would look like this: 32.1% iron, 30.1% oxygen, 15.1% silicon and 13.9% magnesium. It is believed that most of the iron (about 90%) is located in the core. And oxygen is the most in the earth's crust (about 47%).
Once upon a time the earth was purple
Ancient plants did not use chlorophyll to absorb sunlight, but another pigment - retinal. Thanks to retinal, they absorbed green light, and reflected red and purple, when mixed, purple was obtained. By the way, retinal exists to this day in some bacteria.
hidden ocean
At a depth of 410-660 km below the surface of the Earth, scientists have discovered a huge reservoir of water 2.7 billion years old. This liquid was found thanks to the ringwoodite rock that makes up the earth's mantle. Water is under enormous pressure, and its quantity is enough to fill all the oceans of the Earth 3 times. Thanks to this discovery, a theory arose that the earth's oceans appeared from an underground ocean that had burst out.
