MARTIAN GLOBAL DUST STORMS & MICROORGANISMS

        My interests center on Mars and learning how to use to Code for purposes of enhancing U.S. security. I'm also curious about how this intelligence information found its way back in time. With respect to the first concern we will examine in detail what's known about the current (2018) Global Dust Storm that is blacking out the sky at the Mars Expedition Rover (MER) Opportunity and at the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity Rover. I will write at least two versions of the article. This one includes the Torah Code. The one that I will publish in conjunction with my son, David, and Marco de Marco will leave it out. Marco is opposed to manned landings on Mars because he worries about cross biological contamination of both worlds. Before studying the dust storm issue I tended to dismiss that threat. But if biological organisms are playing a role in dust lifting on Mars, then I would have to urge NASA to do what I hate - proceed with extreme caution. However I will never endorse keeping the truth about life on Mars hidden from the public. I do believe that definitive information about moving information back in time requires classification but my research in that area is only at the speculative level for now and is based in part on mistakes that DoD is making in reacting to what I publish. 

STATISTICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SIGNIFICANCE OF FIGURES 1 and 4: On Figures 1 and 4 the axis term is the same (only) ELS of DUST STORM.   Figure 1 required a row a split of 6 to match DUST STORM with YOUR SEED SHALL BE AS THE SEED OF THE EARTH. Figure 4 only needed a row split of 3 to match DUST STORM with SPERM/SEED AFTER IT KIND. Normally I don't publish anything with a row split over 3, so the section of Figure 4 below with a white background is the preferred matrix on the topic of Martian Dust Storms.  Figure 1 is only shown because I wanted to see how closely I could match the only ELS in (wrapped) Torah with a phrase that nearly equates dust with life. It was found on the 720-letter full matrix with DUST STORM against odds of about 212 to 1. On Figure 4 SPERM/SEED AFTER IT KIND was found on the full 930-letter matrix against odds of about 82 to 1, and on the smaller 624-letter matrix with the white background against odds of about 122 to 1.

       The word for seed is the same as that for sperm in Hebrew. The sudden rise of sperm and eggs from primitive life forms in our oceans for spawning purposes reminded me of the sudden rise of dust on Mars, which is why I sought these matches. Both Figures 1 and 4 had at least one ELS of the same 5-letter spelling of Mars, but MARS on Figure 1 is at skip -24,626 whereas MARS on Figure 4 is at skip 147,772. The word for INTELLIGENCE is the same on both matrices. Why look for INTELLIGENCE?  If there is primitive life using dust storms as a means to spread and spawn, then components may have a simple means of communicating so that storms lifting in the northern hemisphere can find and merge with storms simultaneously lifting the southern hemisphere. That's a simple answer. But sometimes NASA is accused of leaking real secrets to Hollywood. In the movie MISSION TO MARS we see a dust storm query our astronauts about our DNA, and then lash out to kill them when the desired answer was not forthcoming. Because Mars cooled faster than Earth life might have formed there before here. Whether from that time, 4 billion years ago, or from whatever caused the loss of most Martian seas (except that at Utopia Planitia which is still there but frozen and covered by a few meters of dust), there has been time for bacteria to evolve, and if working together, to become sentient.

       Figure 4 adds the term METHANE. It's a lighter than air gas that might help lift dust. It has been found at several places on Mars including at Gale Crater where MSL is located. Further it's more likely associated with life than geological processes. However on Figure 4 what is statistically significant is found in the area with the white background, but methane is not there. Ditto for COMPUTER/BRAIN. There was one more term of interest on Figure 4 - THE LIFE/BEAST. It touches DUST STORM. Overall the material in the white background area of Figure 4 was found against odds of about 22,142 to 1.      

DOES LIFE EXIST ON DUST ON EARTH? Yes. Wikipedia states of dust mites that, "They are generally found on the floor and other surfaces until disturbed (by walking, for example). It could take somewhere between twenty minutes and two hours for dust mites to settle back down out of the air." In fact, at Smithsonian.com we learn that:

 WEATHER AT MSL FOR SOLS SHOWN IN FIGURE 3. On Table 1 column subjects and color codings are as follows:

Column Q shows the Ls during Year 1.

TIMING  OF SPAWNING ON EARTH.  We are interested in whether, if there is microscopic life on Mars, there might be a mass spawing that occurs in conjunction with the rising dust.

       On Earth mass coral spawning is an annual phenomenon that usually occurs over several days to just over a week after a full moon. Depending on location, it happens at different times of year. For example, coral spawning in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles, normally occurs in September and October. Whereas the same happens at Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in Spring.

MARTIAN DUST STORM SEASONS. For the Martian northern hemisphere Mars seasonal dust storms originate in two seasons, at solar longitude (Ls) 180 to 240° and Ls 305 to 350°. In the southern hemisphere seasonal dust storms usually originate between Ls 135 to 245°. So there is an overlap between Ls 180 to 240°. Length of days in hours at each Ls just mentioned is given in Table 2 below:

       A study published in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on 7 January 2016 confirmed that it is the moon that drives the vertical migrations of tiny marine animals like zooplankton through the dark, frigid Arctic winter. A mass of zooplankton from the surface waters sink to 50m every 29.5 days during winter, which coincides with the full moon, which is likely an attempt to avert predator hunting by moonlight.

       Dr. John Brandenburg thinks there was a nuclear war millions of years ago on Mars. I know him well, and critique his work elsewhere on this site. In working up this article I listened to an interview that he gave about his theory. The show was broadcast on July 31, 2015 on Paul McLeod's Strange Universe. It's 96 minutes long and can be found here. I only mention him here because (possibly by coincidence) he names Acidalia Planitia (yellow 1 on the large Figure 5 map above) as the site of an ancient nuclear air burst, and studies by Huiqun Wang et. and Mark Richardson in 2013 that name the same area as the being by far the most common area where large dust storms erupt on Mars. Further, Wang and Richardson name Utopia Plantia (yellow 2 on the map above) as the second greatest area for dust storm generation, and Brandenburg's map shows that area as also being source of thorium and radioactive potassium. Brandenburg thinks that bacteria (but not much else) survived the nuclear assault. Here we hypothesize that if Brandenburg is correct, the radiation may have caused mutations in the ancient bacteria that led to a smarter germ or life form that could explain why so much dust gets lifted so fast on Mars that it may suggest one part of the planet's dust system being in contact with others. When multiple dust storms form simultaneously, they often migrate thousands of miles to merge with each other which may hint at mating with an aim of hydrid vigor.

LOOKING FOR A LESS CONTROVERSIAL DUST STORM CAUSE: SALTATION. Particle size under 2 microns is a problem. Note that on Earth bacterial cells range from about 1 to 10 microns in length and from 0.2 to 1 micron in width.

       Balme and Greeley¹ state, “The Martian atmosphere is thinner than Earth’s… so much higher wind speeds are required to pick up sand or dust on Mars.  Wind tunnel studies have shown that, like Earth, particles with diameter 80-100 μm (fine sand) are the easiest to move, having the lowest static threshold friction velocity, and that larger and smaller particles require stronger winds to entrain them into the flow.  However, much of Mars’ atmospheric dust load is very small, and the boundary layer wind speeds required to entrain such fine material are in excess of those measured at the surface (Magalhaes et al., 1999).² Nevertheless, fine dust is somehow being injected into the atmosphere to support… haze and … local… and global… dust storms.”

       The problem of dust particle size is more serious than indicated above.  Optimum particle size for direct lifting by the wind (with the lowest threshold velocity) is around 90 μm. This requires a wind at 5 meters altitude to be around 30-40 m/s. For smaller particles like the 1 μm size dust typically suspended in the air over Mars, the threshold velocity is extremely high, requiring enormous wind speeds (>500 m/s) at 5 m altitude which would never occur.  It is thus argued that saltation must be crucial to the lifting of very small particles into the air (Read and Lewis, 2004, 190).³

       Saltation occurs when large particles are briefly lifted into air by surface winds, and then soon fall out by sedimentation.⁴ On impact with the surface, they may dislodge smaller particles and lift them into the air.  Read and Lewis indicate that the velocity that fine sand (~ 100 μm) would have on impact is only about 50 to 80 cm per second (1.8 to 2.88 kph).³

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¹ Balme, M., Greeley R. (2006), Dust devils on Earth and Mars, Review Geophysics., 44, RG3003,doi:10.1029/2005RG000188. http://gaspra.la.asu.edu/dustdevil/proceed/Balme_and_Greeley_DD_ms.pdf

² Magalhaes, J.A., Schofield, J.T., & Seiff, A. (1999). Results of the Mars Pathfinder atmospheric structure investigation, J. Physics. Res., 104,  8943-8955

³ Read, P. L., & Lewis, S. R. (2004). The Martian Climate Revisited, Atmosphere and Environment of a Desert Planet, Chichester, UK: Praxis.

⁴ Bagnold, R. A. (1954). The Physics of Blown Sand and Desert Dunes. London, Methuen.

INITIAL SUMMARY. Figures 1 and 4 are of mild interest, but are far less significant than the Torah Codes matrix about Utopia Planitia which is where we find a frozen sea on Mars, where dust storms often arise, and where there is a high level of radioactive isotopes normally associated with nuclear explosions. The idea that rising dust on Mars might be associated with biology is set forth in a hypothesis based on bacteria found on dust in dust storms on Earth.  We will need a microscopic analysis of Martian dust to know more, but two initial searches for life in Martian soil via Labelled Release Experiments designed by Drs. Gil Levin and Patricia Straat at Viking 1 and 2 yielded results that were positive by standards set down before the experiments were carried out. The initial cause for NASA denying those results was due to failure to detect organic chemistry, but that reason was later thrown out by NASA leaving us with a planet that likely has abundant primitive life. The initial test for organic chemistry likely destroyed it, and many organic chemicals on Mars have been found since 2014. My bet is that we will find that life plays a role in Martian meteorology. If life is found throughout global storms we may be in for a surprise when it comes to potential intelligence involved in the lifting mechanism. Look for many updates of this article as I research the matter further and in particular when the dust settles from the 2018 Global Dust Storm.