Mars Curiosity- Replicating the weak field at Gale Crater

Artist concept of Mars Curiosity - NASA

Today is a special day of celebration as NASA’s Mars Curiosity was launched into orbit and performed a flawless separation on its way to Mars for an August 2012 landing in or near Gale crater. Watch separation video.

Mars Curiosity separating from upper stage Centaur rocket NASA

In advance of the August landing, the weak area-specific molecular field of Mars can be replicated (what it feels like) by matching a Mars meteorite directly or extracting the field from an audio recording similar to the one made by the descending Huygens space probe on Saturn’s moon Titan. I know this because of a particular pattern recognition ability I have with weak electromagnetic fields. It is a similar process to that of developing the skill of human echolocation but in this case it is the skill of interpreting weak electromagnetic fields and their physiological effect on the body and most likely other biological life.

Unfortunately, the scientific community has not recognized the value of audio recordings for extracting these underlying weak fields. None of the Mars rovers were designed with microphones. This leaves us with matching the field of Mars meteorites for a close approximation of what Mars feels like. I extracted the weak field from a video of Mars meteorite ALH84001. This was a little tricky as only a short segment of the video had live audio near the specimen. Even so, I was able to make a good approximate field match.

Curiosity Landing Site at Gale Crater- NASA

If you were at Gale crater with the Mars rover Curiosity, this is what the area-specific field (composite molecular structure) would be similar to. This is a replication of Mars as a designer compound electromagnetic field emanating from an audio coil. You can recreate this field either by playing the mp3 audio file or by tuning material such as a glass, silicone wristband or inexpensive magnetic tape. Learn more on tuning material here.

Mars area-specific weak field replication

SETI and Apollo- Extracting Apollo 12 CSM Yankee Clipper Transit Frequency from Astronaut Voice Recordings

Apollo 12 CSM Yankee Clipper - NASA

There may be another way of “Deciphering Celestial Signals” using current technology of radio telescopes. The article written by Dr Gerry Harp at the SETI Institute discusses new ways of interpreting these signals for signs of extraterrestrial life with the Paul Allen Telescope Array. Because of the long distance, the alien’s message is distorted and buried in static. The static can be overcome by listening for a long time or building a larger telescope. Overcoming the distortion is still pretty-much an unsolved problem which I find quite fascinating. “We use computer tools to expand what it means to “look” at the data. By doing something we call “projecting the data,” we look at the data from a different angle or in a different light”.

What is not commonly known, is there is another method to look for signs of extraterrestrial life but we will have to got back to the Apollo Lunar missions where these signals are frozen in time as astronaut voice recordings. Analyzing these recordings in a new light offers a novel venue to glean information that is lying undiscovered within the electromagnetic frequencies that were radioed back to earth. Researchers can then apply these same techniques for deciphering celestial signals. The key is human pattern recognition of electromagnetic fields that can eventually be designed into search algorithms

I know this because of a particular pattern recognition ability I have with weak electromagnetic fields. It is a similar process to that of developing the skill of human echolocation but in this case it is the skill of interpreting weak electromagnetic fields and their physiological effect on the body and most likely other biological life.

Paul Allen Radio Telescope Array

Instead of debating the possibility that this type of pattern recognition exists, I will put together an example for others to validate that will show the approximate times the Apollo 12 Command Service Module (CSM) Yankee Clipper passes overhead the astronauts who are donning their spacesuits inside the Lunar Module (LM) Intrepid which is now is resting on the lunar surface. The maximum shift in the electromagnetic frequency that indicates the presence of the orbiting CSM will occur shortly after it passes overhead and will gradually decrease until communication is lost ( loss of signal LOS) as the CSM moves on to the lunar farside.

This is all possible because of the Apollo 12 Bernie Scrivener audio tapes recorded at the Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station Canberra, Australia.

Honeysuckle Creek Tracking Station 1969 by Hamish Lindsay

Though we are listening to the recorded audio of the astronauts, what is being analyzed are the audio signals moving through the electrical coil of the speaker creating an electromagnetic field and not the mechanical sound waves generated by the speaker. Within this field is a gradual increase in the field frequency, perhaps similar to a doppler shift, that indicates the presence of the Yankee Clipper as it passes overhead. Below is a chart of the orbits of the Yankee Clipper. I circled the landing site of Apollo 12 LM Intreped in blue and the loss of signal (LOS) location is marked in yellow.

Yankee Clipper LOS Chart- NASA

Here is the audio segment of the voice communications made by the Apollo 12 astronauts as an mp3 audio file. The transcript of the communications is below where astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean are donning there spacesuits in the LM Intrepid as Richard Gordan is passing overhead in the CSM. I marked the approximate times where the frequency begins to shift upwards, rises to a maximum and then gradually decrease as the Yankee Clipper passes out of communication line of sight.

Audio recording obtained from Apollo 12 Flight Journal, ALSJ Preparations for EVA-1 GET 114:28:14 to 115:15:39

114:48:54 Bean: Will do, Pete. Will do.

114:48:55 Conrad: I’ll get you all buttoned up. (Pause)

114:48:58 Bean: Looks fine. Let me pull your visors down a little bit.

114:49:00 Conrad: Yeah; that a boy.

114:49:02 Bean: Good. Let me get these…(Garbled)

114:49:03 Conrad: Okay; let’s leave my gloves off while I get your helmet and visor on.

114:49:06 Bean: All right.

114:49:08 Conrad: Your helmet. Hand me that (LEVA) and I’ll hold it for you. (Pause)

114:49:13 Bean: There you go. Let me slide that on my head. (Pause; helmet clacking noises) I’ll hold it up if you’ll…

114:49:32 Conrad: Locked.

114:49:33 Bean: No, no.

114:49:35 Conrad: Oh, wait a minute.

[Frequency is beginning to shift upwards]

114:49:38 Bean: Okay?

114:49:39 Conrad: Locked.

114:49:40 Bean: Looks good. Everything looks…

114:49:44 Conrad: Hold everything just a second. (Pause) Okay. (Pause) Wait a minute. Yeah; I checked that for you.

114:49:59 Bean: Okay. (Pause)

114:50:06 Conrad: Okay.

114:50:07 Bean: Super. (Pause)

114:50:12 Conrad: There you go.

114:50:13 Bean: Okay. Oh, look; (garbled).

114:50:17 Conrad: Hold up your PLSS and…Wait a minute; let me get all of this out first. (Pause) Out and about. (Pause) There you go.

114:50:31 Bean: Okay. (Pause) Okay; what does it (the checklist) say next?

114:50:38 Conrad: Now we need a set of gloves.

[Close to maximum shift in frequency

114:50:39 Bean: Okay.

114:50:40 Conrad: Now, let me just turn real slow. (Pause)

114:50:48 Gibson: Yankee Clipper, Houston. One minute to LOS. And we'll be giving you a P22 Pad at AOS.

(Long Pause) Yankee Clipper; Houston. 30 seconds to LOS.

[Frequency begins to drop.]

114:51:25 Gordon: Roger. See you next pass.

[Comm Break.

Dick Gordon in (Command Service Module) is just about to go behind the Moon.

114:51:55 Conrad: Boy, you can tell those are brand new gloves; I can hardly get my fingers down 'em. (Pause) (Garbled)

114:52:21 Conrad: Before you cover your wrist (with the outer gauntlet), let me check your (wrist) lock (as per checklist). (And) check mine. (Pause)

[Frequency has shifted down to base line]

The key insight is that the electromagnetic frequencies, in the form of voice communications, contain information (frequency shifts) that indicate the approach and transit of a spacecraft 60 nautical miles above the surface. Though I do not understand the underlying physics as to why this is occurring, detecting the doppler-like shift in the frequency in the audio recordings, as subtle as they are, is possible. Researchers now know where to look for the data. The compound electromagnetic frequency matches extracted from the audio recording indicating the presence of the orbiting Yankee Clipper can be requested by researchers investigating this process.

Walking with Apollo 12 in Surveyor Crater- A Weak Molecular Magnetic Field Replication

Apollo Intrepid and Surveyor 3- NASA

Apollo 12 landed on the Lunar surface in the Ocean of Storms on November 19, 1969. Astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean made two Moon walks (EVA). On the second EVA, they descended into Surveyor crater collecting rock samples on their way down to the Surveyor 3 spacecraft.

Apollo 12 site: Traverse map- NASA

Apollo 12 site: Traverse map- NASA

One of the rock samples collected was 12407 on the northeast side of Surveyor crater as the astronauts initially made their way around the crater rim. I marked the area in yellow where the sample was collected on the NASA Lunar sample map below:

Apollo 12 Lunar Sample Map- NASA

The Museum of Flight located in Seattle, WA has on display a portion of the Apollo 12 Lunar sample 12407 now labeled as 12407,6.

Apollo 12 Lunar sample 12407,6 Photograph by Chuck Northcutt

Apollo 12 Lunar sample 12407,6 photograph by Chuck Northcutt

In my article on replicating the weak magnetic field of Havasu Falls in the Grand Canyon, I discuss in more detail how area-specific magnetic fields are generated from the atomic arrangement of bonded atoms in their molecular form. The area-specific weak fields can be extracted from audio recorded at these sites as well as matched directly from geological samples. Weak magnetic fields have a physiological effect on biological systems.

I know this because of a particular pattern recognition ability I have with weak electromagnetic fields. It is a similar process to that of developing the skill of human echolocation but in this case it is the skill of interpreting weak electromagnetic fields and their physiological effect on the body and most likely other biological life.

Two sources for replicating the weak molecular magnetic field at Surveyor crater are the actual audio voice recordings of the astronauts when they made their way into the crater and also by a direct match from the Lunar sample 12407,6 at the Museum of Flight. It is now possible to incorporate these weak field matches into an audio visual simulation of this Moon walk via a recreated electromagnetic field from an electrical coil and also by wearing material tuned to the area specific weak fields of Surveyor crater. We are taking Lunar surface simulation to the next level through the addition of these weak magnetic fields that the body recognizes. They are the same weak fields that the Apollo 12 astronauts encountered at the crater.

I have created two mp3 audio files for the weak molecular magnetic fields at Surveyor crater. The first mp3 is the matched compound frequencies of the Apollo 12 Lunar sample 12407,6 that represents the area-specific weak field the astronauts encountered at the crater. As they descend into Surveyor crater this baseline field changes as they approach the surveyor spacecraft. The magnetic field elevates due to the material makeup of the spacecraft. In a way, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean act as biological sensors as the changes in the weak fields are captured in their voice communications.

Remember, it is not the mechanical sound waves from your speaker that we are focusing on when you play the mp3 files but the oscillating electromagnetic field emanating from your speaker’s audio coil. This weak field has a physiological effect on the body and is the basis of the field replication for Surveyor crater.

Area Specific Weak Field of Surveyor crater from Lunar Sample 12407,6

Elevated Weak Field due to Surveyor 3 Spacecraft

Below is the audio transcript of the Apollo 12 astronauts at Surveyor crater. I have marked on the transcript the approximate time when the weak molecular magnetic field begins to elevate as they approach the Surveyor 3 spacecraft. Both the actual audio recording I used to extract the weak Lunar fields and transcript are from NASA’s Apollo 12 Lunar Surface Journal and the Bernie Scrivener Audio Tapes.

133:51:35 Gibson: Roger. We copy those comments. Pete and Al, we show you’re 2 plus 23 into the EVA and, based on a 4-hour EVA, you would be leaving the Surveyor at 2 plus 50. But don’t rush; we’d like to make sure you get a good rest before you go into it (the crater).

133:51:51 Conrad: Okay.

133:51:52 Bean: Why don’t you give me a rock or two, Pete? And I will stick in there. Got any spares? (Pause) There you go. Good rock. Good rock! (Pause)

133:52:07 Conrad: (Chuckling) The world’s greatest juggling act. (Garbled)

133:52:11 Bean: Okay. That’ll be it. (To Ed) We just made a sample of a glass bead and some local rock on the south edge of the Surveyor Crater, Houston. And they’re going into bag 14D.

133:52:29 Gibson: 14D.

133:52:30 Conrad: (Garbled) brings back all of our training. I’m trying to remember who the guy was that kept saying “whatever you do, don’t get dust on the gnomon.” (Hearty laughter from both) Okay. We are going to jog on here for a little bit, Houston, and get a little bit closer to the Surveyor and look her over. (Pause)

133:52:55 Bean: Yeah. Hey, that’s…coming in from the south; looks like a good way, Pete.

133:52:59 Conrad: I’ll tell you what I’m going to do, Al. I am just gonna lope right around here.

133:53:02 Bean: That’s what I mean. If you stay at this level, you’ll end up at Surveyor.

133:53:05 Conrad: You’re right.

133:53:07 Bean: Follow the contour lines.

133:53:08 Conrad: No problem at all, Houston! (Pause) Look at the (Surveyor) scoop sticking out. You couldn’t see that before.

133:53:18 Gibson: Pete and Al, could you give us a comment on how far you’re sinking in?

133:53:24 Conrad: Not sinking in very far at all. This is fairly firm stuff. And I’m down in the crater about the same distance down that Surveyor is. I’m just going around it radially (means “circumferentially”). Wouldn’t you say so, Al?

133:53:41 Bean: Yeah, I would say that…I think Houston is just as concerned about us getting down in this crater. We been thinking about it, too, Houston. (Garbled under Pete)

133:53:47 Conrad: Okay. Yeah, don’t worry about it, Houston, because, really, it’s no strain; I’m 200 feet away from it; I’m at the same level; the ground is firm; and I can go right back up the way I came down with no strain at all.

133:54:02 Bean: That’s right.

133:54:03 Gibson: Roger. Sounds good.

133:54:04 Bean: It’s just exactly the way we thought it was going to be when we were talking about it. (Responding to Ed) Yeah, it is. I don’t think there’ll be any sweat about it.

Note by Tom Jacobs: This is the approximate time that the base line weak field begins to elevate. The astronauts are about 200 feet away from Surveyor 3.

133:54:09 Conrad: Al, I’ll tell you what let’s do. Get right over here, and we’ll park all of our gear, take ourselves a little rest, go over your photo plan, and then we’ll have at it.

Here is a video I put together a while back on the weak area-specific weak field frequencies of Apollo 12 at Surveyor crater.