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Mars Papers
Mars & Planetary SETI Science Papers
HAS THE EARTH BEEN VISITED BY E.T.?
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Although the Earth may also have been visited in the ancient past, the overwhelming archaeological presence of thousands of years of human cultures and civilizations, make the identification of any potential E.T. artefacts or influences difficult to establish, particularly as still much of human prehistory remains unknown. And of those legends that do describe visitors from the skies, they are often mixed with cultural and religious overtones that can be a challenge to decipher with confidence.
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As such, any historical or present-day visitations by extraterrestrials, are likely to be more accurately identified and recognized by studies into UFOs, with the possibility that they may be confirmed as evidence of visiting craft and beings. However, science's omission in avoiding serious research into this obvious and ongoing phenomena, may have caused humanity to become profoundly ignorant of the true extent of extraterrestrial activity and influence upon the Earth.
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So who is trying to unravel this potential goldmine of knowledge of extraterrestrial activity in our solar system? NASA? No. Any other space agency? No. Well, the Chinese might, but they probably wouldn't tell us what they find anyway... and well, neither would NASA, I expect. So, as ever, the task falls to a handful of renegades to undertake possibly the most important work that will ever affect humanity - while the faint-hearted, who wish it would all just go away, hang on for dear life, to their rapidly disintegrating paradigm.
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M. J. Craig - Author of "Secret Mars"
PLANETARY SETI / ​XENOARCHAEOLOGY
The science studies and articles collected here, explore what's referred to as Planetary SETI or Xenoarchaeology, which is the archaeological study of past extraterrestrial or alien cultures on other planets or moons. The focus of these studies explore the hypothesis that evidence for extraterrestrial visitation to our solar system may be found on some of our own planets and their satellites, particularly Mars and the Moon.
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These two bodies have both been extensively photographed from orbit, and also from the surface, although Mars much more extensively so, with our Moon of course having also been visited by human landings. This has enabled the possibility to identify large artificial structures from orbiting science cameras, and smaller scale artefacts from cameras onboard the surface rovers.
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As it is presently accepted that humans from the Earth have never ventured to the other planets in our solar system, the existence of any artefacts and structures found on those other bodies, would logically either have to have originated from a civilization that had evolved on that world, or, to have arrived there from another solar system.
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Three-Sided Pyramidal Formation in the Western Region of Candor Chasma - Haas GJ, Saunders WR, Miller JS and Dale MA - Journal of Space Exploration Vol 6 Issue 3, October 2017.
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=29
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The Mounds of Cydonia: Elegant Geology, or Tetrahedral Geometry and Reactions of Pythagoras and Dirac - Horace Crater - Journal of Space Exploration Vol 5 Issue 3, 2016
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=10
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Evidence for a Large Anomalous Nuclear Explosions in Mars Past - John Brandenburg - STAIF II 2014.
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=12
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The Search For Life On Other Planets. The Geometry of Intelligence - Horace W. Crater - Journal of Cosmology, 2009, Vol 1, pages 66-70.
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=16
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The "Face On Mars" - Four Decades Later - Authors: Ananda Sirisena, Horace Crater, Stanley V. McDaniel & Mark Carlotto.
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=30
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The Mounds Of Cydonia - A Case Study For Planetary SETI - Horace W. Crater - Published by BIS in the January 2007 issue of the JBIS journal (Vol. 60, No.1).
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=17
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Detecting Patterns Of A Technological Intelligence In Remotely Sensed Imagery - Mark Carlotto - Published by BIS in the January 2007 issue of the JBIS journal (Vol. 60, No.1).
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=18
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SETI - Why the Radio Silence? - Ananda L. Sirisena - 2006
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=32​
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Planetary SETI Craves Scientific Credibility - Malcolm Smith - Published by BIS in the January 2004 issue of the magazine (Vol. 46 No.1).
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=19
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Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Moon: Results of SAAM Project - Dr. Alexey V. Arkhipov - New Frontiers in Science, Vol 2, 2002 (http://www.newfrontiersinscience.com).
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Yes – There is a Face on Mars - But is it Artificial? - Ananda Sirisena - 2001
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Symmetry and Geometry of the Face on Mars Revealed - Mark Carlotto, "Analysis of the April 2001 Image of the Face on Mars," New Frontiers in Science, Vol. 1, No. 1, Fall 2001 (http://www.newfrontiersinscience.com).
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=22
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Some Observations from Archaeology and Religious Studies on ETI - James F. Strange - Journal of the Society for the Study of Metaphysical Religion 7:1 and 7:2 (Spring/fall) 2001: 33-50.
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Evidence of Planetary Artifacts - T. Van Flandern, M. Carlotto, H. Crater, J. Erjavec, L. Fleming, J.P. Levasseur> Infinite Energy 7, #40, 23-31 (2001).
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Mound Configurations On The Martian Cydonia Plain - Horace W. Crater and Stanley V. McDaniel.
This paper Mound Configurations on the Martian Cydonia Plain, first appeared in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol 13, no. 3 1999, pages 373-400.
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Response to Geomorphology of Selected Massifs on the Plains of Cydonia, Mars - by David Pieri - Carlotto, M., Crater, H., Erjavec, J., McDaniel, S.V., (1999). Journal of Scientific Exploration, 13,3
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Digital Imagery Analysis of Unusual Martian Surface Features - Mark Carlotto - Applied Optics, Vol. 27, No. 10 (1988).
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Earth-Moon System as a Collector of Alien Artifacts - A.V. Arkhipov - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 51 181 (May 1998).
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Evidence in Support of the Hypothesis that Certain Objects on Mars are Artificial in Origin - Mark Carlotto - This paper is published in the Journal of Scientific Exploration, Volume 11, No. 2, Summer 1997
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=25
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The Cydonia Hypothesis - DiPietro, V., Molenaar, G., & Brandenburg, J. - Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 5, No. 1, pages 1-25 (1991).
http://spsr.nmcc.edu/modules/download_gallery/dlc.php?file=28
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A Method for Searching for Artificial Objects on Planetary Surfaces - Mark Carlotto and Michael C. Stein - Journal of the British Interplanetary Society, Vol. 43 No. 5 (May 1990).
The Society for Planetary SETI Research (SPSR)
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The Cydonia Institute
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Other Sources
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A Wedge and Dome Formation Set within the Flat Plains of Libya Montes - William R. Saunders, George J. Haas, James S. Miller, Michael A. Dale - Journal of Space Exploration, Volume 5, Issue 3, November, 2016.
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Prior Indigenous Technological Species - Jason T. Wright - April 2017