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SUBJECT: CITIES FOUND ON VENUS FILE: UFO2796
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BY MIKE JONES for SUN
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Futuristic Cities have been photographed on Venus by the spacecraft Magellan,
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but astonished NASA scientists are trying to keep the incredible discovery
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under wraps.
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The photos were taken in October as Magellan descended into the dense Venusian
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atmosphere and reached a point approximately 10 miles from the planet's
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mountainous surface.
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Maps
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"We didn't expect this at all," says NASA project engineer who has asked that
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his name not be used for security reasons.
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"There was no hint that anything lived or had lived on the planet while
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Magellan orbited it the last four years."
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During its four years circling Venus, it relayed a massive amount of
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information about the second planet from the sun.
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This included the make-up of the planet's atmosphere and amazingly detailed
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maps of the surface, including towering mountain ranges and volcanoes and a
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rocky surface littered with craters.
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The mission was declared a success this summer and, having no way to bring
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Magellan back to Earth. NASA decided to gradually lower the spacecraft to the
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surface of Venus.
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The spacecraft was expected to either break up or burn up when it got to
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within 90 miles of the surface but did not.
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Not only was it not destroyed, it continued to send data back to the Jet
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Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena.
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No life
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At least six sprawling cities were photographed, appearing like fairly towers
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silhouetted on the horizon against an immense sun.
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However, there were no signs of life.
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Venus' dense atmosphere, consisting mostly of carbon dioxide and sulfuric
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acid, sis poisonous to human and animal life. Surface temperatures have been
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recorded as high as 900 degrees.
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If life as we know it ever existed on Venus, it has long since died out,
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scientists believe.
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"But that doesn't mean that some other sort of life might not exist," says Dr.
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Nelson Burton, a California physicist who has followed the progress of the
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space probe.
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"It would have to be capable of functioning in a poisonous atmosphere almost
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as dense as water, with high enough temperatures to cause paper to burst into
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flames on contact." There are certain insects and bacteria on Earth capable of
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enduring such conditions, Burton adds.
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NASA big shots apparently want to withhold details about the discovery of
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Venusian cities until they have studied the photographs closely.
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* THE U.F.O. BBS - http://www.ufobbs.com/ufo *
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