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Science & Spirituality merge to help answer the question: Are we alone?

Warning! - Key Terms

[1] Wikipedia - Confirmation Bias

[2] Wikipedia - Convergent Validity

[3] Wikipedia - Occam's Razor

[4] Wikipedia - Pseudoscience

[5] Wikipedia - Gaslighting

[6] Wikipedia - Illusion

[7] Wikipedia - Pareidolia

[8] Wikipedia - Predictive Coding

[9] Wikipedia - Paradigm Shift

Cosmic Perspective

[10] Hayden Planetarium (4/2/2007) Neil deGrasse Tyson - The Cosmic Perspective

Scientific & Spiritual Perspectives

[11] BBC - Vatican Observatory Where Priests Are Also Astrophysicists

[12] HuffPost - Will ET Be Here Soon? NASA Brings Scientists, Theologians Together To Prepare

[13] NASA (2016) - NSF's LIGO has Detected Gravitational Waves

[14] Universe Today - The Human brain in space: euphoria and the "Overview Effect" experienced by astronauts

Quantum Physics Perspective

[15] Washington Post - Quantum Entanglement - Science's 'spookiest' phenomenon achieved in space

[16] noosphere.princeton.edu - The Global Consciousness Project

[17] princeton.edu - Princeton Experimental Anomalies Research - PEAR Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Scientific Study of Consciousness-Related Physical Phenomena

[18] The Atlantic - Can Quantum Physics Explain Consciousness?

[19] BBC - The strange link between the human mind and quantum physics

[20] NBC News - Is the Universe Conscious?

[21] Wikipedia - Quantum Mind

[22] YouTube - Quantum Physics and Consciousness - Michio Kaku - "Cosmic Consciousness"

[23] nih.gov - Carl Gustav Jung, Quantum Physics and the Spiritual Mind: A Mystical Vision of the Twenty-First Century

Psychosocial Perspective

[24] smithsonianmag.com - Humans have searched for extraterrestrial life for more than a century. What will we do when we find it life out there in the universe?

[25] Newsweek (2015) - Most People Believe Intelligent Aliens Exist

[26] yougov.co.uk (2015) - Majorities across Britain, Germany and the USA believe that extra-terrestrial life exists

[27] sciencedirect.com - Consciousness and Cognition Volume 40 - Mindfulness meditation and consciousness: An integrative neuroscientific perspective

[28] harvard.edu - “Our brains need a coherence of firing to organize perception and analysis of data from the world around us"

[29] heartmath.org - Heart/Global Interconnectedness - Heart-brain coherence

Astrobiological Perspective

[30] NASA - Atrobiology - Are We Alone?

[31] NASA - Follow the water

[32] NASA - Finding Life Beyond Earth is Within Reach

[33] LA Times (2015) - NASA announces we'll find extraterrestrial life in the next 10-20 years

[34] New York Times - Yes There Have Been Aliens - Drake Equation - Updated with Kepler data - (Does not include moons)

[35] aeon.co - To find aliens, we must think of life as we don’t know it

Ocean Worlds

[36] NASA - The Solar System and Beyond is Awash in Water - April 7, 2015

[37] JPL/NASA - Infographic - Includes 10 bodies in our solar system that contain vast quantities of liquid water at or below the surface

[38] ScienceAlert - These Ocean Worlds Reveal Just How Little Water We Have Here on Earth

[39] NASA - Does the sun have any water? (Yes)

[40] suspicious0bservers.org - Starwater Theory

[41] NASA - Webb telescope will study our solar system's ocean worlds

Ceres

[42] JPL/NASA - Ceres by Hubble Space Telescope (HST)

[43] JPL/NASA - Water Ice Abundance - Vesta & Ceres

[44] JPL/NASA - Dawn - Infrared images - (brightest spots designated Area 5)

[45] JPL/NASA - 4/13/2015 - Dawn's First Color Map of Ceres

[46] JPL/NASA - 6/29/2015 - Occator Crater in the dark (?)

[47] mysteriousuniverse.org - After Odd (6/30/2015) Dawn Shutdown, NASA Has New Take on Ceres Lights

[48] JPL/NASA - 3D view - Occator Crater

[49] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater - Topographic map

[50] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots

[51] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots - Color

[52] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater bright spots in color and other images

[53] National Geographic - The Dwarf Planet Previosuly Known as an Ocean World

[54] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Ceres (color animation)

[55] JPL/NASA - Occator Crater and carbonates

[56] NASA - Age of Occator Crater bright spots

[57] JPL/NASA - Center of Occator Crater (enhanced color)

[58] JPL/NASA - Flight Over Occator Crater

[59] mps.mpg.de - Cryovolcanism on Dwarf Planet Ceres

[60] popularmechanics.com - The Ice Volcanoes of Ceres Were Highly Active a Few Million Years Ago

[61] Scientific American - Possible subsurface ocean

[62] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Enhanced color

[63] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Topographic map

[64] JPL/NASA - Haulani Crater - Infrared - Full resolution

[65] Space.com - Interior layers rendering

[66] EOS.org - Geologically active

[67] JPL/NASA - Ahuna Mons - Side view

[68] phys.org - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic animation

[69] Nature - Ahuna Mons - 3-D Topographic images

[70] phys.org - Ceres: The tiny world where volcanoes erupt ice - Ahuna Mons - Scroll down for partial elevation terrain models - Color

[71] sciencemag.org - Cryovolcanism on Ceres

[72] space.com - Ceres' Ice Volcano Ahuna Mons

[73] businessinsider.com - There’s only one volcano on dwarf planet Ceres — and scientists think that’s because the rest have vanished

[74] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater

[75] JPL/NASA - Oxo Crater - Side view

[76] JPL/NASA - Ceres color map

[77] JPL/NASA - Ceres - color

[78] JPL/NASA - Ceres - Enhanced color view

[79] JPL/NASA - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[80] Space.com - Organic molecules - Ernutet Crater - color

[81] JPL/NASA - Dawn Journal - Three-year retrospective

[82] JPL/NASA - Complex Relationships in the Occator-Kirnis Region

[83] JPL/NASA - High Resolution Ceres View

Jupiter

[84] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter North Pole

[85] JPL/NASA - Jupiter Northen Lights Mystery

[86] JPL/NASA - Juno - Jupiter South Pole

[87] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[88] JPL/NASA - South Pole

[89] JPL/NASA - South Pole Composite

[90] JPL/NASA - Infrared

[91] JPL/NASA - Io color and heat

[92] JPL/NASA - Io closeup

[93] NASA - Io blue plume

[94] JPL/NASA - Io Pele Plume

[95] JPL/NASA - Io hi res plume

[96] JPL/NASA - Io plumes

[97] JPL/NASA - Io Southern Hemisphere

[98] JPL/NASA - Io South Pole

[99] JPL/NASA - Europa - Color

[100] JPL/NASA - Hubble Sees Recurring Plume Erupting From Europa

[101] JPL/NASA - Europa - Closeup color

[102] JPL/NASA - Europa Clay Prints

[103] JPL/NASA - Europa Cracks and Ridges

[104] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Color Global

[105] JPL/NASA - Global Map of Ganymede

[106] JPL/NASA - Rotating Globe of Ganymede Geology

[107] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[108] JPL/NASA - Ganymede Varied Terrain

[109] JPL/NASA - Caldera on Ganymede

[110] JPL/NASA - Ganymede - Visible and Infrared

[111] JPL/NASA - Ganymede - Artist's rendering - Possible subsurface ocean layers

[112] JPL/NASA - Callisto - Color

[113] JPL/NASA - Callisto Hemispherical Globes - Color

[114] JPL/NASA - The Valhalla Multi-ring Structure on Callisto

[115] JPL/NASA - Impact Craters on Icy Callisto

[116] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

[117] JPL/NASA - Callisto Asgard Region - Near-infrared

[118] JPL/NASA - Mass Wasting in Craters near the South Pole of Callisto

[119] JPL/NASA - Callisto Mosaic - Color

[120] Juno Mission - 63 Moons of Jupiter - Animation

[121] YouTube - Astrum - Highlights from the Juno Mission - Includes polar images and aurora

[122] YouTube - Sean Duran - Jupiter Juno Perijove 08

[123] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

Saturn

[124] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Last full disk images of Saturn from Cassini - Color

[125] JPL/NASA - Cassini - Saturn - Color - Earth and moon (lower right)

[126] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole - Animation

[127] JPL/NASA - Saturn's North Pole

[128] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - North Pole - Color

[129] JPL/NASA - Rings - Mostly water ice - color

[130] JPL/NASA - Pan

[131] JPL/NASA - Saturn's F-ring (not caused by Pan)

[132] JPL/NASA - Pandora

[133] JPL/NASA - Atlas, Daphnis, and Pan

[134] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Atlas - Color

[135] Flickr.com - 2d7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Daphnis - Color

[136] JPL/NASA - Epimetheus

[137] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Epimetheus closeup

[138] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[139] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[140] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[141] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[142] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

[143] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Color

[144] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[145] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

[146] JPL/NASA - Enceladus electrical connection with Saturn

[147] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[148] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[149] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[150] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

[151] JPL/NASA - Enceladus orbital squeeze (featuring Saturn)

[152] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[153] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

[154] JPL/NASA - Cassini's last Eneceledus plume observation (animation)

[155] EOS - Where are the electrical currents in the Enceladus plume?

[156] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

[157] Scientific American - Excitement builds for the possibility of life on Enceladus

[158] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[159] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[160] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[161] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[162] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[163] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

[164] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Dione trailing Hemisphere - Color

[165] JPL/NASA - Dione - A Moon's Contrasts

[166] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[167] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[168] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

[169] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Global color maps

[170] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Icy Cratered Surface

[171] JPL/NASA - Rhea - Multiple Impact Craters

[172] BBC - Cassini's last Titan flyby - Color includes upper atmosphere

[173] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

[174] JPL/NASA - Titan - near-infrared wavelengths

[175] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[176] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[177] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

[178] JPL/NASA - Titan's South Polar Vortex - Color

[179] NASA - Cassini completes final and fateful Titan flyby

[180] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[181] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

[182] JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Extreme Color

[183] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Color

[184] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[185] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

[186] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pandora - Color

[187] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[188] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[189] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

[190] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Iapetus equatorial ridge closeup

[191] JPL/NASA - Farewell to Iapetus - Color

[192] JPL/NASA - Cassini: The Grand Finale - Moons - "Habitability Outside the Habitability Zone" - Color

[193] YouTube - Astrum - 10 Amazing Images from Cassini

[194] BBC (9/13/2017) - Cassini's epic journey to the ringed planet, told by the people who helped make it happen

[195] YouTube -TechInsider (2016) - NASA released a stunning time lapse of Saturn

[196] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[197] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[198] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

[199] YouTube - Astrum - Cassini retrospective and grand finale

[200] YouTube - NPR's Skunk Bear - Postcards from Saturn

[201] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

[202] YouTube - Secureteam10 - Cassini time-lapse footage montage

[203] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

[204] JPL/NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Uranus

[205] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[206] JPL/NASA - Miranda

[207] JPL/NASA - Miranda closeup

[208] JPL/NASA - Miranda more closeup

[209] JPL/NASA - Umbriel

[210] JPL/NASA - Titania

[211] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

[212] YouTube - CrashCourse - Uranus & Neptune: CrashCourse Astronomy #19

[213] medium.com - Mysterious Uranus and why we need to put an orbiter around it

Neptune

[214] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

[215] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune - True Color of Clouds

[216] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[217] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

[218] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color- Voyager 2 flyby video released for the 25th anniversary

[219] JPL/NASA - Triton closeup

[220] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[221] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

[222] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

[223] NASA - New Horizons Update: Methane Detected; New Images of Pluto and Charon; Sunrise/Sunset Observations

[224] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

[225] NASA - Pluto's orientation with the equator

[226] JPL/NASA - Pluto and Charon enhanced color

[227] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Charon

[228] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[229] NASA - Pluto's size

[230] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[231] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[232] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

[233] gizmodo.com - Pluto/Charon binary system with four moons

[234] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[235] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[236] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

[237] JPL/NASA - Pluto cryovolcano (Wright Mons)

[238] NASA - APOD - 'snakeskin' terrain - color

[239] Space.com - Pluto water

[240] NASA - Pluto haze layers

[241] flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Atmosphere - Color

[242] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[243] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[244] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

[245] flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - JPL/NASA- Sputnik Planum - Color

[246] JPL/NASA - Pluto North Pole - Color

[247] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

[248] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI - Dark side and atmosphere closeup

[249] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

[250] Brown U. - Futurity.org - Possible ocean

[251] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[252] New York Times - Possible ocean

[253] space.com - Dwarf Planet Pluto: Facts About the Icy Former Planet

Panspermia Theory

[254] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

[255] JPL/NASA - WISE - A Discovering Machine

[256] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

[257] blogspot.com - Credit: Alex Parker - OSSOS team - Solar system diagram

[258] National Geographic - Stardust mission - comet tail dust may be extrasolar

[259] CBS News - Chelyabinsk meteor - 2/15/2013

[260] Time - (Chelyabinsk) Meteorite pulled from Russian lake is one of the world's biggest - October 2013

[261] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - Extraterrestrial Life Exists, Scientist Chandra Wickramasinghe Claims

[262] NASA - 3000 Comets for SOHO - Time-lapse animation - Kreutz Comets (in red) are the fastest objects in the solar system, traveling 0.2 light speed before they disappear into the sun

[263] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

[264] space.com (2011) - Did Comet Cause Solar Explosion? Hardly, Experts Say

[265] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[266] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

[267] HuffPost - Lee Speigel - UK Scientists: Aliens May Have Sent Space Seeds To Create Life On Earth

[268] JPL/NASA - Asteroid Ida and satellite Dactyl - Color

[269] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

[270] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid - different angles

[271] earthsky.org - Lovejoy C/2011 - Perihelion December 2011 - Video

[272] assa.org - Images of Lovejoy C/2011 from Australia

[273] brucegary.net - Comet C/2012 S1 ISON - Bruce Gary (retired professional astronomer)

[274] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

[275] NBC News - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion

[276] CNN - Comet ISON - Pre-perihelion videos

[277] earthsky.org - SDO coverage planned at perihelion

[278] NASA - ISON recap

[279] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - SDO signal loop prevented NASA scientists from seeing comet ISON at perihelion

[280] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

[281] pcmag.com - Comet ISON Wrap-up: It Fought the Sun and the Sun Won

[282] NASA (5/29/2016) - Anomalies around the stereo spacecraft

[283] YouTube - CrashCourse - Asteroids: Crash Course Astronomy #20

[284] Spacetelescope.org - Hubble ESA - Hubble discovers a unique type of object in the Solar System - Binary comets in the asteroid belt

Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

[285] ESA (7/7/2015) - Rosetta - Navcam Image

[286] wordpress.com - JPL/NASA - Orbital diagram

[287] space.com - 'Sound' of comet 67P

[288] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[289] NASA - Atmosphere

[290] ESA - Philae close up

[291] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[292] LA Times - Oxygen found

[293] The Guardian - Oxygen found

[294] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - Color

[295] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team - Same as APOD

[296] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[297] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[298] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[299] flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

[300] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - ESA/Rosetta/NavCam - Colour

[301] ESA - Comet's fireworks display before perihelion

[302] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

[303] sohowww.nascom.nasa.gov - Realtime Images

[304] stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa - Stereo Science Center

[305] Space Weather News - 24hr. video loops

[306] spaceweather.com - Space Weather - Space Photos

[307] NASA - APOD - Coronal Crown During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[308] NASA - Coronal Crown

[309] NASA - ISS During 8/21/17 Eclipse

[310] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

[311] NASA - SDO - The Sun's Rainbow of Wavelengths

[312] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

[313] YouTube - Aryanatomy - Sounds of the solar system (starts with the sun)

Electric Universe Theory

[314] Electric Universe Theory

[315] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[316] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

[317] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Magnetic Reconnection & Cosmic Plasma

[318] ESA - Hershel - Oort Cloud - Note toroidal shape

[319] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[320] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[321] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[322] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[323] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

[324] whatsupwiththat.com - How plasma connects the sun to the climate

[325] NASA - Hidden Portals in Earth's Electromagnetic Field

[326] rationalwiki.org - Electric Universe Theory as Pseudo-science

[327] physics.stackexchange.com - How to Debunk the Electric Universe

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[328] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[329] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

[330] NASA (January 22, 2008) MESSENGER - Mercury - Color

[331] seeker.com - Mercury's Water Ice Deposits Have a Mysterious Origin

[332] CBS News - NASA captures first images of frozen water on Mercury

[333] spaceref.com - NASA MESSENGER Image of Mercury: Young Crater With Bright Rays - Color

[334] NASA - Mercury water ice

[335] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

Venus

[336] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

[337] YouTube - Astrum - Our Solar System's Planets: Venus

Earth & Moon

[338] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[339] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

[340] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field - (repeat)

[341] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

[342] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - NASA/JPL - Apollo mission - Color

[343] NASA - Captured asteroid

[344] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[345] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

[346] Space.com - (8/20/2014) Sea plankton found on ISS, Russians claim

[347] livescience.com - Life in Antarctica Lake under Ice

[348] Washington Post - These animals can survive until the end of the Earth, astrophysicists say

[349] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

[350] nih.gov - The brine shrimp artemia: adapted to critical life conditions

[351] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

[352] YouTube - Space Videos - Moon time lapse - SELENE images

Mars

[353] NASA (1999) - Mars Rotate (true color) - Animation

[354] NASA (2011) - Mars Roll - Includes South and North Poles - Animation

[355] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[356] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

[357] ESA - Blue sediments build up in craters over time - Colour

[358] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

[359] Flickr.com - 2di7 & titanio44 - Mars by ESA Rosetta - OSIRIS NAC - February 2007

[360] ISRO - Mars Orbiter Mission - First closeup color image

[361] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[362] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[363] ISRO - Images from colour camera

[364] spaceref.com - ISRO - Images of Phobos and Martian atmosphere

[365] ESA - Phobos

[366] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[367] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[368] NASA - Deimos - Color

[369] JPL/NASA - Mount Sharp Comes in Sharply - note baby blue sky

[370] ESA - Past habitability

[371] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

[372] JPL/NASA - Morning Clouds Atop Martian Mountain

[373] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[374] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

[375] JPL/NASA - Odyssey - Investigating Mars: Siton Undae

[376] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[377] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[378] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

[379] UAHirise - Gullies and Flow Features on Crater Wall

[380] UAHirise - Cracks in a Crater's Ice

[381] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[382] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[383] JPL/NASA - North polar cap - Color

[384] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[385] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

[386] researchgate.net - Crater near north polar cap with water ice

[387] NASA - South polar cap

[388] NASA - South polar texture

[389] NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day - South polar texture

[390] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[391] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[392] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[393] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[394] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

[395] phys.org - South Polar cap - Color

[396] marsanomalyresearch.com - NASA/JPL/MSSS - South polar anomaly

[397] JPL/NASA - Rectangles with wiggly sides near south polar cap

[398] JPL/NASA - Patterns Unique, Yet Familiar - Near south polar cap

[399] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[400] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

[401] UAHirise - Dry Ice (Spiders) Gone Wild

[402] UAHirise - Interesting Cones inside Crater - Spiders on Shadowed Side

[403] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[404] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

[405] NASA - Citizen scientists seek South Pole spiders on Mars

[406] JPL/NASA - Pit or impact crater next to very dark textured area

[407] JPL/NASA - Possible Layers on Floor of Suzhi Crater

[408] JPL/NASA - Color strips near Mawrth Vallis - "a future interplanetary park"

[409] UAHirise - A View of the Painted Desert Near Mawrth Vallis

[410] UAHirise - Candidate ExoMars Landing Site in Mawrth Vallis

[411] NASA - Subsurface water

[412] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks - Curiosity rover sol 707

[413] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[414] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

[415] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Mud cracks

[416] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[417] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[418] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[419] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[420] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

[421] JPL//NASA - Evidence of past water

[422] NASA - Curiosity rover - Mars covered with organic material

[423] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[424] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[425] JPL/NASA - UAP over Mt. Sharp

[426] NASA (3/4/2004) - Opportunity - "Bunny ears"

[427] JPL/NASA - Opportunity rover - Microscopic image anomaly

[428] techtimes.com - Opportunity rover - "Weird rock" - "relatively high concentration of silicon and aluminum. Its overall composition has neither been observed by either the Opportunity or Spirit before"

[429] NASA - Opportunity rover - Marathon Valley - Map

[430] NASA - Opportunity rover - Weird rock - panoramic

[431] JPL/NASA - "Jelly doughnut" anomaly

[432] National Geographic - "Doughnut Rock" Added to Mars's Mystery Object Hall of Fame

[433] JPL/NASA - Surface anomaly (upper left)

[434] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[435] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[436] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[437] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[438] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation - Context image

[439] NASA - Hubble Space Telescope (HST) - Color

[440] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

[441] earthsky.org - More evidence for water on Mars

[442] space.com - There Is Boron on Mars — Another Sign the Red Planet Could Have Hosted Life

[443] JPL/NASA - Textures in Deuteronilus Mensae - Color

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[444] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

[445] NASA - Oort Cloud - Overview

[446] YouTube - CrashCourse - Oort Cloud: Crash Course Astronomy #22

Extrasolar Systems

[447] NASA - Kepler survey catalogue with hundreds of new planet candidates

[448] Washington Post - Four Alien Planets Orbiting Nearby Star - (scroll down for gif)

[449] Universe Today - Kepler Confirms First Planet in Habitable Zone of Sun-Like Star (2011)

[450] UCSC.edu - Astronomers find evidence of water clouds in first spectrum of coldest brown dwarf

[451] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

[452] JPL/NASA - Brown Dwarf Star Found by Spitzer Space Telescope

[453] abc.net.au - Small alien world most Jupiter-like planet ever seen

[454] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

[455] JPL/NASA - WISE and Spitzer - Coldest brown dwarfs

[456] astronomynow.com - Brown dwarfs hiding in plain sight in our solar neighborhood

[457] NASA - Astrobiology - The Ever More Puzzling and Intriguing “Tabby’s Star”

[458] nrao.org - VLA Begins Huge Project of Cosmic Discovery

[459] Chandra / Harvard.edu - Scroll down for video of implications for life

[460] techradar.com - Space telescopes will find earth 2.0, it's just a matter of time

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

[461] NASA - Hubble space telescope (HST) - Alpha Centauri A&B

[462] NASA - Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of nearest star system

[463] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

[464] New York Times - Planet orbiting our closest neighbor

[465] NPR - Why the discovery of an earth-like planet is such a big deal

Trappist-1 / b, c, d, e, f, g, h

[466] NASA - Press release - 2/22/2017

[467] New York Times - The Harmony That Keeps Trappist-1’s 7 Earth-size Worlds From Colliding

[468] NASA - Trappist-1 - Older than our solar system

[469] National Geographic - Hubble space telescope (HST) examines exoplanet atmospheres

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[470] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[471] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

[472] Universe Today - Either stars are strange or there are 234 aliens trying to contact us

[473] National Geographic - Storm of Strange Radio Bursts Emerges From Deep Space

[474] CNET - Mysterious signal from deep space goes hyperactive - scroll down for gif of the signal graph

[475] Space.com - 'Alien megastructure' star is dimming again

Popular References

[476] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[477] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

[478] kgraradio.com - Jimmy Church Radio - Fade to Black

[479] NPR - Why We Love Aliens - Includes habitable moons

[480] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson Videos - BBC - Carl Sagan on Alien Civilizations

[481] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

[482] Futurism - Neil deGrasse Tyson Reveals When He Thinks We'll Find Aliens

[483] Business Insider - Edward Snowden Talks Alien Communication with Neil deGrasse Tyson

[484] dailygalaxy.com (2016) - NASA Confirms EM Drive - Mars in 70 Days

[485] Star Talk Radio - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Searching for Aliens

[486] YouTube - Neil deGrasse Tyson - Seeking Intelligent Life

Actualizing the Potential

[487] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[488] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[489] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[490] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

[491] HuffPost - Be Supercoherent — Tune Into Your Consciousness!

[492] elephantjournal.com - The heart is the center of consciousness

[493] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[494] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

[495] YouTube - Coast to Coast AM - Mel Schwartz - Consciousness and Psychotherapy - Interview starts @ 1:17:00

[496] HuffPost - The Case for Gnosticism, Part 6: A Gnostic Viewpoint on "Alien Abductions"

[497] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

[498] telegraph.co.uk - The science of Close Encounters: could we use music to talk to aliens? - Video from Close Encounters of the Third Kind

[499] YouTube - Movieclips - ET: The Extraterrestrial (1982) - "I'll be right here."

[500] heartmeditators.com - Steven Greer Tutorial - How to make ET contact

[501] experiencer.org - Toward an integration of the contact modalities