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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 - 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 - Rotating Globe of Ganymede Geology

[106] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

[107] JPL/NASA - Ganymede

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

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

[110] JPL/NASA - Callisto - Color

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

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

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

[114] JPL/NASA - Callisto Basin

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

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

[117] JPL/NASA - Callisto Mosaic - Color

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

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

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

[121] JPL/NASA - Soaring Over Jupiter

Saturn

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

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

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

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

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

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

[128] JPL/NASA - Pan

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

[130] JPL/NASA - Pandora

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

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

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

[134] JPL/NASA - Epimetheus

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

[136] JPL/NASA - Moons - Color maps

[137] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color maps

[138] JPL/NASA - Mimas global color map

[139] JPL/NASA - Mimas' Mountain

[140] JPL/NASA - Enceladus global color maps

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

[142] JPL/NASA - Enceladus - Animation

[143] JPL/NASA - Enceladus south polar plumes

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

[145] ESA - Enceladus South Pole heat

[146] JPL/NASA - Enceladus color map

[147] JPL/NASA - Enceladus South Pole closeup

[148] JPL/NASA - Enceladus closeup

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

[150] JPL/NASA - Enceladus subsurface rendering

[151] JPL/NASA - Enceladus plumes closeup

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

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

[154] JPL/NASA - Atmosphere on Enceladus

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

[156] JPL/NASA - Mimas and Tethys infrared

[157] JPL/NASA - Tethys global color maps

[158] JPL/NASA - Tethys color map

[159] JPL/NASA - Tethys red stripes

[160] JPL/NASA - Dione global color maps

[161] JPL/NASA - Dione color map

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

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

[164] JPL/NASA - Chasms on Dione

[165] JPL/NASA - Dione closeup

[166] JPL/NASA - Dione more closeup

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

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

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

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

[171] ESA - Graphic of final trajectory past Titan

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

[173] JPL/NASA - Titan organic compounds

[174] JPL/NASA - Titan summer clouds

[175] JPL/NASA - Titan atmosphere colors

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

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

[178] YouTube - Astrum - Titan

[179] NASA - Hyperion - Overview

[180] JPL/NASA - Hyperion - Extreme Color

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

[182] NASA - Hyperion's Kaleidescope of Colors

[183] NASA - Farewell to Hyperion

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

[185] NASA - Iapetus - Overview - Color

[186] JPL/NASA - Iapetus color map

[187] JPL/NASA - Iapetus closeup

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

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

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

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

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

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

[194] YouTube - Astrum - Saturn

[195] YouTube - NASA Goddard - Cassini infrared Saturn

[196] YouTube - ESA - Cassini Diving Into History

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

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

[199] New York Times - 100 images from Cassini

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

[201] JPL/NASA - Impact location - Infrared

Uranus

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

[203] JPL/NASA - Uranus Moons

[204] JPL/NASA - Miranda

[205] JPL/NASA - Miranda closeup

[206] JPL/NASA - Miranda more closeup

[207] JPL/NASA - Umbriel

[208] JPL/NASA - Titania

[209] YouTube - Astrum - Uranus

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

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

Neptune

[212] JPL/NASA - Voyager 2 - Neptune

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

[214] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color

[215] JPL/NASA - Triton - Color map

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

[217] JPL/NASA - Triton closeup

[218] JPL/NASA - Triton cantaloupe terrain

[219] JPL/NASA - Triton volcanic plain

[220] YouTube - Astrum - Neptune

Pluto

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

[222] NASA - Pluto the other red planet

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

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

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

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

[227] NASA - Pluto's size

[228] NASA - Views of Pluto through the years

[229] NASA - Frozen shoreline closeup

[230] JPL/NASA - Pluto - Color

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

[232] JPL/NASA - Pluto moons

[233] NASA - Icy plains closeup

[234] JHUAPL - Pluto badlands closeup

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

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

[237] Space.com - Pluto water

[238] NASA - Pluto haze layers

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

[240] NASA - Pluto Wright Mons - color

[241] NASA - Icy spider feature - color

[242] NASA - Floating Hills on Sputnik Planum

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

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

[245] NASA - Pluto dark side and atmosphere

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

[247] JPL/NASA - Pluto blue sky

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

[249] The Guardian - Possible ocean

[250] New York Times - Possible ocean

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

Panspermia Theory

[252] Panspermia Theory - Lithospheric/Ballistic and Directed

Asteroids & Comets / Meteors & Meteorites

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

[254] YouTube - Astrum - Asteroids

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

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

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

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

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

[260] 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

[261] NASA - Sundiving comet and CME - Video

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

[263] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - Kreutz Comet and CME

[264] Princeton - Quasicrystal confirmed in meteorite

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

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

[267] JPL/NASA - Elongated asteroid

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

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

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

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

[272] wp.com - Comet ISON orbital diagram

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

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

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

[276] NASA - ISON recap

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

[278] PBS - Comet ISON - Perihelion videos

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

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

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

[282] 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

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

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

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

[286] ESA - Rosetta blog/catalogue

[287] NASA - Atmosphere

[288] ESA - Philae close up

[289] phys.org - Exposed water ice

[290] LA Times - Oxygen found

[291] The Guardian - Oxygen found

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

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

[294] gigapan.com - High resolution closeups

[295] ESA - Inside Imhotep

[296] ESA - Bright region in Imhotep - Colour

[297] flickr.com - Imhotep - Colour

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

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

[300] sciencemag.org - Pre-biotic chemicals

Sun

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

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

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

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

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

[306] NASA - Coronal Crown

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

[308] Wikipedia - Sun as Nuclear Fusion Reaction

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

[310] NASA - Introduction to the Electromagnetic Spectrum

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

Electric Universe Theory

[312] Electric Universe Theory

[313] NASA - Magnetic Sun

[314] NASA - Earth's Magnetic Field

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

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

[317] astrosurf.com - Oort Cloud Illustration

[318] torusgallery.com - Torus Illustrations

[319] HeartMath - The Heart's Electromagnetic Field

[320] YouTube - Thrive: The Movement

[321] YouTube - suspicious0bservers - The vacuum catastrophe

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

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

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

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

Inner Terrestrial Planets

[326] space.com - Terrestrial Planets

[327] psu.edu - The Inner Rocky Planets

Mercury

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

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

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

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

[332] NASA - Mercury water ice

[333] YouTube - Astrum - Mercury

Venus

[334] NASA - Venus may have been habitable

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

Earth & Moon

[336] NASA - Epic Earth Image

[337] ISRO - MOM - Earth - Colour

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

[339] USRA.edu - Moon closeup

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

[341] NASA - Captured asteroid

[342] JPL/NASA - Asteroid flyby animation

[343] National Geographic - Deep Sea Hydrothermal Vents

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

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

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

[347] BBC - Species May Thrive in Antarctica Lakes

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

[349] Wikipedia - Artemia - Brine shrimp

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

Mars

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

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

[353] smithsonianmag.com - 2011 - Mars Day

[354] UAHiRise - Catalogue of color images

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

[356] NASA - MAVEN spacecraft returns first Mars observations

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

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

[359] ISRO - Full disk image from colour camera

[360] ISRO - Mars - Atmosphere

[361] ISRO - Images from colour camera

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

[363] ESA - Phobos

[364] NASA - MRO - Phobos - Color

[365] wordpress.com - Phobos 2 Mystery

[366] NASA - Deimos - Color

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

[368] ESA - Past habitability

[369] NASA - Comet Siding Spring Mars flyby

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

[371] UAHiRise - Frosty Gullies on the Northern Plains

[372] NASA - Meteorite impact reveals subsurface ice

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

[374] UAHirise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[375] UAHiRise - Dark streaks down crater wall

[376] JPL/NASA - Dark streaks down hillside

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

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

[379] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

[380] UAHirise - Icy Crater Monitoring - Color

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

[382] NASA - North polar layers of Mars

[383] UAHirise - North Polar Intracrater Dunes

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

[385] NASA - South polar cap

[386] NASA - South polar texture

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

[388] JPL/NASA - South polar terrain

[389] UAHirise - South Polar Cryptic Terrain

[390] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge - Color

[391] UAHirise - Retreating Cap Edge

[392] NASA - South polar ice deep and wide

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

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

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

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

[397] UAHirise - Polar Erg Margin - Color

[398] JPL/NASA - Martian "spiders"

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

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

[401] UAHirise - Odd Distribution of Spiders

[402] UAHirise - Giant Spiders

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

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

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

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

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

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

[409] NASA - Subsurface water

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

[411] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover sol 711

[412] HiRise - Ring and cone structures

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

[414] JPL/NASA - Glowing gullies

[415] UAHirise - Vastitas Borealis Periglacial Terrain - Color

[416] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[417] UAHirise - Terrain in Vastitas Borealis - Color

[418] ESA - Gusev Crater - Colour

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

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

[421] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

[422] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - UAP

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

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

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

[426] 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"

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

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

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

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

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

[432] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[433] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

[434] JPL/NASA - Curiosity rover - Meteorite

[435] JPL/NASA - Anomalous formation

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

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

[438] YouTube - Astrum - Mars

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

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

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

Kuiper Belt and Oort Cloud

[442] NASA - Kuiper Belt - Overview

[443] NASA - Oort Cloud - Overview

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

Extrasolar Systems

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

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

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

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

[449] NASA - Brown dwarf artist rendering - Animation

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

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

[452] JPL/NASA - WISE - Brown dwarfs

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

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

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

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

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

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

Alpha Centauri / Proxima Centauri / Proxima b

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

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

[461] Universe Today - Proxima Centauri - Proxima b

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Contact & Cosmic Consciousness

Science References

[468] Wikipedia - Arecibo Message

[469] NASA - Voyager - Golden Records

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

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

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

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

Popular References

[474] coasttocoast.com - Coast to Coast AM

[475] earthfiles.com - Linda Moulton Howe

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

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

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

[479] YouTube - Michio Kaku - Interstellar Communication

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

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

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

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

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

Actualizing the Potential

[485] Institute for Noetic Sciences

[486] HuffPost - Noetic science defined

[487] rationalwiki.org - Noetic science

[488] ncbi.nlm.gov - Unified Consciousness

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

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

[491] YouTube - Metronomes synchronizing / entraining - Coherence

[492] quantumactivist.com - Amit Goswami

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

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

[495] experiencer.org - Close Encounters and Consciousness

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

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

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

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