FIRST DISCOVERY OF

STANDING LIQUID WATER

by Joseph P. Skipper

December 28, 2000 (Revision)

http://www.jeffreymccann.com/crystalexp.htm

J. P. Skipper can be reached at ski_42@alltel.net

This water discovery evidence was extracted by me from NASA/JPL/MSSS's original MOC SP2-54006 image strip. I found this big pie shaped waterhole prior to 7/20/2000 and first released it to the media at Sightings on the Internet creating a lot of excitement. To my knowledge, this is still the first true discovery of standing liquid water on the surface of Mars by anyone not involved in secrecy and who is sharing unfiltered Mars evidence with the general public. Regardless of how clearly this appears to be a waterhole, some just could not accept it as that and NASA and the rest of the scientific community have been silent on it apparently determined to ignore it completely.

To some extent, this is understandable since we are taught by traditional scientific theory that the extremely thin air and cold freezing conditions on Mars forbid the presence of standing liquid water on the surface unless it is there just very briefly before being frozen, lost to the atmosphere as evaporation, or seeping back into the dry soil. Obviously, the scientific community and NASA and JPL have a vested interest in this matter because, if it is long standing liquid water, then there are credibility issues that must be raised. After exposure to my evidence, NASA is only now months later admitting to liquid water on Mars but still insisting that it can only be there temporarily and of course still ignoring my evidence to the contrary.

Meanwhile, note how flat calm the water surface is and how clear it is. Note that there are either reflections of the back land bank in the flat water surface and/or the water is clear enough to see the back land bank beneath the water surface. The correct answer is probably both but I see more land surface underwater than I do in the reflections. Remember, I am looking at my images on my computer in best quality gif format but these images I'm presenting here on the Web must be fairly seriously jpeg compressed in order to reduce each image's file size. If I didn't do that on these big images, then just a few of my investigative reports averaging 2-4 big images in each report would take up too much Web space which would quickly equate to no more reports at all. It is a unwanted but necessary compromise. The difference between gif and jpeg compression is a loss of resolution but mostly in selective image areas. Larger objects are little effected visually while fine tiny objects like railings, bridge frameworks, window openings, etc. are definitely impacted.

For those unfamiliar with looking at planetary images or those unable to admit seeing water in the colorized images here and preferring to believe that what I call water is actually just dark shadow, the proof that this is indeed a flat liquid surface is in the above reverse negative inverted image. It is just the top color image converted to black and white and then inverted with a little labeling added. Here the flat water surface is clearly and conclusively defined as a standing flat liquid surface complying exactly with all the shoreline irregularities. Shadow does not react this way to inverting and this rules the shadow factor out. Further, remember that this whole waterhole was in deep shadow originally requiring considerable lightening to dispel. What you are seeing here in these images is a scene with true shadow already mostly removed.

Some water vapor can also be seen here but not all that may appear as water vapor actually is. Rather some of it is a dark colored fouling seen in these color images suspended in the air over this waterhole that has been turned a light color by the inverting process. Some of it is also a very difficult to see fog type image tampering applied all over the back land bank of this water and which extends up into the high background. One thing that can be seen in this inverted image though is the water vapor vortex plume dead center in this waterhole. Such a plume would most likely be formed by rotation. That implies the water may be circulated with all the implications of active manipulation. That in turn points to a active civilization, not one long past.

In the above zoom color image with its arrows and labels pointed out anomalies, you begin to see one of the reasons why this discovery of mine went beyond exciting and became controversial. It wasn't just that it was the claimed first discovery of standing liquid water on Mars flying directly in the face of traditional scientific position taking but also because I was claiming to see civilization evidence here as well and that is still even more my position all these months later. Someone is most definitely on Mars and we are not being told the truth about it.

The most striking civilization evidence is the clearly visible huge tunnel opening just above the water line in the back center wall just above the waterline. Then there is the cut out in the land forms right in front of the tunnel opening sized exactly to the dimensions of the tunnel that goes down from the tunnel opening and into the water. Remember, the scale involved here. We are looking at this from a orbiting satellite not a low flying aircraft. A 2-4 story regular size building would be tiny and indistinct here. So, when thinking about this waterhole and this tunnel opening, think really big. In my opinion, the smooth clearly curved bore of the cut out in the land form in front of the tunnel opening indicates that this tunnel is how water enters and is replenished into the waterhole probably from some underground source. You can also see two large rectangular openings partially visible pointed out by arrows and labeling just to the right of the tunnel opening. Can't say what these are but note how perfectly squared the angles are clearly indicating constructed artificiality.

The next obvious feature is the straight dam or dike system on the right edge of the water. I believe that this forms a overflow system into flat terrain out from it. It also appears that there is another short tunnel at the outside right corner of the water and to the extreme right of the dike system. I suspect that control water is siphoned off from the main water body at this point. Note in the inverted image above what appears to be water vapor trails streaming up in the air over this particular spot. To bad this is a little too indistinct to see clearly.

No dome or other protective devise can be visually seen over this waterhole and I do not claim that I see one either. However, there is something over this water hole that is not visible to us. There is a dark fouling made up of many different spots collected together in areas that is hanging scattered in the air suspended all over this waterhole. While it could be debris collecting in a thin layer on the outside surface of a dome, I suspect it may really be mold on the wet underside of a dome surface where the warmer wet conditions favor such growth. Remember, this waterhole was in deep black shadow which had to be considerably lightened in order to see anything at all here. This may have something to do with not being able to see a very clear dome. Domes both occluded and super clear are nothing new to me in my Mars exploration, I have seen, documented, and reported hard evidence on a number of them and I suspect there will be plenty more yet to go.

The original image strip this discovery of mine came from was brought to my attention by a Internet friend Carl Lilly who wanted me to look at a anomaly elsewhere in this strip that he thought was interesting because he said that he respected my opinion. Unfortunately, I was only able to say that this appeared to be a rock formation to me north of this waterhole that also blocked and diverted an old now dried up stream bed. However, while looking closely at Carl's object, I thought I started seeing considerable image tampering all over the landscape. While the evidence wasn't sufficient to get images of to show to the public, I came to the conclusion I was seeing a big metropolis in tiny bits and pieces peaking through and around the tampering which of course Carl didn't see at all.

Part of that has to do with thinking big vs. thinking small. These images are taken at many different resolutions but, in this particular image, any civilization evidence below the size of a 2-4 story building just is too tiny and indistinct to see properly. Add considerable image tampering to that where larger civilization evidence is found (but which few seem to recognize) means that most people are only able to see really huge objects and that's all they look for without fully realizing it. Well most of this Mars research doesn't work like that, you've got to think really small and then you begin to see. Further, once you begin to see and think you have a handle on sizing anomalies, then you look closer and see a 4-5 story building that is so tiny and indistinct up beside your discovery that you're surprised yet again at the sheer size of it. A colossal head monument that I thought was the size of hill actually turned out to be 12 miles across and the size of tremendous mountain. You get the picture.

Thinking that this metropolis spread over such a wide area (considering the expansiveness of the tampering) would require a lot of water, I began looking all around the area including into the deepest shadows for objects of industrial proportions. In one of those deep shadows I found this water hole and told Carl as much. He wasn't interested and still didn't believe it even up to the time that I presented this discovery at Sightings. Of course, like other skeptics, he no doubt thought that liquid water on the frigid freezing surface of Mars just couldn't be. However, after the story was running, Carl was working with some advanced imaging software and using its thermal imaging aspect on the waterhole trying to prove me wrong. But, he emailed me sending me a excellent image he had developed and told me he almost fell out of his chair because he confirmed for himself that the waterhole was real and even brought to my attention the water vapor vortex plume that he had found for himself on his own and which I had not mentioned to him. I hadn't mentioned it because, while Carl is a good man, he wasn't too pleased about my earlier observations on his anomaly, can get cranky, and I didn't want to get into conflict with him.

If Carl could see this though, it gave me confidence to present this evidence as an addition to my original Sightings article. The problem is that a water vapor vortex plume implies rotation which in turn implies a high probability of active water circulation. That in turn implies active civilization. So, I decided to take the next step and report some of the civilization evidence. Originally, I had sanitized the Sightings piece to leave out the civilization evidence and report only the water evidence. I did report civilization evidence but confined it to our then new http://www.jeffreymccann.com web site and hoped that those who came from Sightings to the web site would see this information there. Unfortunately, although they will claim it was for other reasons, the combination of the vortex plume and civilization evidence immediately started getting me in trouble with the media outlet and I had to separate from them. It seems that the secrecy on this evidence permeates even the web gateways that appear to be the most liberal but which aren't really, at least when it comes to hard visual evidence. A sad state of Internet affairs.

Some have pushed me to name this huge waterhole Lake Skipper and some even insist on calling it that on my behalf. If this was a natural waterhole on Mars, I might be interested in that myself. After all, this happens all the time in the scientific community and it's very flattering. But, I can't bring myself to endorse this or accept it. How can I when I am satisfied in my own mind that this waterhole is not a natural feature of Mars but someone else's ACTIVE artificially made municipal water supply. One day, perhaps even in what lifetime I have left, what now is so explosive will then be relatively tame and common place and we may yet interact with the true owners of this water supply facility. They may laugh or even be offended that this Earth man was naive enough and idiot enough to try and name our municipal water supply after himself. First thing you know, they'll be wanting to know if I would like to name one of their toilets after myself. No, I don't think so!

This above fourth image is a context wide-angle view of the region this waterhole discovery of mine is found in to help others trying to find it in the original image strip. Note the big bluff land form feature and the very dark shadow in this unlightened original view image where the labeled waterhole is located near the bottom. Once you have found this area and have made sure that the bluff orientation is exactly the same as appears above, you will then have to have the software and ability to lighten the strip considerably to make the waterhole come into view for you out of its deep shadow.

DOCUMENTATION:

My water discovery here is extracted from NASA/JPL/MSSS's original image strip at http://www.msss.com/moc_gallery/ab1_m04/images/SP254006.html. There I downloaded the third listed "View full-size image, processed but not map-projected" slower loading but higher detail gif image with no blank border and I suggest you use this strip as well to keep matters simple. The waterhole is located about 70% of the way down the strip. You should also be aware that the second listed and best quality slower loading sinusoidal projection gif image does not work at all at MSSS. Most of all, be forewarned that the first listed faster loading sinusoidal projection jpeg image has been flipped vertically (not horizontally) by MSSS which severely distorts the view of this waterhole. If you do use the faster loading jpeg image for speed and convenience rather than the slower loading not map-projected gif image I used, remember that you will have to flip the jpeg strip back vertically to achieve the correct orientation.

When I initially released this discovery, a few got confused and very vocal about the distorted images of this waterhole they were coming up with trying to check behind and duplicate my findings. They did not realize that they had chosen a jpeg image flipped at official level and accused me of doing the flipping when it was their original image strip sourcing choice that was the problem, not me. The bottom line is that, if you don't have the same orientation on the bluff as demonstrated in the above context image, then you're in trouble as to trying to view this water hole properly. This is something that you must watch out for often at MSSS-PDS-USGS as the images are often flipped vertically and sometimes horizontally as well. For example, PDS often uses the MSSS faster loading jpeg strip as the basis for their offering and, when that happens, you're often going to be looking at a flipped and distorted image if PDS hasn't caught and corrected it which they often haven't.

Joseph P. Skipper, Discoverer

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