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Fig. 1. Mars as it appears today. Mosaic images by NASA

This much-vaunted announcement in 2013 was actually a confirmation of a twenty-year-old discovery of enormous outflow channels on Mars.  These led to the subsequent ‘discovery’ of the northern ocean or  Oceanus Borealis in 1991.   A number of planetary scientists have reserved judgment on the existence of this ocean, but the greater extent of the mega-outflow channels leading toward this ocean, recently published, leave no doubt to its presence. This ocean’s extent is quite apparent in this mosaic of the northern hemisphere, surrounding the 3 km high ‘island’ at its north pole. In 3687 BC it appeared as in Figure 2

Northern Ocean Recent

One difficulty, which is seldom discussed in the scientific literature, is the fact that the polar regions of an already frozen planet are the least likely place for a liquid ocean to form.   Although the vast amount of water originally present on this planet was ancient, its concentration around the north pole only occurred about 5,700 years ago.   The northern ocean was first formed when the intact planet, which I call priori-Mars (still had its solid core, Mercury), was ejected from its ancient, Venus-like, orbit by proto-Venus and became captured in a geostationary orbit of the Earth.  As a result of their close encounters, proto-Venus had tidally uplifted the Tharsis Bulge (the Egyptians called it the dog-faced star),

Fig.  2. Mars as it appeared in 35000 BC

This anomalous mass forced the lithosphere of Mars to rotate independently of the mantle so that the anomalous mass of the Tharsis Bulge remained equidistant from  the Earth with its spin axis (its north pole) facing the Earth.  The figure shows how it appeared to one hundred generations of humankind. At a distance of only 44,400 km the enormous tidal influence of the more massive (> 6 X) Earth drew all the water in the planet’s northern hemisphere toward its north pole, facing the Earth. This was the cause of the outflow channels. In the Rig Veda this was described as the creator deity Prajapati “cloving his bladder”. The Egyptians called the ocean the Nun.

Although the northern third of Mars today is 7 km below the planet’s datum, this had nothing to do with the formation of the northern ocean.  5,700 years ago, when first captured in geostationary orbit, Mars was spherical.  The tidal influence of  the Earth melted enormous amounts of subsurface rock around its north pole (which melted and once mobile formed the “world egg” noted in thetraditional cosmologies of numerous cultures because everyone on Earth watched the enormous body stationary in the heavens. Despite the ocean, hundreds of volcanoes erupted in its northern hemisphere with blazing plumes directed toward the Earth. Due to Mars slow wheel-like rotation, these were called the circum-polar stars.  When the Earth-Mars pair passed rapidly through alignments with the Moon, or worse yet the Sun and Moon combined, great convulsions took place, ejecting enormous hot glowing bodies into space, most of which fell to Earth, particularly in the Himalayas.  A few of the larger bodies still orbit the Earth and are known to modern science as Earth Approaching asteroids.  But innumerable smaller bodies were also ejected and have coated the near side of the Moon with over a km deep layer of regolith (also formed the lunar maria) and much more has since fallen toward the Sun, forming the regolith that now covers Mercury.  The loss of all this ejected mass from the northern hemisphere between 3700 and 700 BC is the reason for the lowered elevation of the northern hemisphere.

Meteorites Have Mislead Planetary Scientists

The ubiquitous presence of all these meteorites has resulted in several untenable hypotheses among modern astronomers.  First, the notion that the carbonaceous meteorites were the rocks out of which the earth formed.  Rocks with densities of 2 or larger cannot form from material just floating weightless in space and their chondrules had to have been heated to 2000 K, which is impossible to explain.  Second, the notion that the solar absorption spectra exhibits a similar composition as these meteorites has been accepted as a corroboration of the first hypothesis.  The solar absorption spectra merely reflect the innumerable meteorite flux that has been falling toward the sun and been vaporized in the Corona for the last 5,700 years.  In fact, this process is the reason for the high, non-thermal temperatures of the Corona.

Where has all the water gone?

The innumerable convulsions of priori-Mars ejected all of its soil, water, atmosphere and innumerable seeds to the Earth between 3700 and 700 BC formed a new crust of the entire Earth.  Thus the Earth and mankind are the beneficiaries of those encounters, the latter acknowledges in many ancient texts, as manna, ambrosia, soma, haoma, and the ‘precious dew of heaven’.  The ‘missing’ Martian water, atmosphere, and vegetation are part of every living being on the Earth today.

Coincident Megafloods on Earth

In an interesting coincidence, the same hydrologist, Professor Victor Baker, who coined the term Oceanus Borealis, has published a book titled Megaflooding on Earth and Mars. In this book, the authors discuss  the megafloods  (defined as greater than one million cubic meters per second) in northwestern US (Missoula River), originally interpreted by Harlan Bretz as outflows from melting glaciers toward the end of the ice age, and the megafloods indicated by the outflow channels observed on Mars.  In spite of the promising title, the book merely compares the magnitudes of the megafloods on Mars and Earth – those on Mars dwarfing the Earthly ones, with outflow channels approaching a billion cubic meters per second.  Unfortunately, Baker still accepts the hypothesis that the megafloods on Mars occurred billions of years ago, in the Martian Noachian geologic epoch (4.5 to 3.5 billion years BP).   The naming of this epoch is ironic, since the outflow channels were actually occurring during the time of Noah, roughly 2800 BC.  Actually, the megafloods on both planets occurred as a result of the one hundred 14.4-year encounters between the two planets, which occurred between 3700 and 700 BC.

Thus geologists also have the wrong date for the NW United States megafloods, which they date in the late Pleistocene (before 12,000 BP), because they believe that that glaciation, centered in Hudson Bay, corresponded with a putative earlier ice age.  The newest book The Cosmic Origin of the RigVeda  the megafloods in the northwest United States and on Mars were not only concurrent, but were causally related.  The megafloods on Earth occurred in response to the tidal force exerted by priori-Mars, which orbited above the Transhimalayas, upon the Earth.   The spin axis of the mantle of the Earth had to shift to Hudson Bay in order for Mars, in a geostationary orbit over Mt. Kailas, to remain tidally locked onto the uplifted mass anomaly, i.e. the Tibetan-Himalayan complex.  Thus for each 14.4-year orbital period, Hudson Bay remained at a point perpendicular to the plane of the Earths orbit, and was essentially the north pole.  This is why the late continental glaciation in North America was centered in Hudson Bay as opposed to the north pole. At the end of each encounter, when the mantle reverted to its normal spin axis, the glaciers melted, and the outflow, impeded by glacial dams, finally were released catastrophically.  Since there were one hundred captures and releases of priori-Mars between 3700 and 700 BC, there are one hundred sedimentary layers of essentially equal thickness in the Missoula Valley – each formed by the sediment left by successive releases of glacial water and separated by “less than twenty” thin, varved (yearly) layers.  The flooding on Mars occurred at the beginning of each encounter as Mars was captured while the northwestern US flooding occurred in the months following each Mars’ departure from Earth orbit as the fifteen-year-old North American glacier melted. But both were the result of the same planetary encounters between 3700 and 700 BC.

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~ by Angiras on December 2, 2009.

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