Symbols of an Alien Sky Episode Two The Lightning-Scarred Planet Mars
In this second episode of SYMBOLS OF AN ALIEN SKY, David Talbott takes the viewer on an odyssey across the surface of Mars. Exploring feature after feature of the planet, he finds that only electric arcs could produce the observed patterns. The high-resolution images reveal massive channels and gouges, great mounds, and crater chains, none finding an explanation in traditional geology, but all matching the scars from electric discharge experiments in the laboratory.In Episode One, Talbott showed electrical formations in the ancient sky, when a gathering of planets moved close to the Earth. Though the present episode was designed to stand alone, for viewers of the first episode the implications will come as no surprise. All lines of evidence converge on the story of a planet formerly immersed in electrical activity - activity that left unmistakable patterns on the planet's surface.Today no body outside the Earth has been more fully surveyed than Mars. Its surface features thus provide the best test of a new perspective on planetary history.