On June 18th, Titan, a submersible carrying five passengers, embarked on a fascinating expedition to view the wreck of the Titanic, a ship known for its tragic end. However, merely 1 hour and 45 minutes into the dive, the submersible lost contact with its mother ship, the ‘Polar Prince’. Four days later, its debris was found 500 metres (1,640.42 ft) from the bow of the Titanic.
On September 13, journalist and UFO enthusiast Jaime Maussan presented the specimens at a Mexico congressional event on UFOs or FANIs in Spanish. At the time, Maussan said that the bodies believed to have been found near the mysterious ancient Nazca lines in Peru were not related to life on Earth.
September was truly a month of extraterrestrials. Apart from the Peruvian mummies in the month, NASA also unveiled a report on UFOs (Unidentified Flying Objects), or UAPs (Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena).
In October, NASA successfully brought to the Earth the largest soil sample scooped from the surface of an asteroid called Bennu. The materials, dating back around 4.5 billion years, were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx probe in 2020.
You’ve heard of car crashes, but 2023 was the year of a space crash. In August, Russia’s first moon mission in 47 years failed, with the Luna-25 spacecraft spinning out of control and crashing into the moon.
Soon after Russia’s failure, India succeeded in landing on the South Pole or the dark side of the moon. On August 23, the Chandrayaan-3 mission, with its lander Vikram and rover Pragyan, made the historic achievement, making India the first country to touch down on the unexplored side of the Earth’s satellite.
In October, NASA announced that it had found evidence that points towards the existence of life on Mars… once upon a time.