Mars moon emerges from the dark

BBC ^ | 11-11-04 | staff

[Nachum]

Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has taken its most detailed image yet of the Red Planet's largest moon, Phobos.

The photo was taken from a distance of about 200km (124 miles) from the irregular-shaped satellite and shows the side of the object that faces Mars.

Scientists hope to explain the origin of a network of grooves that extend from the equator to the north pole.

Phobos is slowly falling down to Mars and is expected to crash into the planet in the next few million years.

[Simmy2.5]

Cool!

[My2Cents]

[Oblongata]

Here ya go:

[My2Cents]

Beat ya by half a minute! :) GMTA

[inquest]

Groovy.

[isthisnickcool]

Kinda looks like one of Pam Andersons old breast implants.

[Mr. Lucky]

It ain't big enough.

[eccentric]

BTW, does anyone know what two planets are above the moon in the night sky this week?

[Bigh4u2]

I believe they are Saturn and Jupiter.

[LibWhacker]

Phobos is slowly falling down to Mars and is expected to crash into the planet in the next few million years.

Speculation mode on: If all goes well with humanity, it'll never happen. By then Mars will be well-colonized and there's no way "people" (these descendants of man will be so highly engineered, it's hard to know what they'll be) will want something twice as large as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slamming into the surface! Speculation mode off.

[evets]

What are 'Venus and Jupter'?

[eccentric]

lol anyone else?

[freakboy]

What do you mean by 'above'? Doesn't it depend on the time of night?