Mystical Martian Moon Phobos


	Mystical Martian Moon Phobos

dmoonme1

11-8-2009 2:08 AM

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mars, moons, craters

dmoonme1 says:

Can you imagine id the man & his wife who discovered this moon could see the wonderful pictures today?
Also can we imagine that in another 122 years what they will tell about these magnificent moons?

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Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos,
is named for
<A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angeline_Stickney" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">Chloe
Angeline Stickney</A> Hall,
mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall.
Asaph Hall discovered both the
<A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031024.html" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">Red Planet's moons</A> in 1877.
Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the
<A href="http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001348" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">diameter
of Phobos itself</A>, so large that the
impact that blasted out the crater likely came close
to shattering the tiny moon.
This <A href="http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phobos.php" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">stunning,
enhanced-color image</A> of Stickney and surroundings
was recorded by the HiRISE camera onboard the
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as it passed within some
six thousand kilometers
<A href="http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap031129.html" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">of Phobos</A> in March of 2008.
Even though the surface gravity of
<A href="http://www.nineplanets.org/phobos.html" dee07fddb94823c6048="true">asteroid-like
Phobos</A>
is less than 1/1000th Earth's gravity, streaks suggest loose
material has slid down inside the crater walls over time.
Light bluish regions near the crater's rim could indicate
a relatively freshly exposed surface.
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