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Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars
NASA ^
| November 22, 2015
| (see photo credit)
Posted on 11/22/2015 6:33:53 AM PST by SunkenCiv
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[Credit: HiRISE, MRO, LPL (U. Arizona), NASA]
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11/22/2015 6:33:54 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
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11/22/2015 6:36:14 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
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(btw, regarding the detail in The Big One -- Wow.)
The Big One
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:36:23 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
Wow. That is a scary looking moon. Does that make me a Phobosphobe?
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:38:41 AM PST
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Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: KevinDavis; annie laurie; Knitting A Conundrum; Viking2002; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Mmogamer; ...
Since Phobos is doomed anyway, it should be considered fair game as a source of building materials (for Mars, Earth, and orbital structures) and perchance gases (for atmospheres and fueling), and maybe even precious metals.
Thanks .
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:39:21 AM PST
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SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: SunkenCiv
I don’t buy the explanation for the grooves. We see similar grooves on plenty of other low gravity bodies in the solar system.
My theory is still low angle low speed impacts that roll along the surface.
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:46:22 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:49:15 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:51:52 AM PST
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Jack Hydrazine
(Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
To: cripplecreek
I don't buy the explanation for the grooves. We see similar grooves on plenty of other low gravity bodies in the solar system. My theory is still low angle low speed impacts that roll along the surface.Roll marks in what? The regolith? Does it even have such loose material on its surface?
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posted on
11/22/2015 6:57:56 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: ETL
I suspect there is a lot of loose dust. Another possibility is lines of impacts from groups of small meteorites gravitationaly bound together.
A photo of the Vesta asteroid shows the same type of grooves.
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:05:38 AM PST
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cripplecreek
(Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.)
To: SunkenCiv
To: cripplecreek
I suspect there is a lot of loose dust. I'm sure they know if there is or not. If I had the time now, I'd look into it. Makes sense that there would be, given all of the impacts. Our moon is covered in regolith as a result of countless impacts, mostly from billions of years ago.
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11/22/2015 7:11:18 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: SunkenCiv
May be, could be, perhaps.
Guess we won’t know until it happens.
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:15:58 AM PST
by
hattend
(Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
To: cripplecreek
"It's Aliens!" Strip-mining by UFO's?
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:24:01 AM PST
by
ChicagahAl
(Today's Democrats are much more Fascist than Communist; but Sen Joe McCarthy was still right.)
To: ETL
Since various space programs and their subsequent mass analysis of Phobos have determined there are large voids inside the moon, it cannot be natural - so plenty of time to explore the inside remains. Seems to be several large geometrical voids under all those right angle redundant surface striations.
Too bad the images posted are so washed out, hiding the noise reduced detail available in other images.
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:28:40 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: PIF
there are large voids inside the moon, it cannot be natural I'm pretty sure there are valid explanations for a natural origin for these voids.
Gotta run now. I'll look into it later.
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:35:07 AM PST
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ETL
(Ted Cruz 2016!! -- For a better and safer America)
To: All
That’s no “moon”...That’s an Irish Tater.....
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posted on
11/22/2015 7:46:07 AM PST
by
Boonie
("Nuke 'em all...Let Allah sort 'em out...)
To: ETL
In the third shot down you can see a stone sitting at the end of a groove as if it rolled to a stop. I do believe he is right.
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posted on
11/22/2015 8:55:57 AM PST
by
American in Israel
(A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
11/22/2015 9:08:18 AM PST
by
rawcatslyentist
(Genesis 1:29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed,)
To: American in Israel
One Russian scientist speculated that The Martian Moons were sythetic—Made by the Martians and hollow where they escaped when they lost their atmosphere. They do not orbit right—and might well be some sort of space station.
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