Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Phobos 360

NASA ^ | December 25, 2013 | (see photo credit)

[SunkenCiv]

Explanation: What does the Martian moon Phobos look like? To better visualize this unusual object, images from ESA's Mars Express orbiter have been combined into a virtual rotation movie. The rotation is actually a digital illusion -- tidally-locked Phobos always keeps the same face toward its home planet, as does Earth's moon. The above video highlights Phobos' chunky shape and an unusually dark surface covered with craters and grooves. What lies beneath the surface is a topic of research since the moon is not dense enough to be filled with solid rock. Phobos is losing about of centimeter of altitude a year and is expected to break up and crash onto Mars within the next 50 million years. To better understand this unusual world, Mars Express is on course to make the closest flyby ever on Sunday.

[ETL]

RECTANGULAR BLOCKS formed in El Capitan Granite by intersecting joints.

http://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/geologic_story_of_yosemite/final_evolution.html

[Jack Hydrazine]

Found on the Moon.


Must have been created by nature!

[Jack Hydrazine]

Here's an all-natural structure on the Moon!

[Future Snake Eater]

No, that’s the Ark from Cybertron when the Autobots tried to flee but were shot down mid-voyage by the Decepticons. Everyone knows that.

[Jack Hydrazine]

LOL!

[ETL]

"Here is an example of chaotic terrain [on Mars]. This region is called Hydaspis Chaos and it appears to have resulted from a flood that created Tui Vallis."

Institute for Geophysics

[Jack Hydrazine]

So you are saying that nature made those?

[Jack Hydrazine]

So there was water that carved out those rectilinear structures on Phobos, also?

I wish we had an example of nature creating gigantic squares on Earth like they have on Phobos, Mars, and even the Moon.

[ETL]

Those features on Mars that you refer to may well have formed as a result of water flowing along the edges of regions of exposed square block and other jointing, like the type I provided examples of above. The water flow ultimately then carved the intersecting lines deeply such that the square forms are more pronounced.

"Erosional features in the outflow channels often form around obstacles such as craters..."

"Tiu Vallis appears to have started from an area of collapsed terrain (a region known as Hydaspis Chaos), moved northward through a fairly narrow channel, and then spread out and eroded a large area to the north and west. A more detailed view of the source shows the chaotic terrain, the initial channels, and various eroded features:

Erosional features in the outflow channels often form around obstacles such as craters..."

http://www.ig.utexas.edu/research/projects/mars/education/picture_pages/hydaspis_chaos.htm

[Jack Hydrazine]

What ever you do, don't mention the nature-made object on the right found on Mars.

[ETL]

OK, I won’t.

[ETL]

There are areas all over the Earth where rivers and streams flowed along seams of fractured bedrock carving out valleys in the process. If the bedrock happened to be riddled with square block jointing, square forms could be the result. This might well be the case in that Mars example. On Phobos you don’t see these etched out square block features because there was never any water flowing there. But this doesn’t mean the underlining bedrock, at least in places, isn’t square block jointed. Most of it might be covered by the current surface.

[Jack Hydrazine]

If that’s what ya want to believe be my guest!

[ETL]

Same to you.

[mikrofon]

All those who refuse to acknowledge the truth about this topic are Phobosphobes .....

[hattend]

BTTT

[hattend]

BTTT

[Mars Smartphone]

That’s at first glance incredibly convincing and they are not just rectangular, but actually cubes! Their small size on the other hand, is insufficient to explain large rectangular beams and structures that appear to have been put together intelligently, as opposed to pancaked or otherwise naturally occurring phenomenons.