(Credit: Nasa/JPL-CalTech/University of Arizona)
Posted on 07/26/2020 10:15:39 PM PDT by BenLurkin
A mysterious origin and Arthur C. Clarke-level science-fiction speculation about the 17-mile-wide, deeply-grooved moon as an alien artifact captured in the ancient past by Mars gravitational field, may explain Russia’s almost mystical obsession with Phobos. First the Soviet Union, then more recently, Russia, made three attempts to reach the enigmatic object, but software errors and launch disasters have aborted each attempt.
In 2016 the BBC reported that a mysterious monolith object was spotted several years ago by a NASA probe, and to this day nobody is quite sure what it is or how it got there.
Japan is on deck, planning launch its MMX mission to Phobos in 2024 for rock samples to decode the chemistry of the odd moon and decipher its origin as well as providing clues to the existence of life on ancient Mars...
“They’re super weird, confusing and interesting,” said Abigail Fraeman...{JPL] “They check all of the boxes that are consistent with them being these captured asteroids,” said Fraeman — “rubbly patchworks that drifted too close to Mars long ago and became trapped in the planet’s orbit. “They just shouldn’t exist,” added Fraeman. “They don’t make any sense.”
The debate over the origin of the two moons has split scientists for decades, since the early days of planetary science. In visible light, Phobos and Deimos look much darker than Mars, resembling the primitive asteroids of the outer solar system, suggesting the moons might be asteroids caught long ago in Mars’ gravitational pull. But the shapes and angles of the moons’ orbits do not fit the capture hypothesis, with some scientists suggesting the moons must have formed at the same time as Mars, or resulted from a massive impact on the planet during its formative millennia.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailygalaxy.com ...
Except for a single very powerful radio emission aimed at Jupiter, the four-million year old black monolith has remained completely inert. Its origin and purpose are still a total mystery...
Regards,
” the shapes and angles of the moons’ orbits do not fit the capture hypothesis, “
News to me.
Actual footage of the "mysterious monolith object" encountered by NASA:
Leather Goddesses of Phobos?
Fond and silly memories of my first computer game.
The next one was Myst .... sigh .....
That’s no moon...its a Spacestation!
*ping*
for the “old guys”. It is Judge Crater’s tombstone.
For the “kids” here, look him up - Virginia judge.
“First the Soviet Union, then more recently, Russia, made three attempts to reach the enigmatic object, but software errors and launch disasters have aborted each attempt. “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs
Simple. It is a monolith formed by the coalescence of temporarily induced magnetized rock. Which was magnetized and heated in an impact event and settled into a rough geometric shape. I must be correct because it is there.
P.S....there is no mention of how it ties in with ancient “life”...why do these boffins assume there was ancient life? There is no evidence except star wars, star trek, dune,...and “5 million years to earth” stories.
one end of the moon
That first photo looks like “a gimme”.
Cryptologist, linguists and science nerds, after years of research, have concluded that that it is a billboard, and that the radio emission is a commercial jingle: “For juicy brains and docile slaves, try planet Earth and save, save, save...”
I thought he went to live in John Galt’s secret refuge for smart people. Ayn Rand lied!
That was a GREAT movie. I was 18 y/o when I first saw it with my then-future wife of now-51 years.
Did you notice how the current SpaceX space suits look almost exactly like the ones in the movie? (At least from a distance.)
bttt
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