See Mars’ mysterious moon Deimos from just 68 miles away...The first close-ups of the tiny moon suggest we were wrong about its origin.

FreeThink ^ | May 1, 2023 | By Kristin Houser

[Sergio]

Looks like the Star Wars asteroid worm to me.

[Verginius Rufus]

Both Deimos and Phobos were discovered by an American, Asaph Hall, in 1877, at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, DC.

Phobos is so close to Mars that it orbits the planet in 7 hours and 39 minutes, less than a Martian day, so it rises in the west and sets in the east when viewed from the Martian surface.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger.

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• My first FR post 1/03/2004: Mars Exploration Rover Mission, Spirit Lands [01/03/2004]
• Another one of mine, 01/26/2004, also about Mars: On to the Moon, and to Mars, via von Braun [01/14/2004]
• Another, 03/01/2004, also about Mars: NASA to Announce 'Significant Findings' of Water on Mars Tuesday! [03/01/2004]
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[21twelve]

“There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don’t know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don’t know.”

― Donald Rumsfeld

[Wuli]

Rumy was right about many things.

[DoodleBob]

[Red Badger]

It’s great to see them spending their oil billions on something educational and that is not killing their fellow man......................

[ro_dreaming]

UAE aren’t usually the ones killing everyone. That’s Saudi’s, Iraqi’s, Iranians.

But, yeah, I just am surprised they have a space agency!

[Red Badger]

https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/04/28/nasa-uae-astronauts-spacewalk-repair-international-space-station/7341682693438/