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Mars moon emerges from the dark
BBC ^
| 11-11-04
| staff
Posted on 11/11/2004 2:30:19 PM PST by Nachum
Europe's Mars Express spacecraft has taken its most detailed image yet of the Red Planet's largest moon, Phobos.
The photo was taken from a distance of about 200km (124 miles) from the irregular-shaped satellite and shows the side of the object that faces Mars.
Scientists hope to explain the origin of a network of grooves that extend from the equator to the north pole.
Phobos is slowly falling down to Mars and is expected to crash into the planet in the next few million years.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: astronomy; dark; emerges; from; grooves; mars; moon; phobos; science; stickneycrater; striations; the
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:30:20 PM PST
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:33:04 PM PST
by
Simmy2.5
(Kerry has been relieved of duty!)
To: Nachum
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:33:29 PM PST
by
My2Cents
(The Democrat Party is pining for the fjords.)
To: Nachum
Here ya go:
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:34:04 PM PST
by
Oblongata
To: Oblongata
Beat ya by half a minute! :) GMTA
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:34:39 PM PST
by
My2Cents
(The Democrat Party is pining for the fjords.)
To: Nachum
Groovy.
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:35:10 PM PST
by
inquest
(Now is the time to remove the leftist influence from the GOP. "Unity" can wait.)
To: Nachum
Kinda looks like one of Pam Andersons old breast implants.
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:35:22 PM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(Only dummies play poker with George W. Bush.)
To: isthisnickcool
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:36:53 PM PST
by
Mr. Lucky
To: Nachum
BTW, does anyone know what two planets are above the moon in the night sky this week?
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:37:06 PM PST
by
eccentric
(aka baldwidow)
To: eccentric
I believe they are Saturn and Jupiter.
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:38:14 PM PST
by
Bigh4u2
To: Nachum
Phobos is slowly falling down to Mars and is expected to crash into the planet in the next few million years. Speculation mode on: If all goes well with humanity, it'll never happen. By then Mars will be well-colonized and there's no way "people" (these descendants of man will be so highly engineered, it's hard to know what they'll be) will want something twice as large as the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs slamming into the surface! Speculation mode off.
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:50:04 PM PST
by
LibWhacker
(FOUR MORE YEARS!!)
To: eccentric
What are 'Venus and Jupter'?
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:53:31 PM PST
by
evets
(God bless president George W. Bush)
To: Bigh4u2; evets
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posted on
11/11/2004 2:58:48 PM PST
by
eccentric
(aka baldwidow)
To: eccentric
What do you mean by 'above'? Doesn't it depend on the time of night?
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posted on
11/11/2004 3:15:47 PM PST
by
freakboy
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