{"id":10659,"date":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/phobos-ahoy-bad-astronomy\/"},"modified":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","slug":"phobos-ahoy-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/phobos-ahoy-bad-astronomy.php","title":{"rendered":"Phobos ahoy! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks, the European probe Mars Express <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/webservices.esa.int\/blog\/post\/7\/1000\">will be making a series of close passes to the Martian moon Phobos<\/a>, a wrecked potato that has had an extensively battered history. In January, ME got <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/europlanet.dlr.de\/node\/fileadmin\/pictures\/hrsc\/phobos\/2.png\">this shot<\/a> (among others):<\/p><p><\/p><table><tr><td><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/europlanet.dlr.de\/node\/fileadmin\/pictures\/hrsc\/phobos\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/de914_marsexpress_phobos.jpg\" alt=\"marsexpress_phobos\" width=\"377\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12344\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/td><\/tr><\/table><p><\/p><p>You can see that this little moon has been kicked around quite a bit. Those parallel grooves are still a bit of a mystery; they are most likely cracks that formed when Phobos got whacked, creating the 10-km-wide crater Stickney on one end, but that matter is not 100% settled. Maybe these new observations will help end the debate.<\/p><p>And as nice as this image is, we&rsquo;ll be getting lots better ones soon! So this is a heads-up: <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/webservices.esa.int\/blog\/post\/7\/1024\">closest approach is on March 3<\/a>, so stayed tuned for more pictures. I&rsquo;ll post &lsquo;em as I see &lsquo;em.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/de914_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><br><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/de914_di\" border=\"0\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/de914_IuhNZn4r1AE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/de914_7A6cf0DreqM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks, the European probe Mars Express will be making a series of close passes to the Martian moon Phobos, a wrecked potato that has had an extensively battered history. In January, ME got this shot (among &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/phobos-ahoy-bad-astronomy.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}