{"id":680501,"date":"2010-03-02T16:15:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=12343"},"modified":"2010-03-02T16:15:32","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T21:15:32","slug":"phobos-ahoy-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680501","title":{"rendered":"Phobos ahoy! | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few weeks, the European probe Mars Express <a rel=\"nofollow\"  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\"  href=\"http:\/\/europlanet.dlr.de\/node\/fileadmin\/pictures\/hrsc\/phobos\/2.png\">this shot<\/a> (among others):<\/p>\n<p><center><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/europlanet.dlr.de\/node\/fileadmin\/pictures\/hrsc\/phobos\/2.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/marsexpress_phobos.jpg?resize=377%2C325\" alt=\"marsexpress_phobos\" title=\"marsexpress_phobos\" width=\"377\" height=\"325\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12344\"\/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<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>\n<p>And as nice as this image is, we&#8217;ll be getting lots better ones soon! So this is a heads-up: <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/webservices.esa.int\/blog\/post\/7\/1024\">closest approach is on March 3<\/a>, so stayed tuned for more pictures. I&#8217;ll post &#8216;em as I see &#8216;em.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/fSeZQ3teaoTPdElr6wF3D6hfPyA\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/IuhNZn4r1AE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/7A6cf0DreqM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","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 others): You can see that this little moon has been kicked around quite a bit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R1P","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}