{"id":382021,"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.media\/index\/382021","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=\"http:\/\/europlanet.dlr.de\/node\/fileadmin\/pictures\/hrsc\/phobos\/2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/02\/marsexpress_phobos.jpg\" 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":641,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/641"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}