{"id":431018,"date":"2010-03-15T16:07:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"8a5d2dbc-a0e4-4c7a-979f-3188051f228e:2228444"},"modified":"2010-03-15T16:07:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T20:07:00","slug":"martian-moon-in-spotlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/431018","title":{"rendered":"Martian moon in spotlight"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Fresh imagery from Europe’s Mars Express orbiter shows the Martian moon Phobos in sharp, 3-D detail<\/A>. This isn’t the first time Phobos has gotten its close-up<\/A>, but interest in the irregular moon is rising – in part because it’s increasingly seen as a steppingstone for Mars-bound astronauts.<\/P>
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Last month, NASA shifted its focus<\/A> from sending humans back to the moon to a “flexible path”<\/A> that includes the moons of Mars as potential destinations. The idea is that low-gravity locales such as Phobos (and Mars’ other moon, Deimos) should be easier to get to because they’re more accommodating for landing and ascent.<\/P>
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Phobos – a pockmarked, potato-shaped lump that measures only 17 miles (27 kilometers) in its widest dimension – could well serve as the prime staging ground<\/A> for telerobotic operations on the Martian surface, or for eventual human landings on Mars.<\/P>
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But first, scientists want to figure out what Phobos is made of.<\/P>…(read more<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  G. Neukum \/ FU Berlin \/ DLR \/ ESA   Use red-blue glasses to get a 3-D view of Phobos, and click on the image for a larger version. Fresh imagery from Europe’s Mars Express orbiter shows the Martian moon Phobos in sharp, 3-D detail. This isn’t the first time Phobos has gotten its close-up, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5371,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431018","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\/5371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}