{"id":432194,"date":"2010-03-15T17:35:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/?p=13028"},"modified":"2010-03-15T17:35:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T21:35:37","slug":"phobos-closeup-of-fear-bad-astronomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432194","title":{"rendered":"Phobos, closeup of fear | Bad Astronomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/2010\/03\/02\/phobos-ahoy\/\">As I promised<\/a> a little while back, the European Space Agency <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/SPECIALS\/Operations\/SEMK17CKP6G_1.html\">has released new extremely high-res pictures of Phobos<\/a>, one of the moons of Mars! Check this out:<\/p>\n<p><center><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/images\/3_h7915_phobos_nadir_H.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/badastronomy\/files\/2010\/03\/ME_phobos.jpg\" alt=\"ME_phobos\" title=\"ME_phobos\" width=\"610\" height=\"1140\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13030\"\/><\/a><\/center><br clear=\"all\"><\/p>\n<p>Yegads. Click to embiggen, and see this in all its glory. This image, taken by the Mars Express spacecraft, has a resolution of 4.4 meters per pixel, meaning objects about the size of a two-car garage can be seen on the surface of Phobos. For comparison, this lumpy, battered moon (named for the Greek word for <em>fear<\/em>, a companion to Mars) is 27&#215;22&#215;19 kilometers (16&#215;13&#215;11 miles), so even though it&#8217;s on the tiny side, this is still a fantastic map of the surface.<\/p>\n<p>And an important one as well: next year, Russia will be launching a probe called <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.russianspaceweb.com\/phobos_grunt.html\">Phobos-Grunt<\/a> (Phobos soil) that will attempt to land on the moon, collect a sample of its surface, and send it back to Earth! These images of Phobos will help the Russians figure out the best place to land.<\/p>\n<p>On the ESA page linked above, you&#8217;ll also find a cool 3D anaglyph of Phobos, and if you want to stay up to date on all this, check out <a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/webservices.esa.int\/blog\/blog\/7\">the Mars Express blog<\/a>, too.<\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-2\"><em>Image credit: ESA\/DLR\/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)<\/em><\/font><\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K7PgPQ3C1IONsjhy6XzeRv3Frv8\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K7PgPQ3C1IONsjhy6XzeRv3Frv8\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\"  href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K7PgPQ3C1IONsjhy6XzeRv3Frv8\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/K7PgPQ3C1IONsjhy6XzeRv3Frv8\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/BadAstronomyBlog\/~4\/4iB7SL0OhZo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/DiscoverMag\/~4\/7NTqQaZ95UM\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I promised a little while back, the European Space Agency has released new extremely high-res pictures of Phobos, one of the moons of Mars! Check this out: Yegads. Click to embiggen, and see this in all its glory. This image, taken by the Mars Express spacecraft, has a resolution of 4.4 meters per pixel, [&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-432194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432194","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=432194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}