Close-up of Martian Moon Phobos - Neatorama

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The Mars Express recently made some historically close passes to Mars' moon, Phobos, and managed to snap some detailed close-up shots. These are the closest views of the rock we've seen... or is it a rock?

The Mars Express flybys, which happen every five months, may also determine if Phobos is a fragile pile of rocky fragments stuck together — what planetary scientists refer to as a rubble pile — or solid through and through.

Some of the new images taken March 7 during one of several recent close flybys of the moon home in on the proposed landing site for a Russian mission, Phobos-Grunt (meaning Phobos soil), that is expected to touch down on the moon next year.

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Mars has TWO MOONS.

Please fact check. Don't just be a cut and paste moron. That is what we have the Main Stream media for.

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"close passes to Mars’ sole moon, Phobos,"

Mar's has TWO moons.

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Fixed, whoops.

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Tire tracks! I see tire tracks! And because they look like tire tracks, they MUST BE tire tracks! Like the face on Mars! oh, wait...

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No tire tracks, but I think I see a Starbucks...

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Nah, that's a Marsbucks - cheap inferior coffee grown on the far side of the moon. Not even organic or fairtrade.

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There are FOUR lights! >:(

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That's no moon -- it's a space station!

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Seriously, though, I do hope that it is a rubble pile; Were that the case, future explorers are more likely to have an orbital source of water ice for Mars colonization.

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I was on the UAC base on Phobos before the "teleportation accident".

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It looks like a potato.

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really its good close passes to Mars’ moon, Phobos, and it is look like a potato

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