Our Mars Express captured this unexpected visitor. 🌚 #shorts

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It can be seen as a dark blob passing through to the lower left.

Phobos sits very close to Mars by Solar System standards, orbiting just 6000 km from Mars’s surface. For context, our own moon lies about 385 000 km away from Earth’s surface.

📹 ESA/NASA – Andreas Mogensen
📸 ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

#ESA #Mars #Phobos

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4 Comments

  1. Mars once had a much bigger moon
    Probably about 4x the size it is now !
    But some time around 4 mil yr ago
    Someting crashed into the moon of Mars, breaking it into 4 unequal pieces.
    2 pieces stayed in the orbit of Mars,
    1 piece fell to the surface of Mars and 1 piece drifted off into space !
    This changed the tectonic plates of Mars to slow down
    This caused the magnetic field of Mars to dissapear .
    Allowing solar radiation to flood the surface of Mars
    Lakes and rivers dried up ,nature died very quickly .
    Mars froze,but some of the water stayed underground as ice,and is still there 4 Million yrs later !
    If Humans could bring Ceres to Mars and put it into a steady orbit
    Mars might get it's magnetic field back!
    It would take awhile ,maybe 100yr!
    But Mars could be Terraformed again !
    But of course it would never be as warm as earth !
    It's much farther away from the sun.
    However it COULD become adaptable for Humans to survive !
    The biggest trick is getting Ceres to Mars and halting it in a stable orbit , in just the right place to start up the tectonic plates not to fast but not to slow !
    Right in the Goldilocks zone !
    I think this is a job for Elon Musk !
    Mike.

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