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Explanation: Get out your red/blue glasses and float next to Phobos, grooved moon of Mars! Also featured in yesterday's episode, the image data from the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera and was recorded at a distance of about 200 kilometers. This tantalizing stereo anaglyph view shows the Mars-facing side of the asteroid-like moon's cratered and grooved surface. Up to hundreds of meters wide, the mysterious grooves may be fractures related to the impact which created 10 kilometer wide Stickney crater, the large crater at the left.
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& Michigan Tech. U.
Based on Astronomy Picture
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Publications with keywords: Phobos - Mars - Moon
Publications with words: Phobos - Mars - Moon
See also:
- APOD: 2025 April 22 B Terminator Moon: A Moonscape of Shadows
- APOD: 2025 April 13 B An Unusual Hole in Mars
- Moon Near the Edge
- APOD: 2025 April 8 B Moon Visits Sister Stars
- APOD: 2025 April 6 B Moonquakes Surprisingly Common
- Lunar Dust and Duct Tape
- APOD: 2025 March 23 B Ancient Ogunquit Beach on Mars