This video is called H344-Mars Express 2.
From the BBC:
Europe’s Mars Express spacecraft has returned some remarkable close-up images of the Red Planet’s Phobos moon.See also here.The probe passed just 93km from the rock on 23 July, allowing its High Resolution Stereo Camera to take extremely detailed pictures.
Potato-shaped Phobos is 27km in its longest dimension and is thought to be a captured-asteroid or a remnant of the material that formed the planets.
The new images include portions of the moon not previously photographed.
They also show clearly the satellite’s famous grooves.
How these were generated is not entirely understood. Some scientists believe they have been gouged out by material thrown up from the surface of Mars by space impacts.
Other researchers think they could have resulted from the surface regolith, or soil, slipping into internal fissures.
The images are sure to provide new insights. At their best, the pictures have a resolution of 3.7m per pixel.They will also assist the Russians in their planning of the Phobos-Grunt mission. Launching next year, this venture will try to place a spacecraft on the moon to gather samples for return to Earth.
PHOBOS - MARTIAN MOON
Measures 27 x 22 x 18km; could be a captured asteroid
Orbits less than 6,000km above Mars; slowly falling inwards
First high-res probe images taken by Mariner 9 in 1971
Dedicated Soviet probes, Phobos 1 & 2, were lost
Its 10km-wide Stickney crater records huge impact
California planetarium: here.
NASA confirms water on Mars:
The agency’s robotic Phoenix Lander “touched and
tasted” the Red Planet’s frozen water, a mission
scientist says.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080731_mars-water
Comment by Administrator — August 8, 2008 @ 10:10 am
Martian salt not bad for life: scientists
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080806_perchlorates
Comment by Administrator — August 8, 2008 @ 10:11 am
On-and-off floods formed Mars valleys,
study finds:
Floods that created distinctive features of Mars
were not of a catastrophic sort, scientists claim.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080908_mars-valleys
Comment by Administrator — September 11, 2008 @ 8:57 am
Something beyond visible universe
detected?:
Scientists have measured an unexpected motion in
distant clusters of galaxies.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/080923_wmap
Comment by Administrator — September 30, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Vast underground glaciers reported on Mars:
The findings could present new avenues for the
search for life or provide water to support future
exploration, scientists claim.
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/081120_mars
Comment by Administrator — December 1, 2008 @ 11:54 am