Getting up close with a Martian moon:

Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:21 pm » by **Savwafair2012**

The amazing images taken by a space probe just 60 MILES away

Mankind has long been obsessed by the red planet.

Now a European spacecraft in orbit around Mars has captured these astonishing images of Phobos, the larger of its two moons.

The pictures reveal an irregular, non-spherical mass that is littered with craters.

Martian moon: Taken by Europe's Mars Express probe earlier this month, this image has been photometrically enhanced to illuminate the darker areas of Phobos, one of the least reflective bodies in the solar system

Due to the tight fly-by angle when Mars Express took this image of Phobos, only a small section of the picture is in focus, resulting in an odd 3D effect elsewhere

One of the least reflective bodies in the solar system, Phobos also orbits Mars below the synchronous orbit radius. This means that it moves around Mars faster than the planet itself rotates.

The images were taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express - a spacecraft the size of a large fridge-freezer that has been circling Mars since Christmas 2003

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ ... z1C1QMs0vz

Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:35 pm » by **Humanbeing**

the best part about it, is that it is an ancient spacecraft. Problem is, someones got a gun to the ESA and they are having much difficulties releasing this information. Hoagland has some awesome information on phobos, as well as buzz aldrin.

http://www.enterprisemission.com/Phobos2.html

http://theunexplained.tv/paranormal-podcasts/edition-34-richard-c-hoagland-on-phobos

and of course there is always more. i'm pretty sure the aldrin stuff has been posted here before. i'm not super savvy with finding older posts, so if someone wants to try to find the aldrin interviews where he talks about the monolith, that would rock (space rock!!)
cheers :cheers:

ESA's reply to hoagland - http://theunexplained.tv/paranormal-podcasts/edition-35-esas-reply-to-richard-c-hoagland

Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:39 pm » by **Funnyman46**

http://www.disclose.tv/forum/post338622.html?hilit=monolith%20aldrin#p338622page three

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I heard Hoggy talk about it being a ship but for the life of me can't see anything remote that looks like a structured object. All I see is dirt, dust and crators and the huge letter 'S'. It would be nice to have Punjedi look at it with his thread entitled 'Nasa caught in the BLACK'

It does however appear to have had rocks slide across it like you see in the desert. I wonder if it has just enough gravity to hold the rocks ,have them slide and leave by some other force while in travel?

Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:50 pm » by **Humanbeing**

thanks funnyman.thats the kind of teamwork we all need to be taking part of. helping each other out.
phobos is a super mystery, and until the ESA comes clean with this, it will remain a mystery.

my goal is to find phobos with my telescope this summer when mars comes back into my night sky!!

Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:10 pm » by **Funnyman46**

humanbeing wrote:thanks funnyman.thats the kind of teamwork we all need to be taking part of. helping each other out.
phobos is a super mystery, and until the ESA comes clean with this, it will remain a mystery.

my goal is to find phobos with my telescope this summer when mars comes back into my night sky!!

SWEET! I took a look at your

fuji film finepix S1500 and my telescope

in another thread. Can't wait to see your pictures, good luck.