Watch stunning photographs of Martian moon Phobos, NASA makes startling revelations
NASA shared a stunning image of the Martian moon Phobos on social media. This lumpy, potato-shaped moon, which is sometimes referred to as a "space potato," is headed slowly toward a collision with Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to take the picture, as per the reports of Yahoo News.
Phobos: The fearful moon
Phobos is 157 times smaller than Earth's moon and is named after the Greek god of fear. Being significantly smaller and named after the Greek deity of fear, Deimos is the other of Mars' two natural satellites. The theory put out by scientists states that Mars' gravitational attraction pulled these brother moons from their former state of free space.
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Phobos was formerly a comet from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to recent research of Phobos' reflective, craggy surface. Deimos and Phobos both have unstable orbits. According to scientific predictions, Deimos is expected to drift into space in tens of millions of years, while Phobos is expected to either collide with the surface of Mars or break into a ring around it.
At the moment, Phobos is approaching Mars at a speed of roughly 1.8 meters (six feet) per hundred years. NASA estimates that it will be approximately 50 million years until Phobos breaks or strikes Mars. Scientists have plenty of time to examine and appreciate this unusual
