Stereo Phobos
Explanation:
Get out your red/blue glasses
and float next to Phobos, grooved moon of Mars!
Captured in 2004 by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board
ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, the image data was
recorded at a distance of about 200 kilometers from the martian moon.
This tantalizing
stereo
anaglyph view
shows the Mars-facing side of Phobos.
It highlights the
asteroid-like
moon's
cratered and grooved surface.
Up to hundreds of meters wide, the
mysterious
grooves
may be related to the impact that created
Stickney crater,
the large crater at the left.
Stickney crater is about 10 kilometers across, while
Phobos itself
is only around 27 kilometers across at its widest point.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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& Michigan Tech. U.
