3D Moon of Mars - New pictures of Phobos

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4-11-2008 9:03 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/43517742-58d6-451d-9893-d1676849ba85/04805AE1-773B-490B-9CB5-BC98CBAD1D48/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://spaceweather.com/" href="http://spaceweather.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">spaceweather.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/"><P><FONT size="3"><STRONG><FONT color="#ff0000"> 3D MOON OF MARS:</FONT></STRONG></FONT> 
              Grab your <A href="http://www.spaceweather.com/xtra/results_3dglasses.php?searchTerm=3D%20glasses">3D 
              glasses</A>. Two weeks ago, NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) 
              targeted martian moon Phobos and took a pair of high-resolution 
              pictures. Mission scientists have combined them to make a startling 
              red-blue anaglyph. Glasses on? <A href="http://spaceweather.com/swpod2008/10apr08/redblue1024.jpg?PHPSESSID=j12i90krs3fhs66snl1d25l227">Behold</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/"><P>The 2D view is nearly as good:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/spaceweather.com/img/8B7AD9DB-F4CE-48B9-A690-465188DB8A0F" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://spaceweather.com/">Long ago, something struck Phobos and almost shattered the tiny 
              moon. The scar of that impact, 9km-wide Stickney crater, is located 
              at the top of the image. Color filters in MRO's camera reveal a 
              <A href="http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/221831main_PIA10368.tif">blue 
              splash</A> of material around Stickney's rim. What is it? No one 
              knows. Equally striking are Phobos' many long grooves and crater 
              chains. Although these seem to radiate from Stickney, recent studies 
              show that most are <EM>not</EM> related to the crater. Instead they 
              come from the planet below; when asteroids hit Mars, debris flies 
              up and scores Phobos. The grooves seem to emerge from Stickney only 
              because the crater faces Mars. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/04805AE1-773B-490B-9CB5-BC98CBAD1D48/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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