Image courtesy of NASA.
Joel Kontinen
“NASA has posted a stunning photo of a "space
potato"— but it is actually Phobos, the Martian moon that is locked
on a slow collision course with the Red Planet.
The space
agency imaged the lumpy, starchy-looking moon using the High
Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA's Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying the Red Planet since arriving
in its orbit in 2006.
Phobos, named
after the Greek god of fear, is roughly 157 times smaller than Earth's moon and
is one of Mars' two natural satellites, alongside the even smaller
Deimos, whose name comes from the Greek god of dread. “
The present survey rests on Mars and its moons being
formed millions of years ago,
Scientists, who believe in evolution say that that the
””moons were once roaming rocks and were snared into Mars' orbit by the
planet's gravitational field. A
recent image analysis of Phobos' craggy yet highly reflective surface suggested
the moon was once a comet and came from the asteroid belt located
between the Red Planet and Jupiter.”
Those sounds like science
fiction, relying on moon or planet they and we could not see.
Source:
Ben Turner, '2024. 'Space potato' spotted by NASA Mars satellite is actually something much cooler (yahoo.com) 26 June