Observe in detail the Moon of Mars

The spacecraft with NASA's sophisticated observations captured very small details of the Phobos moon (one of Mars's two moons) and discovered the unprecedented recorded details of satellites. potato shape. This ship made a trip to discover Phobos while pausing on the main task of finding a new landing area on Mars.

Scientists are very interested in the detailed analysis of these images in order to better understand the origin of the satellite, but the photos published last Wednesday fit the American perspective. study before.

The red, blue, and near-infrared filters on the high resolution camera of the Mars spy ship (MRO) are used to create three-dimensional images of Phobos and some of its most striking features like Stickney's diameter of 5.5 miles is called Stickney.

Scientists believe that small stars and supernovae fall to create the crater of Stickney, which greatly affected Phobos, nearly breaking it into pieces. Images from the MRO show that Stickney's mouth rim is made up of many different materials than the areas around it.

Nathan Bridges, a MRO scientist at the Jet Engine Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said: 'Based on our moon material similarity, new Stickney materials can be seen. more and not exposed in the universe as long as the rest of Phobos 'surface.'

The MRO also recorded landslides along the walls of Stickney and the other ravines, including the darkening of the moon that had not been discovered before. This is the part illuminated by light reflected from Mars.

Like the moon of Earth, Phobos and the moon Demos also has a fixed tidal trajectory compared to Mars, leaving the other half of each moon in darkness.

Although other spacecraft have flown closer to Phobos, the images of the MRO provided are still the highest quality images. Scientists believe that on Phobos there may be frozen water and carbon-rich materials necessary for settling on Mars later.

The MRO took pictures on March 23 when the moon Phobos was about 4,200 miles away. At this distance, the ship's camera can resolve the smallest details with a diameter of 50 feet. Phobos has a diameter of about 13.5 miles and scientists assume it could be a small planet pulled out of Mars by its gravitational pull.

Pictures of Phobos - potato-shaped satellites.(Photo: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona)

Stickney Mountain.(Photo: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona)