
Don’t worry, that’s not a photo of a meteor that’s rocketing towards our fair planet. It’s actually a high res picture -one of the first ever- of Phobos, one of the twin moons of Mars. These pictures were captured by the Mars Orbiter recently. Phobos, you may recognize as the Greek word for “fear”. The other twin is called Deimos, which means “panic”. They’re the names of horses that pulled Aries,the sun god, through the sky…. even though in reality they look more like giant potatoes.
To find out more, Wired Science has the full article.
Or you can go right to the source and click this link to explore some much higher resolution photos.<a
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