@elakdawalla we've been having a #PhobosMoon kind of week here, indirectly thanks to your image processing lectures for Planetary Society 😉
Sources with references & captions:
https://mastodon.social/@sharponlooker/109438147442997793
https://fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/109440015019435823
https://fosstodon.org/@andrealuck/109444842974898047
Attached: 1 image No #Perseverance images today, so here is one of #Phobos, from ESA's PSA archives: https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa/#!Image%20View Processed, stitched HRSC Date: 2022-03-25T10:09:29Z Credit: #ESA/DLR/ @65dBnoise #MarsExpress #solarocks #space
This was inspired by a hypothesis that #PhobosMoon's grooves are the result of rolling boulders originating from the #StickneyCrater impact.
Here's the press release and reference to the science paper
https://www.brown.edu/news/2018-11-20/phobos
and one of the simulation videos
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=XhbOGYuvxdU&t=230
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More #PhobosMoon #TBT, mine from #PlanetArtober 2020:
"Boulder Avalanche at Phobos"
Fingerpainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp
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#TBT, photo of #PhobosMoon taken by #ESA #MarsExpress on 2007. Warts and all (blur, noise, Mars-shine or artifact?), it's one of my favourites.
Browse version in the archive:
https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa/ftp/MARS-EXPRESS/HRSC/MEX-M-HRSC-3-RDR-V3.0/BROWSE/4698/H4698_0006_SR2.JPG
The whole data set has a few more angles of the same encounter:
https://archives.esac.esa.int/psa/ftp/MARS-EXPRESS/HRSC/MEX-M-HRSC-3-RDR-V3.0/DATA/4698/
V Martín