Smivs writes “NASA has released some detailed new images of Mars’s moon Phobos. The photos are dominated by Stickney Crater, a 9-km (5.5-mi.) depression that’s the largest feature on Phobos. The images were captured by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Some researchers claim that the one-of-a-kind, fist-sized Kaidun meteorite, which fell to Earth at a Russian military base in Yemen in 1980, is a piece of Phobos.” Here’s a link to all the new images.
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