WOW Pic Of Phobos

[vindictive666]

morning all

had to share this

check it out

http://www.universetoday.com/2008/04/09/amazing-image-of-the-martian-moon-phobos/

[iceman]

Wow that is very cool. Excellent!

[Omaroo]

That's amazing. Wouldn't Galileo have had a ball in our times.

[sheeny]

Very cool!

Al.

[RB]

Nicely composed, good colour balance, rule of thirds :thumbsup:, interesting subject matter, no blown highlights and perfect DOF.

Wow beautiful photo. :)

[Ric]

A great looking image, it's not often we get to see new images of the Martian moons.

[Jen]

:eyepop::thumbsup:

[glenc]

This image of Phobos is amazing too:

"Stickney Crater, the largest crater on the martian moon Phobos, is named for Chloe Angeline Stickney (http://maia.usno.navy.mil/women_history/hall.html) Hall, mathematician and wife of astronomer Asaph Hall. Asaph Hall discovered both the Red Planet's moons (http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap031024.html) in 1877. Over 9 kilometers across, Stickney is nearly half the diameter of Phobos itself.." (http://www.planetary.org/blog/article/00001348)

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0804/PSP_007769_9010_IRB_Stickney.jpg

[CoombellKid]

Excellent images!!

It's shape looks more like an asteroid than a moon.

regards,CS

[KG8]

Great image alright! It's amazing the technology we have out there in space, I take it for granted mostly buy a picture like this always makes me think about what we humans have achieved.

[Ric]

Hi Glen, thanks for the info on Phobos.

That was very interesting

[sheeny]

This little item in Nature:

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080416/pdf/452797b.pdf

has an enhanced colour inage of Stickney (the 9km wide crater on Phobos... which is only 22km in diameter!)

Al.