reply to post by Beachcoma
Beachcoma, thanks for the research! I've never heard of this Fred Singer before. The first time I heard of the Phobos image was at the
Enterprisemission.com website, a long time ago. Check this out:
On the 'hollowing out' of Phobos:
"The Russians sent two probes, named "Phobos 1" and "Phobos 2" to Mars in the late 1980's, to study the surface and atmospheric properties of
the planet, and the composition of one of its two moons, Phobos. Phobos 1 failed along the way, but Phobos 2 made it all the way to Mars and operated
nominally for period of several weeks. Its disappearance has become the stuff of UFO lore, but in the process the spacecraft made numerous valuable
observations of both Phobos and Mars. One of the most curious was that Phobos density was found to be extremely anomalous. According to a paper
published in the October 19th, 1989 issue of the scientific journal Nature, Phobos had a bizarre density of 1.95 g/cu.cm ("19.5" anyone?), meaning
it was almost 1/3 hollow! Since both Martian "Moons" are actually captured asteroids (and therefore consistent with the Tidal Model), this finding
is extraordinary. There is virtually no way that a solid object like Phobos can be "hollowed out" in this manner naturally, leaving a really big
question -- just who hollowed it out ... and why?"
Source:
www.enterprisemission.com...
With a quick search at their site, I couldn't find the article I read originally where Hoagland did his version of the 'play-by-play', but this
quote tells the story in short form. I'm sure Hoagland would answer an email query, he did years ago when these issues all first got my attention.
He's got a ton of photos from both NASA and the Russian Probes, perhaps he has data on the source of the story too?
Also, I found a website that hosts: "The Complete Phobos 2 VSK Image Data Set" here:
www.planetary.org...
There are several images that seem to show this wierd 'UFO' type thing. Here is one:
Here is another, taken by Phobos 2, of Jupiter and Mars. They are the two dots, the blob is something else (Unidentified) or an image artifact.
You have to look at this zoomed in to even see the planets pictured.
Here is an obvious image artifact, from the same camera on Phobos 2:
And here is an image with both the obvious imaging artifact, AND the anamoly:
Notice how one of the imaging problem 'lines' disrupts the 'anamoly' where it intersects? It's very strange, and tends to suggest the
'anamoly' was a physical object in the image.
Also strange is how the 'obvious' imaging problems are represented by horizontal (as seen by the viewer) lines, where as the 'anamoly' turns up
consistently vertical (as seen by the viewer), and at appoximately 90 degrees from the imaging problem 'lines'.
Anyway, just some more data, it never hurts
And lots more questions. I'm really caught up with another project right now, but I thought I'd at least provide a link to some more data from the
probe for everyone to speculate on. Thoughts?
