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post by saskwatch
heres a photo that was labeled secret because the cigar shaped craft was like 15 miles long or something like that
Originally posted by Kandinsky
What propellants?! It looks like a HG Wells contraption designed to run from the steam of a boiling kettle.
Originally posted by Blue Shift
There's an assumption behind the idea that Phobos is artificial which is that Mars is something an intelligent spacefaring race would find interesting enough to park a ship in orbit there. But I honestly don't see where Mars has all that much going for it. Not enough to warrant putting something in orbit there. In other words, what's the big attraction?
Earth, I can see parking something in orbit here. There's all kinds of interesting stuff happening. But Mars? What a snooze.
New Mars Express observations of Martian moon Phobos suggest it could be a rubble pile rather than a single solid object, but questions remain as to where the material actually came from in the first place.
Originally posted by Arken
Originally posted by Imtor
What exactly is strange about satellites attracted by Mars that are the size of those in the asteroid belt, probably pushed near Mars also with some object that pushed or crashed into an asteroid belt object making its pieces go near Mars and thus Phobos and Deimos? ..
No. Phobos was not captured by Mars. At all. Scientists says.
A robotic Russian spacecraft that launched on a mission to the Mars moon Phobos Tuesday (Nov. 8) is apparently stuck in Earth orbit, but hope for the probe is not lost yet, according to news reports. The Phobos-Grunt spacecraft launched at 3:16 p.m. EST (2016 GMT) Tuesday and was supposed to be on its way to Phobos by now. The probe separated from its Zenit rocket properly, but its own thrusters then failed to fire in order to send the spacecraft streaking toward Mars, Russian officials said.
post by iforget
Aww dont make fun of the Russians they've had a tough time getting to mars.