{"id":218658,"date":"2013-12-19T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"50692c5ca71ee8f4e8dcf8a6ee9b0a2b"},"modified":"2013-12-19T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T23:00:00","slug":"phobos-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=218658","title":{"rendered":"Phobos 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/12\/phobos_360\/13457739-1-eng-GB\/Phobos_360_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe innermost moon of Mars, Phobos, is seen here in full 360 degree&nbsp;glory. The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA\u2019s&nbsp;Mars Express at various times throughout the mission\u2019s 10 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe moon\u2019s parallel sets of grooves are perhaps the most striking feature,&nbsp;along with the giant 9 km-wide Stickney impact crater that dominates one face&nbsp;of the 27 x 22 x 18 km moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe origin of the moon\u2019s grooves is a subject of much debate. One idea&nbsp;assumes that the crater chains are associated with impact events on the moon&nbsp;itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother idea suggests they result from Phobos moving through streams of&nbsp;debris thrown up from impacts 6000 km away on the surface of Mars, with each&nbsp;\u2018family\u2019 of grooves corresponding to a different impact event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMars Express has imaged Phobos from a wide range of distances, but will make&nbsp;its closest flyby yet on&nbsp;29 December 2013, at just 45 km above the moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough this is too close to take images, gravity experiments will give&nbsp;insight into the interior structure of Phobos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/videos\/2013\/12\/phobos_360\/13457739-1-eng-GB\/Phobos_360_small.png\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nThe innermost moon of Mars, Phobos, is seen here in full 360 degree&nbsp;glory. The images were taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on ESA\u2019s&nbsp;Mars Express at various times throughout the mission\u2019s 10 years.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe moon\u2019s parallel sets of grooves are perhaps the most striking feature,&nbsp;along with the giant 9 km-wide Stickney impact crater that dominates one face&nbsp;of the 27 x 22 x 18 km moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe origin of the moon\u2019s grooves is a subject of much debate. One idea&nbsp;assumes that the crater chains are associated with impact events on the moon&nbsp;itself.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAnother idea suggests they result from Phobos moving through streams of&nbsp;debris thrown up from impacts 6000 km away on the surface of Mars, with each&nbsp;\u2018family\u2019 of grooves corresponding to a different impact event.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nMars Express has imaged Phobos from a wide range of distances, but will make&nbsp;its closest flyby yet on&nbsp;29 December 2013, at just 45 km above the moon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nAlthough this is too close to take images, gravity experiments will give&nbsp;insight into the interior structure of Phobos.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=218658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}