Watch stunning photographs of Martian moon Phobos, NASA makes startling revelations

NASA shared a stunning image of the Martian moon Phobos on social media. This lumpy, potato-shaped moon, which is sometimes referred to as a "space potato," is headed slowly toward a collision with Mars. NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been circling Mars since 2006, used the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera to take the picture, as per the reports of Yahoo News.

Phobos: The fearful moon

Phobos is 157 times smaller than Earth's moon and is named after the Greek god of fear. Being significantly smaller and named after the Greek deity of fear, Deimos is the other of Mars' two natural satellites. The theory put out by scientists states that Mars' gravitational attraction pulled these brother moons from their former state of free space.

Origins and Future of Phobos

Phobos was formerly a comet from the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, according to recent research of Phobos' reflective, craggy surface. Deimos and Phobos both have unstable orbits. According to scientific predictions, Deimos is expected to drift into space in tens of millions of years, while Phobos is expected to either collide with the surface of Mars or break into a ring around it.

At the moment, Phobos is approaching Mars at a speed of roughly 1.8 meters (six feet) per hundred years. NASA estimates that it will be approximately 50 million years until Phobos breaks or strikes Mars. Scientists have plenty of time to examine and appreciate this unusual celestial body because of its slow descent.

Essential elements of Phobos

The Stickney Crater and white ice streaks are two of Phobos's most remarkable characteristics. This 6-mile (10-kilometer) crater bears the name of mathematician Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, who was Asaph Hall's spouse who discovered Phobos and Deimos in 1877, as per the reports of Yahoo News.

FAQs:

What did NASA recently share on social media?
NASA shared a stunning image of Phobos, the Martian moon, taken by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

What are some notable features of Phobos?
Phobos has white ice streaks and the Stickney Crater, a 6-mile (10-kilometer) crater named after Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall.