Phobos in the Round
Posted in Astronomy at 12:00 on 28 December 2013
This video of the larger of Mars’s two moons, Phobos, was Astronomy Picture of the Day for Dec 25th.
You can’t actually see this rotation from the surface of Mars as Phobos is tide-locked to its primary in the same way Earth’s Moon is to its.
Tags: Astronomy, Astronomy Picture of the Day, Mars, Phobos
Denis Cullinan
30 December 2013 at 03:39
Hi Jack,
If you’re getting your astronomy pix as a frequent visitor to the APOD site (Astronomy Photo of the Day, a NASA thing), you might enjoy this site——–http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/ I consult it for my daily fix of awe.
jackdeighton
30 December 2013 at 21:19
Thanks, Denis.
I’ll check it out.