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	Phobos (moon) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phobos was photographed close-up by Mariner 9 in 1971, Viking 1 in 1977, Phobos 2 in 1988, Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and 2003, and by Mars Express in 2004.
		Later the moon is overtaken by multinational forces and is de-orbited by the Martian rebels.
		Phobos is the final mission in the video game Armored Core 2 where the player must battle to the center to destroy the orbit control mechanism and prevent it from crashing into Mars and destroying the newly formed Martian civilization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phobos_(moon) (1913 words)

	Phobos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Phobos (mythology), one of the sons of Ares and Aphrodite in Greek mythology.
		Phobos (moon), the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons.
		Phobos program, consisting of two unmanned probes, Phobos 1 and Phobos 2, sent to Mars by the Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Phobos (177 words)

	Phobos Mysteries
		Phobos is closer to its primary than any other moon in the solar system, less than 6000 km above the surface of Mars.
		In Greek mythology, Phobos is one of the sons of Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus).
		The primary objective of the mission, as with its sister probe Phobos 1, was to explore the larger of Mars' two moons, Phobos.
	www.geocities.com /tasosmit2001/fobos.htm (379 words)

	NASA's Solar System Exploration: Planets: Mars: Moons: Phobos
		Phobos, named after a messenger of the Roman god of war, is the larger of Mars' two moons and 27 by 22 by 18 km in diameter.
		Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of 1.8 meters every hundred years; at that rate, it will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring.
		Phobos and Deimos appears to be composed of C-type rock, similar to flish carbonaceous chondrite asteroids.
	solarsystem.nasa.gov /planets/profile.cfm?Object=Mar_Phobos (346 words)

	ipedia.com: Phobos (moon) Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moonss, named after Phobos, son of Ares (Mars) from Greek Mythology.
		Phobos was discovered on August 18, 1877 at about 09:14 UTC (given in contemporary sources as "August 17 16:06" Washington mean time using the old astronomical convention of beginning a day at noon, so 12 hours must be added to get the actual local mean time).
		Phobos was first photographed close-up by Mariner 9 in 1971, Viking 1 in 1977, Phobos 2 in 1988, and by Mars Global Surveyor in 1998 and 2003.
	www.ipedia.com /phobos__moon_.html (812 words)

	Phobos
		Phobos ("FOH bus") is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons.
		Phobos and Deimos may be composed of carbon-rich rock like C-type asteroids.
		Phobos and Deimos may someday be useful as "space stations" from which to study Mars or as intermediate stops to and from the Martian surface; especially if the presence of ice is confirmed.
	www.seds.org /nineplanets/nineplanets/phobos.html (467 words)

	Mars' Moon Phobos
		Phobos [FOH-bohs] (fear) is a moon of Mars and was named after an attendant of the Roman war god Mars.
		Phobos shows striated patterns which are probably cracks caused by the impact event of the largest crater on the moon.
		Because Phobos is only 28 by 20 kilometers (17 by 12 miles), the moon must have been nearly shattered from the force of the impact that caused the giant crater.
	solarviews.com /eng/phobos.htm (427 words)

	Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-66 Phobos Release
		data indicate that the surface temperature in the shadowed region of Phobos is -170° F (-112° C), while a few kilometers away (on the sunlit side of Phobos) the temperature is +25° F (-4 ° C).
		The extreme temperature differences between the night and day sides of Phobos indicate that the surface is composed of very small particles that lose their heat rapidly once the Sun sets.
		Phobos, the inner and larger of the two moons of Mars, was the subject of several close observations taken by the Mars Global Surveyor during the past month.
	mars.jpl.nasa.gov /mgs/msss/camera/images/9_11_98_phobos_rel (940 words)

	ORRERY: Mars' Moons - Phobos & Deimos
		Both Phobos and Deimos are very close to the planet compared to Earth's Moon.
		Phobos is the larger of the two, but would appear from the surface to be about 1/3 of the size of our Moon.
		Mars's moons are so small that their gravity is not enough to have pulled them into a spherical shape.
	www.harmsy.freeuk.com /phobos.html (387 words)

	Scale Model of the Earth, Moon, Mars, Phobos, Deimos
		The two moons were named for two sons of Ares, the God of War: Phobos (Greek for fear) and Deimos (Greek for terror).
		Phobos is so small that gravity isn't large enough to mold the moon into a sphere.
		The size and distance of the Moon as drawn are both to the correct scale.
	www.astrodigital.org /astronomy/emscale.html (529 words)

	Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-187 Release
		Phobos and the smaller, more distant satellite, Deimos, were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, an astronomer at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. Hall had been hunting for martian satellites for some time, and was about to abandon the search when he was encouraged by his wife to continue.
		Phobos was the target of the ill-fated Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet Union in 1988.
		Phobos 2 actually reached Mars in 1989 and obtained a few pictures of the satellite---it also captured the shadow of Phobos cast upon the martian surface using its thermal infrared imager, Termoskan.
	www.msss.com /mars_images/moc/11_1_99_phobos (927 words)

	Mars' moon Phobos may have artificial structures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Phobos is only 3,728 miles away from the surface of Mars and always keeps the same side facing Mars.
		Phobos has an enormous almost bottomless crater that may be entry point to an underground base.
		Phobos is rich in potential rocket fuel and minerals, making it an attractive base for intergalactic travel.
	www.ufoindia.org /news_phobos_artificialstructures.htm (476 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| Mars moon emerges from the dark
		Phobos is slowly falling down to Mars and is expected to crash into the planet in the next few million years.
		Phobos is locked in a so-called "death spiral", which means it is in an orbit that is gradually pulling it on a collision course with the surface of the planet.
		The moon appears to be composed of C-type rock, similar to flish carbonaceous chondrite asteroids.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/4004001.stm (256 words)

	StarDate Online \| Solar System Guide \| Moons of Mars
		Both moons are tidally locked with Mars — that is, the same face of each moon always faces the planet, just as the same side of our own moon always faces Earth.
		Many scientists believe that Phobos and Deimos are asteroids that wandered close to Mars billions of years ago.
		But other scientists say that the moons formed at the same time as Mars, or that they're the remnants of a larger moon that was shattered by a collision with a large meteor.
	stardate.org /resources/ssguide/mars_moons.html (480 words)

	ESA Science & Technology: Close Inspection for Phobos
		Phobos, Mars's tiny innermost moon, is under unprecedented scrutiny now that Europe's mission to Mars is in orbit around the Red Planet.
		The orbital period of Phobos is three times faster than the rotation period of Mars, with the unusual result among natural satellites, that Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east as seen from Mars.
		Streaks on the surface of Phobos indicate that the satellite was almost shattered by the impact.
	sci.esa.int /science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31031 (1418 words)

	Sea and Sky's Tour of the Solar System: Phobos
		Phobos was named after Fear, one of the charioteers of the Roman god, Mars.
		Phobos and its cousin, Deimos, were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall while observing Mars at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington.
		Phobos is believed to be composed of carbon-rich rock like that found in C-type asteroids that exist in the outer asteroid belt.
	www.seasky.org /solarsystem/sky3e2.html (564 words)

	The Moon Garden: Phobos and Deimos
		Phobos and Deimos are two crows, with a special bond to Hino Rei.
		Phobos and Deimos are sometimes able to give Rei messages, despite the fact that they can't talk to her as Luna and Artemis can talk to their girls.
		It turns out that Phobos and Deimos were two girls from the planet Coronis, chosen to be the partners of Sailormars, and their role was to protect and train Sailormars in her growing power.
	members.tripod.com /~ilsevet/c-ravens.html (492 words)

	UNREAL PLAYGROUND - Maps, Servers, Forums
		Liandri marvelled when the deserted space station in orbit around phobos moon was prepared for the tournament, they looked on in glee as the battle was on, aboard the Deathmatch arena where a wrong step can be fatal...
		Phobos][ is a symmetrical, complicated CTF map made in the style of its DM namesake.
		Phobos][ is supposed to be the sister-station to that used in DM-Phobos, and as such the theme is the same and the majority of the architecture has been cut and pasted from the original.
	www.unrealplayground.com /review.php?id=147 (1075 words)

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		Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars's two moons: distance from (the center of) Mars:
		Phobos is doomed: because its orbit is below synchronous altitude tidal forces are pulling it toward Mars.
		When Phobos is on the planet's light side, Mars, which fills a quarter of the sky, is lit up.
	www.ux1.eiu.edu /~imsa1/group6/phobos-6.htm (1293 words)

	SPACE.com -- New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons
		PASADENA, California -- The two moons of Mars -- Phobos and Deimos -- could be the byproducts of a breakup of a huge moon that once circled the red planet, according to a new theory.
		This image of Phobos, the inner and larger of the two moons of Mars, was taken by the Mars Global Surveyor on August 19, 1998.
		A fundamental prediction by Singer is that the moons are similar in composition and petrology.
	www.space.com /scienceastronomy/mars_moons_origin_030729.html (862 words)

	Mars Global Surveyor MOC2-400 Release
		The wide angle images illustrate the fact that Phobos is mostly colorless (dark gray); the faint orange/red hue in the wide angle picture is a combination of slight differences in the focal lengths of the blue and red cameras and the orange/red illumination provided by reflection of sunlight off Mars.
		This is a part of Phobos that was not seen by MOC in 1998, when MGS made several close flybys of the tiny moon.
		The rows of grooves and aligned pits on Phobos are related to, and were probably caused by, a large meteor impact that occurred on the side of Phobos that is not seen here.
	www.msss.com /mars_images/moc/2003/06/23 (541 words)

	Universe Today - Close View of Phobos
		Phobos is locked in a "death spiral" around Mars, and it'll eventually crash into the planet, or be torn apart and turned into a short-lived ring.
		This tiny moon is thought to be in a ‘death spiral’, slowly orbiting toward the surface of Mars.
		Eventually Phobos could be torn apart by Martian gravity and become a short-lived ring around Mars, or even impact on the surface.
	www.universetoday.com /am/publish/close_view_phobos.html?12112004 (647 words)

	Martian moon Phobos in detail - Forums powered by UBBThreads™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Phobos could have been a quasi moon that had only gotten that close to mars every 50 thousand years or so.
		Upon completing an orbit, the moon again enters what remains of the debris field, so expecting a lower density of striations, but interacts in the direction of orbit instead of normal to it in the first encounter.
		The possibility that one moon is part of the impactor and the other moon is part of the impacted is not impossible but unlikely to produce enough combined momentum for the center of mass to cross Mars’ orbit.
	uplink.space.com /showflat.php?Cat=&Board=sciastro&Number=89393&page=14&view=collapsed&sb=6&o=0&fpart= (1922 words)

	Mars (planet) - MSN Encarta
		The Soviets did not explore Mars again until the Phobos missions in 1988.
		The Phobos probes were primarily designed to study the planet’s moon Phobos.
		Phobos 1 was lost on its way to Mars, but Phobos 2 went into Martian orbit and sent back information on the composition of both Phobos and Mars.
	ca.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761566582_4/Mars_(planet).html (1409 words)

	Spaceflight Now \| Breaking News \| Europe's Mars Express will investigate Phobos
		Phobos, the tiny innermost moon of Mars, is to come under unprecedented scrutiny after Europe's mission to Mars goes into orbit around the Red Planet late in 2003.
		Phobos is a world of mysterious origin and destiny.
		Some of these radiate from Stickney, the large impact crater that distorts the shape of the moon, and are thought to indicate that the force of the impact nearly shattered the small body.
	www.spaceflightnow.com /news/n0106/10phobos (1026 words)

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