Martian Mysteries & The Phobos Incidents |
The height of the space race in the late 1970's the Viking probes successfully landed on mars collecting pictures data and sample from the red planet. it was so successful that the Soviet scientists wanted their shot of glory but there focus wasn't on mars it was on its moon Phobos named after Greek god of fear after all if NASA could land on mars landing on one of its moons should be easy right ? well it turns out Mars's largest moon was right t be named after the Greek god of fear because as barren the landscape looks as impossible as it is to live there something dose and that something dose not want to be seen
Researcher and stargazers have long discussed the potential for life on defaces when the primary tests arrived on a superficial level the stand for finding life wasn't great.
The scene was fruitless the climate a ruddy green dimness this didn't seem to be a planet that couldn't uphold even the easiest living things.
Upon closer examination, opinions have evolved regarding NASA's portrayal of Martian landscapes through photography. Contrary to earlier perceptions, the Martian atmosphere reveals a bluish-gray hue rather than the commonly depicted green or red tones. Additionally, scientific findings suggest that Mars' surface once resembled Earth's, boasting extensive bodies of liquid water.
Analogous to Earth, Mars likely possessed a spinning iron-nickel core, generating a magnetic field essential for shielding against solar wind and radiation.
Well billions of years ago mars had a similar core which gave it similar protection but eventually the Martian core stop spinning and without the protection its magnetic field solar wind stripped away most of the Martian atmosphere.
The reason there's water on earth is because out atmosphere is actually pretty heavy when the mars lost its atmospheric pressure its water evaporated into space, actually most of its water there's still water frozen in the Martian ice caps.
The scientist also unearthed organic compounds within Martian rocks—compounds fundamental to life's formation. If Mars harbors life, what of its moons? Mars boasts two moons, Phobos and Deimos, both christened after the Greek god Ares. American astronomers Asaph Hall identified them in 1877; Phobos, the larger and closer of the two, spans a mere 14 kilometers across, a stark contrast to our Moon's 2000 kilometers. Phobos orbits unusually near Mars, just 5000 kilometers away, while our Moon maintains a distance of 200,000 kilometers.
Marked by colossal craters, Phobos's surface lacks atmosphere and its irregular shape earns it the moniker "giant potato."
Phobos bears a closer resemblance to an asteroid than a traditional moon. For quite some time, astronomers speculated that both Phobos and Deimos were asteroids that had been ensnared by Mars' gravitational pull. Not only do they exhibit strikingly asteroid-like characteristics, but their composition appears to align closely with that of typical asteroids.
However, their peculiar proximity to Mars prompted scientists from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to propose an alternative theory. Rather than being captured asteroids, they suggested that Mars' moons may have originated through a process akin to the formation of our own moon.
If an asteroid strike a planet hard enough to create debris a moon can form or in the case of mars two moons and there's scientific evidence to back it up just like mars scientists have found inactive signs of life on tiny moon possible remnants of microorganisms or DNA aka building blocks of life.
According to the lead scientists of JAXA Phobos is an ideal natural laboratory
“If Martian life once existed and it was widespread elsewhere on mars the chance that its dead remains exists also on Phobos is in my opinion relatively high, this is because numerous small asteroids impacts on mars ejects Martian surface material and the ejecta is relatively easily transferred to Phobos”
Another Scientist at JAXA
“in my opinion of all the chances for finding life as we know it in our solar system the surfaces of mars and Phobos are our best bet Phobos is a time capsule of ancient mars”
If Ancient life existed on mars its moons could be the key to unlocking the red planet secrets in fact Phobos could be the key to unlocking many secrets even though its smaller and less symmetrical than our moon it has one surprising similarity like our moon Phobos might be hollow.......
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