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V Martínsharponlooker
2023-05-24

dlr.de/en/media/publications/m

V Martínsharponlooker
2022-12-02

@elakdawalla we've been having a kind of week here, indirectly thanks to your image processing lectures for Planetary Society 😉

Sources with references & captions:
mastodon.social/@sharponlooker
fosstodon.org/@65dBnoise/10944
fosstodon.org/@andrealuck/1094

V Martínsharponlooker
2022-12-01

This was inspired by a hypothesis that 's grooves are the result of rolling boulders originating from the impact.

Here's the press release and reference to the science paper
brown.edu/news/2018-11-20/phob

and one of the simulation videos
yewtu.be/watch?v=XhbOGYuvxdU&t

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V Martínsharponlooker
2022-12-01

More , mine from 2020:

"Boulder Avalanche at Phobos"

Fingerpainted on tablet with

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V Martínsharponlooker
2022-12-01

, photo of taken by on 2007. Warts and all (blur, noise, Mars-shine or artifact?), it's one of my favourites.

Browse version in the archive:
archives.esac.esa.int/psa/ftp/

The whole data set has a few more angles of the same encounter:

archives.esac.esa.int/psa/ftp/

Greyscale view of the whole of Phobos' irregular shape floating against a slightly illuminated background. The top part shows some clear large craters, and is partly illuminated by the Sun. The bottom part appears to bathe in Mars-shine, although unclear if it is an exposure artifact.

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