The Phobos Mystery. The Mystery Moon of Mars 2 of 2

PART 2 - Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars, has itself always been considered a rather mysterious object, as has its smaller twin, Deimos. Joseph Shklovskii noted member of the Soviet Academy of science and co-writer with Dr Carl Sagan of 'Intelligent life in the unverse', once calculated from the estimated density of the Martian atmosphere and the peculiar "acceleration" of Phobos, that the satellite must be hollow. Could Phobos be a hollowed-out space station of huge proportions?

In July 1988, the Russians launched two unmanned satellite probes - Phobos 1 and phobos 2 - in the direction of Mars, and with the primary intention of investigating the planet's mysterious moon, Phobos. Phobos 1 was unfortunately lost en route two months later, reportedly because of a radio command error. Phobos 2 was also ultimately lost in the most intriguing circumstances, but not before it had beamed back certain images and information from the planet Mars itself.

Phobos 2 arrived safely at Mars in January 1989 and entered into and orbit around Mars as the first step at its destination towards its ultimate goal: to transfer to an orbit that the would make it fly almost in tandem with the Martian moonlet called Phobos (hence the spacecrafts name) and explore the moonlet with highly sophisticated equipment that included two packages of instruments to be placed on the moonlet's surface.

All went well until Phobos aligned itself with Phobos, the Martian moonlet. Then, on 28th March, the Soviet mission control centre acknowledged sudden communication "problems" with the spacecraft; nd Tass the, the official Soviet news agency, reported that "Phobos 2 had failed to communicate with Earth as scheduled after completing an operation yesterday around the Martian moon Phobos. Scientists at mission control have been unable to establish stable radio contact."

What had caused the Phobos 2 spacecraft to be lost? The answer came about three months later. Pressed by the international participants in the Phobos mission to privide definitive data, the Soviet authorities released a taped television transmission Phobos 2 sent in its last moments except for the last frames, taken just seconds before the spacecraft fell silent. The television clip was shown by some TV stations in Europe and Canada as part of weekly 'diary' programs, as a curiosity and not as a hot news item.

The television sequence thus released focused on two anomalies. The first was a network of straight lines in the area of the Martian equator; some of the lines were short, some were longer, some were thin, some were wide enough to look like rectangular shapes 'embossed' in the Martian surface. Arranged in rows parallel to each other, the pattern covered an area of some six hundred square kilometers (more than two hundred and thirty quare miles). The anomaly appeared to be far from a natural phenomenon.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• The
• Phobos
• Mystery
• Moon
• of
• Mars
• Monolith
• buzz
• Aldrin
• UFO
• alien
• space
• NASA
• Apollo
• 11
• science
• cspan
• landing
• photos
• surface
• mystery
• unexplained
• Ariel
• unidentified
• object
• mercury
• Pluto
• Venus
• Jupiter
• Saturn
• earth
• solar
• system
• Anomaly
• Anomalies
• planets
• discovery
• astrology
• astronomy
• Uranus
• planet
• Hubble
• moon
• shuttle
• fourth
• kind
• Obama
• ghost
• 2012
• Ombre
• su
• di
• Marte
• luna
• alieni
• aliena
• ovni
• objeto

[MaharlokanSovereign]

Hollow Moon? how about the Earth? see this : /watch?v=ubKFmIDBMjU

[Gbubblez18]

Thats no Moon, IT'S A SPACE STATION!!!

[KarlUKmidlands]

@TheA1l2e34x Yes, but the shadow was too large to be that of the Phobos 2 probe and also totally the wrong shape!

[Bleachallstarz]

@TheA1l2e34x the spacecraft even looks similar to the shape of that one shadow at 4:20

[TheA1l2e34x]

Did the probes themselves not cast a shadow on the surface as they took pictures. Haha and the guy in the video said the shadows were moving...why, so was the probe.

[pater429]

phobos 2 was taken down.

[pater429]

spank you very mutch

[SPYK3O]

@SASNIGHTCRAWLER

It's a very respectable and rare quality to admit when one is wrong. Hats off to you.

[SPYK3O]

@tjrxk7

No Phobos and Deimos are not odd names for the moons of Mars. Mars was the Roman god of war and Phobos and Deimos were the sons of the Greek god of war Ares and Ares' sons accompanied him everywhere. Seeing as the Greek god of war Ares was essentially the same deity as the Roman god of war Mars this makes sense.

The moon of the Earth is known to be almost the same age of the Earth. I don't need to wake up you need to give me some of whatever you are on.

[tjrxk7]

@SPYK3O FYI,many,many things about the "moons" of Mars remain inexplicable just like many,many aspects of our own "moon". They are all artificial constructions. Time to wake up out of your slumber. FYI both "tiny moons" of Mars were named "Phobus"- FEAR and "Demos"- TERROR. Odd names for astral bodies...would'nt you say? Why? Because when they were first seen by American astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877,it scared him shitless as they were never seen before and suddenly appeared from no where.