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celestialdaily · 4 months ago

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The celestial object of the day is Phobos!

It's Mars's largest moon with 21 km (13 mi), it orbits Mars at only 6,000 km (3,700 mi) and it gets closer by 1.8 meters every year, at that rate is expected to collide with Mars or form a planetary ring in about 30-50 million years!

#image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona #The first picture is a photo of the Stickney crater #And is named after Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall who helped discover both Martian moons!#She was so cool kinda sad that her work wasn't properly paid only because she was a woman :(#sorry for the rant #I just really like astronomy history #Ok now to the actual tags #astrophotography #astronomy #nasa photos #nasa #space photography #outer space #space exploration #space #celestial object of the day #mars #phobos #moons

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