Tuesday, December 30, 2008

National Geographic's top 10 space pictures of 2008

5. New Hi-res views of Mars's "fear"' moon unveiled

In April the Mars-orbiting HiRISE camera caught new high-resolution snapshots of Phobos, a Martian moon named for the Greek god of horror. The impact that created Stickney is thought to have almost shattered the roughly 17-mile-wide (27-kilometer-wide) moon.

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