As speculated before, this 'moon' seems to be very odd, and has always been considered a rather mysterious object, as has its smaller twin, Deimos. Recent events seem to have strengthened our beliefs as news recently reached us that both Moons have mysteriously disappeared... Joseph Shklovskii noted member of the Soviet Academy of science and co-writer with Dr Carl Sagan of 'Intelligent life in the universe', 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, 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 an orbit around Mars as the first step at its destination towards its ultimate goal: to transfer to an orbit that 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 2 aligned itself with Phobos, the Martian moonlet. Then, on 28th March, the Soviet mission control center acknowledged sudden communication "problems" with the spacecraft; and Tass, 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." The last transmission from Phobos 2 was a photograph of a gigantic cylindrical spaceship - a huge, approx, 20km long, 1.5km diameter cigar-shaped 'mother ship', that was photographed on 25 March 1989 hanging or parked next to the Martian moon Phobos by the Soviet unmanned probe Phobos 2. After that last frame was radio-transmitted back to Earth, the probe mysteriously disappeared; according to the Russians it was destroyed - possibly knocked out with an energy pulse beam. Today, Phobos and Deimos still hold their secrets. As missions to Mars continue in the 21st century, they are likely to receive increased attention from both science and the general public. And these are only two of the 169 known moons of the solar system – each with its own history and mystery, each awaiting exploration!
by all means phobos and deimos shouldn't exist, aero/gravitational capturing is unlikly, times 2 is extremly unlikly. Well the russians are abouth to retun to phobos perhaps with more luck this time (I doubt they will find a some sort of alien space ship though)
Need the chinese, Indians and Japanese making more strides or else the U.S and russians won't go deeper!!!
So you make the GIANT leap of calling it a spacecraft, eh? :bugeye: I've seen that photograph and it's a rather odd-looking "craft" - long and thin and with an irregular-shaped surface. Looks much more like some sort of camera artifact to me.
Phobos and Deimos... I would not want to see 2 alien spacecraft that loosly translated mean fear and terror
Has nothing to do with women. And your eagearness to jump on what appears to be nothing more than a illision created by the camera clearly shows a strong degree of gullibility. You're FAR to ready to believe in aliens to be taken even half-way serious. MODS: I suggest this thread be moved to pseudo or cesspool - either one is a better home for it.
Whichever is fine with me. Point being that it's NOT an intelligent subject in the very least and even with the most generous evaluation.
Ah well; might as well provide all the relevant images to show that there were numerous data artifacts on those images; there is no reason to believe that any of these data glitches are really spacecraft. They are all horizontal or vertical, for one thing. I have not included images with no data dropouts. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
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Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Nothing there that suggests any alien spacecraft; just a lot of vertical and horizontal lines with lost data.
