![]() Caption: Phobos, the inner of Mars's two small moons, imaged by Viking. It is 28 km by 20 km and covered in craters. The largest, visible in this image, is Stickney, 10 km in diameter. The impact which caused it also made the long straight grooves. Copyright: Credit:National Optical Astronomy Observatories |
![]() Caption:This close-up shows the density of impact craters and long grooves. Copyright: Credit:NASA |
![]() Caption:The two martian moons are shown to the same scale in these Viking images. Deimos (right) is about 14 km across. Phobos is 28 km by 20 km. Copyright: Credit:A NASA/JPL PHOTO |
![]() Caption:This view shows the side opposite the large crater Stickney. Copyright: Credit:Russian source |
![]() Caption:Mars's inner and larger moon, Phobos, with Mars in the background Copyright: Credit:Russian source |
![]() Caption:The Viking 2 Orbiter was maneuvered to within 30 km of Deimos to take this high resolution image in which features as small as 3 meters across can be discerned. Many craters are filled with dust and appear only as ghostly outlines. Boulders 10 to 30 meters across are strewn over the surface. Copyright: Credit:NASA |