Phobos over Mars! Full size & more info: flic.kr/p/2qQGtTG Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY ESA Mars Express HRSC 2014-05-31 Colourised image created using data processed from: psa.esa.int My album about Phobos: flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL #planetsci 🧪 @esa.int @dlr-en.bsky.social - ThreadSky

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andrealuck.bsky.social • 2 days ago

Phobos over Mars!

Full size & more info: https://flic.kr/p/2qQGtTG
Credit: ESA/DLR/FUBerlin/AndreaLuck CC BY

ESA Mars Express HRSC 2014-05-31
Colourised image created using data processed from: https://psa.esa.int

My album about Phobos: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL
#planetsci 🧪 @esa.int @dlr-en.bsky.social

Comments

pushkin99.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've not seen that flattish base on other pics of Phobos.

andrealuck.bsky.social•2 days ago

It’s the surface of Mars distorted by the camera scanning while it focuses on Phobos

pushkin99.bsky.social•2 days ago

Thank you.

andrealuck.bsky.social•2 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/andrealuck.bsky.social/post/3ljvg6dpu5c2b this may help :)

cheater00.bsky.social•1 day ago

andrealuck.bsky.social•1 day ago

😱

andrealuck.bsky.social•2 days ago

The waviness of the Martian surface is a visual distortion from the camera's line-scanning method, caused by differences in motion between foreground and background objects.

To better visualize this, I've roughly resized the background... but tbh I like more the original image above: it's magic