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Offline Harlax

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For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« on: November 19, 2004, 09:12:46 am »
OK, its really an image of Phobos.

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0411/Phobos_hiresME_full.jpg

Now where's that emergency deceleration button....
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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2004, 03:58:59 pm »
That baby has been smacked a few times...

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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2004, 04:38:14 pm »
If I didn't know any better, I'd say those lines across the surface were caused by mining crawlers....  sure would be pretty cool to find some 15,000 year old Martian mining equipment
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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #3 on: November 19, 2004, 06:41:52 pm »
Perhaps those marks were created by the solar wind?
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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2004, 08:01:52 pm »
Or by Jinns piloting in his early moments playing SFC.  :o
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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2004, 08:23:25 pm »
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Re: For all the asteroid afficianados out there
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2004, 10:35:30 pm »
I think the teacher was a bit... rockheaded in that one.


And, somebody remap those SFC1-3 asteroids with that pic of Phobos!  (Any modelers reading this??)
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