Spankey on 29 July 2009
Man I'd also like a closer fly-by pic. That would rock, so to speak.
It's interesting how it looks so rounded at those resolutions, even though there seems to be hardly any atmospheric factors that would round it like that...
The different color of the "pimple" is probably just an optical effect caused by the light source but I'd love to get more info on it.
hmm... it appears not to be alone. Phobos might have acne.
http://www.phobos2.com/index.html
(full res images here --> http://ida.wr.usgs.gov/html/sp2551/sp255103.html )
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