*Facepalm*

Way to spell monolith in the thread title, Spankey.

Anyway, check out this vid at about 0:30.

Seriously, is this guy smoking something or WTF did he just say?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDIXvpjnRws

Did he seriously just say:

"We shall develop the Moon"

^^Yup. Dudes on some serious old timer's vitamin pills, I'd reckon.

gotta gets me some.

Oh don't be so hard on Buzz...guy is damn near 80 and doing pretty well considering that.

Anyways Mars has two moons Phobos and Deimos.

On Phobos there is a strange protrusion:

Note the unusually long shadow compared to other structures, this indicates it is fairly tall but part of it is also the extreme angle of the light source.  They can't measure the exact height because determing height from shadow length requires knowing the angle of the light source (ie the sun) and must assume a perfect sphere...as you can see above Phobos is not a perfect sphere so the calculations leave something to be desired.  Estimates I have heard are between 280ft and 420ft.  Either way it is intriguing.

Yeah, I really shouldn't be too hard on the guy.

That protrusion looks like either a stuck golf-ball or a 350 ft. pimple.
Seeing as how there's no impact crater around the structure, my moneys on the pimple.

Phobos will always remind me of Doom now lol.

haha yeah, glad I'm not the only one who thinks of Doom =P

As for the "pimple" they are considering it as a possible landing site of future missions, at the very least I would love for them to do a few fly-bys with telescopic lens and get some clean shots of the thing...it isn't impossible for nature to produce stuff like that but it would be nice to know how it got there natural or not:

Stalagmites (~24-30ft)

Devil's Tower (1,267ft)

We don't really have anything that I know of that matches it in shape/size/composition so the process could be something new unknown.

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 )