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Phobos and Deimos: Are the Martian Moons Really Alien Outposts?
Thursday, April 18, 2013 23:35
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Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars. Many people believe that Phobos is an artificially created alien space outpost or colony with a “city” inside it. It is theorized that Phobos is hollow because it has a peculiar acceleration, verified by Carl Sagan, the Soviet Science Academy, and recently, the European Space Agency. http://www.ufodigest.com/article/european-space-agency-indicates-mars%E2%80%99-moon-phobos-hollow-and-artificial
It has been theorized that Deimos is hollow also, but because it is much smaller than Phobos and whirls around Mars every 30 hours in a very eccentric orbit which is much farther from Mars than Phobos, we know less about it. Scientists figure that both satellites of Mars are “captured” moons, thus did not originate out of Martian terrain; they are believed to be objects which were pulled into orbit naturally around Mars by gravity, or were “parked” there by an alien intelligence. By contrast, Earth’s moon is thought to be a chunk of Earth which severed during a collision with another cosmic body.
It seems illogical that Phobos was artificially sent into orbit around Mars but that Deimos is a naturally captured satellite. The two would seem to have the same origins. It is simply that little Deimos is so dark and so far “out there,” we don’t have the data we do on Phobos.
Deimos is named after an attendant to Mars, the Roman God of War. The name Deimos means “panic and dread.” Phobos is named after another attendant to Mars; the name means “fear.” Phobos rises in the west and sets in the east, while Deimos rises in the east and sets in the west.
Here is a brief review of the mystery of two unmanned Soviet probes of 1988, intended to send data on the moon Phobos: The first probe, Phobos 1, was lost en route to Martian orbit, reportedly because of a radio command error. The second probe, Phobos 2, was also lost in most mysterious circumstances, but not before it had sent back incredible images and information.
Phobos 2 entered orbit around Mars in January, 1988, as the first step towards its goal: To amend its orbit so that it would fly almost in tandem with Phobos. Its mission was to explore Phobos with sophisticated equipment which included technical instruments to be placed on Phobos’ surface.
All went well until Phobos 2 aligned itself with Phobos, the moon. On March 28th, Soviet mission control center acknowledged sudden communication problems with the probe, “Phobos 2 has failed to communicate with Earth…”
What caused Phobos 2 to be lost?
According to Boris Bolitsky, science correspondent for Radio Moscow, just before radio contact was lost with Phobos 2, several unusual images were radioed back to Earth.
A report taken from New Scientist:
“The features are either on the Martian surface or in the lower atmosphere. The features are between 20 and 25 kilometers wide and do not resemble any known geological formation. They are spindle – shaped and proving to be intriguing and puzzling.”
An unusual photo of a thin shadow across Mars was shown in a Russian television segment.
It was a completely different shadow of Phobos moon than the one recorded eighteen years earlier by Mariner 9. Was it even the Phobos moon at all? Had this moon somehow changed shape?
The ‘anomaly’ seen in the Phobos 2 transmission was a thin ellipse with very sharp rather than rounded points (“marquis” shape), and the edges, rather than being fuzzy, stood out sharply against a kind of halo on the Martian surface.
“Something is between the spacecraft and Mars, because we can see the Martian surface below it.” He stressed that the object was seen by both the optical and the infrared (heat seeking) camera. “We saw something which should not be there!” said Dr. Becklake. It had been decided that the shadow was not Phobos moon at all.
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