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Mars moon or potato? NASA shares image of Phobos

American space agency Nasa has recently shared an image of a Mars moon that looks like a potato. “You say potato, we say Mars Moon.⁣ This is an image of Phobos, the largest of Mars' two raggedy moons, as seen by the @UAHiRISE camera aboard our Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. Taken from 6,800 kilometres above the surface, the image shows a pockmarked celestial body with a large impact basin called Stickney crater," the image caption read. Scientists have calculated that tiny Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of 1.8 meters every century, meaning it will either crash into the planet in 50 million years or break up into a ring of debris,” the caption read.

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