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The Phobos monolith is a large rock on the surface of Mars' moon Phobos. [1] It is a boulder , about 85 m (279 ft) across and 90 m (300 ft) tall. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive piece of rock.
Phobos (/ ˈ f oʊ b ə s /; systematic designation: Mars I) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. Phobos is named after the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos.
The Mars monolith is a rectangular object, possibly a boulder, discovered on the surface of Mars. [1] [2] The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took pictures of it from orbit, roughly 180 miles (300 km) away. [1] The HiRISE camera that was used to photograph the monolith has a resolution of approximately 1 foot or 30 centimeters per pixel. [3]
A monolith is a geological feature consisting of a single massive stone or rock, such as some mountains. Erosion usually exposes the geological formations, which are often made of very hard and solid igneous or metamorphic rock. Some monoliths are volcanic plugs, solidified lava filling the vent of an extinct volcano.
A silver monolith bearing the words “not Banksy” appeared on Glastonbury Tor in 2020. Michelle Cowbourne / SWNS Others were seen in Romania and Ukraine late in 2020.
The motions of Phobos and Deimos would appear very different from that of Earth's Moon. Speedy Phobos rises in the west, sets in the east, and rises again in just eleven hours, while Deimos, being only just outside synchronous orbit, rises as expected in the east but very slowly. Despite its 30-hour orbit, it takes 2.7 days to set in the west ...
Over the past couple weeks we've been coveringthe saga of the mysterious monolith discovered in the Utah desert on Nov. 18. The second development comes from the Romanian city of Piatra Neamț ...
The monolith was just the latest similar structure to appear around the world since at least 2020, when a nearly 12-foot structure was found deep in Utah's desert and vanished days later. The ...