The clearest image ever taken of Phobos, Moon of Mars. -NASA-

Feb 22, 2023 1:52 AM

stefsonthor

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Phobos has clearly taken a few hits.

Here I sharpened the image. Clarity & contrast was increased as I made auto color correction.

inverted, - shadows on parts made slightly darker.

Notice the streak from the edge to the crater center at the bottom of the hole on Phobos.

Looking at the "original". I am not sure if the color has been digitally enhanced or this color could perhaps indicate minerals. Could the moon have a substrate of another material or is this something that lies on top of its surface?

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2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I dub thee Sir Phobos, Beater of Ass.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

All I can think of is Lord Phobos from TWRP.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I thought it was dirty, melted Tupperware

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is there an explanation for all of the triangular patters?

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Low poly render.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I bet there is, yeah.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

(Leather Goddesses not pictured)

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

"I am not sure if the color has been digitally enhanced" It's probably not visible spectrum anyway.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Sounds like you are not sure either: "It's probably not..."

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

OP didn't give a source. Most astronomy pics are more than just visible spectrum and those pics look like it.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

So what. What is really your point?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Looks like someone dropped a cosmic pizza slice and forgot to clean up. Who's gonna mop this Martian mess?

6 months ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Demons Run when a good man goes to war

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

How is clearness measured? Is there a numeric clearness rating you can cite for this image?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's no moon

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lies! That’s a Hubbard squash!

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Homophobos

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Loads of tire tracks up the side of that hill in the foreground there. Must be good for 4-wheel driving.

2 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

I thought this was the tip of a pencil zoomed in.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mars HAD two moons ---- UNN

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The two normal, one inverted 3 panel format makes this an anime-esque shocked meme template.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I can see the facility where the Disorder Units are made and controlled!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

THATS NO MOON

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

She's, uh, seen a lot of action, shall we say.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Looks like a crappy 3d model with overstretched textures. Nature is wild

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I passed the original through Topaz Gigapixel -> Topaz Sharpen -> Photoshop + rescaling with resampling

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

Somehow this feels relevant. http://xkcd.com/2739

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

(Zoom to see improvement.)

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I am impressed. Is this new version of Gigapixel? Again well done

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

You should try it- filecr (I sail the high seas) have it free. It doesn't work well on diffuse images but if you have a lot of lines

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

And relatively smooth midarea then it's very good. I use it for animal and macro when I run out of pixels to work with.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's my normal method to deal with low-resolution bird photos but it seems to have worked fairly decently

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The colours in the original are based on whatever composition the artist chose- assuming this was taken with a telescope of sorts.

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Usually a monochrome sensor is used and filters are wheeled between- in which case, you get the three individual bands

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

(or more- i.e. luminance, polar, etc) and then the group artist (person in the team who is most artistic- not an actual artist) dashes them

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

together for a satisfactory result for the public- or for comparison to other images (in which case, a very strict filter combination method

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well done mate

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

It's definitely colour-enhanced. Still very cool, though!

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

False-colour apparently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickney_(crater)

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

even the image of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is Artist's rendered :D

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Now if you tickle the uppermost crater, the moon might shake like a boat on the ocean

2 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 1

*pats the man with a hat in the boat*

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

v

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Where are the demons at?

2 years ago | Likes 391 Dislikes 0

You gotta type IDCLIP and walk through the outer surface to get to them

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

fun fact: the surface area of the levels in E1 (scaled to Doomguy being 183cm tall) is larger than that of Phobos

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 0

Behind you

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Next to the clitoris

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

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Ive got a religious fan theory that the end times wont come because demons found out about the doom series and know we will follow through.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Worse... there could be Protomolecule on it

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Where is the disorder units control system at?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Demons are our fellow man.

2 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Taken care of.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

On the other side of the gates still. We haven't let them in yet.

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

you sure.. theres a few in congress right now

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Unless you can prove that the moon landing was faked to hide that we actually went to the Martian moons, absolutely sure.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Too small to see in this picture, it's too far away. If you decide to get closer, don't forget your shotgun.

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's just an eyeball. Gotta zoom out a lot more first

2 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

the demons are all the red parts, it's just hard to see from here.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oh they over here man, no worries

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

They’ve left and are already on Earth.

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But I was promised Leather Goddesses of Phobos. I see nothing of that description.

2 years ago | Likes 136 Dislikes 0

Posted the same, before deleting it- you were first lol

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Back when the only PC games I had with nudity were text-based only!

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Ohhh plus one for Infocom!

2 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

2 years ago | Likes 34 Dislikes 0

(This painting was for a poster you could send away for from the LGoP game. The blender & phonebook were items need to solve puzzles.)

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Why does she have her margarita mixer with her?

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

For the after party!!

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I love how it's all raypunk fantasy-esque 1950s sci fi, and then just plunk in the middle: CLEVELAND

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Almost as out of place as naming a character Duncan Idaho.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Phobos is falling down on Mars. Once it'll reach the Rohce's limit it will disintegrate and could even form rings around Mars.

2 years ago | Likes 112 Dislikes 0

Approaching the roche limit you say?

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

How pronounce that word?

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

I typed wrong Roche's limit, if you meant that?

2 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Surface gravity is 0.0057 m/s², escape velocity 11.39 m/s (41 km/h), you almost can jump away. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)

2 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

It'll only take another roughly 50 million years

2 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 0

The suspense in killing me

2 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Blink and you'll miss it

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

.

2 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

I can barely wait

2 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

!remindme 50 million years

2 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Same fam

2 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wonder if the debris will heat up Mars’ atmosphere.

2 years ago | Likes 32 Dislikes 0

The debris will enter in a trickle over thousands of years, and Mars' atmosphere is almost vacuum, so not appreciably.

2 years ago | Likes 14 Dislikes 0

Phobos is a tiny moon compared to ours. If it disintegrates and forms rings, it would create some shade near the equator which would affect/

2 years ago | Likes 29 Dislikes 0

the temperature, but not significantly to aid in any kind of terraformation concepts.

2 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

Instructions unclear: Set fire to Phobos

2 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 1

I think those were the instructions.

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