Pioneering images of both martian moons

[PainElemental]

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMDOE7JT2G_1.html

:)

[Planky]

That looks like a poorly animated GIF

[Ninjalah]

What was the point of that?

[Technician]

Ninjalah said:

What was the point of that?

Read the article.

[Kyka]

PainElemental said:

http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/SEMDOE7JT2G_1.html

:)

I looked and looked and looked, and didn't see one demon anywhere.


Clearly this article is a hoax.

[Prince of Darkness]

I find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all.

[Technician]

Or maybe... Doom didn't happen?

All these years on the computer, waisted!

[Steeveeo]

HI-RES JPEG (Size: 666 kb)

heh

[GreyGhost]

Kyka said:

I looked and looked and looked, and didn't see one demon anywhere.

Clearly this article is a hoax.

Heh - they're either camera shy or waiting for us to activate the anomaly. :-)

[Quast]

Prince of Darkness said:

I find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all.

They do rotate, they are tidal locked just as the moon is to the earth. This means that their rotational period is exactly the same as their orbital period.

[Kirby]

I still find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all

[Maes]

Kirby said:

I still find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all

As doesn't our moon :-p

Synchronous rotation, biatches!

[arrrgh]

Kirby said:

I still find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all

They forgot to put in the other 7 rotation sprites is all

[deathbringer]

I thought it was gonna be that video where the camera zooms down on a crater to reveal the E1 installations shooped in again.

[printz]

What, they've made a recording of Mars moons' revolutions? That's quite cool, and a bit chilling to know that "badly animated GIF" is in its actuality a real video recording, and those rocks could collide with something and so on.

[Creaphis]

arrrgh said:

They forgot to put in the other 7 rotation sprites is all

I lol'd.

[Technician]

arrrgh said:

They forgot to put in the other 7 rotation sprites is all

Ha Ha! That was a good one.

[Quast]

Kirby said:

I still find it odd that both moons don't rotate at all

Maes said:

As doesn't our moon :-p
Synchronous rotation, biatches!

DURP

"In astronomy, synchronous rotation is a planetological term describing a body orbiting another, where the orbiting body takes as long to rotate on its axis as it does to make one orbit; and therefore always keeps the same hemisphere pointed at the body it is orbiting."

[Ninjalah]

Steeveeo said:

*points out file size*

That's just awesome dude. Now this has to be a doom reference.

Technician said:

Read the article.

Still is useless.

[Technician]

Ninjalah said:

Still is useless.

Look you, science is a collective of information. Any sort of data is positive scientifically. We are still very limited in our technology. This is not television.

[GreyGhost]

Ignore him - Ninjalah's just annoyed that he can't post a poll in this thread. ;-)