Mars Will Become a Ringed Planet When Phobos Dies

Mars’ doomed moon Phobos may leave its parent planet a parting gift. A new study shows the moon is likely to break apart before it hits the atmosphere, creating a debris ring that will encircle Mars for millions of years. The research, published in this week’s Nature Geoscience, follows a report earlier this month that not only is Phobos losing altitude due to Mars’ gravity, it also already is showing signs of structural stress from tidal forces.

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Anomalism said:

Mars Will Become a Ringed Planet When Phobos Dies : Discovery News

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Anomalism said:

Mars Will Become a Ringed Planet When Phobos Dies : Discovery News

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Kobie said:

Thanks, Obama.

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joG said:

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Will this be before or after humanity has settled the planet?

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Paralogic said:

This will happen in dozens of millions of years from now... just imagine... rocks and plants will be around, insects will very likely be around, but humans very likely won't.

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Fenton said:

Mars has no molten core which means it has no Electromagnetic field and it only has 1/6 of Earths gravity.

It has never supported life and it never will, unless that life is shoved in a sealed hermitic environmemt.

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Fenton said:

Humanity will never settle Mars.

Don't tell Elon Musk though. He plans to Nuke Mars into a paradise...

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