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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has returned some rather nice snaps of Martian moon Phobos, captured by the vehicle's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE): Phobos. Pic: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona NASA explains that the above image (bigger version here) was taken "at a distance of about 6,800 kilometers …

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  1. Matthew

    That's no moon!

    You can clearly see the planet destroyer on the right hand side.

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  2. Anonymous Coward
    Paris Hilton

    Big Log

    Hi-res image of Phobos - or hi-res image from a medical textbook on bowel movements? You decide.

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  3. Richard
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    @Ashley

    It's a basic Mr Potato Head Asteroid / Moon kit

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  4. Nick Palmer
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    Obvious fake...

    ...it looks nothing LIKE the Unreal Tournament map!

    (Mines the one with the shield belt and minigun holster...)

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  5. Jaap Stoel
    Joke

    Its that the thing is brown-reddish

    If it was gold I'd say its a remote-controlled Death Star made by the scammer aliens!

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  6. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Wot

    No water?

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  7. John
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    Resembles

    A vermicious knid springs to mind

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  8. Steven
    Alien

    I for one...

    ...welcome our Phobos dwelling overlords.

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  9. Chris Williams
    Happy

    @I for one...

    You mean the infamous Leather Goddesses of Phobos, of course.

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  10. Antony C. Roberts
    Alien

    Anyone else see the sharp, bright object in the top left corner?

    Take a look at the hires images on NASAs site. At the top left, near the day/night line there is a very bright pointy object with a similarly pointy shadow. Wonder what that is...

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  11. BigTim

    @ Chris

    Don't remind me! I never did get out of Cleveland.

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  12. Neil
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    @Nick Palmer

    Have to agree, Nothing like PHOBOS from UTIII, what do these NASA types take us for, fools?

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  13. ImaGnuber
    Alien

    Love it

    Love these robot craft. So much more interesting than watching an astronaut do still another weightless backflip or some anonymous figure in a space suit floating around with Earth in the background.

    Yeah, I know. Weird that those events have become so mundane*.

    *Deliberate choice of word.

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  14. Daniel B.
    Coat

    Where's the UAC base?

    Clearly its fake, I can't find the giant star-shaped Gate or the UAC's space station.

    Mine's the green one, right next to the BFG 9000.

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  15. Seán

    Fuck Trent

    Looks more like the butt on Venus.

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  16. Mike Flugennock
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    It's not that those 'events' (human EVA) are mundane...

    ...it's that they've only become mundane because all you ever see in the background these days is the friggin' Earth. I mean, Dog bless her, I live on her and all, but I'm hoping I might still be alive when there's a chance to see people in suits with something besides the Earth in the background. It was so much more interesting, I remember, with, say, the Apennine Mountains in the background and the Earth about _yea_big_ hanging in a deep black sky.

    Not that I'm a Peak Oil cultist or anything, but being able to migrate out from your home planet sounds to me like a very handy skill to have...and besides, why should these goddamn' robots have all the fun?

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  17. Mister Cheese
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    @Anthony C. Roberts

    I believe that's the Cat's shiny thing.

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  18. Adrian Esdaile
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    To get out of Cleveland...

    "Don't remind me! I never did get out of Cleveland."

    Look for a pile of weeds in the yard.

    Push weeds, to reveal a black teleport disk.

    WHY DO I REMEMBER THAT?

    The brass underpants and untangling cream, thanks!

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