Is Phobos Doomed?
Guide to Space Ep. 130
Is Phobos Doomed?
Airdate: 11/24/2014
Comments (6)
Why ring will fall on Mars's surface? Because it's velocity will be higher than those of the Mars rotation? What about Saturn? May be you should make an episode about the rings in the Solar System... Who agrees?
We better crash in into Mars before we start terraforming, besides it would be a fun spectacle, lets do it soon.
That's interesting about the ring forming. Also, didn't some sci-fi writer say we should be attaching a space elevator to Phobos? Or maybe that's impossible because of the speed differential. At any rate, Phobos is on the list of projects. Slow it down, attach a space elevator to it.
Far from avoiding Phobos, we should make it a definite priority to go there! Surprisingly I'm not too concerned real estate on Mars might devalue in 30-50M years, but either way we'll be strapping boosters to Phobos way before that and shifting it to a higher orbit. Job done! Easy!
Best the uk can come up with is a lander for the moon, forget the moon go for Europa
When Phoebos crashes into the planet, will their dinosaurs die? :-)
