Is Phobos A Space Station?

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On 12 July 1988, the USSR launched the second of two unmanned robotic probes to Mars. Phobos 2 (Pictured top left) rode into space atop a Proton booster (Pictured right) modified for the purpose. Lift off took place from Baykonur Cosmodrome. This was a most ambitious mission indeed. The probe carried two landers intended to be set down on the Martian moon Phobos. One of these was a stationary platform, and the other built to hop about on the surface collecting data. During the cruise through space from Earth to Mars, Phobos 2 also studied the Sun and the interplanetary medium. On 27 March 1989, Phobos was to come within 160 feet (50 meters) of the surface of Phobos itself in order to release its landers. But here something went terribly wrong. All contact with the probe was lost by ground controllers in Russia. The officially stated reason: Failure of the onboard computer.

Most of us who follow the study of UFOs, have by now heard the story of the ill-fated Soviet Mars probe Phobos-2. Some Soviet scientists have persisted in the claim that their probe was destroyed by a mysterious "craft" orbiting Mars in the vicinity of the Moon Phobos. (Pictured top center - Last picture transmitted by Phobos-2 on 25 March 1989. The Soviets claimed that the spike-like object beneath Phobos destroyed their probe. This object has been estimated by some to be over 15 miles (24km) in length.) They proffered the last photograph transmitted by the probe as evidence for this claim. Some have said that this story was only touted to cover imcompetence in the Soviet Mars programme. But was it? Is this 1989 event the ONLY photographic instance of something out of the ordinary associated with Phobos?

This animated GIF shows a different face of Phobos from the previous picture. It also demonstrates how the so-called "striations" on Phobos do not conform to the explanation insisted upon by NASA scientists. They aren't radiating from Stickney Crater, but are parallel even in areas not associated with the crater at all. What's more, they don't even look like cracks. To me, they are a much closer match to the "grooves" seen in layers of sandstone and shale occurring in many places on Earth.

If this moon formed by accretion, as astronomers will tell you, why does it cleave like sedimentary rock? Logically a crystallin form should have shattered into chunks, from the Stickney impact. But this rock is layered, as if created by water eroded sediment whilst part of a much larger body. (Click on image for full size photo)

At left we have another animated GIF for your study. Please note the lines in blue. These illustrate once more that the "striations" are more or less parallel to each other. The circular area shows a "lump" of rock on the side of Phobos which looks like it could be "peeled away" if tapped hard enough.

What all this seems to mean is that Phobos could be composed of Sedimentary Rock. But this kind of rock is formed by water eroded silts, sands, and clays settling out in wet basins. What would a chunk of such rock, miles in size, be doing revolving about Mars? Where did it come from? How did it get where it is today?

(Click on image for full size photo)

What if Phobos were brought to Mars from elsewhere as an interplanetary (or even interstellar) spacecraft? Then a water based origin becomes more easily understood. If artificially manipulated, then it may have been carved from a large planet with an atmosphere and water.

Remember the Soviet claim that a huge craft destroyed the Phobos-2 probe as it approached the Moon? Was "someone" defending the secrets of Phobos? Could it possibly be that the giant spike-shaped object actually WAS a spaceship? I don't know, but there is more. See the yellow circle in the image above? Keep this circled area in mind as we progress.

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What this writer sees there doesn't appear to be geological. What sort of geological feature would form in the loose dusty surface of a low gravity moon, and come out shaped like an aircraft?

NOTHING else seen in any photograph of the surface of Phobos has anything like the appearence of this object. It looks like it has delta wings, a fuselage, and a tail. It seems to be metallic, as its reflectiveness (albedo) is greater, and shinier than the surrounding terrain. It is raised above the surface, in that one can observe that it casts a shadow on the ground.

Quite shocking!! Modern science assures us that Phobos is an airless, dead piece of rock. There should be nothing but dirt, dust, and craters on a lifeless moon like this, if astronomers and NASA "experts" are correct.

But.....what about within? Measurements of Phobos' orbit and density, tell us that the moon is either made of very light, fluffy material, or that it is HOLLOW. If the light and fluffy theory is true, then whatever impacted Phobos to create Stickney Crater should have passed right through and out the other side! And how does "light and fluffy" material exhibit CRACKS?

The alternative is that Phobos is hollow, or has voids within. If this be the case, then Phobos could very well be someone else's space platform. This could be an "outsiders" base of operations for surveying our Solar System. Such could go a long way toward explaining why the Soviet probe Phobos-2 might have been blown out of the sky. This story began with the Russians, and their attempt to survey Phobos. They broke new ground on the mystery of Phobos. One wonders who will solve that mystery once and for all.

This writer doesn't claim that Phobos IS a space station. All I say is that it is possible to interpret the available facts in this manner.

"The Universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we CAN imagine...." Sir Arthur C. Clark

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At the end of the day, it's up to YOU to draw your own conclusions.

© 2006 Jeff Challender