"Its existence here is exciting, and hints that there are exceptional processes at play that are allowing frost to form."
  • Klear@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Had a hunch so I googled the size of Phobos just now: 27 by 22 by 18 kilometers. Olympus Mons is larger than the bigger of Mars’ two satelites.

    Though it’s probably more that I severely underestimated just how tiny Phobos and Deimos are. They feel bigger in Doom…