This moon is doomed.
Mars,
the red planet named for the
Roman god of war, has two tiny moons,
Phobos and
Deimos, whose
names are derived from the Greek for Fear and
Panic.
These martian moons may well be captured
asteroids
originating in the main asteroid belt between Mars and
Jupiter
or perhaps from even more distant reaches of the Solar System.
The larger moon, Phobos, is indeed seen
to be a cratered, asteroid-like object in this
stunning color image from the robotic
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter,
recorded at a resolution of about seven meters per pixel.
But Phobos
orbits so close to Mars - about 5,800 kilometers above the surface compared to 400,000 kilometers
for our Moon - that gravitational
tidal forces
are dragging it down.
A recent analysis
of the long grooves indicates that they may result from global stretching caused by
tides --
the differing force of Mars' gravity on different sides of
Phobos.
These grooves may then be an early phase in the
disintegration of
Phobos into a ring of debris around Mars.
Mars will look like this within 30 million years (-/+) My guess they would be dark,some people put bright Saturn type of ring but they are made out of ice.Mars ring system would be made out of rocks.
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