[Eric Berger] Tuesday Telescope: A rare glimpse of one of the smallest known moons (arstechnica.com)

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[-] Agent641@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

I actually think about Deimos a lot

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[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

In what context?

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[-] keepthepace@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago

What I like about this image is that this is probably the biggest object that I can compare to something I know, that I can "comprehend". With 6 km wide, it is about the same size as Grenoble, a city I have seen from above while hiking. I can understand how far the picture looks from it, how small a human would be on it

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