Stickney (crater)

Stickney (crater)

Stickney crater is the largest crater on Phobos, which is a satellite of Mars. It is located at 5°S 55°W on Phobos and is 9 km in diameter, taking up a substantial proportion of the moon's surface. It is named after Chloe Angeline Stickney Hall, wife of Phobos's discoverer, Asaph Hall.cite web|last=Blue|first=Jennifer|title=Phobos Nomenclature: Crater|url=http://planetarynames.wr.usgs.gov/jsp/FeatureTypesData2.jsp?systemID=4&bodyID=22&typeID=9&system=Mars&body=Phobos|publisher=Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature|accessdate=2007-11-12] It has a smaller, unnamed crater within it, resulting from a later impact.

Grooves and crater chains appear to radiate from Stickney, and had led to theories that the impact that formed it nearly destroyed the moon. However, evidence from the "Mars Express" orbiter indicate that they are unrelated to Stickney and may have been formed by material ejected from impacts on Mars. The crater has a noticeable lineated texture on its interior walls, caused by landslides from materials falling into the crater.cite web
date=2008-04-09
title=Phobos from 6,800 Kilometers (Color)
publisher=NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona
url=http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/multimedia/pia10368.html
accessdate=2008-04-09
]

It is possible that Stickney is large enough to be seen with the naked eye from the surface of Mars.Angular Size: With a diameter of 9km and a distance of 9250km, we get 9/9250*206265 = 200". An object needs to 60" to be resolved by the naked eye.] It is located at the middle of the left edge of Phobos's face, on the Mars-facing side.

Stickney appears in Kim Stanley Robinson's novel "Red Mars" in which the crater is the site of a city.

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ee also

* List of features on Phobos and Deimos

External links

* [http://www.solarviews.com/cap/mars/vphobos3.htm Flight around Phobos] (animated movie)
* [http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/images/2008/details/phobos/PSP_007769_9010_IRB_StickneyU.jpgStickney in High Resolution]


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