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real real nice - and more craters

Hi raoul -

looks like Phobos has its own impact history, just like the larger asteroids themselves -

If I remember right, based on spectral data it was speculated that Phobos was a captured comet, while Deimos was a cpatured asteroid. This impact history for Phobos shoud result in throwing some light on that, as well as the time of Phobos' capture by Mars.

All in all, a very nice piece of work by the MGS team - better than some of that which we've seen form them earlier. Perhaps some of the folks from Galileo have found new employ with MGS...

we have a lot to look forward to...

ep

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