The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft snapped close-up portraits of Phobos — the larger of Mars’ two satellites and one of the grooviest moons in the solar system — on January 9, when it flew within 100 kilometers of the body. The space agency released the images, some showing the multitude of mysterious grooves etched into the moon’s surface, on January 21.
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