Phobos-Monolith

The Phobos monolith is a surface feature of the Mars moon Phobos. A monolith is a large, single, existing from one piece of rock. Monoliths are found on Earth.

The Phobos monolith is a bright object near the Stickney crater. It is called a " house high " rock and casts a striking shades. He was first discovered by Efrain Palermo. The discovery was later confirmed by Lan Fleming, a competent for imaging employees of the NASA Johnson Space Center.

The origin of the monolith is unknown; maybe it is a piece of ejecta of an impact on the moon.

The area around the monolith is drawn as a landing zone for an unmanned Canadian space mission called PRIME ( Phobos Reconnaissance and International Mars Exploration) into consideration. The PRIME mission is to consist of an orbiter and a lander that will study the moon and its geology, each with four instruments. Currently PRIME is neither budgeted nor called a start date for the mission.

The monolith can be seen on the Mars Global Surveyor images SPS252603 and SPS255103 of 1998. The monolith is not related to a monolith on Mars, the NASA has identified as an example of a typical Martian surface structure.