A SHORT service and commemoration was held to mark the 100th anniversary of the Cowes War Memorial. Present on Saturday, March 27, was the mayor of Cowes, Cllr Lora Peacy-Wilcox, Rev Andrew Poppe, Rev Elizabeth Moxley and Taff’ Jones, chair of the Cowes RBL, alongside three members of its other members. On March 30, 1921, the war memorial was unveiled by Major General JEB Seely and dedicated by the vicar of Holy Trinity Church to the memory of all who lost their lives during the First World War from Cowes. Originally positioned at the junction of High Street and Market Hill in the town, the memorial comprised of a square column of dressed Cornish granite standing four metres tall, with a carved union flag draped over the top.
February 10, 2021
New research suggests that particles escaping from Mars’ atmosphere have been accumulating on the surface of the planet’s largest moon Phobos for billions of years. They could provide important new details about the history of both worlds.
Mars’ largest moon Phobos, as seen by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft on March 23, 2008. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech/ University of Arizona.
A new study suggests that Mars’ larger moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged particles flowing off the planet’s atmosphere. The findings, published February 1, 2021, in the peer-reviewed journal
Nature Geoscience, suggest that the ions of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and argon charged particles smashing into Phobos have been accumulating on the moon’s surface for billions of years. The researchers say analysis of Phobos’ soil could provide important new details about the history of both worlds.
Phobos, one of the Martian moons, may actually hold key information about what Mars was like in the past, according to new research, because it was right in the path of the Martian atmosphere as it escaped out into space.
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Could the Surface of Phobos Reveal Secrets of the Martian Past?
The Martian moon Phobos orbits through a stream of charged atoms and molecules that flow off the Red Planet’s atmosphere, new research shows.
Many of these charged particles, or ions, of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and argon, have been escaping Mars for billions of years as the planet has been shedding its atmosphere. Some ions, scientists predict, have been smashing into the surface of Phobos and could be preserved in its uppermost layer, according to a paper published on Feb. 1 in the journal Nature Geoscience.
This means that if soil from Phobos were analyzed in labs on Earth, it could reveal key information about the evolution of the Martian atmosphere, researchers say. Mars once had an atmosphere thick enough to support liquid water on its surface; today, it’s less than 1% as dense as Earth’s.