Mars's moon Phobos is under special observatrion by NASA?

Question

In 1980s a spacecraft named Phobos 2 (after Mars's moonlet) was lost in space near Phobos (the moonlet). Last images it took was of a long fuzzy dark object which appeared between the spacecraft and Mars in the air.Scientists claim it was the first star war incident, and they assume that Phobos the moonlet might have alien life on it, actually inside it.They think that Phobos is too odd to be a natural space object. Any ideas?

Answer 1

I think you have incomplete information and an over active imagination. The space craft simply failed like so many others. Also, Mars and Phobos have been well observed by other space craft that did not fail.

Answer 2

just NASA trying to get more funding...

Answer 3

That was more a statement than a question...  

Answer 4

All of Russia's Mars probes failed.

Answer 5

Phobos 2's cause of failure was determined to be an error with its onboard computer.  I have never heard of any reputable scientists claiming it had anything to do with aliens.  Please see:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_2

P.S. Yay, with this answer, I'm now level 6 :)

Answer 6

Dude, write up your story and submit it to hollywood but stop telling such silly stories here! No body ever claimed there might be life on phobos, ever!!!

Answer 7

What you've heard is total speculation, not to mention considerable embellishment, from UFO-enthusiast types.  No scientist I know of, and certainly not NASA, has suggested anything like that.

Spacecraft sent to Mars (and other planets) fail all the time, something like one out of three IIRC.  And photographs have artifacts in them (imperfections that look like there's something else in the picture) more often than we give them credit for.

Basically, it's an exciting story, but no more realistic than, say, the Mushroom Planet series (one of my favorite book series when I was growing up).

Answer 8

Hogwash. Phobos 2 suffered from computer malfunction. And it was a Russian probe.

Alien life inside Phobos, says who? Elvis Presley's ghost?