Submitted by peterabbit456 t3_z44gpm in space
peterabbit456 OP t1_ixrgsmd wrote
Reply to comment by Know0neSpecial in Mars may be slowly ripping its largest moon apart by peterabbit456
On the geological time scale that is sort of medium fast. Rivers change their courses over ~5 million year time scales. Continents split and crash together over ~200 million year time scales. Titan will lose its lakes in about 300 million years.
Mars has changed so little in the last 3 billion years that the Phobos breakup is like a daily headline. Of course, we will land on it in the next few years and probably disassemble Phobos over the next 1000 years, so this all might become moot soon.
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