While I do have a pair of cyan/red glasses on my desk just for those images, I have trouble seeing any 3D effect at all in this case.

@13. Grand Lunar : Me too! Thirding that.

@12. Endyo :

I have no idea why but I thought that was hilarious. Phobos looks like some kind of dopey headed thing and the way it was set up just made it look silly.

Well, as (#7.) Unaspammer has noted it does look a bit like an animation – even though we know it’s real. Hilarius? Not to me but curious and a bit quirky perhaps.

@5. Moss :

I wonder if/when Phobos impacts Mars if it would send a dangerous spray of debris in Earth’s direction?

Exceptionally unlikely! Given the distances apart that Earth and Mars are and the amount of space in, well, space I really don’t think so.

Most of the debris will probably crash back onto the martian surface – some of it could be ejected into martian orbit and the area near the planet, with, (I’d expect) some of that material later being gathered up by the red planet again on subsequent orbits. I suppose it is possible that some tiny percentage of the debris will eventually reach the Earth but if it does it is unlikely to be for a very long time afterwards and unlikely to do much serious damage.

Phobos is a very tiny moon – so small it’s been noted that :

“If we could transport Phobos and Diemos to our own Moon, they would fit comfortably inside the wide crater Copernicus with room enough for two moons of similar size.”
- Stephen James O’Meara, page 102 “The Demon Sprites of Mars” in ‘Sky & Telescope’ magazine, June 2001.

Thus we’re talking about a very tiny percentage of a very tiny moon which is NOT going to make a major impact. Even adding in a fraction of possibly ejected Mars rock this is still, I think pretty much the case. I may be mistaken tho’ natch.

You and me both, Phil!

Actually, I’m a bit disappointed that the video looks like a bad Flash animation, although I don’t know why I should be expecting anything else over such a small viewing angle.