Deimos, on the other hand, is spiraling away from Mars and could one day escape its gravity to go wandering through space by itself. The name "Mars" is the Latinized (Roman) version of the Greek ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...