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Mars may have made its 2 moons by ripping an asteroid apartHowever, Phobos and Deimos have neatly circular orbits aligned with Mars' equatorial plane, which seems more likely if they had formed in orbit around Mars. Another hypothesis is that ...
The Red Planet and its tiny moon Deimos were recorded at a very near distance as the asteroid-chasing spacecraft completed a flyby on Wednesday.
But Phobos and Deimos orbit in an almost circular way around Mars, and are in line with the equator of the Red Planet. To solve the mystery, the Zurich astronomers collated data on the ...
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 ...
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