The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
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 ...
The data showed Phobos and Deimos would have, at some point, crossed paths —indicating they were likely in the same place and therefore of the same origin. Writing in their paper, published in ...