A space probe named Hera captured images of Mars' small Deimos moon while on a mission to examine an asteroid.
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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguiseMars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at least part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...
Within the inner solar system, Mars has the most moons – but a far cry from Saturn’s 146, the most of any planet in the solar system. These moons, Phobos and Deimos, are believed to be either ...
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 ...
Astronomers used a computer to simulate the orbits of both Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos — are two fragments of what was once a much larger Martian satellite that ...
Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and is less than 10 miles across. Its larger sibling Phobos bears many scars, including craters and deep grooves running across its ...
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