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It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...
A mysterious moon, a vanished Soviet spacecraft, and monolith-like objects standing alone in the Martian dust—what’s really going on up there? We connect the dots between the Phobos incident, odd ...
But their focus wasn’t on Mars. It was on its moon, Phobos; named after the Greek God of fear. After all, if NASA could land on Mars, landing on one of its moons should be easy, right?
In 2009, astronaut Buzz Aldrin caused a stir when he suggested we should attempt to visit the monolith on Phobos, the largest of Mars's two moons, before heading back to our own.
NEW DELHI: Nasa is again trending on social media with its recent post on 'space potato '. Yes, you read it right, a potato-look-alike Phobos, Mars's lumpy moon, is in space.
Mars's moons Phobos and Deimos are a little different from the other moons of the solar system. While not as strange as the Earth's possible "ghost moon" (aka a Kordylewski cloud), the moons are ...
Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos.
Our Moon is also much further away than Phobos is to Mars. “If a big impact occurs, it is possible to reach the Moon. However, such a big impact is statistically rare,” Hyodo says.
In the video shared by Andrea Luck on X (formerly Twitter) Phobos, one of the two moons of Mars can be seen. (Twitter) India's Mangalyaan has captured some breathtaking videos on Mars.
Phobos is around 17 miles (27 kilometers) across at its widest point and orbits Mars at a distance of 3,728 miles (6,000 km), completing a full rotation around the Red Planet three times every day ...
Mars Express, which is a 19-year-veteran spacecraft in orbit around Mars, came within 51.6 miles (83 kilometers) of Phobos on Sept. 22, 2022 and was able to probe beneath the moon's surface using ...