One summer night in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall was looking through his telescope in Washington, D.C. Mars was at ...

Who is Deimos in Greek mythology? Deimos and its fellow Martian moon Phobos are named after the mythological sons of Ares, the ancient Greek counterpart to Mars, the Roman god of war).Phobos means ...

Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos after the gods of 'fear' and 'panic' in Greek mythology. Unlike the major moons of our solar system, Phobos and Deimos are tiny, just 16.7 miles (27 ...

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 only ...

Both Phobos and Deimos look like asteroids, being lumpy, cratered and small. Therefore, one hypothesis is that they are captured carbon-rich, or C-type, asteroids.

The origin of Phobos and Deimos, the two Martian moons, has been a mystery to astronomers. These two bodies are a fraction of the size and mass of the Moon, measuring just 22.7 km (14 mi) and 12.6 ...

Phobos is much brighter, as it is both physically larger and orbits much closer to the planet than Deimos. Phobos will appear in the martian sky as bright as magnitude –9 this month, while ...

On average, Phobos measures just 14 miles (22 km) across, and Deimos is even smaller, about 7 miles (12 km) across on average. Their width is not consistent because these two tiny moons aren't ...