NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the ...

In 2026, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plans to launch the Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) mission, aiming to explore the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos and return samples from Phobos to Earth.

These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war ... NASA scientists think life may have once been plentiful on Mars, as there is a lot of evidence that the planet used to be much ...

By contrast, Deimos is tiny, with a radius of 6 km, and quite a bit further out, more than 23,000 km from the surface. It is ...

But recent models instead suggest that they could have formed from the debris flung up from Mars after a huge impact long ago. Deimos, the smaller of the two moons, orbits Mars every 30 hours and ...

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in 2003, have already provided data and images ... JAXA's MMX space probe aims to change this: it will study the two martian moons ...

Advertising Mars’s two moons have mysterious origins. Both could be pieces of a disintegrating asteroid captured by the planet’s gravity, or perhaps the flotsam and jetsam leftover from a ...

What's more, the occultation of Mars only presents two very short opportunities to capture the event: the first, called ingress, is when Mars slips behind the moon and, for a few seconds ...

Because Mars is farther away than Earth, the sun looks twice as small. At night, the dark sky reveals two small misshapen moons that are likely asteroids that have been captured by the planet's ...

In this session the children will continue to build a dance using themes and ideas based on the planet Mars; they will use ... pathway again. Two moons: Working with a partner, one person adopts ...