Mars' 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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...

The Phobos Incident, Monoliths, and Ancient Ruins At the height of the space race in the late 1970s, the Viking probes successfully landed on Mars – collecting pictures, data, and samples from the red ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mars has two small, potato-shaped moons, called Phobos and Deimos. These moons are named for two sons of the Greek god of war, Ares, which the Romans called Mars. The names Phobos and Deimos mean ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars. The pictures were taken by the ESA's Hera mission, which is on its way to an asteroid called ...

His favorite potential application is a low-tech sample return from Phobos, the larger of Mars’ two moons. Because the moon’s gravity is relatively weak, there’s no need for rocket thrust to ...

Advertising In the coming days, the mission’s scientists will reveal more photographs from Hera’s encounter with Mars, which may include shots of Phobos, the planet’s other moon. As with any ...

Sometime between about 9:00 p.m. and 1:00 a.m. EST (depending on where you were in North America), the full "Wolf Moon" drifted across Mars, briefly swallowing the Red Planet from the sky.