What would it feel like to stand on the tiny moons of Mars,Phobos and Deimos? Explore the surreal experience of visiting Mars ...

It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

See stunning photos of Phobos and Deimos, the small moons of Mars, as seen by spacecraft on and orbiting the Red Planet. Phobos is the largest moon of Mars, with Deimos as a smaller satellite.

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 ...

What’s the big deal about little Phobos and tinier Deimos? A close-up view of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons. It is 17 miles across, and will be visited by a Japanese mission, MMX ...

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 ...

The origins of Phobos and Deimos remain uncertain. While their misshapen forms and their cratered surfaces suggested they were asteroids captured by the gravitational pull of Mars, previous ...

But Phobos and Deimos orbit in an almost circular way around Mars, and are in line with the equator of the Red Planet. To solve the mystery, the Zurich astronomers collated data on the properties ...

Mini moon: two views of the Martian moon Deimos taken by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. (Courtesy: NASA) A new theory for the mysterious origins of Mars’ two tiny moons Phobos and Deimos has been ...

Phobos and Deimos could have only been created in the outer gaseous section of the debris disk and not the inner portion. Both studies are in agreement on this idea.

More study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and after collecting material from Phobos in 2024, should return that component to Earth in ...