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

Astronomer Asaph Hall named the potato-shaped moon in 1877, after the god of fear and panic in Greek mythology; the word “phobia” comes from Phobos. Mars’ other moon Deimos, is named after ...

Phobos, one of the Martian moons, ... The lumpy moons, Phobos and Deimos, were both discovered in 1877 and named after the sons of Ares from Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, Deimos and Phobos were Ares' sons, who would accompany him onto the battlefield. Deimos' name means "terror" or "dread." Discovery of the moon Deimos.

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 is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and is named after Phobos, son of Ares (Mars) from Greek Mythology. Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar ...

In Greek mythology, Phobos and Deimos were the companions of Ares, the god of war, who in Roman antiquity had his counterpart in Mars, also a god of war. They were discovered in 1877 by the American ...

Phobos is also bright enough to spot at times during the day. Deimos orbits about four times farther from Mars than Phobos does and appears roughly 2.5′ across (about twice the maximum size of ...

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 ...