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Lost photos suggest Mars' mysterious moon Phobos may be a trapped comet in disguiseMars' 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part of one — that was gravitationally captured by the Red Planet long ago, a new preprint study based on previously unpublished photos ...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 Mastcam-Z camera on NASA’s Perseverance rover captured the Martian moon Phobos as it eclipsed the sun. Credit: ...
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Tiny Mars moon Deimos gets a rare close-up, thanks to Europe's Hera asteroid probe (photos)The results of Hera's flyby could ultimately tell us whether Deimos is a captured asteroid or made from debris from a giant ...
Phobos is larger, at 13.9 miles wide, whereas Deimos is just 7.5 miles in diameter and the former is closer to Mars than its smaller twin. Earth's moon has a diameter of 2,158 miles — 155 times ...
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 ...
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