However, captured bodies usually end up in eccentric, inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion. So an ...

Two of the chunks from this violent blast stayed trapped in the orbit of Mars and are what we know as Phobos and Deimos today. Seismic data from NASA's InSight mission was inputted into a ...

As a result, an astronaut on Mars would see Phobos rising in the west and setting in the east. Deimos orbits Mars at an altitude of approximately 23,500 kilometres and has an orbital period of just ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) fires up three of the instruments on the Hera spacecraft and takes images of the smaller ...

Scientists would like to understand where Deimos and its partner Phobos came from — whether they were once asteroids captured in orbit around Mars or are chunks of the planet itself, blown out ...

Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in 2003, have already provided data and images from Mars orbit that have helped to observe the moons. However, there was no ...

However, captured bodies usually end up in eccentric, inclined and often retrograde orbits, whereas Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars in the red planet's equatorial plane and in prograde fashion.