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.

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 ...

While the car-sized spacecraft flew around the Mars system, flight controllers on Earth temporarily lost communication with Hera because the signal was blocked. Though the blackout was planned for the ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, believed to have formed either ... It should reach "the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action" in December 2026, proving once and ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Deimos is a tiny little guy ... captured by the planet’s gravity. It completes one orbit around Mars every 30 hours. Aside from capturing images of ...

The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) mission aims to clarify how Mars's moons, Phobos and Deimos, formed and provide ... The project aims to demonstrate that ...

Its orbit is about 1.5 times the size of Earth ... 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 ...

It's called Deimos, and is much smaller and more mysterious than Phobos, the first moon of Mars ... in exactly the same time as it takes to orbit Mars, meaning that you'd only see one side ...