Phobos

Mars’s moon Phobos was once a ring of rubble around the Red Planet

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Mars’s moon Phobos was once a ring of rubble around the Red Planet that clumped together to form a solid ball – and it may disintegrate again in about 100 million years Astronomers from the SETI Institute looked at the orbit of the two Martian moons They wanted to confirm a 2017 theory that Phobos … Read more

First EVER mission to bring back pieces of the Martian moon Phobos will launch in 2024

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Japanese space agency JAXA is sending a mission to explore the two moons of Mars and even plan to bring a rock sample from Phobos back to Earth. The Martian Moon Exploration (MMX) mission is due to launch in 2024 and will involve a spacecraft first orbiting Deimos before landing on the larger Phobos. While … Read more