Regular, alternating layers in Gale Crater may have been deposited as the result of tides raised by a moon at least 18 times ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

Both Phobos and Deimos are observable from the Martian surface. Phobos, larger and closer to Mars than Deimos, exhibits noticeable waxing and waning phases within a single appearance due to its rapid ...

The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

NASA recently announced that its Mars Odyssey orbiter took a tasty snapshot of the Martian moon Phobos using its infrared camera. Since 2001, Odyssey has been dutifully orbiting the Red Planet. Billed ...

Phobos --- the enigmatic, oddly-shaped Martian moon --- could serve as an eventual pit stop for human missions to the Red Planet. That’s, of course, contingent on future Mars exploration strategies.

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When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Billions of years ago, Mars suffered from numerous big impacts, and the resulting backwash ...

Scientists now have firm indications that the martian satellite Phobos formed relatively near its current location via re-accretion of material blasted into Mars’ orbit by some catastrophic event. Two ...

Mars' largest moon is an oblong cratered rock named after the Greek god of fear. Yet the frightful moon Phobos is hiding fewer secrets after a recent close flyby from the European spacecraft Mars ...