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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 ...

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 ...

Of all the moons in our solar system, the Martian moon of Phobos might be the most interesting. It’s not a near-perfect sphere like most of the moons we see, and it almost looks like an overgrown ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope does more than just observe the distant cosmos; it also peeks at the nearby objects in our solar system. In a photo shoot involving Mars, Hubble Space Telescope grabbed ...

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.

Phobos, the oddly-shaped moon of Mars, has been captured in a series of stunning images gliding above the planet’s volcanic ...

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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 ...

30 million years might seem like a long time to you, but on the timescale that is the lifespan of the universe, it’s a blip. That’s just how long astronomers now believe Mars’ largest moon Phobos has ...

The Martian moon Phobos has a lumpy, nonspherical shape that suggests it may be a captured asteroid. (ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)) The origin of the two small moons of Mars, called Phobos and Deimos ...

While a lot of attention has been focused on Mars thanks to the rovers that are heading out there in 2020, the Red Planet's tiny moon Phobos has been relatively overlooked. Recently, though, NASA ...