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Moons of Mars could be broken remains of something big

Mars, the Red Planet, is home to two intriguing moons, Phobos and Deimos. Unlike Earth's Moon, whose origin is fairly well understood as the result of a collision with a Mars-sized protoplanet called Theia, the origins of Mars's moons remain a mystery. Mars's gravitational pull is relatively weak compared to Earth or Venus, making it unlikely for Mars to capture …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Mars moons Phobos and Deimos could be debris from a shredded asteroid, suggests study

India TV News

As per the recent study, Mars’ moons, may have originated from debris left behind after an asteroid was torn apart by the planet’s gravity. He theorizes that an asteroid was initially captured by Mars’ gravity but was later shredded into a debris ring, which eventually coalesced into the two moons. Upcoming mission may solve the mystery The Japan Aerospace Exploration …

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3 years, 4 months ago

Japan reveals plans to bring back soil samples from Mars' MOON Phobos

Daily Mail

Japan says it will send a spacecraft to take soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos, with the goal of returning them to Earth before the end of the decade. Scroll down for video Japan says it will send a spacecraft to take soil samples from the Martian moon Phobos, with the goal of returning them to Earth before the …

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3 years, 7 months ago

SpaceX may launch rockets from ocean spaceport by next year: Report

India TV News

Elon Musk-run SpaceX's first ocean spaceport for the Starship launch vehicle could be ready as soon as next year, the CEO has revealed. "Ocean spaceport Deimos is under construction for launch next year," Musk wrote on Twitter. The private space corporation purchased two oil rigs last year to transform them into launch pads and landing sites for its next-generation vehicle …

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3 years, 11 months ago

Japan’s Martian moon mission may reveal clues to Mars’ past

CNN

CNN — Mars has long been a point of fascination for scientists as they try to uncover the planet’s past and determine if it ever supported life. “Phobos has been patiently accumulating particles escaping the Martian atmosphere and may therefore have been holding for millennia a possible record of the lost atmosphere of the red planet,” Nénon said. This is …

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4 years, 5 months ago

Why 'Super Weird' Mars Moons Phobos and Deimos Fascinate Scientists Despite Being Tiny Space Potatoes

News 18

Mars is the darling of many planetary scientists, who continue to visit it through increasingly advanced robotic explorers. "They’re super weird, confusing and interesting," said Abigail Fraeman, a planetary scientist studying Mars, Phobos and Deimos at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Remote observations of their surfaces haven’t revealed any standout mineral features or textures that could definitively detail the moons’ overall …

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4 years, 7 months ago

Mars’ moons may hint that the planet once had rings

CNN

CNN — Mars has two small, funky-looking moons with strange orbits, and they may suggest that the red planet once had rings, like some of the larger planets in our solar system. NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona “The fact that Deimos’s orbit is not exactly in plane with Mars’s equator was considered unimportant, and nobody cared to try to explain it,” said …

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6 years, 1 month ago

Mystery behind Mars moon Phobos' signature grooves decoded

India Today

Strange grooves that crisscross the surface of the Martian moon Phobos were likely made by rolling boulders blasted free from an ancient asteroid impact, a study has found. While some scientists posited that large impacts on Mars have showered the nearby moon with groove-carving debris, others suggested that Mars' gravity is slowly tearing Phobos apart, and the grooves are signs …

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