It's possible that Mars' moons were originally asteroids that were captured by the planet's gravitational pull. There's also ...

The grooves in the moon may indicate the gravitational draw from Mars, showing the first signs of Phobos' disintegration into a ring around Mars. [Learn more about Phobos .] Wallpapers ...

Located approximately 5,800 miles (9,400 km) from the center of Mars, or about 3,700 miles (6,000 km) above the Martian surface, Phobos - one of the two the natural satellites of Mars - orbits its ...

Phobos, A Martian Moon. Sarah Zielinski. April 2, 2010. ... The moon is about 27 by 22 by 19 kilometers in size and despite its solid appearance, is about 25 to 35 percent porous ...

For comparison, our moon is around 238,900 miles (about 384,500 kilometers) away from Earth. NASA likens the visible grooves on Phobos to "stretch marks" from tidal forces deforming the moon. 59 ...

Phobos is one of the two moons that revolve around Mars. It's a lumpy, crater-filled pile of rubble that measures only 10 by 14 by 11 miles (17 by 22 by 18 km). Phobos also orbits closer to Mars ...

Mars' moon Phobos could be headed for destruction. By Michael Casey , Fox News. Published November 11, 2015 10:39am EST | Updated November 11, 2015 11:03am EST. Facebook ...

Mars’ closest moon moves closer to Mars by about six feet every hundred years, and as Phobos gets closer to the planet’s surface, the gravitational pull increases. Soon these stresses will be ...

Phobos has no such protection, and the scientists calculated that the moon is subject to so much solar wind, it can actually give the surface and objects—or humans—on it an electric charge.

The weird linear grooves scoring the surface of the Mars moon Phobos were likely carved by boulders knocked loose by a giant impact, a new study suggests. That impact created Phobos' most notable ...

The orbit of Mars Express has been fine-tuned to get us as close to Phobos as possible during a handful of flybys between 2023 and 2025, which will give us great opportunities to try.” ...

Phobos is the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons, and is named after Phobos, son of Ares (Mars) from Greek Mythology. Phobos orbits closer to a major planet than any other moon in the solar ...