They may resemble kidney beans, but formations on the northern hemisphere of Mars are actually sand dunes covered in carbon ...

Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to ... The first close-up images of the martian moons were sent to Earth by NASA's Mariner 9 spacecraft in 1972, followed by images from ...

Even the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos are petite, measuring just a few kilometers in diameter. Scientists aren't even sure how these objects ended up in orbit of Mars, but a new NASA study ...

"It's exciting to explore a new option for the making of Phobos and Deimos — the only moons in our solar system that orbit a rocky planet besides Earth's," Jacob Kegerreis of NASA's Ames ...

Mars currently has two satellite moons – Phobos and Deimos – the twin sons of Ares, the god of war (Mars in Roman mythology) ...

NASA’s InSight lander aims to unravel the ... the red planet gained its two small and irregularly shaped moons, Phobos and Deimos. The two lumpy worlds, discovered in 1877, are named for the ...

The spacecraft compiled the most complete map of the chemical composition of Mars’ atmosphere, observed the planet’s moons Phobos and Deimos in detail, and traced the history of water across ...

Other moons each have monikers, like Phobos and Deimos, and there is certainly no ... On Aug. 12, 2018, NASA launched the Parker Solar Probe toward the sun with the hopes of decoding a bunch ...