"When people find out about that they're going to say 'who put that there?'," Buzz Aldrin once said of the monolith.
And despite all the scrutiny that Mars itself receives, this moon, Phobos, remains shrouded in mystery. Phobos and its smaller neighbouring moon, Deimos – both discovered in 1877 – are two of ...
Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...
IDEFIX will play a part in this overall objective by landing on Phobos first and gathering key ... the Martian moon's surface composition and texture at selected locations, according to DLR ...