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Phobos (moon)

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Phobos (pronounced /ˈfoʊbəs/ FOE-bəs, or as Greek Φόβος) (systematic designation: Mars I) is the larger and closer of Mars' two small moons, the other being Deimos. It is named after the Greek god Phobos (which means "fear"), a son of Ares (Mars). A small, irregularly shaped object, Phobos orbits about 9 377 km from the center of Mars, closer to its primary than any other planetary moon. Phobos... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
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    Phobos (moon)

    Phobos (pronounced /ˈfoʊbəs/ FOE-bəs, or as Greek Φόβος) (systematic designation: Mars I) is the larger and closer of Mars' two small moons, the other being Deimos. It is named after the Greek god Phobos (which means "fear"), a son of Ares (Mars).
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    Phobos

    Phobos (moon), the larger and innermost of Mars' two moons
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    List of named Solar System objects

    This is a list of named Solar System objects, including planets, moons, dwarf planets, and trans-Neptunian objects, ordered alphabetically. ... | Phobos | moon | Mars |
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    Features on Phobos and Deimos

    Phobos (moon)#Named_geological_features ... Mars' moons
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    Phobos program

    The Phobos (Russian: Фобос, Fobos) program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos. ... Moon exploration:
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    Astronomy on Mars

    The moon Phobos appears about one third the angular diameter that the full Moon appears from Earth; on the other hand, Deimos appears more or less starlike with a disk barely discernible if at all.
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    Phobos (Doctor Who audio)

    The short story Crimson Dawn in the book Decalog 2: Lost Properties explains that Phobos is an artificial moon created by Ice Warriors.
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    Deimos (moon)

    Deimos, like Mars' other moon Phobos, has spectra, albedos and densities similar to those of a C or D-type asteroid.
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    Moon landing

    Similarly, the Soviet probe Phobos 2 came within 120 miles (190 km) of performing an unmanned moon landing on Mars' moon Phobos in 1989 before radio contact with that lander was suddenly lost.
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    Mars

    The joint Russian and Chinese Phobos-Grunt mission to return samples of Mars's moon Phobos is scheduled for a 2009 launch.

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