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help| 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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