Mars has two irregularly formed moons, an interior moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos
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The 2 moons of Mars could as soon as have been a single comet that was ensnared and cut up by the planet – and an upcoming mission may discover out for sure.
How Mars bought its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is a little bit of a thriller. They’re small, 27 and 15 kilometres throughout respectively, and each orbit across the planet’s equator. Astronomers have recommended that they could have fashioned after a collision on Mars’s…
