Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, lit. 'flight, fright', [1] pronounced, Latin: Phobus) is the god and personification of fear and panic in Greek mythology. Phobos was the son of Ares and Aphrodite, and the brother of Deimos. He does not have a major role in mythology outside of being his father's attendant. [2]
Phobos is named after the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos. Phobos is a small, irregularly shaped object with a mean radius of 11 km (7 mi). It orbits 6,000 km (3,700 mi) from the Martian surface, closer to its primary body than any other known natural satellite to a planet.
Compared to the Earth's Moon, the moons Phobos and Deimos are small. Phobos has a diameter of 22.2 km (13.8 mi) and a mass of 1.08 × 10 16 kg, while Deimos measures 12.6 km (7.8 mi) across, with a mass of 1.5 × 10 15 kg.
Deimos (moon)#Named geological features Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title List of features on Phobos and Deimos .
In the Shield of Herakles, Phobos and Deimos accompany Ares into battle and remove him from the field once Herakles injures him. [6] The poet Antimachus, in a misrepresentation of Homer's account, portrays Deimos and Phobos as the horses of Ares. [7] In Nonnus' Dionysiaca, Zeus arms Phobos with lightning and Deimos with thunder to frighten ...
This article includes a list of the most massive known objects of the Solar System and partial lists of smaller objects by observed mean radius. These lists can be sorted according to an object's radius and mass and, for the most massive objects, volume, density, and surface gravity, if these values are available.
Phobos (Greek for "fear") most commonly refers to: Phobos (moon), a moon of Mars; Phobos (mythology), the Greek god and personification of fear and panic;
The quote is from "The Chessmen of Mars" and thus is from a native Martian's viewpoint. The size of Earth's moon would thus be irrelevant; Phobos is more than half the size of the Sun as seen from Mars, thus the second largest sky object, and so would seem 'great and glorious' to a Martian. Vultur 16:50, 15 February 2009 (UTC)