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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.
Asaph Hall discovered Deimos on 12 August 1877 at about 07:48 UTC and Phobos on 18 August 1877, at the US Naval Observatory (the Old Naval Observatory in Foggy Bottom) in Washington, D.C., at about 09:14 GMT (contemporary sources, using the pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, [16] give the time of discovery as 11 August ...
The Living Interplanetary Flight Experiment [2] (LIFE or Phobos LIFE [3]) was an interplanetary mission developed by the Planetary Society.It consisted of sending selected microorganisms on a three-year interplanetary round-trip in a small capsule aboard the Russian Fobos-Grunt spacecraft in 2011, which was a failed sample-return mission to the Martian moon Phobos.
Asaph Hall III (October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907) was an American astronomer who is best known for having discovered the two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877. [1] He determined the orbits of satellites of other planets and of double stars, the rotation of Saturn, and the mass of Mars.
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;
Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, lit. 'flight, fright', [ 1 ] pronounced [pʰóbos] , 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 .
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Deimos was discovered by Asaph Hall at the United States Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., on 12 August 1877, at about 07:48 UTC. [a] Hall, who also discovered Phobos shortly afterwards, had been specifically searching for Martian moons at the time. The moon is named after Deimos, a figure representing dread in Greek mythology. [11]