Also, the researchers found that Phobos's surface was porous, like sand. This led the team to suggest the moon's surface may be cloaked by a thick dust layer with grooved particles, whose shadows ...

Most of the boulders may have been ejected from the largest impact crater on Phobos, Stickney." The Stickney Crater is about ...

And despite all the scrutiny that Mars itself receives, this moon, Phobos, remains shrouded in mystery. Phobos and its smaller neighbouring moon, Deimos – both discovered in 1877 – are two of ...

Phobos completes one orbit of Mars in just over seven and a half hours at an altitude of approximately 6000 kilometres. Thus, the moon moves around the planet ... from a powerful impact on the ...

The radiometer miniRAD developed by DLR will measure the surface radiation of the Martian moon Phobos in order to determine the surface temperature and the thermophysical properties of the surface. In ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured a cameo appearance of the tiny moon Phobos on its trek around the Red Planet. This composite image, from NASA Galileo and Mars Global Survey orbiters, of Earth ...