Mars has two irregularly formed moons, an internal moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos
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The 2 moons of Mars might as soon as have been a single comet that was ensnared and cut up by the planet – and an upcoming mission might discover out for sure.
How Mars obtained 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 steered that they might have fashioned after a collision on Mars’s…
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