2 Moons Of Mars

Christensen august 23 2018.

2 moons of mars.

They are irregular in shape. Both phobos and deimos were discovered in 1877 by american astronomer asaph hall. Ninety four years later nasa s mariner 9 spacecraft got a much better look at the two moons from its orbit around mars. Phobos fear and deimos panic were named after the horses that pulled the chariot of the greek war god ares the counterpart to the roman war god mars.

The appearance of phobos and deimos is like that of asteroids. Ares god of war was known to the romans as mars. Supposedly mars will appear as large as the moon. Written by brett m.

The moons of mars are phobos and deimos. Compared to the earth s moon the moons phobos and deimos are small. Both were discovered by asaph hall in august 1877 and are named after the greek mythological twin characters phobos panic fear and deimos terror dread who accompanied their father ares into battle. Moons of mars mars has two small moons.

The moons of mars. The dominant feature on phobos it found was a crater six miles 10 kilometers wide nearly half the width of the moon itself. It was given angelina s maiden name. According to a message that is currently circulating via social media you will see two moons in the sky on august 27th one of which will be the planet mars.

Moreover the moon that has its orbit closer to mars than the other is phobos which is also the larger one.