2 Moons Of Mars

The appearance of phobos and deimos is like that of asteroids.

2 moons of mars.

The moons of mars are phobos and deimos. They are irregular in shape. Ares god of war was known to the romans as mars. Both phobos and deimos were discovered in 1877 by american astronomer asaph hall.

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. Written by brett m. 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. The moons of 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. Christensen august 23 2018. Moons of mars mars has two small moons. Compared to the earth s moon the moons phobos and deimos are small.

It was given angelina s maiden name. Ninety four years later nasa s mariner 9 spacecraft got a much better look at the two moons from its orbit around mars. Two moons in the sky mars hoax. Supposedly mars will appear as large as the moon.

The dominant feature on phobos it found was a crater six miles 10 kilometers wide nearly half the width of the moon itself.