Phobos

How Astronauts Can Explore The Martian Moon Phobos

OTTAWA, CANADA - Humans would spend more than a year orbiting and bouncing on the Martian moon Phobos under a…

11 years ago

After the tragic failure of the first Phobos-Grunt mission to even make it out of low-Earth orbit, the Russian space…

11 years ago

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It’s always interesting to consider the astronomical goings-on that occur under alien skies. On August 17th, Curiosity wowed us once…

11 years ago

Mars moon Phobos (above, center) rising in the night time Martian sky shortly after sunset in this still image from…

11 years ago

Mars' moon Phobos is captured in a daytime image by Curiosity (NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS) A raw image taken on September 21 by…

12 years ago

Once again, it's time for the Weekly Space Hangout - our round up of all the big space news stories…

12 years ago

Yes, Mars gets eclipses too! This brief animation, made from ten raw subframe images acquired with Curiosity's Mastcam on September…

12 years ago

[/caption] Story and Crash Zone Map updated 1 p.m. EST Jan 16 Today (Jan. 15) was the last day of…

13 years ago

[/caption] Editor's note: With Russian engineers trying to save the Phobos-Grunt mission, Dr. David Warmflash, principal science lead for the…

13 years ago

[/caption] Teams of Russian engineers are in a race against time to save the ambitious and unprecedented Phobos-Grunt sample return…

13 years ago