2 Moons Of Mars

Christensen august 23 2018.

2 moons of mars.

Moons of mars mars has two small moons. Two moons in the sky mars hoax. The two moons were discovered in 1877 however their origin is still controversial. The dominant feature on phobos it found was a crater six miles 10 kilometers wide nearly half the width of the moon itself.

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. The appearance of phobos and deimos is like that of asteroids. They are irregular in shape. 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.

Ninety four years later nasa s mariner 9 spacecraft got a much better look at the two moons from its orbit around mars. It was given angelina s maiden name. The moons of mars are phobos and deimos. Both phobos and deimos were discovered in 1877 by american astronomer asaph hall.

Written by brett m. 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. Supposedly mars will appear as large as the moon. Compared to the earth s moon the moons phobos and deimos are small.

Ares god of war was known to the romans as mars.