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The Russian space agency RosCosmos has recently announced that it will delay its planned Phobos-Grunt mission to Mars' moon Phobos to 2011, a two-year delay from the original launch date, which was set for this year. Officials from the agency say that, since they cannot send the probe now, they will be forced to... |
26 September 2009
04:50 GMT |
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While the Red Planet has gotten a lot of attention from both space agencies and the general public over the past few decades, Mars' moons, Phobos and Deimos, have experienced a lot less of it. A few fly-by flights and some telescope observations make up all the science associated with them. But now, an internati... |
5 May 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Not many people know that the Red Planet, which has been intensely-scrutinized over the past few years with several rovers and orbiters, also has two very small moons, Deimos and Phobos. Discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall, the two celestial bodies orbiting Mars are thought to be captured asteroids that can no longer es... |
10 March 2009
04:15 GMT |
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BFG Technologies, one of NVIDIA's largest graphics card partners, has just announced that it has begun taking orders for its first computer system, the newly announced Phobos, a gaming rig specifically designed for technology enthusiasts. With the announcement, the company has also put out a website where users ... |
23 January 2009
04:40 GMT |
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If the Russian plan is successful, a launch this October could take colonies of resistant bacteria from Earth to one of Mars' moons and then back home, the RosCosmos agency announced recently. In addition to making the trip to Phobos, Mars' closest orbiting moon, the mission will also deploy a Chinese Yingh... |
7 January 2009
18:01 GMT |
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BFG Technologies, one of the largest NVIDIA-based graphics card makers, has just added a new product to its portfolio. Simply dubbed Phobos, the new model comes as a fully-configured high-performance desktop computer system, designed to accommodate the requirements of multimedia and gaming enthusiasts. The company th... |
7 January 2009
10:34 GMT |
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About a billion years ago, there was a pair of small moons revolving each other in close orbit with Mars. One of them, Phobos, is still performing its regular cyclic patrols around the red planet, but the other, as experts believe, has broken into pieces, entered the atmosphere, and eventually smashed on Mars' ... |
27 October 2008
01:32 GMT |
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Mars has 2 small natural satellites in its orbit – Phobos (“fear”), the smaller, innermost, faster-orbiting one, and Deimos (“dread”), the larger, slower one, found on a less proximal orbit. Recent observations of the former indicate that it does not present the features of a compact sp... |
21 October 2008
05:19 GMT |
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter took lately a couple of pictures of the Martian surface revealing some sand dunes, on the Hellespontus region of the planet, looking strikingly similar to a series of hoofmarks. According to NASA, such surface formations have also been spotted on Earth and are called barchan du... |
14 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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Mars' largest and closest moon, Phobos, was recently photographed with the help of the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, during a fly-by through its vicinity. 3D color images of the small moon reveal a material rim around its biggest surface structure, the Stickney crater, measuring 9 kilom... |
10 April 2008
04:02 GMT |
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As the gas giant presents a tilt of 98 degrees from its orbit plane, during the solstice the poles point directly towards the Sun, triggering some extreme changes in solar illumination, seen in all the bodies in the solar system. This usual inclination presents great importance for planetary astronomers such as Heidi... |
5 December 2007
05:36 GMT |
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Unlike our planet Earth which has a single large moon, Mars, our red neighbor, has two small asteroids that act as moons: Phobos and Deimos, in low orbit around the planet. Recent survey of the two asteroids, made by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer, while on the night side of the planet reveals their ... |
29 November 2007
06:50 GMT |
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Mars might not offer us too much, but its small moons may. The solar system exploration program which predicted that a base for future spaceflights would be built on our Moon is now turning towards Mars' two small moons, Phobos and Deimos. Scientists say these are the most accessible planetary bodies in our sola... |
9 November 2007
05:35 GMT |
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