[SunkenCiv]

The keywords, sorted:

• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Small Moon Deimos [09/07/2024]
• See Mars' mysterious moon Deimos from just 68 miles away...The first close-ups of the tiny moon suggest we were wrong about its origin. [05/01/2023]
• Mars moon mystery: Strange structures found inside 'fearful' Phobos [10/31/2022]
• Now We Know Why Jupiter Doesn't Have Big, Glorious Rings Like Saturn [07/25/2022]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day - Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars [07/03/2022]
• NASA's Perseverance Rover Captures Video of Solar Eclipse on Mars [04/20/2022]
• NASA selects four people for a simulated mission to Mars' moon Phobos that will see them trapped in a capsule four times smaller than a tennis court for 45 DAYS [10/01/2021]
• "Phobos" -- Mars' Strange 'Science-Fiction' Moon May Hold Clues to Ancient Life [07/26/2020]
• Phobos sample return mission enters development for 2024 launch [02/21/2020]
• Martian Moon Phobos Got Its Strange Grooves from Rolling Boulders [11/24/2018]
• New Japanese mission will be going to the Moons of Mars [05/04/2017]
• A NASA Satellite Almost Collided Into a Martian Moon [03/03/2017]
• Red Planet Impact: Huge Moons May Have Crashed Into Mars [07/04/2016]
• Monster volcano gave Mars extreme makeover: study [03/03/2016]
• Astrobiology Top 10: Earth's Moon May Not Be Critical to Life [12/25/2015]
• Mars Will Become a Ringed Planet When Phobos Dies [11/23/2015]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars [11/22/2015]
• Mars⬢ Moon Phobos Undergoing â¬ËœStructural Failure⬢ [11/10/2015]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Phobos 360 [12/24/2013]
• Russia's Second Shot at Phobos May Return Bits of Mars As Well [11/11/2013]
• Discovery of 2 Monoliths,One On Mars,in 2009,& The One on Phobos,in 2007,As Revealed By Buzz Aldrin [09/28/2013]
• Curiosity Rover Views Phobos Passing in Front of Deimos (Video) [08/17/2013]
• Moon Dance: Curiosity Rover Captures Movie of Phobos and Deimos Together [08/15/2013]
• Curiosity Captures 'Phobos Rising' Movie and Sun Setting on Mars [07/02/2013]
• Is Phobos a Mined Asteroid? A Sitchinite's Take on the Hollow Object [03/13/2013]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Stickney Crater [01/18/2013]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Phobos: Doomed Moon of Mars [10/28/2012]
• The Shadow of Phobos:First Indirect View of Martian Solar Eclipse Published in 1999 [09/16/2012]
• A Solar Eclipse - From Mars!! [09/16/2012]
• World awaits crash of failed Russian Mars probe [Sunday or Monday] [01/13/2012]
• Russian probe due to 'hit Earth' January 2012 [12/23/2011]
• Phobos-Grunt's Mysterious Thruster Activation: A Function of Safe Mode or Just Good Luck? [11/16/2011]
• Russia takes aim at Phobos [11/05/2011]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day -- Asteroid Vesta Full Frame [08/02/2011]
• Russia has ambitious space exploration plans for the current year 2011 [01/16/2011]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day [03/17/2010]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day [11/07/2009]
• Russia's Dark Horse Plan to Get to Mars [05/23/2009]
• Is Stickney Crater an Impact Feature? (Conventional wisdom among astronomers is wrong...) [04/17/2008]
• Fantastic Phobos [04/06/2008]
• Did A Giant Impact Create The Two Faces Of Mars? [03/15/2007]
• Message from a Time Traveler [04/06/2006]
• Red Planet's Ancient Equator Located [04/24/2005]
• Mystery Object Encountered By Russian Phobos Spacecraft [03/25/2005]
• Mars moon emerges from the dark [11/11/2004]
• No Moon, no life on Earth, suggests theory [03/20/2004]
• NASA rover photographs Mars moon crossing the sun (Deimos) [03/04/2004]
• Reworked images reveal hot Venus [01/14/2004]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 01-04-04 [01/03/2004]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 11-29-03 [11/29/2003]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 10-24-03 [10/23/2003]
• New Theory: Catastrophe Created Mars' Moons [07/29/2003]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 7-01-03 [07/01/2003]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 4-06-03 [04/05/2003]
• Astronomy Picture of the Day 3-29-03 [03/28/2003]
• Long-Destroyed Fifth Planet May Have Caused Lunar Cataclysm, Researchers Say [03/25/2002]

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

An interesting aspect of Mars’s moons is that they orbit counter to the direction of Mars’s rotation. The tidal transfer of angular momentum from earth to our moon results in the moon receding at a rate of about one centimeter (roughly 3/8 inches) a year away from earth. The same phenomenon on Mars causes his moons’ orbit to gradually decrease, and in a few million years they will enter Mars’s atmosphere and deorbit, crashing into the surface! What a spectacle our descendants will be able to witness!