Mars has two irregularly formed moons, an internal moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos
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The two moons of Mars may as soon as have been a single comet that was ensnared and split by the planet – and an upcoming mission may discover out for sure.
How Mars received its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is a little bit of a thriller. They are small, 27 and 15 kilometres throughout respectively, and each orbit across the planet’s equator. Astronomers have steered that they may have shaped after a collision on Mars’s…