phobos Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/phobos/ Astronomy author and speaker Tue, 10 Sep 2019 09:38:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 https://www.colinstuart.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/cropped-Saturn1-32x32.png phobos Archives - Colin Stuart https://www.colinstuart.net/tag/phobos/ 32 32 166732936 Mars Orbiter spies Phobos in front of Red Planet https://www.colinstuart.net/mars-orbiter-spies-phobos-in-front-of-red-planet/ https://www.colinstuart.net/mars-orbiter-spies-phobos-in-front-of-red-planet/#respond Thu, 05 Feb 2015 10:57:18 +0000 http://www.colinstuart.net/?p=1835 Unlike our Moon, which is about one quarter the size of Earth, Phobos, the largest of Mars’s two moons is tiny – just 25 kilometres across. That makes it smaller than London. In this new image, released from The Mars Orbiter, Phobos is seen passing in front of Mars back in October. The gorgeous views […]

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