ESA closes in on the origin of Mars’ larger moon

Thursday, October 16, 2008 - 05:07 in Astronomy & Space

European space scientists are getting closer to unravelling the origin of Mars’ larger moon, Phobos. Thanks to a series of close encounters by ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, the moon looks almost certain to be a ‘rubble pile’, rather than a single solid object. However, mysteries remain about where the rubble came from.

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