MoonsOfMars

= **﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿The Moons of Mars ** =

Mars has 2 moons; Phobos and Deimos. They were discovered by an American astronomer called Asaph Hall in 1877. He named them after the God's fierce dog's. They are not spherical and are most likely asteroids that were caught mars's gravity. Amazingly, they orbit Mars in almost circular orbits.

Phobos
====Phobos is about 22km in diameter and is getting 1.8m closer to Mars every hundred years. It will ether collide with Mars in about 50 million years or break up to form a planetary ring before colliding into Mars. One of the most obvious features of Phobos is its 9.5km crater Stickney. The highest temperature was recorded at -4ºC and the lowest at -112ºC.====

==== Deimos   Deimos is Mars's smaller moon that orbits Mars every 30 hours. Funnily enough, Deimos also rotates every 30 hours. It only has a length of 11km and is slowly drifting away form Mars. Just like our Moon, Deimos is believed to eventually escape its planets gravity and float out into space. Because of its unstable orbit, it is believed to have once been an asteroid.====

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