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Martian Mysteries | The Phobos Incident, Monoliths, and Ancient Ruins At the height of the space race in the late 1970s, the Viking probes successfully landed on Mars – collecting pictures, data, and ...

Earth isn't the only planet experiencing spectacular solar eclipses as moons pass in front of our solar system's sun. Two months before a total solar eclipse is expected to shroud a long swath of ...

While we earthlings prepare for a rare total solar eclipse that will pass over North America, Mars had one of its own earlier this year. A timelapse of photos taken by NASA's Perseverance rover Feb. 8 ...

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The Perseverance Mars rover's Mastcam-Z camera the Martian moon Phobos transit the Sun. See real-time and time-lapsed views ...

Previously unpublished photos of Mars' moon Phobos hint that the mysterious satellite may actually be a trapped comet — or perhaps just a piece of one, along with its twin moon Deimos. When you ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. The next solar eclipse to cross North America is fast approaching ...

Robotic Martians can see blue Earth in Mars' sky. The Curiosity rover, a car-sized NASA robot looking to find evidence of past habitability on the Red Planet, recently snapped an image of Mars' ...

NASA’s longest-lived mission to Mars has gained its first look at the Martian moon Phobos, pursuing a deeper understanding by examining it in infrared wavelengths. The Thermal Emission Imaging System ...

On March 27, 1989, the Soviet Union's Phobos 2 mission to Mars' moons ended in failure. But the whole mission was definitely not a failure. Phobos 2 arrived in Mars orbit two months earlier and had ...

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