Phobos --- the enigmatic, oddly-shaped Martian moon --- could serve as an eventual pit stop for human missions to the Red Planet. That’s, of course, contingent on future Mars exploration strategies.

Phobos is the target of the return sample mission Martian Moons eXploration by JAXA that will analyze in great details the physical and compositional properties of the satellite from orbit, from the ...

How kewl is this? The Lunar and Planetary Institute and several other sponsors are holding a conference on The Exploration of Phobos and Deimos, the moons of Mars. Well, sure, that’s cool. But what ...

Humanity's path to Mars may go through Phobos, one of the Red Planet's two tiny moons. Humanity's path to Mars may go through the Red Planet's tiny moon Phobos. An incremental, multiple-mission ...

Phobos is the larger and closer of the two natural satellites of Mars. Despite decades of Martian exploration, we still know very little about Phobos. Many fundamental properties of this small ...

WASHINGTON — Getting astronauts to Mars in the 2030s could involve a pit stop at the planet’s largest moon, Phobos — a staging area where NASA could leverage both technology and lessons learned from ...

PASADENA, Calif. — A team of students has come up with an ambitious plan to send astronauts to a Martian moon, winning a Caltech space exploration contest in the process. Team Voyager won the Caltech ...

Optech Incorporated, the global market leader in the development, manufacture and support of advanced, laser-based survey systems, announced today that is has been selected by the Canadian Space ...

Artist’s concept of Japan’s Mars Moons eXploration (MMX) spacecraft, carrying a NASA instrument to study the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos. The mission should contain a sample return component, and ...

The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of Phobos are likely early signs of the structural failure that will ultimately destroy this moon of Mars. The long, shallow grooves lining the surface of ...

•For a solar-powered mission with a focus on tele-robotic operation of Mars surface assets, Deimos is a better choice of location than Phobos, due to its superior coverage of sites on the Martian ...