Phobos and Deimos – these names from Greek mythology were given to the moons of our neighbouring planet Mars, discovered in 1877 by the US astronomer Asaph Hall. Besides Earth's Moon, they are the ...

At the height of the space race in the late 1970s, the Viking probes successfully landed on Mars – collecting pictures, data, and samples from the red planet. It was so successful that Soviet ...

The moon was named in 1877 by astronomer Asaph Hall after the god of fear and panic in Greek mythology, Phobos. This is not the first time a NASA rover has witnessed Phobos blocking the Sun's rays.