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Can a Japanese Spacecraft Unlock the Mystery of Mars’ Twin Moons?

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By Damond Benningfield Verified
| Smithsonian Magazine Verified
Searching for clues on Phobos and Deimos. Mars has been studied and scrutinized more than any alien world. Since 1964, some 40 expeditions have been dispatched to the Red Planet. Orbiting spacecraft have snapped photos of vast canyons and rust-colored sand dunes, while robotic rovers have endured dust storms and freezing temperatures to drill into rock formations and search for vestiges of life beneath ancient riverbeds.
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Solar Flare Spotlights the Martian Ionosphere

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By Damond Benningfield Verified
| AGU's Eos
Powerful solar storms that rocked Earth in May 2024 produced similar effects at Mars, including widespread auroras and disruptions in orbiting spacecraft. One of the storms—the most powerful solar flare observed in more than 20 years—turbocharged the Martian ionosphere, an especially poorly understood layer where the density of electrons jumped almost threefold.
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Ancient Lake on Mars May Have Risen and Fallen Under the Tidal Pull of a Long Lost Moon

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By Damond Benningfield Verified, Tibi Puiu Verified
| ZME Science Verified
Phobos, photographed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is not massive enough to have raised tides on Mars. It could be a remnant of a larger moon that was destroyed in a giant impact. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona Thin layers of sedimentary rock in Mars’s Gale Crater suggest that the planet once had a moon much larger than the two that orbit it today, according to work to be presented at AGU’s Annual Meeting 2025 on 17 December.
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