Mars' moon Phobos may actually be a comet — or at ... satellite photos Taken by high-resolution cameras onboard the Mars Express spacecraft, a European Space Agency (ESA) orbiter that has ...

and ESA's Mars Express spacecraft. The USSR, and later Russia, developed three missions exclusively for the study of the martian moons: Phobos 1 and 2 in the late 1980s, which saw radio contact break ...

The ESA's Mars Express, which has been orbiting the red ... will collect detailed measurements of Mars' two moons and land on Phobos, the larger lunar body, to collect a sample that can be ...

The long-lived Mars Express Orbiter — a European Space Agency ... and even a flying visit from Mars's largest moon, Phobos," the ESA wrote. Here's what you're seeing in the outer-space vista ...

With groups like NASA and the European Space Agency focusing largely on missions to explore Earth’s moon and Mars, the Japanese ... sample from the Martian moon Phobos and sending it back ...

How did the moons form and what they are made of? This is the mystery that the international team of scientists wants to solve. Several US missions and the European Mars Express mission, launched in ...

Astronomers used a computer to simulate the orbits of both Phobos and Deimos. The moons of Mars — Phobos and Deimos — are two fragments of what was once a much larger Martian satellite that ...

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos ... Hera also performed some joint observations of Deimos with ESA’s Mars Express, which has been in orbit around Mars for more than two decades.