A Rare Look at Mars’ Mysterious Moon, Deimos! 🌑 This stunning infrared sequence, captured during Hera’s gravity-assist flyby on March 12, 2025, shows Deimos drifting across the face of Mars – a sight rarely seen. Unlike its host planet, Deimos is airless and absorbs heat quickly, making it appear hotter and brighter than Mars in these images. Though it looks like the moon is moving northward, Hera was actually speeding past Deimos from north to south at the time. With its dark, heat-absorbing s

Awesome Mars moon Phobos Electric Charging ! Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. Both are small, airless bodies with irregular shapes. Because they lack protective atmospheres and magnetospheres, Phobos and Deimos are directly exposed to the solar wind for part of their orbits. The solar wind is a stream of electrically charged particles constantly blowing off the surface of the sun at about a million miles per hour; as it collides with the moons, it is thought to create complex electrical en