The Tiny Terrors of Mars
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010Looking quite a bit like the captured asteroids they probably are, the Martian moons were predicted by the astronomer Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), and written into the plot of Gulliver’s Travels in 1726. The tiny Martian moons Phobos and Deimos were discovered by Asaph Hall in August, 1877. Deimos on the 12th, Phobos on the 18th. Hall was specifically looking [...]
