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What does Phobos mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) A son of Ares (Mars). Also the Greek god of fear.
  2. (astronomy) The innermost natural satellite of Mars.
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Meteorites and asteroids, like Deimos and Phobos, are witnesses of the Universe's birth.
Phobos and Deimos are still largely unexplored despite many unanswered questions about their origin, composition, and structure.
Their Phobos-Grunt mission will be the first to land on this strange moon, and, with luck, it will return to Earth with samples of Phobos.
On the ESA website you can find the latest results of the research on the Mars moon Phobos.
It happens that Mars has two moons, named Phobos and Deimos, which are captured asteroids orbiting very close to that planet.
Phobos-Grunt, Russian spacecraft that was designed to land on the Martian moon Phobos and bring some of its soil back to Earth.

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