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. |