2022 July 03 - Phobos Doomed Moon of Mars

In today's image, we see an image of one of the two small moons of Mars. This is Phobos which is called the doomed moon since it is in a very low orbit and will likely be destroyed by tidal forces of Mars in 50 million years or so.

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