• Small Moon Phobos in Orbit Around Mars - Time-lapse Video 4.3.23 • This time-lapse video captures a portion of the path that the moon Phobos takes around Mars. Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble snapped 13 separate exposures of the little Martian moon. The transitions between frames have been smoothed to illustrate continuous motion. Phobos completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes, which is faster than Mars rotates. Rising in the Martian west, it runs three laps around the Red Plan

Japan's Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission: International Partnership FriendsofNASA.org: How did Mars’ moons Phobos and Deimos form? The Martian Moons eXploration (MMX) Mission aims to answer this very question. Developed by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the spacecraft will explore Phobos from orbit and collect samples from its surface. On board MMX will be the IDEFIX rover—a collaboration between the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and the French space agency, Centre nationa