The Martian moons may be captured asteroids! The two Martian moons orbit very close to Mars's equatorial plane and in nearly circular orbits! You can go to the NASA page that explains an image by clicking on the tiny page symbol next to the image date.Īlso have a look at NASA's Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at RocknestĬlick on the enlarged images of Phobos and Deimos in the diagram above to view the ir- regular Martian moons in 3-D. Then explore the following surface views of Mars that show the diversity in the planet's topography found on various missions. Use NASA's Deep Zoom to scroll and zoom awesome panoramas of the Martian surface!
