Phobos And Deimos & Mars Environment
Phobos And Deimos & Mars Environment (PADME) is a low-cost NASA Mars orbiter mission concept that would address longstanding unknowns about Mars' two moons Phobos and Deimos and their environment.
Phobos And Deimos & Mars Environment
The modular MCSB bus and some payload elements were successfully flown on the 2013 LADEE mission to the Moon
Phobos is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. The two moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. It is named after Phobos, the Greek god of fear and panic, who is the son of Ares (Mars) and twin brother of Deimos.
Enhanced color image of Phobos, as captured by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Stickney, the largest crater on Phobos, is on the right.
Asaph Hall III, discoverer of Phobos
The Phobos monolith (right of center) as taken by the Mars Global Surveyor (MOC Image 55103, 1998).
Image: Stickney mro