{"id":682006,"date":"2021-02-23T08:40:03","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682006"},"modified":"2021-02-23T08:40:03","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T12:40:03","slug":"martian-moons-have-a-common-ancestor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=682006","title":{"rendered":"Martian moons have a common ancestor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mars&#8217;s two moons, Phobos and Deimos, have puzzled researchers since their discovery in 1877. They are very small: Phobos&#8217;s diameter of 22 kilometers is 160 times smaller than that of our moon, and Deimos is even smaller, with a diameter of only 12 kilometers. &#8220;Our moon is essentially spherical, while the moons of Mars are very irregularly shaped\u2014like potatoes,&#8221; says Amirhossein Bagheri, a doctoral student at the Institute of Geophysics at ETH Zurich, adding: &#8220;Phobos and Deimos look more like asteroids than natural moons.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-02-martian-moons-common-ancestor.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Martian moons have a common ancestor<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars&#8217;s two moons, Phobos and Deimos, have puzzled researchers since their discovery in 1877. They are very small: Phobos&#8217;s diameter of 22 kilometers is 160 times smaller than that of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-682006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=682006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=682006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=682006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=682006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}