{"id":779743,"date":"2024-03-28T04:13:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:13:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779743"},"modified":"2024-03-28T04:13:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T09:13:58","slug":"mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=779743","title":{"rendered":"Mars may have captured and split a comet to create its two moons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure class=\"article-image-inline ArticleImage\" data-method=\"caption-shortcode\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImage__Wrapper\"><\/div><figcaption class=\"ArticleImageCaption\">\n<div class=\"ArticleImageCaption__CaptionWrapper\">\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Title\">Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleImageCaption__Credit\">NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/GSFC\/Univ. of Arizona<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>The two moons of Mars may once have been a single comet that was ensnared and split by the planet \u2013 and an upcoming mission could find out for certain.<\/p>\n<p>How Mars got its two moons, Phobos and Deimos, is a bit of a mystery. They are small, 27 and 15 kilometres across respectively, and both orbit around the planet\u2019s equator. Astronomers have suggested that they may have formed after a collision on Mars\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2424218-mars-may-have-captured-and-split-a-comet-to-create-its-two-moons\/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&#038;utm_source=NSNS&#038;utm_medium=RSS&#038;utm_content=space&#038;rand=772163\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mars has two irregularly shaped moons, an inner moon named Phobos and an outer moon named Deimos NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/GSFC\/Univ. of Arizona The two moons of Mars may once have been a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779744,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-779743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-scientist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779743","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=779743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/779744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=779743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=779743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=779743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}