Thursday, April 28, 2011

The History of Phobos and Deimos



The history of Phobos and Deimos

The two moons of Mars are Phobos and Deimos.















Phobos is a greek word for “fear” and
Deimos is a greek word for “panic”
They were discovered by American astronomer
Asaph Hall in August/18/1877

 






















Asaph Hall used a telescope from
the united states navel observatory






















Asaph Hall used a telescope that gave
him 67 times magnification power.


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