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.