Japan is launching a mission to Mars’s largest moon Phobos

 

Artist’s representation of the MMX Spacecraft

Joel Kontinen

Japan has launched a mission to Phobos, a moon of Mars.

We may be on the verge of solving the mystery of the Martian moons. On 20 October, the Martian Moons exploration (MMX) spacecraft launches towards the larger of the two moons, Phobos, with the goal of bringing back a sample that may finally explain how Phobos and its sibling, Deimos, formed.

MMX will launch from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. If all goes to plan, it should arrive at Mars in August 2027, entering an orbit that keeps it alongside Phobos so it can build a detailed map of the surface. Along the way, it will also observe the surface of Deimos.

Once the map is complete enough, the spacecraft’s operators at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) will use it to pick out a spot on Phobos for MMX to land. During one or two brief landings, it will take on two tasks: to drop off a small rover called IDEFIX and to pick up samples. The rover is the first anyone has ever placed on such a small cosmic body, so part of its purpose aside from scientific observations is to confirm that a wheeled rover even works on an object with such low gravity.

The samples, though, are the most important part of the mission. MMX has two different sampling devices: one that shoots a puff of gas onto the surface, blowing dust and pebbles back up into a sampling container, and another that blasts a hollow cylinder into the ground to take a sample a several centimetres deep. After the samples are taken, they will be stowed away inside the spacecraft, which will then head back towards Earth. It is expected to arrive home in 2031.

Once these samples get back to Earth and are analysed by scientists on the ground, they should finally solve the mystery of how Phobos and Deimos formed. For more than a century, researchers have debated whether the two are captured asteroids or formed from an impact on Mars, similar to how Earth’s moon formed. On first look, their shapes and surfaces resemble asteroids, but their circular orbits around Mars’s equator are more consistent with the impact hypothesis. Figuring out what they are made of should settle it once and for all.

This will also help illuminate what the solar system was like billions of years ago when these strange moons formed. “Having the answer will help illuminate that early era when Earth and the other inner planets may have been acquiring much of their water and organic compounds,” said Tom Statler, part of the NASA team that is collaborating on the MMX mission, in a statement.

Mars and millions pf years seem to belong together, as Darwinians believe that Mars was formed that way.

If we are very lucky, the samples from Phobos may even contain bonus bits of dust and debris from Mars itself. Impacts on the planet could have launched material into space, which would have collected on the moon’s surface and been preserved there for billions of years. That means that these samples could illuminate not just the history of Phobos and Deimos, but also of Mars.

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Leah Crane 2026 Japan is launching a mission to Mars’s largest moon Phobos | New Scientist 16 October

Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions

 

A view of Mars’s surface captured by the Perseverance rover. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSS​S

Joel Kontinen

A salt-loving microorganism found in places like the Dead Sea can not just survive but actively grow in conditions close to those that may be found just under the Martian surface

Was there life on Mars? Some Darwinist suppose that there  was live in the past and some think that there might still be live there.  

 A study here on Earth has made that idea more plausible by showing that salt-loving, or halophilic, microbes can grow in conditions close to those that might be found in little pockets of highly salty water just below the surface of Mars.

“We show that these halophilic microorganisms can actively grow under a combination of anoxic [oxygen-free], low-pressure atmosphere conditions and a high-salt liquid media that contains harmful Martian chemicals that are similar to bleach, which are the perchlorates,” says Adam Robinson at the University of Florida. “And image courtesy that’s something that nobody had been able to show before.”

We have found tantalising hints that not only was there once life on Mars, but that it might still exist on the Red Planet. Now, a study here on Earth has made that idea more plausible by showing that salt-loving, or halophilic, microbes can grow in conditions close to those that might be found in little

The type of life we have seen about the Red Sea gives the researchers live on Mars.

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 Michael Le Page  2026 Earth extremophile can grow in near-Mars-like conditions | New Scientist 10 August

Strange three-lobed asteroid seems to have its own tiny moon

 

The asteroid 44 Nysa, centre, and its tiny moon, marked with an arrow, Image courtesy of Kate Minker.

Joel Kontinen

Space is wonderful. Ever hard of an asteroid that has its tiny moon? the asteroid is called Nysa  It is  75 kilometres across with a tiny moon just a kilometre across.

Astronomers have spotted one of the strangest-looking asteroids we have ever seen. The space rock, called 44 Nysa, was discovered in 1857, but it wasn’t until now that we had the observational capability to figure out its shape – and its shape is weird.

An E-type asteroid, which is a relatively rare type rich in a mineral called enstatite, 44 Nysa circles the sun in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It is the brightest E-type asteroid we know of and one of the largest, with an average diameter of about 75 kilometres, which makes it a tempting observational target.

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 Leah Crane 2026 Strange three-lobed asteroid seems to have its own tiny moon | New Scientist 29 July

 

 

Fluorescent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.

Joel Kontinen

Can gems be found on Mars. Now according to the latest research, it seems that are found.

The Perseverance rover has found precious stones inside Martian pebbles. These gem grains are made of a substance called corundum, which is also known as ruby or sapphire depending on the traces of metals within it.

Ann Ollila at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and her colleagues first spotted hints of corundum while using Perseverance’s SuperCam instrument to examine a rock called Hampden River. SuperCam has several different ways to test a material’s composition, using two different lasers to either burn off its surface or provoke luminescence, then two cameras to examine the resulting light. In both tests, the results for Hampden River were nearly identical to the results from rubies measured in the lab, indicating the presence of tiny grains of corundum in the rock.

 

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 Leah Crane 2026 Fluor escent ruby-like gems have been found on Mars for the first time | New Scientist 18 March 

Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech.

Joel Kontinen

Billions of years ago Mars hosted lakes, streams and perhaps even a huge ocean according to evolution believing scientists.

A remarkably hardy bacterium can survive pressures similar to those generated when asteroid impacts blast debris off Mars, a new evolutionary study has found.

The findings, published earlier this week in the journal PNAS Nexus, may prompt scientists to reconsider where life could exist across the solar system and could lead to a reassessment of "planetary protection" rules designed to prevent contamination between worlds.

"Life might actually survive being ejected from one planet and moving to another," study co-author Kaliat Ramesh, a mechanical engineer at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, said. "This is a really big deal that changes the way you think about the question of how life begins and how life began on Earth."

Researchers recently exposed the bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans to the pressures experienced during an asteroid strike. The microbe survived, suggesting that impacts could spread life from planet to planet. 

The new findings lend support to a long-debated theory known as lithopanspermia, which proposes that life can spread between planets by hitching a ride on fragments of rock blasted into space by massive impacts. The idea remains unproven.

For the study, Ramesh and his colleagues tested the endurance of Deinococcus radiodurans, an exceptionally resilient bacterium found, among other places, in Chile's high-altitude deserts. With a thick outer shell and a remarkable ability to repair its own DNA, D. radiodurans is famously tolerant of intense radiation, freezing temperatures, extreme dryness and other harsh conditions similar to those found in space. It has been nicknamed "Conan the bacterium," after all.

To simulate the forces involved in an asteroid impact, the researchers sandwiched samples of D. radiodurans between two steel plates. Using a gas-powered gun, they fired a projectile at roughly 300 mph (480 kph), subjecting the microbes to pressures between 1 and 3 gigapascals.

Nearly all of the microbes survived impacts generating 1.4 gigapascals of pressure, while about 60% remained alive at 2.4 gigapascals. At lower pressures, the cells showed no signs of damage, though researchers observed ruptured membranes and some internal cellular damage at higher pressures, the study reports.

"We continuously redefine the limits of life," Madhan Tirumalai, a microbiologist at the University of Houston who was not involved with the new study, told The New York Times.

As the pressure increased, the researchers also detected heightened activity in genes responsible for repairing DNA and maintaining cell membranes.

"We expected it to be dead at that first pressure," Lily Zhao, a mechanical engineer at JHU who led the experiment, said in the statement. "We started shooting it faster and faster. We kept trying to kill it, but it was really hard to kill."

The experiment eventually ended, the statement read, because the steel structure holding the plates "fell apart before the bacteria did."

This study does not take the existence of a Creator as established. Only God can give life to planets such as Earth.

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Sharmila Kuthunur 2026 Did Earth life actually begin on Mars? Asteroid impacts could let microbes planet-hop, study suggests | Space 6 March

2026 Mars mission will set out to solve the mystery of its moons

 

The MMX probe will visit Mars’s moons. Image courtesy of JAXA

Joel Kontinen

The mystery of how Mars acquired its moons, Phobos and Deimos, may start to be unravelled in 2026 with the launch of a spacecraft that will eventually bring a chunk of Phobos back to Earth.

“We are sure about the origin of the Earth’s moon, but we don’t know how Phobos an Deimos got there,” says Emelia Branagan-Harris at the Natural History Museum in London. “Understanding the origins of Phobos and Deimos, and how they came to be orbiting Mars, can hopefully tell us a bit about the evolution of Mars in general and its history.”

But only evolutionists know how the moon got its present shape, in the book of Genesis,  God had made the lesser  light or the moon so that Adam could look at it.

Evoltionists think that the origins of Phopos and Deimos took place somewhere we do not know.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 2026 Mars mission will set out to solve the mystery of its moons | New Scientist 30 December 

Mars may once have had a much larger moon

 

The Gale crater on Mars. Image courtesy of ZUMA Press, Inc./Alamy

 Joel Kontinen

There are two small moons in orbit around Mars today, but both may be remnants of a much larger moon that had enough of a gravitational pull to drive tides in the Red Planet's lost lakes and seas.

A bigger moon for Mars. that is the result of water that supposedly sprang from it as the smaller moons that encircle they could not produce so much water.  

This is the result of believing in millions of years as it may given time for the moon to be formed.

A Mars crater may have once contained water that sloshed back and forth as a tide came and went. If that is true, it follows that Mars must have had a moon that was massive enough to exert a gravitational pull on the planet’s seas sufficient enough to create tides. Neither of the two moons it currently possesses are big enought for the job.

Suniti Karunatillake at Louisiana State University and his colleagues have found that traces of tidal activity seem to be preserved in thin layers within sedimentary rocks in Gale crater

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Bas den Hond 2025 Mars may once have had a much larger moon | New Scientist 12 December 

Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life

 

Image courtesy of NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor

Joel Kontinen

Evolutionists suppose that there might be traces of past life on Mars. They found in traces of channels that might speak of ancient life. However, life needs a creator to begin.

Caves carved by water that once flowed beneath Mars’s surface could have been ideal for life to thrive, if it once existed on the Red Planet, and they might still preserve traces of it today.

Mars is dotted with holes that look like cave entrances, but these are usually near regions that are suspected to have been volcanically active, which suggests they formed due to processes like underground lava flows, rather than the passage of water.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Caves carved by water on Mars may hold signs of past life | New Scientist 11 November 

Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today

 

Modern Mars barely has an atmosphere. Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/USGS

Joel Kontinen

According to some evolutionists, Mars had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth’s  atmosphere. In their view, some 4 million years after the origin of the solar system Mars was already almost complete.

Mars’s atmosphere may have once been hundreds of times thicker than it is today, acting as a blanket that protected it from frequent asteroids that ravaged other planets

At this time, the planets existed in a vast ball of hot gas and dust that swirled around the young sun, called the solar nebula, which some planets would have temporarily absorbed into their atmospheres. However, once the solar nebula receded, it was thought that the planets would quickly have lost this gas, reducing the densities of their atmospheres.

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Alex Wilkins 2025 Mars once had an atmosphere that was thicker than Earth's today | New Scientist 15 September 

Incredibly exciting: NASA claims it's found the 'clearest sign' yet of past life on Mars

 

Image courtesy of NASA

 Joel Kontinen

NASA scientists have founds signs of past life on Mars. According to them, it was not a dead planet, as it is today.

Strange nodules of unusual minerals found on speckled rocks on Mars have offered more tantalizing clues that ancient life may have once thrived on the now-dead planet, NASA says.

According to NASA scientists, these features may result from non-biological processes occurring over millions of years. If evolution would be true, the evidence leads us to in a lake bed formation known as Bright Angel, it was crammed with organic compounds, had evidence that water once flowed through it.

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Ben Turner 2025 'Incredibly exciting': NASA claims it's found the 'clearest sign' yet of past life on Mars | Live Science September 10

NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars

 

Image courtesy of NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Joel Kontinen

NASA says it has found a multi-billion year old coral on Mars, but life on created on earth, not on Mars.

“NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back intriguing images of what looks like a piece of coral on Mars.

The strange object is in fact a small, light-colored, wind-eroded rock, which the rover found inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater on July 24 — but it looks remarkably similar to the reef-building creatures found in Earth's oceans.

A black and white picture taken with Curiosity's Remote Micro Imager — a high-resolution, telescopic camera that is mounted on the rover — and shared by NASA in a statement on Aug. 4 shows the approximately 1-inch-wide (2.5 centimeters) rock with its intricate branches.

"Curiosity has found many rocks like this one, which were formed by ancient water combined with billions of years of sandblasting by the wind," NASA representatives wrote in the statement.

Coral-shaped rocks on Mars started forming billions of years ago, when the Red Planet still had water, according to the statement. Just like water on Earth, this water was full of dissolved minerals. It percolated through small cracks in Martian rocks, gradually depositing minerals and forming solid "veins" inside the rocks.

These veins form the strange branches of the coral-shaped object that we see in Curiosity's picture today, after millions of years of erosion by sand-laden winds wore away the rock.

Other examples of unusual rocks found on Mars include "Paposo" — a strangely-shaped rock measuring about 2 inches (5 cm) across that Curiosity also discovered on July 24 — and a tiny, flower-shaped object, which the rover photographed in Gale Crater in 2022.

Curiosity landed on Mars in 2012, touching down in the Gale Crater — a meteor impact crater on the boundary between the Red Planet's cratered southern highlands and its smooth northern plains. The rover's mission, led by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, is to scan the Martian surface for any signs that it was habitable at any point in the distant past.

So far, Curiosity has traversed roughly 22 miles (35 kilometers) of the 96-mile-wide (154 km) crater. Its path is meandering and slow, because it has to stop to drill into rocks, collect samples and gather data.

The rover's explorations have uncovered abundant evidence that the potential for life once existed on Mars, including long carbon chains from 3.7 billion-year-old rocks and signs that Mars once had a carbon cycle.”

The dates in this story are false.

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Sascha Pare 2025 NASA finds multi-billion-year-old 'coral' on Mars | Live Science 7 August

 

Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, reanalysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals

 

Image courtesy of NASA/JPL

 Joel Kontinen

Is Venus geologically active? Some articles state that she is not, but new research points that this is not so.

The Solar System is especial, God created the planets with water and made it geologically active, that is seen in Pluto and Mars. 

New research strengthens the case that Venus, long considered a geologically stagnant world, may be more Earth-like in its internal dynamics than once believed.

Scientists have uncovered fresh evidence that Venus is not dead — geologically speaking. Venus and Earth are similar in size and were bombarded by comparable amounts of water billions of years ago. This shared This research has provided a new and important insight into the possible subsurface processes currently shaping the surface of Venus," Gael Cascioli, an assistant research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland who co-led the new study, said in a statement.

"We could hardly believe our eyes"

The latest evidence focuses on dozens of large, ring-shaped features on Venus' surface. These features, known as coronae, form when plumes of hot rock rise from deep within the mantle, pushing the crust upward. As the surface cools and collapses, a circular structure is left behind. Cascioli and his team simulated several formation scenarios for these features and compared their results with data from Magellan.

Origin has long fueled one of planetary science's biggest questions: Why did Venus become a hellish, uninhabitable world while Earth flourished into a cradle for life?

The predicted and actual data aligned so closely for some coronae that "we could hardly believe our eyes," Cascioli told Scientific American.

Of the 75 coronae they resolved in the Magellan data, 52 appear to sit above buoyant mantle plumes, according to the new study.

"We can now say there are most likely various and ongoing active processes driving their formation," Anna Gülcher, a planetary scientist at the University of Bern in Switzerland who co-led the new study, said in the statement. "We believe these same processes may have occurred early in Earth's history."

Venus hosts hundreds of such coronae, many of which are found in areas where the planet's crust is particularly thin and heat from below is high. Recent research simulated how different rock types behave under Venus' extreme conditions. The findings suggest that the planet's crust may break off or melt once it reaches around 40 miles (65 kilometers) thick, and in many areas, it is likely even thinner.

"That is surprisingly thin, given conditions on the planet," Justin Filiberto, deputy chief of NASA's Astromaterials Research and Exploration Science Division in Houston, who co-authored the study about Venus' crust, said in a different statement.

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Sharmila Kuthunur 2025 Venus may be geologically 'alive' after all, shocking analysis of 30-year-old NASA data reveals | Live Science 21 May

Scientists find hint of hidden liquid water ocean deep below Mars' surface

 

Image courtesy of NASA Goddard).

Joel Kontinen

There might be a hidden ocean's worth of liquid water below the surface of Mars, seismic evidence suggests. By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid water to flood the planet with an ocean thousands of feet deep.

NASA has found evidence of Mars' water escaping into space — but new research hints that it may have alssso gone deep, deep underground. 

 Could there be water on Mars, beneath the surface.  This is what some creation scientists believe, as in Genesis it says that planets were formed with water, inside them. For instance, minor planet Bennu is full of water.

Some evolution-believers scientists say that below the surface, some 5.4 to 8 kilometres or 3.4 to 5 miles, there is water beneath the surface.

Some evolutionists say that our neighbouring planet was once abundant in water. In the time between Mars' formation 4.1 billion years ago to about 3 billion years ago, the Red Planet is thought to have been extremely wet, with features like valley networks, delta formations, and layered sedimentary rocks suggesting sustained water flow.

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Jess Thomson 2025 Hidden signs of liquid water ocean found deep below Mars' surface | Live Science 24 May

Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars

 

A Martian meteorite nicknamed Black Beauty

Image courtesy of Carl B. Agee (University of New Mexico)

Joel Kontinen

 ”Crystals inside a Martian meteorite hint that there may have been plentiful hot water on Mars when the rock formed "4.45 billion years" ago.

The rock, nicknamed Black Beauty, was blasted into space by an impact on the surface of Mars before ultimately crashing into the Sahara Desert Morocco in 2011 and is formally known as Northwest Africa 7034.

Aaron Cavosie at Curtin University in Perth, Australia, and his colleagues have spent years studying a tiny fragment of it that includes a zircon crystal measuring 50 micrometres across.

Cavosie describes Black Beauty as a “garbage can” rock because it was formed from hundreds of fragments smashed together. “It’s a wonderful buffet of Martian history, a mixture of very old and very young rocks,” he says. “But many of the fragments in it are among the oldest pieces of rock from Mars.”

The evolutionists believe that the solar system was formed 4,5 billion years ago, but the dating methods are full of danger.

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 James Woodford 2024 Meteorite crystals show evidence of hot water on ancient Mars | New Scientist 22 November 

 

 

 

 

NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit

 

Image courtesy of NASA

Joel Kontinen

The largest and most ambitious Martian drone yet could carry kilograms of scientific equipment over great distance.

 Life on Mars?

NASA is building a helicopter to scan Mars. It is hoped that it will disclose the hidden secrets of the Red Planet and according to evolutionists, past life.

NASA is working on plans to send another helicopter to Mars. The craft would land itself after screaming into the planet’s atmosphere at speed, before covering several kilometres a day while carrying scientific equipment.

Several landers have safely touched down on the surface of Mars using parachutes and rockets to slow their descent. Some have even contained wheeled rovers that could explore the surface. Then came NASA’s helicopter drone Ingenuity. Although it was engineered on a shoestring budget, it managed to make a surprising 72 flights on the Red Planet.

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Matthew Sparkes 2024. NASA is developing a Mars helicopter that could land itself from orbit | New Scientist 25. October.

Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life

 

It's time to expect the unexpected, says Natalie Cabrol, one of the world's top astrobiologists and author of an authoritative book on the hunt for life's origins – and ET.

Is there life in the universe apart from us?

”David Bowie wasn’t the first or last to wonder if there is life on Mars. The question of whether we are alone in the universe is still a great mystery. Some believe aliens have been visiting our planets microbes on Mars t for millennia, live among us and have even infiltrated the White House and 10 Downing Street.

For the more scientifically minded, there are authoritative voices like that of Nathalie Cabrol. “ She has studied if Mars has microbes and is the director of the SETI institute.  

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Graeme Green 2024  The Secret Life of the Universe review: Top astrobiologist explores the possibilities of alien life | New Scientist  14 August.

Ancient life of Mars?

 

Image courtesy of NASA/PL-Caltech/MSSS

Joel Kontinen

Are there signs of life on Mars?

Mars was thought to be a planet that had never  had life, in spite of the canals that were supposed to have made by Martians.

Burt we know  there were no Martians.

Here is a new study:

“NASA’s Perseverance rover has found a rock riddled with what may be signs of ancient life. The rock, nicknamed “Cheyava Falls” after a famous waterfall in Arizon a, shows hints that it could have supported living microbes billions of years ago – but for now, there is no way to be sure if life really existed there.

The rock measures about 1 metre by 0.6 metres and is mostly reddish, with thin veins of white calcium sulphate that probably formed when water flowed through fissures in the rock, depositing minerals in the cracks. Water is one of the ingredients necessary for life, but it wasn’t the only one that researchers found while poring over the Perseverance data.

They saw that between the streaks of white, there were strange light-coloured splotches, each just millimetres across and ringed with dark material containing iron and phosphate. “These spots are a big surprise,” said David Flannery at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia in a NASA press release. “On Earth, these types of features in rocks are often associated with the fossilized record of microbes living in the subsurface.” That is because the type of chemical reaction that creates these  sorts of leopard spots on Earth rocks can also provide useful energy for microbes.”

But only God has the capacity to create life.  

Leah Crane.  2024.  Mars rover found a rock with possible signs of ancient life | New Scientist  25 July

Phobos was once a space rock that Mars captured

 

Image courtesy of NASA.  

Joel Kontinen

“NASA has posted a stunning photo of a "space potato"— but it is actually Phobos, the Martian moon that is locked on a slow collision course with the Red Planet.

The space agency imaged the lumpy, starchy-looking moon using the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on board NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been studying the Red Planet since arriving in its orbit in 2006.

Phobos, named after the Greek god of fear, is roughly 157 times smaller than Earth's moon and is one of Mars' two natural satellites, alongside the even smaller Deimos, whose name comes from the Greek god of dread. “

The present survey rests on Mars and its moons being formed millions of years ago,

Scientists, who believe in evolution say that that the ””moons were once roaming rocks and were snared into Mars' orbit by the planet's gravitational field. A recent image analysis of Phobos' craggy yet highly reflective surface suggested the moon was once a comet and came from the asteroid belt located between the Red Planet and Jupiter.”

Those sounds like science fiction, relying on moon or planet they and  we could not see.

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 Ben Turner, '2024. 'Space potato' spotted by NASA Mars satellite is actually something much cooler (yahoo.com) 26 June

 

Water on Mars

 

Image courtesy of NASA

Joel Kontinen

Mars is covered by water. This is the conclusion of scientists who studied the volcanoes of the solar system.  They said that water frost has been spotted atop Mars' gargantuan equatorial volcanoes for the first time — defying previous beliefs that the presence of water there was impossible.

“Scientists spotted a hair-thin dusting of frost atop the peaks of the svolcanoes in the Tharsis region of the Red Planet he Red Planet — the largest mountains in the solar system, which tower up to three times the height of Mount Everest. In colder months, the frost could consist of up to 150,000 tons of water, or the equivalent of 60 Olympic swimming pools. “

When God created the solar system, He saw that water was everywhere, including planets and even moons.

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Ben Turner, 2024. 'At least 150,000 tons' of water frost discovered atop Mars' tallest volcanoes (msn.com) 12 June

Mysterious patch on Mars appears to be enormous lump of ice

 

Image courtesy of Paopano / Alamy Stock Photo

Joel Kontinen

A large formation near the equator of Mars is now thought to be made of water ice, which could indicate that the Martian climate went through huge temperature swings in the past.

Some scientists suppose that “a colossal slab of ice may be hiding at Mars’s equator. The composition of this deposit, called the Medusae Fossae Formation, has long been debated, but new data indicates that it contains enough water to cover the entire surface of Mars in an ocean 1.5 to 2.7 metres deep.”

When the Mars Express orbiter first took radar measurements of Medusae Fossae, it  was made up of water ice.

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Leah Crane 2024 Mysterious patch on Mars appears to be enormous lump of ice | New Scientist 18 January