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I bet that you do not spend a ton of time thinking about Demos, which is smaller than the two Martin moons, named after the ancient Greek God, which frightened.
And who can blame you? Of the two Martin moons, phobos get more attention, including a possible way for Mars’s human missions. The phoboos is larger than Demos, which is 11 km, and is close to the Martin level, which is slightly higher than 9,000 km away.
On the contrary, Demos is small, with a radius 6 km, and more than 23,000 km from its surface, and a little ahead. It is so small that, at the surface of Mars, Damos will look just as bright in the night sky as Venus does to the ground.
But who does not love a good under -dug story? Scientists have dreamed of all kinds of use for Demos, including To use its sands to deliver large missions to MarsSamples are returning from the small moon. So maybe Demos will eventually get his day.
Recently, we still found our best ideology about the small moon when a European mission called Heera, on the way to Kishorgara Demidos, flown through the Martin System for gravity assist. During this transit, the spacecraft came only 300 km from Demos. And its teargor framing camera caught this beautiful image, which, in confessed, was artificially colorful.
Anyway, this system is a rare glimpse on one of the smallest well -known moons in the solar, and I think it’s amazing.
Source: European Space Agency
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