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2006-08-06 19:26:25 · answer #1 · answered by atheistforthebirthofjesus 6 · 0 0

UUMMMMM NOOOOOO!!! You can hardly see them with a powerful telescope! But . . . .

Mars has two moons orbiting the planet very closely: Phobos, meaning "Fear", and Deimos, meaning "Panic".

Phobos orbits Mars at a distance of only 9, 380 kilometres. Deimos is further away at 23,460 kilometres.

In comparison, Earth's Moon orbits Earth at 384,000 kilometres. Mars' moons are also very small.

Phobos is only 28 kilometres by 20 kilometres (it isn't round like most large moons).

Deimos is even smaller at 16 by 12 kilometres.

The two moons appear similar to asteroids in the Asteroid Belt, an area of large numbers of asteroids orbiting the Sun like mini-planets between Mars and Jupiter, the next planet in the Solar System.

Some scientists believe that the two moons are asteroids that have been captured by Mars and now orbit the planet. It is believed that the meteor that hit the Earth and killed the dinosaurs was about the same size as one of Mars' moons.

2006-08-07 02:29:15 · answer #2 · answered by Haggis B 3 · 0 0

Mars will be visable and very close for it's orbit. It will still be a long ways away and will NOT look anywhere near the size of the moon. It will at best look like a large star.

And while I'm nicer about it, I agree with AZ Imagined. Read a few questions before asking the same one that has been asked to death.

2006-08-07 19:55:20 · answer #3 · answered by wires 7 · 0 0

Mars cannot be viewed by northern hemisphere observers until December. It will emerge slowly in the east-southeast morning twilight in the second half of December.

2006-08-07 02:33:30 · answer #4 · answered by wahine 4 · 0 0

JESUS F'ING CHRIST!!!! SOMEBODY JUST ASKED THIS SAME QUESTION!!!!!!

READ THE ASKED QUESTIONS ALREADY YOU IDIOTS!!!! THIS ONE IS ON THE SAME BLOODY PAGE!!!

AND, YES, LAZINESS AND STUPIDITY GET UNDER MY SKIN!!!

2006-08-07 02:30:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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