The Moons of Mars Explained — Phobos & Deimos MM#2
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The Moons of Mars explained — Phobos & Deimos
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
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@tingletoes5758
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
So good to be here in 2025 😅
@user-rc4rg2fc4f
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
still great even afterb 11 years
@KassymKuzhimov
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
It’s pronounced f-o-bo-s and d-ei-mo-s
@omerfarukbykl6097
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
0:44 How does gravity push?
@محمدالغانم-س2ج
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Deimos is 12 km
@CephalopodaCentral14
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Phobos’ gravity is so weak that if you jumped on it youll never come back and will drift into space
@Vincenzo-dto
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Realy deimos will never abandon Mars because it moves away like the moon between the earth
@naturallawprinciples
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Checkout Iapetus, one of Saturn's moons, it does a fantastic impression of the death star from Star Wars…. seriously though, what's with the seam around it's middle? 😂
@thecatgod280
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
We could engineer a moon
@Discotekh_Dynasty
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Put a rocket engine on them and steal them for earth
@MarekMirocha
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Thank for all the fish..
@imaginationtorealities
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
2025 signed ⏳
@MrKaiser30
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Phobos is probably the hardest moon to get to it’s guarded by demons that are extreme
@omaralkhatib3646
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Addition: Phobos and Deimos are so tiny that they don't even have enough gravity to stabilize Mars's tilt, the variations in Mars's axis causes extreme temperature variations that can occur rapidly, within less than a week, which results in frequent dust storms.
@Slapbattler666
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
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November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
didn't know one of krazyman50's levels was honored by NASA
@Hayesfromtowerheroes-j1b
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
0:57 Deimos is so small😅
@brucea9871
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
The prevailing theory for many years of the origins of Mars' moons is that they are captured asteroids as you said. But lately I have heard another theory; that an asteroid (or comet) crashed into Mars, some material was ejected into space by the impact, and the ejected material became Mars' moons. This is plausible since that is how Earth's moon formed.
@Roarbo
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
BLOODBATH
@당나귀-h2p
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Does this mean earth is possible to have another moon?
@abdou_belounis
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Huge potatoes 🍟
@usibistro
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
What's next? Planet Bloodbath?
@claudiomalungo
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
luas de marte
@Microscopes_Only
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
❤❤❤❤Mars😊
@vladskiobi
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Compare the masses of all moons in the Solar System. Ganymede, Titan, Callisto, Io, our Moon, Europa and Triton are behemoths. They're staggeringly huge, way beyond the average size of a moon. Mars would feel almost negligible tidal effects from its diddy moons, whereas ours can lift oceans.
@askthebubble28
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Murder Mystery 2
@Nathan-vt1jz
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
If we colonize Mars, I bet we could keep both mini moons in orbit. Some large ion drives might do the trick.
@chillsahoy2640
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Mars will one day lose both its moons. Unless humans go there, colonise the planet, terraform it and do something fun or interesting with its moons.
@HmmYesInteresting...
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Although tiny, they got great personalities
@WilliamW2010
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
1:43
It has been 10 years, when is "Pluto & Charon Explained" coming?
@TheBiggestSSFan
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Earth: if those are moons then Pluto is a planet
@ac-bc5108
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Mars has no atmosphere because he doesn't have a moon large enough to melt it's core and start an magnetic field
@JosiahAndrei
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
hehe mm2 murder mystery 2
@Verbena231
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
I keep up unhearing deimos as ”Diemos”
@Riicea
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Guys no way they named the moons after geometry dash omg
@3dgar7eandro
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
This video is close to 10 years 😅
Time does flies ♾️… 😂
@LindaStevensBZ
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Come on guys. You've got to do a better job with your proofreading and editing. Phobos is not falling out of orbit at 2 m per year, it's 2 meters per hundred years. A simple multiplication problem would tell you that your script was embarrassingly errant.
Please pin a comment highlighting that error or redo the edit in your soundtrack.
@tednugent1351
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
How is Diemos gaining energy to escape Mars' gravity? There are no oceans on Mars.
@whooshmeifgay2593
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
Even though both are likely adopted, they are not loved equally. Phobos and Mars share a very deep emotional connection that’s bringing them closer and closer as time goes on. Meanwhile the neglected Deimos has been distancing itself from the other two, getting further and further away with each passing year. Sad so see Mars picked favourites… please don’t do this if you ever choose to adopt😢
@KuDastardly
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
If Deimos is escaping Mars, then there's only one place it'll be heading for… Tau Ceti. >:)
@QalOrt
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
We should hollow out Deimos, install a bussard ramjet and use it as a colony ship to fly to Tau Ceti.
@kaileymcclain315
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 pm
How does mars have moons if it doesn’t have a magnetic field?
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