PHOBOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phobos mean? 

• PHOBOS (noun)
  The noun PHOBOS has 1 sense:

1. the larger of the two satellites of Mars

  Familiarity information: PHOBOS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOBOS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The larger of the two satellites of Mars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

satellite (any celestial body orbiting around a planet or star)

 Context examples 

The orbits of both MAVEN and Phobos are known well enough that this timing difference ensures that they will not collide.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

When the solar wind strikes the day side of Phobos, the plasma is absorbed by the surface.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

According to the model, Phobos will break apart upon reaching the Roche limit, and become a set of rings in roughly 70 million years.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

The crash also created a ring of rocky debris around Mars that may have later clumped together to form its moons, Phobos and Deimos.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In fact, Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons (Deimos is the other), is getting closer to the Red Planet, and researchers think that in about 70 million years, it will break apart, potentially creating more rings.

(Mars May Have Had Rings, and May Once Again, VOA News)

The study also considered electrical charges that could develop as astronauts transit the surface on potential human missions to Phobos.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)

NASA's MAVEN spacecraft performed a previously unscheduled maneuver this week to avoid a collision in the near future with Mars' moon Phobos.

(NASA Orbiter Steers Clear of Mars Moon Phobos, NASA)

Phobos, one of Mars' moons, is getting closer to the planet.

(Does Mars Have Rings? Not Right Now, But Maybe One Day, NASA)

Such an impact would also be expected to have generated a ring of material around Mars that later coalesced into Phobos and Deimos; this explains in part why those moons are made of a mix of native and non-Martian material.

(Ancient Asteroid Impact Explains Martian Geological Mysteries, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Mars has two small moons, Phobos and Deimos.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)