Crossword-Solution: PHOBOS 6 letters, 10 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

The second satellite, known to us as Benii, and to your astronomers as Phobos, sheds considerable amount of light on the Martian landscape by means of its large size and close proximity, being distant about 3,700 miles from the surface of Mars.

One is about ten thousand miles from Mars, and is called Deimos, and the other, which is but sixteen hundred miles from the planet, is called Phobos by astronomers." "And how far away is our moon from the earth?" asked Mark.

For the return trip we might get these generous people to loan us Demios or Phobos.” “What are they?” “Why, don’t you know? They are the little satellites of Mars, named after the favorite horses of the war god.” “But seriously now,” I asked, “how are we to get home?” “Well, seriously, I don’t know,” the doctor answered.

Obviously the easterly motion of the satellite overwhelms the diurnal rotation of the planet, and Phobos must appear to the inhabitants, if they exist, to rise in the west and set in the east, showing two or even three full moons in a day, so that, sufficiently well for the ordinary purposes of life, the hour of the day can be told by its phases.

One of these, called Deimos, is only six miles in diameter, the other, named Phobos, is only seven, and both are exceedingly close to the primary and in rapid revolution.