As celestial bodies pirouette in the vast cosmic ballet, the future of Phobos, the larger of Mars’s two moons, teeters precariously on the edge of oblivion. Its relentless descent towards the Red Planet is more a slow tango of annihilation than a waltz of preservation. Phobos, Greek for ‘fear,’ resonates well with its inevitable fate. Just 27 kilometers in diameter, it orbits Mars at a perilously close distance of a mere 6,000 kilometers. Closer still, it treads, each second shuffling it towards an impending cosmic catastrophe. Perseverance, NASA’s roving Martian sentinel, has presented us with a clearer picture of this … Continue reading Mars’s Moon Phobos in Fearful Descent — NASA’s Rover Unravels a Tale of Celestial Oblivion