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The Mystery of Phobos and Deimos · 2026 Global Space Event: History

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Speaker 1: The mystery of Phobos and Deimos. Hello, here we are
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Speaker 1: together again. You know Mars, right? The red planet has
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Speaker 1: always fascinated us, but today the spotlight is on its
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Speaker 1: two small natural satellites, Phobos and Deimos. They are tiny
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Speaker 1: rocks that look like wandering space potatoes. But science is
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Speaker 1: asking a question. Are they asteroids captured by Martian gravity,
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Speaker 1: or are they fragments of the planet itself? hurled into
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Speaker 1: space by a catastrophic impact millions of years ago. International
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Speaker 1: space agencies are preparing bold missions to land on them
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Speaker 1: and bring back rock samples. Solving this enigma will reveal
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Speaker 1: secrets about the entire inner solar system. In the next episode,
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Speaker 1: we'll return, virtually, to Earth's orbit to look at a
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Speaker 1: problem that's becoming quite crowded. See you soon.