{"id":138813,"date":"2022-04-29T16:03:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/doomed-moon-phobos-is-going-to-crash-into-mars"},"modified":"2022-04-29T16:03:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T21:03:03","slug":"doomed-moon-phobos-is-going-to-crash-into-mars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/doomed-moon-phobos-is-going-to-crash-into-mars","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Doomed\u2019 Moon Phobos Is Going To Crash Into Mars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/doomed-moon-phobos-is-going-to-crash-into-mars2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week, NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover captured a gorgeous view of Phobos eclipsing the Sun, from the surface of Mars. From the point of view of any Martian microbes lurking out there, the eclipse may have seemed more ominous (yeah ok, there might not be living organisms up there, let alone ones sentient enough to grasp the concept of an eclipse) as the moon is destined by physics to one day slam into the red planet.<\/p>\n<p>Phobos \u2013 the closest of Mars\u2019 two moons \u2013 is set to get ever closer to the planet, before its final descent, while Deimos will drift ever outwards until it leaves Mars\u2019 orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, NASA\u2019s Perseverance Rover captured a gorgeous view of Phobos eclipsing the Sun, from the surface of Mars. From the point of view of any Martian microbes lurking out there, the eclipse may have seemed more ominous (yeah ok, there might not be living organisms up there, let alone ones sentient enough to grasp [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-physics","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}