Phobos size and scale context

Phobos is the larger, inner moon of Mars, a dark rubble-covered body dominated by the giant Stickney crater. NASA expects it to keep spiraling inward until it either breaks into a ring or crashes into Mars in about 50 million years. Read its scale context, comparisons, and journey links on the canonical object page.

951 GaspraS-type main-belt asteroid·18.2 km
Crab PulsarPulsar neutron star·20 km
PhobosSmall irregular moon·22 km
CalypsoTrojan moon·29.4 km

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