Naming of moons to as "Proserpina". More recently, especially in science-fictional contexts, the Moon has been called by the Latin name "Luna", presumably on the analogy of the Latin names of the planets, or by association with the adjectival form "lunar". In technical terminology, the word-stems "seleno-" (from Greek "selēnē" "moon") and "cynthi-" (from "Cynthia", an epithet of the goddess Artemis) are sometimes used to refer to the Moon, as in "selenography, selenology," and "pericynthion." The moons of Mars (Phobos and Deimos) were named by Asaph Hall in 1878, soon after he discovered them. They are named after the sons of the god
Flag of Mars "red Mars and two moons in blue field above a diagonal, white below". In Robert A. Heinlein's 1961 science-fiction novel "Stranger in a Strange Land", a flag of Mars is hastily improvised, consisting of "the field in white and the sigil of Mars in red". In The Expanse television series, based on "The Expanse" series of novels by James S. A. Corey, the Martian Congressional Republic is the governing body that rules over the inhabitants of Mars and is one of the two human superpowers in the series. Its flag is reminiscent of Mars and its two moons, Phobos and