Phobos (moon) Phobos (moon) Phobos ( , , ; systematic designation: ) is the innermost and larger of the two natural satellites of Mars, the other being Deimos. Both moons were discovered in 1877 by American astronomer Asaph Hall. Phobos is a small, irregularly shaped object with a mean radius of and is seven times as massive as the outer moon, Deimos. Phobos is named after the Greek god Phobos, a son of Ares (Mars) and Aphrodite (Venus) and the personification of horror (cf. phobia). Phobos orbits from the Martian surface, closer to its primary body than any other known planetary moon.
Mars One Chief Medical Officer Norbert Kraft, Mission Concept Artist Bryan Versteeg, Senior Marketing Strategist KC Frank, and Chief Information Officer Tom Van Braeckel. Mars One's team of advisers consists of over 30 industry and scientific experts, including Mason Peck, Peter Smith, James Kass, K.R. Sridhara Murthi, Esther Dyson, and Robert Zubrin. Mars One is not an aerospace company and will not manufacture hardware. Lansdorp assumes all major components are available in the aerospace market, and he thinks he has identified at least one potential supplier for each component of the mission. SpaceX mentioned that they had been contacted by Mars One,