And to compete with the Leisure Suit Larry style games that were also appearing, Infocom also came out with Leather Goddesses of Phobos in 1986, which featured " tame ", " suggestive ", and " lewd " playing modes, and that was notable for including among its " feelies " a " scratch-and-sniff " card with six odors that corresponded to six cues during the game.

( Leather Goddesses of Phobos was not included in either bundle, but could be ordered via a coupon included with Lost Treasures II.

In March 2004 it was suggested that the unique Kaidun meteorite, which landed in Yemen on March 12, 1980, may have originated on the Martian moon of Phobos.

Preparations are made for a second revolution beginning in the 2120s, from converting moholes to missiles silos or hidden bases, sabotaging orbital mirrors, to propelling Deimos out of Mars ' gravity well and out into deep space so it could never be used as a weapons platform as Phobos was.

Asaph Hall III ( October 15, 1829 – November 22, 1907 ) was an American astronomer who is most famous for having discovered the moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, in 1877.

It was with this telescope that he discovered Phobos and Deimos in August 1877.

The Phobos (, ) program was an unmanned space mission consisting of two probes launched by the Soviet Union to study Mars and its moons Phobos and Deimos.

Phobos 1 was launched on July 7, 1988, and Phobos 2 on July 12, 1988, each aboard a Proton-K rocket.

Phobos 2 attained Mars orbit and returned 38 images with a resolution of up to 40 meters, but contact was lost prior to deployment of a planned Phobos lander.

Shortly before the final phase of the mission, during which the spacecraft was to approach within 50 m of Phobos ' surface and release two landers, one a mobile " hopper ", the other a stationary platform, contact with Phobos 2 was lost.

The Phobos design was used again for the long delayed Mars 96 mission which ended in failure when the launch vehicle's fourth stage misfired.

The spacecraft was also to point its cameras at the martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

The Mars 96 spacecraft was based on the Phobos probes launched to Mars in 1988.

For the Mars 96 mission the designers believed they had corrected the flaws of the Phobos probes, but the value of their improvements was never demonstrated due to the destruction of the probe during the launch phase.

The Mars 96 orbiter was a 3-axis sun / star stabilized spacecraft which was based on the design of the Phobos orbiters.

During the nominal phase a fly-by of Deimos was possible, but a fly-by of Phobos was not possible until after the nominal mission.

Asaph Hall, who discovered the moons of Mars, named one Deimos, and the other Phobos.

The moons of Mars ( Phobos and Deimos ) were named by Asaph Hall in 1878, soon after he discovered them.

On August 28, 1877, a few days after Asaph Hall discovered the moons of Mars Deimos and Phobos, he claimed to have found a third satellite of Mars.

Both satellites were discovered in 1877 by Asaph Hall and are named after the characters Phobos ( panic / fear ) and Deimos ( terror / dread ) who, in Greek mythology, accompanied their father Ares, god of war, into battle.

Hall discovered Deimos on August 12, 1877 at about 07: 48 UTC and Phobos on August 18, 1877, at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D. C., at about 09: 14 GMT ( contemporary sources, using the pre-1925 astronomical convention that began the day at noon, give the time of discovery as August 11, 14: 40 and August 17 16: 06 Washington mean time respectively ).

An abandoned city sits at the North pole, and the moons Phobos and Deimos are discovered to be artificial satellites constructed by the Wanderers.

There they encountered the Hulk, and discovered that their former teacher Professor Phobos was engaged in a project to radioactively contaminate all of the Soviet Union in order to foster the birth of more mutants whose powers he could eventually siphon.

Deimos, " Terror " or " Dread ", and Phobos, " Fear ", are his companions in war and also his children, borne by Aphrodite, according to Hesiod.

The Martian space marine base acts as security for the Union Aerospace Corporation, a multi-planetary conglomerate, which is performing secret experiments with teleportation by creating gateways between the two moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos.

The manual makes it clear that Phobos is considered by space marines to be the dullest assignment imaginable: " with no action for fifty million miles, your day consisted of suckin ' dust and watchin ' restricted flicks in the rec room.

* An Incident Concerning the Continual Bombardment of the Phobos Colony by Paul Cornell, Doctor Who Magazine # 168

In 1960, Singer commented in an article in Astronautics on the hypothesis of Iosif Shklovsky ( later mentioned in a 1966 book by Carl Sagan and Shklovsky ) that the orbit of the Martian moon Phobos suggests that it is hollow, which implies it is of artificial origin.

* Phobos ( album ), a 1997 album by Canadian heavy metal band Voivod

Roger also visits Space Quest X: Latex Babes of Estros ( whose title is a parody of Infocom's game Leather Goddesses of Phobos ) and Space Quest I ; in the latter, the graphics and music revert to the style of the original game and Roger is threatened by a group of monochromatic bikers who consider Roger's 256 colors pretentious ( or comment on other graphics modes if played in EGA or Monochrome ).

The names, originally spelled Phobus and Deimus respectively, were suggested by Henry Madan ( 1838 – 1901 ), Science Master of Eton, based on Book XV of the Iliad, in which the god Ares summons Dread ( Deimos ) and Fear ( Phobos ).

Faint dust rings produced by Phobos and Deimos have long been predicted but attempts to observe these rings have, to date, failed.

Recent images from Mars Global Surveyor indicate that Phobos is covered with a layer of fine-grained regolith at least 100 meters thick ; it is hypothesized to have been created by impacts from other bodies, but it is not known how the material stuck to an object with almost no gravity.

* 2005 – The Mars Exploration Rovers perform the first astronomical observations ever taken from the surface of another planet, imaging an eclipse by Mars's moon Phobos.

The book details the trip out, construction of the first settlement on Mars ( eventually called Underhill ) by Nadia Chernyshevski, as well as establishing colonies on Mars ' hollowed out asteroid-moon Phobos, the ever-changing relationships between the colonists, debates among the colonists regarding both the terraforming of the planet and its future relationship to Earth.

A series of exchanges sees the cutting of the space elevator, bombardment of several Martian cities ( including the city where Bogdanov is himself organizing the rebellion ; he is killed ), the destruction of Phobos and its military complex, and the unleashing of great flood of torrential groundwater freed by nuclear detonations.

By extension, transits of the sun by a satellite of a planet may also be called eclipses, as with the transits of Phobos and Deimos shown here, as may the passage of a satellite into the planet's shadow, as with this eclipse of Phobos.

Only carried by Phobos 2.

* Lima-D laser experiment-designed to vaporise material from the Phobos surface for chemical analysis by a mass spectrometer

* " Grunt " imaging radar-Only carried by Phobos 1

The two moons of Mars, Deimos and Phobos, may be Amor asteroids that were captured by Mars's gravity.

Leather Goddesses of Phobos is an interactive fiction computer game written by Steve Meretzky and published by Infocom in 1986.

The game was followed in 1992 by the sequel Leather Goddesses of Phobos 2: Gas Pump Girls Meet the Pulsating Inconvenience from Planet X!