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- Phobos is one of the smallest moons in the solar system orbiting around the Mars.
- It is the only natural satellite in the solar system that circles its planet in a time shorter than the parent planet’s day.
- Red planet Mars has another natural satellite Deimos.
- Phobos is the innermost and larger of the two.
- Recently, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has beamed back images of the moon Phobos in its orbital trek around the red planet.
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