One of its satellites, Phobos, will crash into the Red Planet, which remains the object of many studies. And its second satellite, Deimos, will move away so much that it will leave the orbit of the planet. True, this will happen in millions of years.
Writes about it IFLScience.
Scientists say that the collision of Mars with its satellite is inevitable. It approaches the planet every 100 years at a speed of 1.8 meters. It is assumed that it will crash into it in 50 million years, or it will break up into a ring.
According to researchers, Phobos is doomed. Recently, one of the NASA Perseverance rovers filmed how this satellite briefly eclipsed the Sun in the sky, the spectacle turned out to be very exciting and frightening at the same time.
The experts stressed that the Moon is also moving away from the Earth at a rate of 3.78 cm per year, which means that there will come a point when humanity will no longer be able to observe a total solar eclipse.
Cursor wrote earlier that American researchers from the organization SETI Institute, which studies outer space in search of extraterrestrial civilizations, sent a coded message from the orbit of the Red Planet to our Earth. Anyone can try to decipher it.
We also wrote that for many years scientists have been exploring the Red Planet and taking various pictures of its surface. In one of the photos, a strange object was seen that puzzled netizens.
Recall that scientists predict serious progress in the issue of colonization of Mars in the coming decades. At the same time, they emphasize that it may be easier to colonize the Red Planet than planets located outside the solar system.
