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Martian moon set to form ring around red planet

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In 20 million years, Phobos is likely to tear apart to form a ring system — as other moons may have done.

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  1. Black, B. A. & Mittal, T. Nature Geosci. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ngeo2583 (2015).

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Witze, A. Martian moon set to form ring around red planet. Nature (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature.2015.18852

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