Even as India continues to have a good time the success of Chandrayaan-3, Mangalyaan, the nation’s Mars probe launched in November 2013, has captured beautiful movies of Phobos, the bigger of the Red Planet’s two moons.

In the movies, shared by area fanatic Andrea Luck on X (earlier Twitter), Phobos in seen passing over Mars.

Luck used scientific knowledge archive from Mangalyaan to course of the clip.

Phobos and Deimos

According to NASA, the 2 Martian moons – Phobos and Deimos – have been found by the US astronomer Asaph Hall in 1877, and are believed to be captured asteroids. The former, as per NASA, is nearer to and orbits the planet 3 times a day, and is nearing it at price of 6 toes (1.8 metres) each 100 hundred years.

It is, subsequently, more likely to crash into Mars in 50 million (5 crore) years, says the US area company.

Deimos, alternatively, orbits each 30 hours.

Mangalyaan

Officially the Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) and informally Mangalyaan (in Sanskrit, ‘Mangal’ means Mars, and ‘yaan’/’yana’, a car), it has been orbiting the Red Planet since September 2014. India’s maiden interplanetary mission, it made the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) solely the fourth area company to ship a spacecraft to the Mars orbit.

The others are NASA, Roscosmos (Russia) and the European Space Agency (ESA).