Martian Moons Imaged by ESA Probe

The Mars moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together for the first time. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took the pioneering images last month (above). The Russian federal space agency had planned a mission to the moon Phobos this year to return soil but the mission was delayed by technical issues until 2011 along with a Chinese Mars orbiter. NASA is also considering a human spaceflight to the moons of Mars in the decades ahead as a part of the Constellation-Orion program probably in the range of 2025-to-2030.