A violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon
Steady2 outlets reported this in 2 reports over 2 days
After publishing: 1 headline quietly rewritten1 change
- yahoo.comseen 22 Aug, 21:36headline rewritten
Martian moon Deimos resembles a potato. A big asteroid strike may have shaped itA violent impact might have changed Mars’ potato-shaped moon
Wed, 12 August 2026Thu, 20 August 2026
What it is about
Asaph HallDeimosDANAMartin JutziSabina RaducanTerik DalyFree University Of BrusselsPlanetary SciencesCnnJohns Hopkins University Applied Physics LaboratorySwitzerland University Of BernInternational Space Science InstituteImpact Physics Working Group For The HeraEuropean Space Agency HeraScience Working TeamJapan Aerospace Exploration Agency Martian MoonsJapaneseBern, Bern, SwitzerlandBrussels, Bruxelles-Capitale, BelgiumGreek
Who published it, and when
original reportedited after publishingfirst to report
Index.hr (Croatia)
yahoo.com
12 Aug, 09:47over 8 days20 Aug, 20:54
How it spread - 2 original reports
Wed, 12 August 2026
1 report- Index.hr (Croatia)09:47first to report
DANA 12. kolovoza 1877. godine američki astronom Asaph Hall otkrio je Deimos, jedan od dva prirodna satelita Marsa.
Thu, 20 August 2026
1 report- yahoo.com20:54edited after publishing
previously
Martian moon Deimos resembles a potato. A big asteroid strike may have shaped itA single asteroid strike likely reshaped Mars’ moon Deimos, creating its massive polar crater and a global dust layer.