You might be pretty confident that when a moon is there it’s there to stay, but that’s not always the case. Moons may have a history of disappearing.

Hosted by: Savannah Geary (they/them)

Correction:
05:19 Well, this is half right. The moons don't actually orbit the same distance from Mars and orbit on opposite sides of the synchronous radius. Sorry about the mistake!

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