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The Solar System

Moons

What are Phobos and Deimos like?

Phobos and Deimos are irregularly shaped, rocky objects. They look very much like asteroids. Phobos is about ten miles across, and Deimos is about half that size.

Jupiter’s moon Io has many active volcanoes on its surface.(NASA)

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