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Mars's moon Phobos is so strange that no one knows how it formed. But a forthcoming mission could solve this mystery - and a host of other puzzles connected to the solar system's deep past ...

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Titan is the only moon in our solar system with a significant atmosphere. Now we have a very good idea of how this dense ...