Mars can form belts from the moons

In the future, Mars may become a copy of Saturn with the surrounding dust belt, formed from the debris of Phobos and Deimos.

For several million years, Mars's moon Phobos will be broken down into pieces to form a flat belt similar to Saturn's belt, according to New Scientist. However, small pieces from the moon Phobos and Deimos may be revolving around the red planet as a newly formed belt.

Astronomers have long argued that Mars is likely to be surrounded by a belt made of pieces of rock fired from the satellites Phobos and Deimos, but no one has observed this, possibly because they are The plane is not easy to observe from Earth or space telescope.

Mars can form a ring around its moons.(Photo: New Scientist).

After launching to Mars in 2013, the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) satellite detected a large dust cloud around the planet. The research team in the MAVEN project could not determine the magnitude and origin of dust particles, but they found them to spread uniformly instead of focusing on a circle. This shows that they come from interplanetary space.

New analysis from MAVEN data shows that Mars is also surrounded by dust in the form of pre-belt and some of the dust particles of it come from the moons of the planet.

Jayesh Pabari of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, India and colleagues compared dust measurements from MAVEN with models based on the assumption of the number of meteorites hitting Mars and its moon. They conclude that small particles from the meteorite impact are often swept away by the solar wind, while Mars's gravity draws larger particles into the periphery, which lies along each moon's orbit.

The dust of these belts can reach Mars's upper layer. Pabari's group found that while most of the dust cloud is of interplanetary origin, about 0.6% could come from the moon Phobos and Deimos.

"Particles in larger rings can reach Mars after a while, besides interplanetary dust particles , " Pabari said.

"In order to make certain conclusions about the dust belt, we need a dedicated dust detector , " said Laila Anderssen of the University of Colorado Boulder.