I'll bet you don't spend a ton of time thinking about Deimos, the smaller of the two Martian moons, which is named after the Ancient Greek god that personified dread. And who could blame you?

The moon is pretty tiny by space proportions - Deimos is just 9 x 7 x 6.8 miles in size (15 x 12 x 11kms) according to Nasa. In Greek mythology, Deimos is one of the sons of the Greek god of war ...

Mars is probably smaller than you think. It's just half the size of Earth, with barely a third of its mass. Even the Martian ...

The craft is around the size of a small car ... of sensors and take several detailed photographs of the planet and Deimos in the same frame. A black and white camera with a resolution of 1020 ...