But their focus wasn’t on Mars. It was on its moon, Phobos; named after the Greek God of fear. After all, if NASA could land on Mars, landing on one of its moons should be easy, right?

Hall named them after the sons of Ares, the Roman god of war and the counterpart to the Greek god Mars.

As it continues its painstaking search for microbial life on Mars, NASA’s Perseverance rover ... Named after the god of fear ...