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Study Suggests Mars Once Had a Ring

An intriguing new study concerning Mars' moon Deimos suggests that the Red Planet was once encircled by a ring. The thought-provoking theory arose when scientists took a closer look at a particular peculiarity possessed by the lunar body. "The fact that Deimos's orbit is not exactly in plane with Mars's equator was considered unimportant, and nobody cared to try to explain it," said the SETI Institute's Matija Cuk, who led the research,"but once we had a big new idea and we looked at it with new eyes, Deimos' orbital tilt revealed its big secret."

Specifically, Cuk and his colleagues observed that Mars' other moon, Phobos, was orbiting in a manner which will ultimately result in the celestial body being broken apart by the Red Planet's gravitational pull and forming a ring of debris that would eventually come together to create a new moon. This led to the notion that perhaps that future event will merely be the latest iteration in what has been an ongoing pattern which the researchers dubbed the 'cyclic Martian moon theory.'

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