... This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface. ... Launched on January 6th, NASA's Lunar Prospector spacecraft has been exploring the Moon with instruments designed to sense global properties while orbiting pole-to-pole, 63 miles above the lunar surface. ... Recent data from the Galileo spacecraft currently orbiting Jupiter now confirms that these rings were created by meteoroid impacts on small nearby moons. ... Dust Hip Deep on Phobos . ...