Ron Ballouz Browse All Authors Famous Quotes by Ron Ballouz One of the biggest mysteries surrounding Phobos is its origin was it created from a giant impact onto Mars that created a debris disk around the planet that eventually coalesced into Phobos, or was it once an asteroid that was captured by Mars gravity? Ron Ballouz science By the time we fired our thrusters to leave the surface we were still plunging into the asteroid. Ron Ballouz