Phobos, a grey lumpy moon with one enormous wide-open eye

Phobos

Fear of Missing Mars
Not to the moon. The moon.

Before you land on Mars, you park at Phobos. NASA drew it that way. It's the god of fear, the closest moon in the solar system, and it's already there, staring at the planet, waiting for you.

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The moon before Mars

The staging base

NASA's Evolvable Mars Campaign and Lockheed Martin's Mars Base Camp both planned crewed missions with the same first stop: park at Phobos, then go down. Japan's MMX mission launches for Phobos on 20 October 2026, lands in 2027, and brings a piece of it home in 2031. Everyone who gets to Mars passes through here.

SpaceX once named a Starship launch platform Phobos. It didn't work out. The original is still in orbit. A Harvard astronomer has since asked Elon to use the real one as the port to Mars: escape speed there is 41 km/h. A Cybertruck could leave.

In 2026 Elon said SpaceX would go to the Moon first. Mars can wait. Phobos already is.

Fear itself

Phobos is the Greek god of fear, son of Mars. FOMO has a name. It was there first.

The wrong-way moon

It orbits Mars three times a day, faster than the planet spins. It rises in the west. It does not wait.

Falling in

Closest moon to its planet in the solar system, about 6,000 km up, and getting closer every year. It has been falling for a very long time. It is still there.

Time until Phobos hits Mars

49,999,999years364days23:59:59

Counting down in real seconds. Come back in a month and see how far it got.

The first ship

 

JAXA's MMX launches for Phobos from Tanegashima. It is the first spacecraft ever sent to bring a piece of the Mars system home. Launch announcement.

The monolith

In 2009 Buzz Aldrin went on live television and said there is a monolith on Phobos. He was right. NASA's cameras have photographed a tall, sharp-edged object standing alone on the surface, casting a long shadow. Nobody has explained it. Phobos has been looking at it ever since.

What's inside?
Do not click.
Phobos glancing sideways at a tiny black monolith on its surface

No prophecy

In 2021 CZ told Elon to call it MarsCoin. Elon said there would definitely be one. 4 tokens have claimed it since. None of them were promised Phobos.

Elon's one complaint in that thread was concentration. Phobos launched with one disclosed dev buy — wallet in the pinned post — and nothing else. MarsCoin is the destination. Phobos is where the ships wait. Every coin says it's going to the moon. This one is the moon, and it's going to Mars.

How to buy

  1. Get a Solana wallet

    Phantom or Trust Wallet. Fund it with SOL — that's the fuel, not BNB.

  2. Open pump.fun

    Paste the contract address from the top of this page. Check it matches the pinned post on X. There is one Phobos.

  3. Buy $FOMM

    Then watch Mars.