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Over the past few months I have been reading the message boards and have been fairly interested in the conversations. Besides high school chemistry and physics, I have had very little contact with the sciences. In college I took 2 years of geology, but I mostly studied the Permian and that really doesn’t help answer my questions… unless you have questions on crinoids.<br /><br />The question (in some form).<br /><br />Mars has not had a volcanic eruption, from what I have read, in over a million years and is considered to be dormant. If the moon Phobos had a mass that was close to ¼ of Mars’ mass, would this create enough gravitational pressure on Mars to bring it out of this dormancy? I realize that Phobos’ orbit would need to be increase as well.<br /><br />This is what I know. As the moon orbits the Earth, it causes the Earth to bulge in the direction of the Moon. This process creates tides, so does the Sun to a degree, and pulls at the Earth’s crust creating friction. Is Mars too dormant for Phobos to do anything more than warm Mars’ crust?<br /><br />I apologize if I misused any terms or definitions. <br />