Phobos slips past jupiter

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Earlier this month, ESA's Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movie of this rare event.


Three frames from the series of 104 taken by Mars Express during the Phobos–Jupiter conjunction on 1 June 2011. (Credit: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum))

Source:ScienceDaily