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Sunspot

Mar 5 2004, 12:25 PM

This site quite often has images available before the main JPL websites.

http://qt.exploratorium.edu/mars/opportuni...cam/2004-03-05/

http://www.exploratorium.edu/mars/

brachiopod

Mar 5 2004, 01:43 PM

Wow! Is that really Deimos? That is so neat. Maybe they can get a Phobos transit some day also, it should appear larger (at least 4x as large across, it is over twice as close, about twice the size, roughly, back of the envelope calculation)
Bryan

jmknapp

Mar 5 2004, 02:06 PM

At the pancam resolution, a perfect Phobos eclipse should look like:

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