15-ml-06-phobos2-A067R1.jpg

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Description 15-ml-06-phobos2-A067R1.jpg	English: A transit of Phobos from Mars: Phobos is in transit across the Sun, as seen from Mars by MER Opportunity on March 10, 2004, at 07:36:38 UTC Earth time. In the photo, the Sun has angular diameter 20.5' while Phobos has angular diameter of 15.1'. Deimos by contrast usually has an angular diameter of about 2.3' as seen from Mars. Phobos took about 32 seconds to transit the Sun.
Date	10 March 2004
Source	http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/opportunity/20040311a.html (Raw image at http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/045/1P132176262ESF05A6P2670R8M1.HTML )
Author	NASA/JPL/Cornell

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