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Mars Express image of Phobos (9 January 2011)


Date: 20 January 2011
Satellite: Mars Express
Depicts: Phobos
Copyright: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0

Mars Express obtained these views of Phobos, the largest of the Martian moons, when it flew by on 9 January 2011, passing at a distance of 100km.

This sequence shows 5 HRSC-channels, orbit 8974: (left to right) stereo S1 (4.1 m/pixel), photometric P1 (8.1 m/pixel), nadir ND (3.9 m/pixel), photometric p2 (8.2 m/pixel), stereo S2 (4.3 m/pixel).

 
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Last Update: 1 September 2019
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