Mars Express views moons set against Saturn's rings
New images and video from ESA's Mars Express show Phobos and Deimos drifting in front of Saturn and background stars, revealing more about the positioning and surfaces of the Red Planet's mysterious moons.
[...] Mars Express has been studying Mars and its moons for many years. The satellite recently observed both Phobos, Mars' innermost and largest moon at up to 26 km in diameter, and Deimos, Phobos' smaller sibling at 6.2 km in diameter, to produce this new video and series of images.
The video combines 30 images as individual frames and shows Phobos passing through the frame with the gas giant planet Saturn, which sits roughly a billion kilometres away, visible as a small ringed dot in the background.
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Also at EarthSky.
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:29AM (1 child)
Wait how is this not a political argument starter? I thought all stories on this site need to bash the president in some way? I am confused.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Saturday March 03 2018, @06:36AM
Give it time. You're the first post.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday March 03 2018, @04:45PM (1 child)
Behold the moon with a 'shadow' that changes curve. Which means it is not a shadow, it is a circle of darkness which spreads out over the sphere of the Moon. That is why it flattens out about half way, and stays that way to completion.
https://vimeo.com/253700958 [vimeo.com]
Energeian planes.
(Score: 2) by wonkey_monkey on Sunday March 04 2018, @01:38PM
What are you blithering on about?
systemd is Roko's Basilisk