Phobos Slips Past Jupiter (W/ Video) 17 June 2011

Phobos slips past Jupiter (w/ video) 17 June 2011

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

The trajectories of Phobos and Mars Express at the time (PhysOrg.com) -- Earlier this month, ESA's Mars of the conjunction with Jupiter on 1 June 2011. The Express performed a special manoeuvre to graphic was created using Celestia software. The letter observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the ‘S’ denotes the South Pole of Mars martian moon Phobos. The impressive images have now been processed into a movie of this rare event. The images shown here were processed at the At the moment when Mars Express, Phobos, and Department of Planetary Sciences and Remote Jupiter aligned on 1 June 2011, there was a Sensing at the Institute of Geological Sciences of distance of 11 389 km between the spacecraft and the Freie Universität Berlin. Phobos, and a further 529 million km to Jupiter.

The High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Provided by European Space Agency Express was kept fixed on Jupiter for the conjunction, ensuring that the planet remained static in the frame. The operation returned a total of 104 images over a period of 68 seconds, all of them taken using the camera's super-resolution channel.

By knowing the exact moment when Jupiter passed behind Phobos, the observation will help to verify and even improve our knowledge of the orbital position of the martian moon.

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