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Article: U. Arizona camera captures Mars moon in new light
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- April 10, 2008
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Ashley Waggoner
University Wire
04-10-2008
(Arizona Daily Wildcat) (UWIRE) TUCSON, Ariz. -- After months of planning, the University of Arizona-run HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recently took the most detailed photographs yet of one of Mars' two small moons, providing physical features that may illuminate its origins.
On March 23, the camera took two pictures of Phobos 10 minutes apart, the largest and innermost of Mars' moons. Deimos is the other.
The camera launched with the orbiter in August 2005 and reached Mars' orbit in March 2006.
Normally, the camera takes only around 12 or more pictures of Mars a day, so for the camera to aim at Phobos was a non-standard ...
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