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Transcript: NASA ROVERS WATCHING SOLAR ECLIPSES BY MARS MOONS
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- March 8, 2004
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Regulatory Intelligence Data
03-08-2004
NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers have become eclipse watchers.
Though the Viking Landers in the 1970s observed the shadow of one
Mars' two moons, Phobos, moving across the landscape, and Mars Pathfinder
in 1997 observed Phobos emerge at night from the shadow of Mars, no previous
mission has ever directly observed a moon pass in front of the sun from
the surface of another world.
The current rovers began their eclipse-watching campaign this month.
Opportunity's panoramic camera caught Mars' smaller moon, Deimos, as a
speck crossing the disc of the sun on March 4. The same camera then captured
an image of the larger moon, Phobos, ...