• Martian Moon Phobos Slips Past Jupiter 19.4.24 • In June 2011 ESA’s Mars Express performed a special manoeuvre to observe an unusual alignment of Jupiter and the martian moon Phobos. The impressive images were processed into a movie of this rare event. At the moment when Mars Express, Phobos, and Jupiter aligned on 1 June 2011, there was a distance of 11 389 km between the spacecraft and Phobos, and a further 529 million km to Jupiter. The High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express was kept

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