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HiRISE captures images of Deimos
volcanopele
post Mar 9 2009, 06:35 PM
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The HiRISE team today released two images of Mars' moon Deimos, taken on February 21, 2009:

http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/deimos.php
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA11826

Nice confirmation that my MRO model in Celestia works well.


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post Mar 9 2009, 09:13 PM
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Another way to look at the geometry of these images:


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post Mar 9 2009, 11:05 PM
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What's the orbital period on that massive iPod Jason?


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post Mar 10 2009, 12:35 AM
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QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Mar 9 2009, 07:05 PM) *
What's the orbital period on that massive iPod Jason?


I think it's the Monolith from "2001", updated to 2009.


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