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Jun 29 2013, 05:25 PM
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Aug 23 2013, 05:57 PM
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Begin and end of the Sol 369 eclipse:
(magnified 4x by nearest neighbour, blur radius 2, brightness stretched) They probably downlinked those images first, because they are of highest value for retrieving orbital data (extrapolating the two instants, when Phobos' "disk" is externally tangent to the Sun, compare contacts I and IV of the 2012 Venus transit). |
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