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Description: Phobos fly-by orbital characteristics animation. NASA’s Mars Odyssey (MO) and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) are in a low orbit around Mars. In observing Phobos, Mars Express benefits from its highly elliptical orbit which takes it from a closest distance of 270 km from the planet to a maximum of 10,000 km, crossing the 9000 km orbit of the moon. Mars Express imaged the far-side of Phobos (with respect to Mars) for the first time by flying outside the spacecraft’s orbit around Mars.
Title: Phobos fly-by animation ESA223006
Credit: http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2008/07/Phobos_fly-by_animation
Author: European Space Agency
Permission: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum),CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
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