File:Transit of Deimos from Mars.jpg
Summary
A transit of Deimos from Mars: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Deimos (moon)">Deimos</a> is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/astronomical_transit" class="extiw" title="w:astronomical transit">transit</a> across the Sun, as seen from Mars by Mars Rover Opportunity on March 4, 2004, at 03:03:43 UTC Earth time. In the photo, the Sun has angular diameter 20.6' while Deimos only has 2.5'. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Phobos (moon)">Phobos</a> by contrast usually has an angular diameter of around 12' as seen from Mars. Deimos took a little more than a minute to transit the Sun, passing well off center and moving downward and to the right; more central transits can take up to two minutes from start to end.
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| current | 02:51, 8 January 2017 | | 360 × 360 (19 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A transit of Deimos from Mars: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Deimos (moon)">Deimos</a> is in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/astronomical_transit" class="extiw" title="w:astronomical transit">transit</a> across the Sun, as seen from Mars by Mars Rover <i>Opportunity</i> on March 4, 2004, at 03:03:43 UTC Earth time. In the photo, the Sun has angular diameter 20.6' while Deimos only has 2.5'. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)" class="extiw" title="w:Phobos (moon)">Phobos</a> by contrast usually has an angular diameter of around 12' as seen from Mars. Deimos took a little more than a minute to transit the Sun, passing well off center and moving downward and to the right; more central transits can take up to two minutes from start to end. |
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