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Phobos flyby success
 
4 March 2010

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Details of Phobos’s surface
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This image of Phobos’s surface was obtained by the Super Resolution Channel (or SRC, a part of the High Resolution Stereo Camera experiment) on board ESA’s Mars Express on 3 August 2008 (orbit 5889). The distance from the moon’s centre was 656 km, and the image resolution is 6 m/pixel. The original image has been corrected for mirror distortion.

Credits: ESA/ DLR/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
 
 
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Photo mosaic of Phobos in super resolution
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This mosaic image is composed by 53 pictures obtained by the Super Resolution Channel (or SRC, a part of the High Resolution Stereo Camera experiment) on board ESA’s Mars Express. The SRC images covered 70% of the moon's surface. The remaining area is filled with 16 images previously obtained by NASA’s Viking mission. The mean resolution is 12 m/pixel.

Credits: ESA/ DLR (S. Semm, M. Wählisch, K.Willner)/ FU Berlin (G. Neukum)
 


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