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Time-Lapse of Phobos in Orbit Around Mars (Smoothed)
- Release DateJuly 20, 2017
- Science ReleaseNASA’s Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet
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NASA’s Hubble Sees Martian Moon Orbiting the Red Planet
The sharp eye of NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has captured the tiny moon Phobos during its orbital trek around Mars. Because the moon is so small, it appears star-like in the Hubble pictures. Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble took 13 separate exposures, allowing astronomers...

Time-Lapse of Phobos in Orbit Around Mars (Annotated, Smoothed)
This time-lapse video captures a portion of the path that tiny Phobos takes around Mars. Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble snapped 13 separate exposures of the little Martian moon. The transitions between frames have been smoothed to illustrate continuous motion. Phobos...

Time-Lapse of Phobos in Orbit Around Mars
This time-lapse video captures a portion of the path that tiny Phobos takes around Mars. Over the course of 22 minutes, Hubble snapped 13 separate exposures of the little Martian moon. Phobos completes an orbit in just 7 hours and 39 minutes, which is faster than Mars rotates....
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Claire Andreoli
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt, Maryland
claire.andreoli@nasa.gov