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It's been more than a hundred and thirty years since 1877 the American astronomer Asap Hall discovered two celestial object around Mars. This is a small natural satellites were named Fear and Terror (Phobos and Deiomos). The craft of the European Space Agency's Mars Express recently for the first time in history managed to capture both the two satellites in one shot high resolution.
Although the sand trapped by the U.S. rover Spirit failed back in 2005. in the Martian sky to catch the duo, Mars Express (ME) has now done a really nice photo satellites that seems entirely justified their unusual names. In fact, several spacecraft designed their study failed miserably. Photos were taken during 7492nd orbit ME, processed and presented to the public now. At the time of the shooting Phobos spacecraft was 11,800 km away and Deimos 26.200km.Phobos is larger and located closer to the home planet. Its dimensions are 27x22x19km. Around Mars once every go around 7:39 pm. Deimos is much smaller (10x12x16km) around Mars once every go around 30:35 hours. Since Mars is nearly 24,000 kilometers away, two and a half times further from its "partners". It is interesting that for several years in a few occasions the spacecraft trajectory coincides with the ability to shoot both of these satellites in the same kadru.Europljani are well prepared for the occasion, and the photographs we make are made with the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC). A total of 130 photos were made. The resolution of objects on Phobos is 110 m / pixel and Deimos 240 m / pixel.
Animation of the 130 photos Phobos and Deimos as they saw Me 05 November
The Russian space agency plans in the coming years is extremely ambitious research mission hobos spacecraft Phobos-Grunt.
At the end of the zanimjivost mention that during the sixties and seventies of last century, based on very poor images of the two satellites from the U.S. aircraft known charlatan Eric von Daniken (and the like) promptly iskonstruirao story of how these two satellites is actually a shell of large space ships " Small green "...
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