Curiosity images Phobos crossing the Sun

20140825_0713MR0030220000402580L01_DXXX_phobos_transitFrom Emily Lakdawalla’s blog at The Planetary Society: “Shooting video of a lumpy moon crossing the Sun and turning it into a giant googly eye is not a new activity for Curiosity, but I get a fresh thrill each time I see one of these sequences downlinked from the rover. A big pile of data from the most recent Phobos transit just landed on Earth, and I had to assemble them into an animation and share it with you…” [More at link]

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