{"id":3127,"date":"2013-07-02T05:26:27","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T05:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3127"},"modified":"2013-07-02T05:26:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T05:26:27","slug":"video-curiosity-sees-phobos-passing-overhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3127","title":{"rendered":"Video: Curiosity sees Phobos passing overhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is really cool. The Curiosity Rover pointed its Navigation Camera upwards and caught the Mars moon <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phobos_%28moon%29\" target=\"_blank\">Phobos<\/a> crossing the dark sky:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fdz6eM7Wv2w?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly after sunset. Phobos first appears near the lower center of the view and moves toward the top of the view. The clip runs at accelerated speed; the amount of time covered in it is about 27 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The 86 frames combined into this clip were taken by the rover&#8217;s Navigation Camera (Navcam) on the 317th Martian day of Curiosity&#8217;s work on Mars (June 28, 2013, PDT). The apparent ring about halfway between the center of the frames and the edges is an artifact of the imaging due to scattering of light inside the camera.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is really cool. The Curiosity Rover pointed its Navigation Camera upwards and caught the Mars moon Phobos crossing the dark sky: Caption: This movie clip shows Phobos, the larger of the two moons of Mars, passing overhead, as observed by NASA&#8217;s Mars rover Curiosity in a series of images centered straight overhead starting shortly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3127\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: Curiosity sees Phobos passing overhead<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-films-and-videos","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-Or","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4334,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4334","url_meta":{"origin":3127,"position":0},"title":"Video: Curiosity records a solar eclipse","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 6, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Curiosity rover continues do excellent skywatching on Mars: This video clip shows the larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, passing directly in front of the sun, in an eclipse photographed by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. http:\/\/youtu.be\/OyZoD7BRTtg More at Mars Science Laboratory: NASA Mars Rover Views Eclipse of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Astronomy&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Astronomy","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=12"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/OyZoD7BRTtg\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4000,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4000","url_meta":{"origin":3127,"position":1},"title":"Curiosity films Phobos moon passing in front of Deimos","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 16, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Using its Mast camera, the Curiosity rover observes the Martian moon Phobos eclipse the other moon Deimos: NASA Rover Gets Movie as a Mars Moon Passes Another - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory http:\/\/youtu.be\/DaVSCmuOJwI","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Mars&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Mars","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=78"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/DaVSCmuOJwI\/0.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":3807,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=3807","url_meta":{"origin":3127,"position":2},"title":"Curiosity spots Phobos &#038; Deimos passing by + Returning some Mars rocks to earth","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The Curiosity rover has taken an image (large version) with both of Mars moons - Phobos and Deimos - in the picture: Curiosity is copying Cassini's tricks! - The Planetary Society See the Planetary Society post for a gif showing Phobos moving past. 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