European Space Agency, ESA | Our Mars Express captured this unexpected visitor. 🌚 #shorts @EuropeanSpaceAgency | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
It can be seen as a dark blob passing through to the lower left.

Phobos sits very close to Mars by Solar System standards, orbiting just 6000 km from Mars’s surface. For context, our own moon lies about 385 000 km away from Earth’s surface.

📹 ESA/NASA - Andreas Mogensen
📸 ESA/DLR/FU Berlin

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