Friday, September 21, 2012

NASA rover curiosity eyes other planets

Photos of some partial solar eclipses on Mars took recently by NASA Curiosity rover may help scientists better understand the Red Planets interior structure and stuff its made from researchers say.
The 1 ton Curiosity rover captured Mars tiny moon Phobos being near the suns disk last Thursday September 13. A few days later it watched additional partial eclipses caused by Phobos and Deimos the Red Planets other small satellite even though images from these last two celestial events are not available yet.Scientists will use these photos to figure out the orbits of Phobos and Deimos exactly and to determine how much they have changed over the last few years researchers said. This information  could show key insights about the interior of Mars which remains largely mysterious.

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