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Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell
Transit of Phobos across the Sun as seen from Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on March 7 2004. Times in the table below are Martian local solar time as given by JPL.
Original filename: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all/1/p/042/1P131899647ESF05A6P2668R8M1.JPG [4]
The timestamp built into the filename is 131899647 seconds since the J2000.0 epoch ([5]), or March 7 2004 02:46:22.816 UTC (the three-decimal-digit precision is of course not real).
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Opportunity image gallery: Sol 42 archive copy at the Wayback Machine (small images of the March 7 2004 transit are near the top of the page).
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{{PD-USGov}} Credit: NASA/JPL/Cornell Transit of Phobos across the Sun as seen from Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on March 7 2004. Times in the table below are Martian local solar time as given by JPL. Original filename: http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa
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