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View Phobos's rotation from the assembled still photographs captured by the Mars Express orbiter

View Phobos's rotation from the assembled still photographs captured by the Mars Express orbiter

Video of Phobos's rotation as assembled from still photographs taken by the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.
Mars Express, ESA
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