http://marsrovers.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050909a.html

Taking advantage of extra solar energy collected during the day, 
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit settled in for an evening of 
stargazing, photographing the two moons of Mars as they crossed the 
night sky. "It is incredibly cool to be running an observatory on 
another planet," said planetary scientist Jim Bell of Cornell 
University, Ithaca, N.Y., lead scientist for the panoramic cameras on 
Spirit and Opportunity. In this animation, both martian moons, Deimos 
on the left and Phobos on the right, travel across the night sky in 
front of the constellation Sagittarius. Part of Sagittarius resembles 
an upside-down teapot. Phobos is the brighter object on the right; 
Deimos is on the left.


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