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Postcards from Mars: rover Curiosity sends picture of a partial Solar eclipse

Houston, USA - NASA will host a teleconference on Thursday, Sept. 6 to provide a status update on the rover's mission

NASA's Curiosity, the biggest rover ever sent into space, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012, is continuing its mission, and managed to take a picture of a partial Solar eclipse on the Red Planet. It is a very common phenomenon, since its two moons, Deimos and Phobos, have a revolution time which is a lot shorter than our Moon: the first one needs 30 hours, and the second just 7 hours and 39...

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Rome, Italy, 09/20/2012 17:14
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