Categories: esaMarsMissions

Morphing Phobos

The folks from UnmannedSpaceflight.com have been busy working on the new images of Phobos returned by Mars Express. Above, is an animation created by Daniel Machácek, who also colorized the images and processed them through some morphing software to make a seamless animation (via Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Blog), and below is another morphing animation by Daniel Brennan (via the Mars Express Blog)

Animation of Phobos. Animation credit: Dan Brennan, from UnMannedSpaceFlight.com. Original HRSC images: Copyright ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)

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