belladavis, 2 months ago

@andrealuck this is incredible. I have never seen a phobos-over-mars image. Instant screen saver. thank you!

andrealuck, 2 months ago

@belladavis thanks! Glad it’s your screen saver now :)

If you like Phobos with Mars behind I’ve worked on many of these images and you can find them in this album here: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjAvrQL

belladavis, 2 months ago

@andrealuck wow wow wow! Are these images from the Mars Orbiter?

belladavis, 2 months ago

@andrealuck never mind - ESA

andrealuck, 2 months ago

@belladavis yes ESA Mars Express launched in 2003 and still orbiting around Mars sharing these amazing images :)

andrealuck, 2 months ago

@belladavis wait other images in the album above are from other probes, NASA Viking and Hope Mars Mission - if you click on them you’ll find out :)

tom30519, 2 months ago

@andrealuck
As always, your processing is excellent. Always a pleasure to pore over the details in your images!

Phobos is the tiny perfect moon! It boggles my mind that the moon's diameter is smaller than the distance from my house to the nearest city. 🤯

andrealuck, 2 months ago

@tom30519 thanks! I love seeing this potato with Mars behind… I wish there was a Phobos between my flat and the nearest city as well haha

Btw my cpu crashed several times along the way - also the original was 28k and had to reduce to 23k to upload on Flickr 😭

tom30519, 2 months ago

@andrealuck
Running into limits like that is sooo frustrating! But I remember back when the company I worked for then took delivery of the first PC-AT, and Bill Gates was quoted as declaring that "nobody needed more than 640K of memory"! Ah, how times have changed! 😃

andrealuck, 2 months ago

@tom30519 we have it on easy zoom now :) https://easyzoom.com/image/526749

tom30519, 2 months ago

@andrealuck
And at 28k, too! The detail... the detail... beautiful!