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#Phobos over #Mars - Tharsis Region. Click on the image to spot it 
Full size image 23000x8784 on my Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2pG5toU here on Mastodon the resolution is very low..
Easy zoom: https://easyzoom.com/image/526749
Mission: ESA Mars Express
Instrument: HRSC
Orbit: 25000
Time: 2023-10-20T02:19:38.713Z
Product IDs:
HP000_0000_ND3
HP000_0000_GR3
HP000_0000_BL3
For Phobos I only used one filter HP000_0000_GR3
Credit:
ESA/ @DLR /FUBerlin/AndreaLuck
@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. 
@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 
@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
And at 28k, too! The detail... the detail... beautiful!
@andrealuck this is incredible. I have never seen a phobos-over-mars image. Instant screen saver. thank you!
@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
@andrealuck wow wow wow! Are these images from the Mars Orbiter?
@andrealuck never mind - ESA
@belladavis yes ESA Mars Express launched in 2003 and still orbiting around Mars sharing these amazing images :)
@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 :)