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Phobos Transits Mars

ESA/Osiris Team In late February the European Rosetta probe, on its way to a rendezvous with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014, flew past Mars. In order to reach the meeting point with the right velocity, Rosetta slung itself around the Red Planet, skimming a mere 250 kilometers (155 miles) above the…