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Moonshot During the afternoon of May 5, 2017, shortly after pulling up to the top of Perseverance
Valley, Opportunity looked to the sky with her Panoramic Camera “eyes” hoping to
capture an image of the Martian moon Phobos as it raced by the Sun. With a little help
from MER Science Team member Mark Lemmon, at 14:59 hybrid local solar time
(HLST), the rover pushed camera “shutter” – and nailed it. NASA / JPL-Caltech / Cornell / ASU / Texas A&M