Terrifying footage, taken by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express probe, showed the Martian moon Deimos, obscuring Jupiter and its satellites.
The new clip, captured by the European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite, consists of 80 individual images stitched together, showing the irregular Mars moon Deimos in the foreground with its rocky, cratered surface.
And Mars Express is still going strong nearly 20 years after it was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in June 2003.
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“The new images show that Mars Express continues to shine a light on Mars, the immediate surroundings of the Red Planet, and beyond,” the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
The first clip consists of a series of 80 images taken on February 14, 2022. It first shows Deimos passing in front of Europa, the smallest of the four Galilean moons, known for its icy surface and thin oxygen atmosphere.
The largest moon in the solar system, Ganymede, is hidden from view as Jupiter, then Io, and finally Callisto.
Deimos is the smallest and most distant of the two natural satellites of Mars, and the other is Phobos.