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JUST THOUGHT I’D SHARE this cool image of the Martian moon Phobos—with Jupiter in the background—that was taken by the High-Resolution Stereo Camera onboard the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express orbiter on June 1. Apparently, you have to be at the distance of Mars or obviously within the Asteroid Belt to actually see clouds on Jupiter...or even on Saturn...as was the case when ESA’s other spacecraft, the comet-bound Rosetta probe, caught the ringed planet orbiting far behind asteroid Lutetia last July. For your convenience, I’ve also included that image below.


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