Posted by tourdemars to Mars Exploration Rovers at March 22, 2005 03:25 PM

That dynamic duo on Mars, the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, are satellite watchers too. Turning their respective camera systems up into the martian sky, the robots have caught sight of the moons of Mars – Phobos and Deimos – scooting across the face of the Sun. “We got four of the possible six Phobos and Deimos transits during this year’s “eclipse season” from the rover sites,” said Jim Bell of the Mars Exploration Rover Project at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.