The European Space Agency (ESA) is Europe’s gateway to space. Its mission is to shape the development of Europe’s space capability and ensure that investment in space continues to deliver benefits to the citizens of Europe and the world.
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Phobos in 3-D (red-cyan anaglyph).
On 23 July 2008, the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA’s Mars Express took the highest-resolution full-disc image yet of the surface of the moon Phobos.
The image data was acquired from a distance of 97 km with a spatial resolution of about 3.7 m/pixel. These images have surpassed all previous images from other missions in continuous coverage of the illuminated surface at the highest spatial resolution of 3.7 m/pixel.