NASA's Curiosity rover captures Phobos' Martian moonrise

Wednesday, September 11, 2013 - 12:00 in Astronomy & Space

One of Mars' two tiny moons climbs high into the Red Planet sky in an otherworldly new video recorded by NASA's Curiosity rover.The video, which stitches together 86 frames snapped by Curiosity's navigation camera, shows the Mars moon Phobos rising shortly after sunset on June 28.

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