'Curiosity' can be positioned with eclipses

Thursday, December 13, 2012 - 14:00 in Astronomy & Space

Observations from 'Curiosity' when Mar's moon Phobos crosses in front of the sun, like in September, help us to understand exactly where the rover is on the red planet. Researchers at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) have developed a method for achieving precisely this.

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