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===Mars=== {{main|Transit of Phobos from Mars}} [[Image:PIA05553.gif|right|thumbnail|[[Transit of Phobos from Mars]], as seen by the Mars ''[[Opportunity (rover)|Opportunity rover]]'' (10 March 2004).]] On [[Mars]], only partial solar eclipses ([[Transit of Phobos from Mars|transits]]) are possible, because neither of its moons is large enough, at their respective orbital radii, to cover the Sun's disc as seen from the surface of the planet. Eclipses of the moons by Mars are not only possible, but commonplace, with hundreds occurring each Earth year. There are also rare occasions when Deimos is eclipsed by Phobos.<ref>{{cite book |first=Norman |last=Davidson |date=1985 |title=Astronomy and the Imagination: A New Approach to Man's Experience of the Stars |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-7102-0371-7 }}</ref> Martian eclipses have been photographed from both the surface of Mars and from orbit.
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