http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/all...pirit_p079.html

1st four shots were taken at 2:21 in the morning. Anybody want to take a guess at what they may have been looking at? Exposures seem to be too short to catch stars as they did the other week, but something bright is out there.

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There are a few stars, but they aren't that consistent from image to image. My first guess is that it is Deimos. I considered Jupiter, but the stars are too varied from frame to frame. Also I don't see any moons, but I'm not sure they'd show up.

Do you have a guess?

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I would guess Deimos, too, but don't have the means to prove or discount that. We know that the camera was fixed for the entire set of shots so I guess someone who could measure the movement of the principal object from frame to frame could then roughly calculate if that jibes with Deimos' orbital speed.

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