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    High School Earth transits the Sun as viewed from Mars in 2005?

    Earth appears significantly smaller than both Phobos and Deimos from Mars even when Mars is near perihelion and Earth near inferior conjunction (aka perihelion opposition of Mars). In the case of Phobos: Ratio of mean true diameters is ~ 12756 : 22.2 and ratio of Mars-centric distances is ~ 55...
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    High School Earth transits the Sun as viewed from Mars in 2005?

    Hi Cecil. Really late reply to your post but I just found it while browsing the internet. Here is an image from NASA JPL Solar System Simulator: http://space.jpl.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/wspace?tbody=10&vbody=499&month=11&day=7&year=2005&hour=10&minute=00&fovmul=1&rfov=1.5&bfov=30 and here is a list...