Phobos, one of the moons of Mars, passes by the planet Jupiter in this sequence of images snapped by the Mars Express spacecraft. Tiny Phobos was about 7,000 miles (11,400 km) from the spacecraft, while Jupiter was 329 million miles (529 million km) farther. [ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (G. Neukum)]
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