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Inside stands a telescope that will help me see Mars as it appeared to observers more than a century ago, when eager astronomers used this instrument in 1877 to confirm the discovery of the two tiny Martian moons, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221018010911/https://mars.nasa.gov/all-about-mars/moons/summary/">Phobos and Deimos</a>.</p><p>Tonight UVA astronomer Ed Murphy has made a special trip up to the observatory, which is closed to the public because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. 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