Wednesday, April 20, 2022

Solar Eclipse on Mars

It's amazing how the relative size of our sun and our moon are almost exactly the same, and because of that eclipses of the sun are very exciting - rare, but exciting. No where else in out solar system do moons of planets produce the same awesome site. But, nonetheless, eclipses of the sun do occur on other planets. However, no one (that we know of) is there to witness them. 

Well, not exactly ...
Earlier this month operators of NASA's Perseverance rover turned its powerful Mastcam-Z camera toward the sky to capture Mars' potato-shaped moon Phobos transiting across the surface of the Sun. And the result was amazing. 
Mars' moon Phobos transiting across the surface of the Sun
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Check out the video at ARS Technica.

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