NASA s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars two moons, eclipsing the Sun on April 2, the 397th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The eclipse lasted a little over 40 seconds ? much shorter than a typical solar eclipse involving Earth s Moon. (Phobos is about 157 times smaller than Earth s Moon. Mars other moon, Deimos, is even smaller.) It s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. NASA WAX2022042001 NASA
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NASA s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera system to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars two moons, eclipsing the Sun on April 2, the 397th Martian day, or sol, of the mission. The eclipse lasted a little over 40 seconds ? much shorter than a typical solar eclipse involving Earth s Moon. (Phobos is about 157 times smaller than Earth s Moon. Mars other moon, Deimos, is even smaller.) It s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. NASA WAX2022042001 NASA
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