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John Carlos Baez
@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 15 hours ago

This is the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate movie of a solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface.

Phobos is slowly drifting toward Mars. Tens of millions of years from now, it will crash land.

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A large oblong shadow of a moon passes over an orange Sun: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/perseverances-mastcam-z-captures-a-phobos-solar-eclipse/
A large oblong shadow of a moon passes over an orange Sun: https://science.nasa.gov/photojournal/perseverances-mastcam-z-captures-a-phobos-solar-eclipse/
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