As the eclipse continues, it’s stunning.
NASA has released dramatic footage showing Phobos, from two moons on Mars, crossing the face of the sun.
But from the video above, you’ll notice that phobos look more like potatoes than the shape of a sphere commonly associated with planets and moons.
Shots, taken NASA Perseverance’s Mars rover April 2, It lasts 40 seconds, regardless of NASA’s records are shorter than the typical solar eclipse that covers Earth’s moon.
NASA has already captured the Mars eclipse, but experts say it has the highest quality footage.
“I knew it was going to be cool, but I didn’t expect it to be that good,” Rachel Hawson of Malin Space Science Systems in San Diego, one of the team members in charge of the camera, said in a press release. NASA jet propulsion laboratory.
Unfortunately, the chance of capturing the next Phobos eclipse diminishes The moon is approaching the surface of Mars and intends to collide with the planet.
Most importantly, scientists say it won’t happen for another 10 million years.
Source: Huffpost
