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This is a video of a solar eclipse TAKEN FROM THE SURFACE OF MARS

This video was assembled from a sequence of images taken by NASA's Perseverance rover with its Mastcam-Z camera on 2 April 2022. The object eclipsing (or, perhaps more accurately, transiting) the Sun's disk is Phobos, the larger of Mars' two potato moons.

12/8/26, 5:14 pm2 reposts46 likes

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

12 Aug

Phobos is 157 times smaller, and 64 times closer to its planet, than Earth's Moon. It's also below the size needed for its own gravity to pull it into a ball (what we call hydrostatic equilibrium). Read more: www.nasa.gov/solar-system... Video credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI

Paul Byrne

@theplanetaryguy.com

12 Aug

As a reminder, our Moon is about 400 times smaller, but about 400 times closer to us, than the Sun. This means the Moon's disk can almost perfectly obscure the Sun, giving us total eclipses. The Moon is slowly moving higher and farther away, so total solar eclipses will eventually be impossible.

Yana 🇺🇦

@yanadear.bsky.social

12 Aug

so cool

Olga

@olgainseattle.bsky.social

13 Aug

I watched the video before reading your description and ... Spuds in Spaaaaace 🥔 was my first thought