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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.

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