The Perseverance spacecraft, which landed on Mars in February 2021, shared another impressive video from Mars. The video showed the moments when Mars’ moon Phobos passed in front of the Sun.
Launched by NASA in July 2020 and landed on Mars on February 18, 2021 perseverance The rover has shared many impressive images from Mars so far. But a video shot by Perseverance and newly released by NASA was the kind of thing that would make you throw away all these impressive images.
Spacecraft, potato-shaped moon of Mars Phobos passing in front of the Sun, that is, he managed to capture a solar eclipse on Mars. The video, shot with the high-quality Mastcam-Z camera system on the spacecraft, was then zoomed in as much as possible and presented at the highest frame rate. The resulting video was as follows:
Phobos, the potato-shaped moon of Mars, passes in front of the Sun
The solar eclipse we see above took place on April 2, 2022 on the Earth calendar. Approximately lasting 40 seconds The thing that allowed Perseverance to pull the Sun directly during the eclipse was the special solar filters on it. Thanks to these filters, Perseverance can project its cameras directly at the Sun and even reveal some details of the Sun.
Phobos, which we see passing in front of the Sun, is 157 times smaller than our moon the Moon, and it’s not actually the first time it has been imaged this way. Eclipse of Phobos has been with the Spirit and Oppurtunity instruments over the past 18 years. First observed in 2004by Curiosity in 2019 first videotaped.
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