The Mars Exploration Rover has captured and released a solar eclipse of Mars from the surface of Mars.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Mars exploration rover ‘Perseverance’ released on the 18th (hereafter local time) a picture of an eclipse of Phobos, one of the satellites of Mars, passing in front of the sun. IT media Cnet reported on the 21st Reported.
At first glance, the appearance of Phobos passing in front of the sun looks like an pupil, and the image of Phobos slowly covering the sun passing in front of the sun is dynamic.
Citizen scientist Kevin Gill also tweeted a video clip of Phobos moving across the sun.
Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, both of which are small. Among them, Phobos is larger than Deimos, and has a strange and unique impact crater that resembles a potato in shape. Phobos is about 1/157 the size of the Moon, and only 27 km wide at its widest point.
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Currently, the Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Crater’s ancient delta formations, as examples of what might have been water flowing long ago.
NASA, together with the European Space Agency (ESA), is promoting the project ‘Mars Sample Return (MRS)’ to bring these Mars rock samples back to Earth, and by 2028, send a probe to Mars and sample the rover. and plans to return to Earth in the early 2030s.