A solar eclipse is an exceptional astronomical event during which the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth and covers the solar disk. The next eclipse will take place on October 2. OBOZ.
UA offers to learn more about solar eclipses on Earth. It will also tell you what it looks like on Mars and whether an eclipse of the Sun is possible on other planets of our solar system. Solar eclipse on Mars Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos.
However, they are much smaller than Earth's moon, which weakens solar eclipses on the Red Planet. Also, Mars' satellites are irregularly shaped, so the eclipse is different from the beautiful disk that Earthlings see in the night sky. According to NASA, several rovers have observed eclipses on Mars over the past 18 years.
Spirit and Opportunity took the first slow-motion photos of Phobos back in 2004. Curiosity was the first to record a video of the eclipse. But the most successful recording was made by the Perseverance rover, which used the Mastcam-Z camera system to capture video of Phobos eclipsing the Sun.
NASA emphasizes that this is the most magnified image of the solar eclipse on Mars with the highest frame rate taken from the surface of this planet. Scientists say that during an eclipse, Phobos blocks up to 40% of the light from the Sun. Deimos is smaller and much farther away, so it blocks only a small part of the light from the hot star.
Eclipses of the Sun on other planets in the solar system Outside of the Earth-Moon system, eclipse.