NASA’s Perseverance spacecraft captured a solar eclipse when Mars’ moon Phobos intersected with the sun, obscuring part of the solar disk.
Planetary scientist Paul Byrne posted the scene on his Twitter account, commenting: “This is a partial eclipse of the sun as seen from the surface of Mars last Friday.”
Image processor Kevin Gill has pieced the footage together into a short video that shows Phobos moving in front of the sun, giving humans on Earth a good view of what the eclipse will look like from the surface of Mars.
The ‘Perseverance’ spacecraft captured the scene of the eclipse, as it circled through Jezero crater, an area with a watery history on the Red Planet.
The rover is collecting rock samples from the area, looking for evidence of ancient microbial life and studying the landscape.
