Nasa captures incredible pics of solar eclipse on Mars
Nasa’s Perseverance rover has managed to capture footage of this incredible Mars solar eclipse!
The event happened when Phobos – one of Mars’ two moons – passed in front of the sun, creating a spectacular image.
Scientists say these observations can help them understand the moon’s orbit and how its gravity works on Mars.
The Perseverance rover is on Mars looking for signs of ancient life and collecting rock samples.
The eclipse lasted just over 40 seconds, which is shorter than an eclipse with Earth’s moon, which usually last a few minutes.
It was captured with Perseverance rover’s Mastcam-Z camera, which hasn’t been used on Mars before. The camera has a high frame rate giving a better quality picture.
Rachel Howson, one of the Mastcam-Z team members, said: “I knew it was going to be good, but I didn’t expect it to be this amazing.”
The potato-shaped moon Phobos, is about 157 times smaller than Earth’s moon.
It is the bigger of Mars’ two moons, with Deimos being even smaller.
Both moons were named after ancient Greek gods.
Phobos orbits Mars three times a day and is very close to the planet’s surface.
Scientists believe it’s likely that it will one day crash into the Red Planet in tens of millions of years time, or break up into a ring.
See more here: bbc.co.uk
Header image: NASA / JPL
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Alcheminister
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Somehow that seems like 100% BS.
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Alcheminister
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The prime reason I say that is of course, it’s NASA…
Secondly, Mars supposedly does have an atmosphere, right? Thirdly, kinda like, sort of subsurface and other scattering. The other thing is reflection from the “very near” moon there. I would more realistically expect some ambient light. Not like a completely hard shadow.
I mean, the first video link there is utterly meaningless. The pictures there look like some completely irrelevant random shit a guy that used 3dsmax for the first time in 1992 made.
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Alcheminister
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I mean seriously, if that’s the “space” they’re trying to glamourize, IDGAF. It looks like fake utterly pointless bullshit.
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Alcheminister
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I’d go as far a to say I’ve never seen anything convincing from NASA.
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Alcheminister
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Try a search for “Mars atmosphere”, then try and reconcile the BS, not only among those images, but these very “authentic” NASA pics referened in this article.
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Mark Tapley
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Hello Alcheminister:
There is no way they were able to coordinate the flight from earth to Mars and land equipment there.. The atmosphere on Mars is only a thousandth of that on earth, so there is no way a helicopter would fly. However there is no problem in flying one on Devon Island.
Alcheminister
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Hey, just like Mars, IDGAF about Devon Island either.
Mark Tapley
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More propaganda from the Mars (Devon Island) NASA money laundering program. Mars is closer than you think. Its inCanada. And why are there bubbles in space:
https://www.bitchute.com/video/ML1I0cx7Xi7W/
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NXaj3Crq1Ce0/
Still no comments on Bezos fake Blue Origin “space flight.” PSI readers explain how a rocket booster falls back to earth and lands backwards with only thrusters. Also look at dummy in capsule with thumb sticking up. If I am wrong show me the evidence. CGI is a lot better than when used for the fake planes of 911 but still has a ways to go. Video games are improving too as we see lots of them used in the fake Ukrainian war for insider money laundering. Here is Bezos (Jeffery Preston (((Jorgensen))) and the Blue Origin fake flight:
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