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Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 4 months ago
That’s actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?
Vorticity@lemmy.world 4 months ago
ElHexo@hexbear.net 4 months ago
NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has returned a stunning sequence of images of its moon, Phobos, eclipsing the sun. From Mars’ Jezero Crater, the rover’s SkyCam and MastCam took over 65 images of the event on February 8, one per second, to ensure it captured the short event.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
Mars Rover pointing straight up.
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Probably a camera of some sort.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 4 months ago
That would be my guess too. Perhaps aided by a kind of telescope.
Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.
Jimbo@yiffit.net 4 months ago
As a younger person… was this thought of as a real possibility by some people? I find that hard to believe