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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU)<\/p>\n
People around the world enjoyed stellar views with last week’s total solar eclipse.<\/p>\n
And the day after we looked up to see the moon obscuring out sun, NASA’s Perseverance <\/a>Mars<\/a> rover looked up to see its own Martian solar eclipse.<\/p>\n What is it? <\/p>\n Solar eclipses<\/a> aren’t unique to Earth<\/a>. In theory, any planet with at least one orbiting moon<\/a> would have times where that moon might eclipse some part of its sun to anyone looking up from the planet’s surface.<\/p>\n On Aug. 13, 2026, one day after Earth’s total solar eclipse<\/a> in which our moon temporarily blocked out our sun for skywatchers in some locations, Mars saw its own solar eclipse<\/a>.<\/p>\n Looking up with its left Mastcam-Z camera, Perseverance snapped this image of one of Mars’ two moons, Phobos<\/a> and Deimos<\/a>, partially eclipsing the sun. This appears to be Phobos \u2014 the larger of the pair \u2014 eclipsing the sun<\/a>.<\/p>\n You may like<\/p>\n Why is it incredible? <\/p>\n So far, we humans have only directly had vantage points on Earth<\/a>, in Earth orbit and on the moon. We have not yet landed humans on Mars, and it remains unclear how long it might be before that happens.<\/p>\n But robotic explorers like Perseverance allow us to travel where we can’t go ourselves. Such travelers have taken us into interstellar space and all throughout our solar system<\/a>. From Saturn<\/a>‘s rings to Neptune<\/a>‘s distant, icy neighborhood, robotic probes have allowed humanity’s reach to stretch far through the cosmos.<\/p>\n And thanks to Perseverance and its two “eyes,” the two Mastcam-Z cameras located high on its mast, we can travel right to the surface of Mars, look up and see an alien solar eclipse. What an amazing thing that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface. (Image credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ASU) People around the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":818967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-818966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=818966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/818966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/818967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=818966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=818966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=818966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Space\"](\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/media\/img\/spc-logo-w.svg\"){kind=logo}
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