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[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (4 children)

That's actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?

[–] [email protected] 102 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Probably a camera of some sort.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That would be my guess too. Perhaps aided by a kind of telescope.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars

As a younger person.. was this thought of as a real possibility by some people? I find that hard to believe

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Idk if adults believed it was a real possibility, but us kids having read The Martian Chronicles certainly did.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Yep! They thought Venus might be habitable too. When The War of the Worlds aired, listeners (who missed the disclaimer) thought it was real and panicked.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 months ago

It was the Mastcom-Z camera on Perseverance.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Mars Rover pointing straight up.