The Perseverance rover just witnessed a unique kind of eclipse while sitting on the surface of Mars -- and the robotic explorer captured video of it.
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And although it looks like the rover was watching the shadow of a potato cross the red Martian surface, that's actually Phobos, one of Mars' two little moons. Perseverance observed the 40-second eclipse on April 2. If this sounds much shorter than a typical solar eclipse we might see from Earth when our moon passes in front of the sun, it's because Phobos is about 157 times smaller than our moon.
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