Tuesday, September 18, 2012

A Solar Eclipse on Mars


National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Curiosity rover has beamed back a picture of its first solar eclipse from the surface of Mars, showing Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting the Red planet, moving across the face of the Sun.
The new picture taken from the surface of Mars displays a slight bite taken out of the sun by the Martian moon, as seen from the rover's vantage point in Gale Crater.


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