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Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesNASA's Perseverance rover used its Left Mastcam-Z camera to capture a Martian solar eclipse on Sept. 30, 2024 ; the outline of Mars' moon Phobos is clearly visible in front of the sun's disk.
Neither Phobos nor its companion moon, Deimos, can completely block out the sun from the perspective of a viewer on the Martian surface. So rovers can only ever seen partial eclipses.And, in fact, Perseverance wasn't even the first rover to image such an event.
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