WATCH: NASA posts footage of solar eclipse on Mars

Published April 24, 2022 9:00am ET



NASA posted footage from the Mars Perseverence Rover on Wednesday, offering humans a glimpse at what a solar eclipse looks like on Mars.

The Perseverance captured a 40-second clip of Phobos, one of Mars’s two moons, traveling in front of the sun on April 2 via its Mastcam-Z camera. While NASA has recorded solar eclipses in the past, this was the  “most zoomed-in video of a Phobos solar eclipse yet — and at the highest-frame rate ever,” according to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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