Launched by NASA in July 2020 and landed on Mars on February 18, 2021 perseverance The rover has shared many impressive images of Mars so far. But a video made by Perseverance and recently released by NASA was the kind of thing that would make you throw away all these impressive footage.

Spacecraft, potato-shaped moon of Mars Passing Phobos in front of the sun, that is, he managed to capture a solar eclipse on Mars. The video, shot with the high-performance Mastcam-Z camera system on the spacecraft, was then zoomed in as much as possible and presented at the highest frame rate. The resulting video was as follows:

Phobos, the potato-shaped moon of Mars, passes in front of the sun

The solar eclipse we see above occurred on April 2, 2022 on the Earth’s calendar. About lasts 40 seconds What allowed Perseverance to pull directly on the sun during the eclipse was the special sun filters on it. These filters allow Perseverance to project its cameras directly onto the sun and even reveal some of the sun’s details.

Phobos, which we see passing in front of the sun, is 157 times smaller than our moon’s moon, and it’s not the first time it’s been depicted this way. Eclipse of Phobos has worked with the Spirit and Oppurtunity instruments for the past 18 years. First observed in 2004by Curiosity in 2019 first recorded on video†