On April 20th, the Mars rover Perseverance recorded a solar eclipse on Mars with the martian moon Phobos passing by the sun for 40 seconds.
The eclipse was not like the one you see on Earth. Earth's moon is big enough to cover up the Sun completely. Mars’s lumpy shaped potato moon can only cover up less than a third of the Sun. This event is common every few years, and it is not the first time an eclipse has been seen on Mars.
But the Perseverance’s Mastcam Z camera has captured the highest definition video of an eclipse. Many people worry that the Sun may damage the camera of the rover and the camera would be nothing but dead weight, but NASA has found its way around that. They just focus the camera on Phobos, not the Sun.
This event will happen again in the next few years.
