The Perseverance rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of the Martian moon Phobos eclipsing the Sun. This is the tightest, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface.
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This animation begins with an image of the Moon’s shadow on the Earth captured by the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. As the levels of gray in the image are gradually adjusted the background saturates until the features of the landscape disappear, making it possible to see the edge of the total solar eclipse. As the gray levels are restored, the umbra (the completely shadowed area) becomes visible—followed by the penumbra (partial shadow) where part of the Sun is not completely covered by the Moon. The Moon is a high-contrast target with very bright materials next to dark materials, so LRO’s Narrow Angle Camera can record 3600 gray levels. Most digital cameras record only 255 levels of gray. In this animation the 3,600 levels of gray were compressed to 255 levels so the image can be rendered on a typical computer screen.
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This video of last Monday’s solar eclipse was put together using images from the X-ray telescope aboard the Hinode solar observation satellite operated by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency.
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There was a solar eclipse over the Pacific Ocean last year. This time lapse video was made with images taken by the Japanese Himawari-8 satellite looking down from geosynchronous orbit. The dark spot is the Moon’s shadow.
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This was taken from a live video feed of the solar eclipse visible in part of Southeast Asia yesterday. The feed was provided by the Exploratorium Science Center in San Francisco.
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There was a solar eclipse this morning visible in Indonesia.
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