W Earth
Submitted 3 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Nailed it!
pjwestin@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m so happy I wasn’t the only one who saw this.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 3 months ago
Googly eyes.
Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 3 months ago
That’s actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?
CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Probably a camera of some sort.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 3 months ago
That would be my guess too. Perhaps aided by a kind of telescope.
Vorticity@lemmy.world 3 months ago
ElHexo@hexbear.net 3 months ago
NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars has returned a stunning sequence of images of its moon, Phobos, eclipsing the sun. From Mars’ Jezero Crater, the rover’s SkyCam and MastCam took over 65 images of the event on February 8, one per second, to ensure it captured the short event.
Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Mars Rover pointing straight up.
CptEnder@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I mean she’s not wrong. Isn’t it, astronomically speaking, pretty rare that Earth has a moon that appears exactly the same relative size as its host star?
johannesvanderwhales@lemmy.world 3 months ago
As far as we know it’s extremely rare and a bit of a mystery how it came to be that way. One theory is that it was the result of a collision with another protoplanet in the early formation of the solar system.
JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
But it isn’t a mystery at all. The moon is moving away from us. For billions of years the moon’s apparent size was larger than the sun. For billions of years later it will appear smaller. It’s simply a lucky coincidence we live in this moment in time, in that regard.
Window_Error_Noises@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Oh, holy hell, I just uncontrollably giggled at that for so long, my chest hurts. I sent it to my only group of friends, and it looks even better in smaller thumbnail form. Good gracious.
fsxylo@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
WANT COOKIES
booty@hexbear.net 3 months ago
give it a few hundred million years and ours won’t be able to do a total solar eclipse either :(
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Nonesense. We just need to lower the Moon’s orbit every so often to keep it in the sweet spot.
lazorne@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Toothless?
jlow@beehaw.org 3 months ago
Love how it looks like two eyeballs 😸
Etterra@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I think Mars eclipses might be better. It means they have googly eyes, and googly eyes make everything funnier.
Honytawk@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
Eye*
Only one
bad_alloc@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Imagine not even having a proper magnetic field smh
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 3 months ago
samus12345@lemmy.world 3 months ago
👀
vga@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
How perfectly moon fits between earth and the sun is one of the weirdest things about our solar system to me.
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Idk looks good to me
🌖🌔
match@pawb.social 3 months ago
Earth mentioned raaaaaah 🗣️🗣️
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Phobos is this big and still not round?
Anticorp@lemmy.world 3 months ago
NUMBER ONE!
Lepsea@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Image
Dufurson@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
awesome pic, what telescope did you use?
ug02x@programming.dev 3 months ago
The void stares back