This image was taken onboard NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on September 13, 2012.
(Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Malin Space Science Systems )
Seeing as Mars is much further away from the sun than Earth is, a solar eclipse would look different than it does here. Curiosity -- NASA's Mars rover -- caught an image of what this phenomenon looks like from the Red Planet.
While somewhat less impressive than what a solar eclipse looks like from Earth, appearing as a tiny black blip on a small white blip, this photo is still fascinating. Mars has two moons that orbit it, so the moon seen in this image is called Phobos.
To get this photo, Curiosity -- ever the clever rover -- covered its camera with a neutral density filter so as to protect its lens, according to the Atlantic. The result is a pinhole-like image similar to what we earthlings do when documenting photos of the eclipse from here. Apparently, this filter downgraded the Martian sunlight to one thousandth of its normal intensity.
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