This is the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate movie of a solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface.
Phobos is slowly drifting toward Mars. Tens of millions of years from now, it will crash land.
John Carlos Baez
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2025-11-11 21:36:25 UTC
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