NASA Shares Jupiter, Mars Eclipse Images as Jupiter’s 115 Moons and Mars’s 2 Shape Solar Shadows
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Updated · Mashable India · Aug 12
NASA Shares Jupiter, Mars Eclipse Images as Jupiter’s 115 Moons and Mars’s 2 Shape Solar Shadows
3 articles · Updated · Mashable India · Aug 12
Summary
NASA highlighted solar eclipses beyond Earth with images from Jupiter and Mars, tying the post to Earth’s Aug. 12 eclipse.
Jupiter’s eclipses are mainly cast by its four Galilean moons; NASA resurfaced a Juno image from its 22nd flyby in 2019 showing Io’s roughly 2,200-mile shadow on the planet’s atmosphere.
Mars gets smaller, annular-style eclipses because Phobos and Deimos are too small to fully cover the Sun; Phobos alone can create two eclipses a day because it circles Mars every 7 hours 39 minutes.
NASA also pointed to rover imagery of Phobos crossing the Sun, including Perseverance observations from April 2, 2022, to show how eclipse mechanics differ across the solar system.