14 DAY TRIAL // Solar eclipses on Earth are quite special even if they aren't that rare. Of course, the phenomenon is not unique to our planet, but since there's no one to see eclipses elsewhere, we make do with what we have.
Thankfully though, we have a few scouts in some places, notably on Mars. Earlier this month, Mars' larger moon Phobos passed in front of the sun and Curiosity was there to capture the moment.
NASA has now published images shot by Curiosity's Mast Camera (Mastcam), the sharpest of any eclipse ever captured on the planet, even if they may not look that impressive to you.
On Earth, the Moon is positioned just far away from our planet so that it covers the entire Sun during some eclipses. Phobos, despite being much closer to Mars than the Moon is to the Earth, never covers the entire Sun since it's also hundreds of times smaller than the Moon.
Coincidentally, even earlier this month, Curiosity also captured images of Phobos passing in front of the smaller moon Deimos.
