Martian Astronomy: Percy Sees a ‘Phobos Eclipse’ From Mars
Steady2 outlets reported this in 2 reports over 2 days
Tue, 25 August 2026Mon, 31 August 2026
What it is about
NASAMarteFobosShahrin AhmadAsaph HallChryse PlanitiaMars SolMark Lemmon Space Science InstituteTanegashima, Japan (General), JapanJapanAmerican
Who published it, and when
original reportfirst to report
El País (Spain)
universetoday.com
25 Aug, 08:55over 6 days31 Aug, 17:30
How it spread - 2 original reports
Tue, 25 August 2026
1 report- El País (Spain)08:55first to report
El rover ‘Perseverance’ de la NASA captó el tránsito de la luna Fobos por delante del Sol
Mon, 31 August 2026
1 report- universetoday.com17:30
Sure. It’s just another image of Phobos crossing the disk of the Sun, as seen from the surface of Mars. Like so much of the modern space era, these images, once amazing, are now almost routine. But there’s some real science behind tasking the Mars rovers to conduct a little ‘Martian astronomy.’