Phobos, one of Mars' two moons, passed between the Red Planet and the Sun on September 30, marking the 1285th Martian day of the Perseverance mission. The rover, positioned on the western wall of the Jezero crater, captured the eclipse using its powerful Mastcam-Z camera system.
The video shows the tiny potato-shaped moon moving in front of the solar disk. Phobos appears as a dark object against the warm glow of the Sun, creating a unique eye-like shape in the sky above Mars.
This isn't the first time that Perseverance has witnessed a solar eclipse from Mars. In fact, considering that Phobos orbits the Red Planet every 7.6 hours, such events occur far more frequently on Mars than solar eclipses do on Earth.