Look What NASA's Perseverance Rover Just Spotted Vanishing Behind the Martian Moon Phobos
NASA processed Mastcam-Z images to reveal Earth slipping behind Phobos in a 40-second sequence captured after Martian sunset.
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The stripes on Perseverance's parachute were mostly there so engineers could see how the canopy was oriented, but the pattern also hid a message in binary, and the internet decoded it within hours of the landing — a motto, and a set of coordinates pointing at a spot on Earth
A parachute about 70 feet across has to snap open at faster-than-sound speed in Mars’s thin air. When the first images come back, you need to answer one plain question fast: is the canopy sitting the way it should, or has it twisted? A plain white parachute is far less useful for that. You want a pattern you can read at a glance. That is what the orange-and-white pattern on Perseverance’s 70-foot-diameter supersonic parachute was for, first of a…
Perseverance Captures Earth Passing Behind Phobos on Mars
From the rim of Jezero Crater, Earth is only a bright point in the sky. On July 2, NASA’s Perseverance rover watched that point vanish behind Phobos, Mars’ larger moon, and recorded the event with its Mastcam-Z camera. The sequence is the first time humanity has observed Earth disappearing behind an object from the surface […] The post Perseverance Watched Earth Disappear Behind Mars’ Moon Phobos appeared first on Curiosmos.
Perseverance Captures Earth Passing Behind Phobos from Mars
On July 2, 2026, the Perseverance rover pointed its Mastcam-Z cameras towards the evening sky above Jezero Crater. The rover was looking for a specific... The post Perseverance Captures Earth Passing Behind Phobos from Mars appeared first on DIY Photography.
The Perseverance rover of the Nasa captured a rare astronomical event: the occultation of the Earth by Phobos, the largest moon of Mars.
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