Curiosity rover captures luna eclipse of Phobos

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It's an eclipse... but not as we know it: Curiosity rover captures amazing photograph of Martian moon moving across the face of the sun

The sight of a solar eclipse is a reasonably common one - we have all seen many pictures of the moon passing between the Earth and the sun.

But this image is strikingly different to most pictures of an eclipse - because it was taken on Mars.

The object appearing to take a 'bite' out of the sun's light is not our moon, but Phobos, one of the two moons orbiting Mars.

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Eclipse: This picture was taken from the surface of Mars by the Curiosity rover and shows the moon Phobos moving across the face of the sun

Full article and more photos: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2204342/Curiosity-rover-captures-amazing-photograph-Martian-moon-moving-face-sun.html

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While curiosity driving around on Mars, the old Opportunity is still making new discovery, namely weird spheres in concentration. Scientists are baffled and do not know that this is. Here a bit of the article


Opportunity has seen Martian blueberries at many of its science sites during its Red Planet exploits, but the bumpy, spherical formations on the Kirkwood rock represent something new, researchers said. In Opportunity's new photo, many of the strange features are broken, revealing odd concentric circles inside.

"They seem to be crunchy on the outside, and softer in the middle," Squyres said. "They are different in concentration. They are different in structure. They are different in composition. They are different in distribution. So, we have a wonderful geological puzzle in front of us." [7 Biggest Mars Mysteries]
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I am bumping this because it is too interesting.....

Kind of da da da da "twilight zone" litterally