OK, I am confused.
Dateline on the post says 4/20/2022
Dateline under the video says 4/2/2021…
Any idea what the actual dates on this were.
(Though either way it is SUPER cool!)
@chienfou I would expect that it took some time to download the video information and then format it to post-able resolutions and formats, so, yeah, it happened on 4/2 but it took them a couple week to get it out to be viewed on the web.
@chienfou yoiks, right you are. They must really be shorthanded over there …
Actually, someone else in the comments caught it also, but no replies to clarify. But from reading the narrative text referring to “earlier this month”, they must just have the wrong date in there.
@blaineg
no worries. I figured it was just a typo due to the excitement! I assumed it would take a bit of time to process the data and get it posted so I figured it was from this year.
Some important questions are being answered in the forum:
Could you watch it with your “naked” eye standing on Mars, without your eyes getting fried like here on Earth? (Assuming clear, un-attenuated space helmet/window).
No. The sun would appear roughly half as bright at Mars as it does on Earth - you’d still want a filter factor of over ~50000 for safe direct viewing on Mars.
And - because you know this question is coming up - yes, you would be able to incinerate ants with a magnifying glass on Mars. Although maybe not set them on fire, due to lack of oxygen/pressure.
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its Mastcam-Z camera to shoot video of Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, eclipsing the Sun. It’s the most zoomed-in, highest-frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the Martian surface. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/SSI
But don’t let that stop anyone from profiting off of taxpayers, not giving credit to sources, and then wanting to starve government funding that produces the thing they sell. Yeah, Corporate Media, I’m looking at you. Ars, Eric Berger, CNN, Space.com, Forbes, USA Today, Fox, etc.
Is that …
@blaineg
/youtube pink floyd dark side of the moon
@blaineg @mike808 Since all sides of the moon are in darkness at some point can you please clarify?
@blaineg @mike808 @yakkoTDI Does a sphere have sides?
@blaineg @macromeh @mike808 You mean apart from the inside and the outside?
@macromeh @mike808 @yakkoTDI This side and that side.
It’s Phobos, so:
@blaineg Quit digging through Johanssen’s laptop and get to the ASCII table already.
KuoH
Too busy looking for Uranus
@somf69
have them turn around
@chienfou @somf69 But…but…but.
@somf69 @yakkoTDI
Peripherally related fact - I just realized that the handle on my kitchen timer ⏲ is a little rocketship!
@Kyeh I have seen dozens of these timers and never made that connection.
@PooltoyWolf Me too; I’ve owned this thing for years and not seen it! I just noticed while I was cleaning it.
@Kyeh @PooltoyWolf Polishing your rocket?
@Kyeh @macromeh That sounds like a furry joke!
I didn’t see no eclipse; something burned my eyes.
@phendrick
Whatever you do, do not look into the laser with remaining good eye.
@phendrick
There’s going to be a total eclipse in a couple years and it’s coming right through Rochester. We should have a Mehclipse Party.
Maybe someone could make T-shirts?
OK, I am confused.
Dateline on the post says 4/20/2022
Dateline under the video says 4/2/2021…
Any idea what the actual dates on this were.
(Though either way it is SUPER cool!)
@chienfou I would expect that it took some time to download the video information and then format it to post-able resolutions and formats, so, yeah, it happened on 4/2 but it took them a couple week to get it out to be viewed on the web.
But, yeah, still SUPER cool!
@stolicat
I get that… but if you look CLOSELY the date is 4/2/2021 ! I think it is actually footage from this year, just got screwed up in posting.
@chienfou yoiks, right you are. They must really be shorthanded over there …
Actually, someone else in the comments caught it also, but no replies to clarify. But from reading the narrative text referring to “earlier this month”, they must just have the wrong date in there.
@chienfou It’s a typo in the caption. Eric Berger is one of the best space reporters around, but he’s human.
@blaineg
no worries. I figured it was just a typo due to the excitement! I assumed it would take a bit of time to process the data and get it posted so I figured it was from this year.
Some important questions are being answered in the forum:
Here’s the source article and video. Straight from JPL.
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-perseverance-rover-captures-video-of-solar-eclipse-on-mars
But don’t let that stop anyone from profiting off of taxpayers, not giving credit to sources, and then wanting to starve government funding that produces the thing they sell. Yeah, Corporate Media, I’m looking at you. Ars, Eric Berger, CNN, Space.com, Forbes, USA Today, Fox, etc.