Perseverance rover watchs alien solar eclipse on Mars | Space photo of the day for Aug. 19, 2026

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover saw a solar eclipse from the Martian surface.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU)People around the world enjoyed stellar views with last week's total solar eclipse. And the day after we looked up to see the moon obscuring out sun, NASA's Perseverance Mars rover looked up to see its own Martian solar eclipse. What is it? Solar eclipses aren't unique to Earth. In theory, any planet with at least one orbiting moon would have times where that moon might eclipse some pa