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UnfairRepresent
02/20/24 4:40:27 PM
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The Perseverance rover on Mars recorded the potato-shaped moon of Phobos crossing in front of the Sun last weeka Martian eclipse.

The rover was able to snap 68 images of the February 8th transit from its vantage point in the Jezero Crater, many of which unmistakably looked like classic, stick-on googly eyes, points out a science writer.

Each time these eclipses are observed, they allow scientists to measure subtle shifts in Phobos orbit over time, NASA wrote.

The pictures were captured using the rovers left Mastcam-Z camera, usually used to take panoramic views of the Martian landscape.

Scientists will be able to use the data captured to study Phobos, named after the ancient Greek god of fear. Phobos is on a collision course with Mars, nearing the Red Planet at a rate of six feet (1.8 meters) every hundred years.

At that rate, the moon will either crash into Mars in 50 million years or break up into a ring.

The result arguably resembles more googly eye than awe-inspiring [sic] cosmic calendar occurrence, wrote Andrew Paul at Pop-Sci.

Mars is watching you CE

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Irony
02/20/24 4:41:13 PM
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It's Mr Popo

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GeminiDeus
02/20/24 4:41:43 PM
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It's looking at Earth in a "please don't come near me" kind of way.

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MarcoRubio
02/20/24 4:42:26 PM
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Irony posted...
It's Mr Popo

Oh boy

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Kami_no_Kami
02/20/24 4:44:53 PM
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Rares advertisements are really something else
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FolkenRawr
02/20/24 4:45:20 PM
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Irony posted...
It's Mr Popo

Fuck

I laughed

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VampireCoyote
02/20/24 4:45:51 PM
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Mars isnt getting enough sun and they are just laughing

goons

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Southernfatman
02/20/24 4:46:46 PM
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Irony posted...
It's Mr Popo

lol

"Pecking order"

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VideoboysaysCube
02/20/24 4:47:55 PM
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Irony posted...
It's Mr Popo

Or possibly Jynx. Who can be sure.

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UnfairRepresent
02/20/24 5:35:53 PM
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VideoboysaysCube posted...
Or possibly Jynx. Who can be sure.
Smeone hasn't seen DBZA

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