Too many media are casting this as a cutesy story about "googly eyes" on Mars. What it really is is freakin' amazing: video of a Martian solar eclipse as Mars's moon Phobos glides between the planet and the Sun, seen by the rover Perseverance.
Think about what's happening here: a robot that we sent to Mars in 2020, which is still rolling around and exploring nearly four years after it landed, looked up into the sky and watched an alien moon eclipse an alien world, then beamed those images tens of millions of miles to Earth.
Just mull on that for a moment instead of scrolling to the next meme. Let it take your breath away. What a time of wonders we take for granted.
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