Googly eyes.
How perfectly moon fits between earth and the sun is one of the weirdest things about our solar system for me.
Especially because it hasn’t always and it won’t forever. Humanity’s existence just happens to coincide with the period of amazing eclipses.
Yep this. Call in sick, quit, max out your credit, go halfway around the world, do literally whatever is needed to be done to see a total eclipse if you haven’t been able to experience it yet. It’s unreal.
From what I’ve seen of future eclipse maps, it’ll probably be a very long time before I get to see another eclipse at totality
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2921/
You kidding?
There is loads of space between the Earth and the Sun to fit the Moon.
That’s actually amazing that we have eclipse shots from Mars. Anyone know how it was taken? What instrument?
Think about that though. I guess it’s no big deal to younger people since Mars has been reachable for their whole life, but the fact that we have robots on Mars taking pictures of a solar eclipse and sending it back to earth is just amazing to me! Mars was a huge mystery when I was a kid. Heck, my childhood was at the tail end of society wondering if there were martians living on Mars.
