Nasa recent news about asteroid :
This past week, NASA’s Perseverance rover witnessed a Martian eclipse and sent photos that look like a giant googly-eye peering over Mars.
On Wednesday, NASA posted pictures and video where the Martian moon Phobos occulted Mars, meaning it appears to lie between the red planet and the Sun. The images were taken in September and showed slopes in the western part of Jezero Crater which is currently being studied by Perseverance, the rover which has delivered remarkable results on Mars for the last three years.
Phobos is an irregular, heavily cratered moon some 157 times smaller in diameter than Earth’s moon and lies within three degrees of the Martian equator. Moon/Mars eclipses on this scale are common on Mars, but relatively short, the longest lasting around 30 seconds according to NASA.
This is not the first time Perseverance has captured a Martian eclipse but it was a successful attempt to capture the event. Other eclipses were captured by earlier missions to Mars in 2004 and in 2016 providing scientists with new data about the Martian atmosphere and its two tiny moons.
NASA further explained that Phobos in particular is slowly moving closer and closer to Mars with chances of impacting the planet in the next 50 million years. So, this was actually Nasa recent news about asteroid
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