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Perseverance rover watches ‘googly eye’ solar eclipse from Mars

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a “googly eye” solar eclipse as the planet’s moon Phobos passed in front of the sun.

Phobos — one of Mars’ two moons, along with the even tinier Deimos — traveled between the Red Planet and the sun on Sept. 30, the 1,285th Martian day of Perseverance’s mission. The rover, located on the western wall of Mars’ Jezero Crater at the time, captured the eclipse using its powerful Mastcam-Z camera system.

NASA recently shared a new video of footage taken by Perseverance, showing the tiny, potato-shaped moon as it moved in front of the sun’s disk. Phobos appeared as a dark black object against the warm glow of the sun, creating what looks like a “googly eye” (where Phobos is the pupil) in the skies above Mars.

This is not the first time that Perseverance has witnessed a solar eclipse from Mars. In fact, given that Phobos circles the Red Planet once every 7.6 hours, this type of event is much more common on Mars, compared to eclipses on Earth.

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“Because Phobos’ orbit is almost perfectly in line with the Martian equator and relatively close to the planet’s surface, transits of the moon occur on most days of the Martian year,” NASA officials said in the statement sharing the new Perseverance video footage.

Measuring only 17 miles (27 kilometers) at its widest point, Phobos is roughly 157 times smaller in diameter than Earth’s moon. Given its swift orbit, a transit of Phobos usually lasts only 30 seconds or so. The video footage shared shows the eclipse in real time, as well as sped up by four times.

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“At the same time that Phobos appeared as a large black disc rapidly moving across the face of the sun, its shadow, or antumbra, moved across the planet’s surface,” NASA officials said in the statement.

In addition to Perseverance, NASA’s Curiosity and Opportunity rovers have also been treated to solar eclipses on Mars, during which Phobos passed in front of the sun. By capturing various eclipse events over the last 20 years, scientists are able to learn more about the moon and how its orbit is changing.

This data is particularly helpful as Phobos is nearing Mars at a rate of 6 feet (1.8 meters) every 100 years. As a result, the moon is predicted to crash into the Red Planet within about 50 million years, according to the statement.

Originally posted on Space.com.

Rover Announces $0.03 Unit Financing

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Vancouver, BC, July 29, 2024 – (ACN Newswire) – Rover Critical Minerals Corp. (TSXV:ROVR)(OTCQB:ROVMF)(FSE:4XO)(“Rover” or the “Company“) is pleased to announce a non-brokered private placement financing for a minimum of $175,000 and a maximum of $500,000. The Company will issue $0.03 units. Each unit is priced at $0.03 and is comprised of one common share and one common share purchase warrant (the “$.03 Units“). The warrants on the Units have an exercise price of $0.05 per warrant share, with a life of two years. Assuming the financing is fully subscribed, there will be up to 16,666,667 common shares and 16,666,667 common share purchase warrants issued in connection with this financing, plus any finder’s commission warrants.

The Company anticipates multiple closings of the $0.03 Unit financing. An updating release will be provided once the Company has completed any future closings of the $0.03 Unit financing.

Use of Proceeds

The proceeds from the first closing of the $0.03 Unit financing will be used to finance ongoing permitting work, claim renewal fees, and exploration work at the Company’sLet’s Go Lithium projectlocated in the Amargosa Valley of Nevada, USA. Additional secondary, and future closings, will go towards general and administrative expenses, as well as towards the closing costs related to the Company’s recently announcedletter of intent to acquire the newSilicon Valleyproject in Golden, BC, Canada.

Judson Culter, CEO at Rover, states: “Please reach out to me if you have interest in participating on our $0.03 Unit financing. My contact details are below.”

About Rover Critical Minerals

Rover is a publicly traded junior mining company that trades on the TSXV under symbol ROVR, on the OTCQB under symbol ROVMF, and on the FSE under symbol 4XO. The Company is focussed on the permitting and exploration of theLGL projecta claystone lithium project in the Amargosa Valley of Nevada, USA, as well as the acquisition of theSilicon Valley projectlocated in Golden, BC, Canada.

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Perseverance Mars rover digs into intriguing ‘Bright Angel’ rock formation (photo)

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NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover acquired this image with its Front Right Hazard Avoidance Camera A on June 16, 2024. It shows the area in front of the rover at a site called Bright Angel, with the arm extended as the PIXL instrument investigates the surface.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech)

Last week, after braving a field of sand dunes and traversing the desiccated remnants of an ancient river, NASA’s Perseverance rover reached the shining rock outcropping on the Martian horizon that the rover’s operators have named “Bright Angel.”

Perseverance has now begun its scientific investigation of a very unique place in its surroundings. Its first action: digging into the ground, scanning and imaging the Mars soil with X-rays. Over the coming months, scientists will parse the data that Perseverance sends back.

Bright Angel got its name for being an unusually light-colored patch of rock in images taken from orbit. Against the Martian landscape, the outcropping’s dramatic appearance caught scientists’ eyes.

The patch’s site at the edge of Neretva Vallis, a dried river channel that feeds into Perseverance’s Jezero Crater landing site — and a channel that Perseverance had trailed for weeks — suggested that Bright Angel might harbor interesting details about Mars’ wetter past.

As Perseverance approached Bright Angel, the rover’s operators and mission scientists on Earth got their first close-up looks at the place. Some scientists think that Bright Angel’s rocks represent older material that was exposed by now-vanished water eroding the ground.

After several days of sightseeing and photo-taking, Perseverance began to dig, lowering its high-speed drill into the ground. The rover then cleared the dust away by blasting it with nitrogen gas. Performing such a shallow dig, which scientists call an abrasionallows the rover to clear a circle of the Martian surface’s weathered outer layer and get at the pristine rock below.

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On this spot, Perseverance deployed its PIXL instrument, a device that lights up the Martian surface with an X-ray beam and measures the light that bounces back. It’s too soon for scientists to have processed the data, but over the coming months, they will analyze it to learn more about how Bright Angel formed and how it relates to Neretva Vallis’ former river.

Now, Perseverance’s science team will determine if the rover should take an even more drastic step — determining whether samples from Bright Angel will make fine additions to its collection. If so, a planned return campaign may deliver Bright Angel rocks back to Earth.

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Rahul Rao is a graduate of New York University’s SHERP and a freelance science writer, regularly covering physics, space, and infrastructure. His work has appeared in Gizmodo, Popular Science, Inverse, IEEE Spectrum, and Continuum. He enjoys riding trains for fun, and he has seen every surviving episode of Doctor Who. He holds a masters degree in science writing from New York University’s Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program (SHERP) and earned a bachelors degree from Vanderbilt University, where he studied English and physics.