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The Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 1 year ago

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The Picard Maneuver to People [email protected] • 1 year ago
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    Source?

    It looks like you would get a perfect solar eclipse on Mars if Pandora were spherical.

    https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamiecartereurope/2018/08/10/earth-is-not-the-only-planet-in-the-solar-system-that-gets-total-solar-eclipses/

    If there’s another planet in our solar system where you can almost get an earth-like “perfect” solar eclipse, I find it highly unlikely that there isn’t a single other planet in our entire galaxy where one might also see a “perfect” solar eclipse.

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      https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/04/08/solar-eclipse-mars-phobos-nasa-photos/73242215007/

      Forbes messed up their math.

      Both of Mars’ moons are either too small or too far from the planet to completely occlude the sun, but your article is about a moon of Saturn.

      I’m not sure I would count a planet that no human or rover has a chance to see the eclipse, and at that distance the sun is TINY, but I’ll bet that Pandora completely occludes both the sun and it’s corona.

      It’s highly likely that no other planet in the galaxy has the correct conditions for a perfect solar eclipse.

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      I find it highly unlikely that there isn’t a single other planet in our entire galaxy where one might also see a “perfect” solar eclipse.

      yup, they think they can speak for literally billions of stars with potentially billions and billions of planets… seems like a tall order lol

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