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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 ::
What If The Rest Of The Sun Never Comes Back?
So, what do you do if you're stuck on an alien world? Enjoy the view, of course. Opportunity recently had the, uh, ... opportunity ... to witness two partial solar eclipses from the surface of Mars. While the Sun appears much smaller on Mars than it does on Earth, both Martian moons are so much smaller than Earth's that they cover only a small fraction of the Sun as they pass in front of it (Phobos, the larger moon, is only 17 miles across its longest dimension).