One-pixel Earth hides behind Phobos: Perseverance captures historic occultation from Mars
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NASA’s Perseverance rover on Mars recorded a nine-image sequence in which Earth, a one-pixel dot 314 million kilometres away, passes behind Phobos, marking the first observation of Earth disappearing behind another world from the surface of a different planet; the event is presented as an annotated composite rather than a continuous video, highlighting careful geometry and timing.
- On 2 July 2026, NASA's Perseverance rover captured Earth disappearing behind Phobos from the surface of Mars — the first time in history a camera on another planet has watched our world vanish behind another object. Space Daily
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- NASA’s Perseverance rover watches Earth vanish from the surface of Mars Science Daily
- NASA watched Earth disappear from the surface of Mars for the first time ever earth.com
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