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Once* in a lifetime! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 177 points 7 months ago (56 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_solar_eclipses_in_the_21st_century

Not a lot of TOTAL eclipses. And the next US total is 20 years.

Unless you can afford to fly (and stay) internationally, it might very well be once in a lifetime to witness totality.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (23 children)

We aren't sure yet, but we are likely the only place in the galaxy that has the perfect total eclipses. If humanity ever manages to unite and take to the stars, there's a strong argument to be made for our flag to just be a black field with a solar corona. We may even have to worry about too much extra-terrestrial eclipse tourism.

Solar eclipses on Mars are underwhelming.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

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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