The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse
Curiosity Weekly
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🗓️ 22 October 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Learn about how eclipses on Mars can tell scientists more about the planet’s interior, why we behave irrationally when our freedom is threatened, and how an ‘80s video game was at the center of a conspiracy theory.
The Martian Moon Phobos Creates a Yearly Solar Eclipse — and Its Effects Could Tell Us More About the Planet by Grant Currin
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- InSight’s Landing Site: Elysium Planitia. (2011). NASA. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/jpl/pia22232/insight-s-landing-site-elysium-planitia
Reactance Is Why You Act Irrationally When Your Freedom Is Threatened by Cody Gough
- Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/odds-of-dying-national-safety-council-ken-kolosh-r/
Was This 1980s Arcade Game Really at the Centre of a Government Conspiracy? by Reuben Westmaas
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- Zarrelli, N. (2016, April 28). The Urban Legend of the Government’s Mind-Controlling Arcade Game. Atlas Obscura; Atlas Obscura. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-urban-legend-of-the-governments-mindcontrolling-arcade-game
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.8 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.8 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:09.1 | Today you learn how eclipses on Mars can tell scientists more about the planet's interior, |
| 0:13.6 | why we behave irrationally when our freedom is threatened, |
| 0:16.7 | and how an 80s video game was once the center of a conspiracy theory. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:24.0 | You know Mars. |
| 0:25.6 | The red planet, fourth rock from the sun, the apple of Elon's eye. |
| 0:30.8 | Scientists have learned a ton about Mars in recent years. |
| 0:33.4 | And now a new paper explains how one of its moons |
| 0:36.8 | is shedding more light on what makes the planet tick. |
| 0:39.8 | Or should I say blocking more light? |
| 0:42.8 | Because these revelations happened thanks to some lunar eclipses. |
| 0:47.6 | About two years ago, NASA landed a probe called Insight on a plane just north of the Martian equator, called the Elesium Planitia region. |
| 0:56.0 | Insight hasn't been on the planet for very long, but it's already witnessed nine lunar eclipses, |
| 1:02.0 | won by the tiny moon |
| 1:04.0 | Damos and eight by the only slightly larger moon Phobos. |
| 1:08.0 | The Phobos eclipses happen about once per Earth year, |
| 1:12.0 | in sets of up to seven in a row. |
| 1:14.0 | While they're more frequent than lunar eclipses on Earth, |
| 1:17.0 | they're less impressive. |
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