by A few days from now, the sunspot should be visible from our planet.
NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has given us a sneak peek of an intriguing patch of the sun that's not yet visible from Earth.
Perseverance photographs the sun daily with its Mastcam-Z camera system to gauge the amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere.
Such an effort captured a big sunspot moving across the solar disk late last week and over the weekend, as SpaceWeather.com reported.
"Because Mars is orbiting over the far side of the sun, Perseverance can see approaching sunspots more than a week before we do," SpaceWeather.com wrote in a post highlighting the sunspot photos.
"Consider this your one-week warning: A big sunspot is coming."
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NASA's Perseverance Mars rover has given us a sneak peek of an intriguing patch of the sun that's not yet visible from Earth.
Perseverance photographs the sun daily with its Mastcam-Z camera system to gauge the amount of dust in the Martian atmosphere.
Such an effort captured a big sunspot moving across the solar disk late last week and over the weekend, as SpaceWeather.com reported.
"Because Mars is orbiting over the far side of the sun, Perseverance can see approaching sunspots more than a week before we do," SpaceWeather.com wrote in a post highlighting the sunspot photos.
"Consider this your one-week warning: A big sunspot is coming."
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