V Martín

VERY important eclipse science, but this time for Mars 🙃 Candy for Dune fans too.

"The next observable partial double transit, excluding less prominent grazing events, is predicted for 2034-04-17. The next full double transit, with both moons wholly inside the solar disc, with a gap between each silhouette and the solar limb, occurs on 2118-11-20."

S. Cody: "Simultaneous Double Transits of Phobos and Deimos as Seen from the Martian Surface: A Millennium Catalogue"
https://arxiv.org/html/2602.18513

Feb 24 at 8:44amWeb
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This reminds me of an old #PlanetArtober piece from 2021

"Once in an eon"

Fingerpainted on tablet with #SketchbookApp

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which was "triggered" by a putative exoplanet configuration around HD 3167. The figure is from an old birdsite post by the @esoastronomy ESPRESSO team, coming from this paywalled paper:

L. Maltagliati: "On perpendicular paths"
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-021-01565-z

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@sharponlooker
Yes, but:
«Any future Mars colony or outpost situated above ±13∘ latitude would never witness a simultaneous double transit, regardless of how long its inhabitants waited.»

Which rules out the Apr 17, 2032 double transit for Perseverance at +18° latitude. Maybe that's the reason Moosk has now reportedly abandoned his "occupy Mars" farce and is concentrating on creating a SciFi joke for a colony on the Moon.