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But the moon size thing isn’t a coincidence, thats part of what makes solar eclipses so rare, the moon needs to be at the correct distance when it passes in front of the sun or it isn’t as impressive, and it does do that some times.
Total* solar eclipses. Mars has solar eclipses, just not very impressive ones since the shadows are so small, but you could actually look directly at the sun to see the shadow at that distance, without fucking up your eyes
Do they bother calling them "eclipses" or "transits?" Like we don't say Mercury or Venus eclipse the sun.
NASA seems to call them eclipses, as well as several other Space Agencies that should be recognized as authorities here, I can only assume that is due to the fact that Phobos and Deimos orbit Mars, and Mercury and Venus don't orbit Earth.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_eclipses_on_Mars
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Here meaning the overall astronomy community.