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Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse?
Which Planet Has the Best Eclipse?
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solar eclipses don't just happen here on Earth moons of other planets also pass
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between those planets and the Sun resulting in various types of solar eclipses on
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Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune and even non- planets like Pluto ays and various
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asteroids so where are the best eclipses in the solar system
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for that we need a tier list from most to least impressive
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total solar eclipses on Earth are after all pretty darn impressive
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the midday sun is blotted out and it looks like there's a dark gate
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Hole in the Sky we get to see the sun's glowing Corona around the
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inky black moon stars come out the Horizon looks like a sunrise is happening
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any direction you look and totality happens so rarely on any particular place on
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Earth and is over so quickly it's a very rare experience and you don't
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really have time to process what's going on
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part of why eclipses are so great on Earth is that the sizes and
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distances of the Moon and Sun work out so they appear similarly
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big in the sky so the moon can block the Sun but not the
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corona I think this all makes eclipses
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here on Earth a pretty superb
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AKA s tier phenomenon
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so are eclipses on the other planets in the solar system any
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are any of them better than ours
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let's start with a non- planet the moon
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from the Moon a lunar eclipse
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which is when the earth blocks the Sun's light from the Moon is a
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solar eclipse but there's no atmosphere on the moon so you don't get any
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darkening of the sky or sunrise in all directions
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since the sky is dark to begin with and the Earth is so big
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it would block the sun's Corona
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and take several hours for the eclipse to pass the eclipse would probably feel
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similar to lunar KN except that you would see a Dusky red glow around
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the entire room of the earth due to sunlight scattering through the Earth's atmosphere
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which is pretty neat B tier
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Mercury and Venus are next no moons means no eclipses
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unless you count the fact that mercury sometimes passes between the Sun and Venus
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but it's way too small to do anything we'd remotely consider to be eclipse
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likee end here for no eclipses
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Mars does have eclipses
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but both of its moons are too small relative to the Sun to cause
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a total eclipse Phobos is close enough to Mars that it can cover as
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much as 30% of the Sun during eclipses
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and you get a lumpy ring youd need to wear solar glasses to see
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it though C tier the other Moon deos is too far away to cover
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more than about 1% of the Sun and appears small enough you'd just barely
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even be able to see it with 2020 Vision through solar glasses
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D tier Jupiter has some spectacular eclipses
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at least viewed from space it has enough moons and big moons close in
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and the moons orbit close to the same plane as the Sun so that
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Jupiter regularly has eclipses
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sometimes multiple at the same time but do they look any good from Jupiter
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itself say floating in its upper atmosphere
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three of the big moons are so big they block the Sun and probably
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most of the Corona
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and their Shadows would be large enough in the atmosphere you probably wouldn't see
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much 360° Sunrise either it would look more like nighttime
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bti Kalisto though only appears about 1 and 1/2 times the size of the
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sun and so would allow you to see the Corona and the 3 60°
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Sunrise Jupiter is also big enough you might see the surface of Kalisto itself
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illuminated in reflected Jupiter glow does that make it cooler than how our moon
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looks like a dark hole in the sky I don't know and the Sun
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and Kalisto are about five times smaller viewed from Jupiter than our moon viewed
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from Earth but unlike Earth where eclipses only happen a few times per year
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Kalisto eclipses happen approximately
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every 16 days for 3 years straight
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and then have a 3-year break all in all I'm giving Kalisto eclipses on
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Jupiter a tier Jupiter's smaller inner moons all have partial eclipses
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substantial enough to be interesting viewing by the human eye with with eclipse glasses
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so they get C tier while all of its outer moons are too small
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and far away for their really boring partial eclipses to be visible without a
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serious telescope F tier
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Saturn has almost 150
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known moons plus rings
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so it has all sorts of eclipses
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about 18 of its moons are some combination of big enough and close enough
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to see them from Saturn with the naked eye six of them are too
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big and their eclipses probably look mostly like nighttime
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so B tier and eight of them are too small to fully block the
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Sun and would require solar glasses
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I'm putting the largest three of these in C tier and the others in
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D tier however four of Saturn's moons are similar enough to the sun in
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their apparent sizes that their eclipses would be similar to total eclipses on Earth
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you'd see the corona
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the deeply Colored Sky and 360°
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Sunrise a dark hole in the sky where the sun was or the moon
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illuminated by Saturn's glow and so on I'm putting two of these in a
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tier rather than S because the sun is just so much smaller viewed from
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Saturn but two of them the moons Pandora and Prometheus
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are just the right size to create both Total and partial and annular eclipses
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they're the only moons in the rest of the solar system we know for
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sure can do that other than our moon
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plus they have potato likee shapes so partial and annular eclipses would be more
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visually interesting than our boring spherical Moon
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s tier okay uh editor hading me here I just realized that what I
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said about Pandora and Prometheus being the only other moons that can have total
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and anular eclipses that's wrong
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Janice and Epimetheus can also both have total and annular eclipses
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and probably perta on Uranus
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too here's what I missed if an eclipse happens at Sunrise or sunset or
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near the poles then the moon causing it will be farther away and thus
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appear smaller than if it causes an eclipse at noon or on the equator
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and when a moon appears smaller it might change from being a total eclipse
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to an annular eclipse
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or reveal more of the sun's Corona
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this sunrise or moonrise
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shrinking effect is technically true for all moons and all eclipses
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and is the cause of hybrid annular total eclipses here on Earth but if
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a moon is far away relative to the size of the planet then the
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effect isn't particularly big which is the case here on Earth I updated my
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Eclipse calculation spreadsheet which now shows Janice and Epimetheus
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can have partial and total eclipses too
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so they're back to S tier the other place where the sunrise effect makes
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a big difference is on Mars
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whose moons are noticeably bigger overhead and smaller when viewed on the horizon
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okay the rest of Saturn's moons are too small and far away to see
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from Saturn with the human eye F tier
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but Saturn has rings too is it technically an eclipse when Saturn's rings cast
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a shadow on the planet I don't know and I don't care it looks
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spectacular s tier once you get past Saturn you're far enough away from the
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Sun that it starts to appear more like the star that it is just
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a point in the sky rather than having a distinguishable
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disc I mean even from Saturn the sun only appears 10% as big across
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as from here on Earth Uranus is almost twice as far from the Sun
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as Saturn so the Sun appears half as big again and it's even worse
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on Neptune where the sun only appears slightly larger than
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and Venus do from Earth with the Sun so small in the sky it's
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a lot easier for the apparent size of moons to be way bigger than
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the Sun for example Uranus has around 15 moons that appear way too big
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relative to the Sun and would result in nighttime like total eclipses
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with maybe just a little 360°
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sunrise on the best of them I'm putting them in C tier the moon
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perita has the best total eclipse on Uranus
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which would be a tier except for how small the sun is so B
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tier there are two more moons that aren't big enough for total eclipses but
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whose annular eclipses are technically big enough to see with solar glasses
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D tier all the other known moons are way too too small F tier
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Neptune isn't much better seven of its moons appear way too big and completely
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block the sun D tier hippocamp
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is actually a great size appearing just barely bigger than the Sun and probably
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has a 360° Sunrise views of the Corona and the rest
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again B tier because of how small the sun is the rest of Neptune's
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known moons are too small to see F tier
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finally we get to Pluto
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yeah it's not a planet but it still has eclipses
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problem is they're horrible
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Pluto has five known moons and the smallest two are actually the perfect size
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for just barely total or mostly full annular eclipses
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except from Pluto the Sun appears has just a point of light in the
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sky it's essentially a really bright star so you couldn't see any detail of
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partial or annular eclipses without a telescope
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and there's no atmosphere which means no 360°
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sunrise or the like for total eclipses and the Sun is probably too small
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for the corona to look like more than a star either basically if sticks
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or caros fully eclipse the sun it just feels like normal nighttime
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and when sticks or carros have annular eclipses you wouldn't notice anything other than
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a slight dimming of the sun D tier the other three moons appear substantially
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bigger than the Sun and easily Eclipse it especially Pluto's double dwarf planet partner
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AKA its oversized Mo Karen
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given the minuscule size of the sun viewed from Pluto and Pluto's lack of
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atmosphere these are not at all interesting eclipses
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the only reason they're not F tier is that they're technically in Eclipse you
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can see so D tier and we're not done yet there are still other
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eclipses ays another dwarf planet even farther out than Pluto has one known moon
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but it's so much bigger than the Sun and ays also has no atmosphere
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that the eclipse is definitely detier
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there are also a lot of double asteroids in our solar system and there's
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enough Variety in their sizes and distances and such that some of the moonlets
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appear much bigger than the Sun and some much smaller and some very close
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in size they're mostly closer to the Sun than Jupiter and some get as
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close as Earth so the sun is a decent size in their Skies
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but they all suffer from a similar problem as Pluto and ays
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no atmosphere which makes for fairly boring eclipses
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the best of these are probably C tier if you want to get really
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nerdy of course it's certainly possible for moons of planets like Jupiter and Saturn
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to Eclipse each other too but evaluating the relative distances and apparent sizes relative
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to the Sun for all possible Moon combinations and positions for hundreds of moons
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is definitely beyond the scope of this video
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and that completes our list thanks for
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watching oh and I have one more thing the visuals on this t-shirt
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and in the video of what eclipses might look like on other planets
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came from minute laabs go to minute labs.
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i/ eclipses to explore for yourself what eclipses might look like on Mars Jupiter
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Saturn Uranus and Neptune
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this video was supported in part by NASA's
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heliophysics education activation team which loves solar eclipses
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NASA Heat's mission is to engage with Learners of all ages like you and
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me and to deepen our understanding of our closest star and its effects on
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earth and the solar system solar eclipses are a great way to experience a
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different side of the Sun than we normally do like literally the corona extending
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out from its sides if you ever have the opportunity to see a total
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eclipse I highly recommend it and NASA does too
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thanks to NASA heat for their support
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