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I have seen a picture of a Solar Eclipse in Mars by Demios. Can we have this in Celestia? In the eclpise finder Mars does no tappera with the rest of the planets, why?

I don't think it is possible, Deimos is too small. It is rather called a transit.

However Deimos can be eclipsed by Mars shadow.

The shadow of Phobos can be seen on Mars's surface. It's close to Mars so the eclipses are frequent.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/11_1_99_phobos/

Brendan

Phobos's numerous eclipses would be a truely interesting (and indeed alien) aspect of living on Mars. Those pictures really show it well, too.

Very cool.

Cheers,
Rolf
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Hey, Rolf - your screenshot shows the sub-Mars hemisphere of Phobos pointing away from the Martian surface. How did that happen?

Grant

It's actually a shot from Orbiter...not quite as accurate as Celestia for axis of objects such as non-Luna moons. The new version might have cleared this up...just released.
If not, I'll bring it up with the designer. Good call.

Cheers,
Rolf