It's eclipse season for Curiosity right now -- the rover has recorded several transits of Phobos and Deimos across the Sun. Those images are cool enough on their own. But today was an especially good Phobos transit, where it blotted out maybe a third of the Sun's disk. And the Curiosity team performed a cool trick. While Phobos was blotting out the Sun, and while Curiosity was taking pictures of the transit with her Mastcams, she also used her Hazcams to take a wide-angle shot of the landscape. What happens when a moon blots out the Sun? It gets darker. Can you see the effect of Phobos' passage in this animation? It's like a plane flying overhead! Except, instead of a plane, it's a space potato!

COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL.