Solar eclipses throughout the Solar System
TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSES, as seen from the Earth, occur because the ratio of the real diameters (400.6) and the average centre-to-centre distances from the Earth (389.2) of the Sun and Moon compensate for each other almost exactly. In other words, the Sun and the Moon appear to be almost the same size in our sky, making it possible for the Moon to completely cover the solar disk. It also gives us the chance to see the Sun’s awesome corona surrounding the silhouette of the Moon.
It has often been claimed that nowhere else in the Solar System is the apparent size of a natural satellite close enough to that of the Sun to produce an eclipse spectacle similar to that which we experience on Earth. This claim has been discussed a number of times but mostly
