Solar Eclipse On Earth From Space

2017 solar eclipse from space station nasa tv the moon s shadow on earth as seen by astronauts aboard the international space station during the total solar eclipse of aug.

Solar eclipse on earth from space.

A collaboration with sentintosp. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon gets between earth and the sun and the moon casts a shadow over earth. Pictures of the annular solar eclipse made it to the social media platforms where we could see the partial solar eclipse as well as the maximum eclipse showing a ring of fire. The first solar eclipse of the year 2020 just concluded.

A separate category of solar eclipses is that of the sun being occluded by a body other than the earth s moon as can be observed at points in space away from the earth s surface. Get closer than ever to a total solar eclipse and observe it from all possible angles in this stunning virtual reality video. It is not a mystery that a solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the sun blocking the sunlight from passing. When the eclipse looked so magnificent from the earth imagine what it would have looked like from space.

But from space an annular eclipse appears very similar to a total solar eclipse and astronauts and satellites can spot the phenomenon by looking for a round shadow dancing across earth s surface. Nasa astronaut chris cassidy shared images of the eclipse s shadow falling on earth from the space. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between earth and the sun. Learn how the moon blocks the sun s light to earth during an eclipse.

These images show how vividly eclipse s shadow passes and falls on earth by the moon s intervention. Solar eclipse from space actually there s no need to imagine we can just show you. Two examples are when the crew of apollo 12 observed the earth eclipse the sun in 1969 and when the cassini probe observed saturn eclipsing the sun in 2006.