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In the Shadow of the Moon: Experience a Solar Eclipse From 37 Kilometers Up

November 30, 2012

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The Moon’s shadow stretches over the Earth in this balloon-mounted camera view of the November 14 solar eclipse (Catalin Beldea, Marc Ulieriu, Daniel Toma et. al/Stiinta&Tehnica) On November 14, 2012, tens of thousands of viewers across northeastern Australia got a great [...]

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In the Shadow of the Moon: A Lunar View of an Eclipse

May 25, 2012

The May 20 annular eclipse may have been an awesome sight for skywatchers across many parts of the Earth, but it was also being viewed by a robotic explorer around the Moon! During the event NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter turned its camera to look back home, acquiring several images of the Earth with the Moon’s fuzzy shadow [...]

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Opportunity Gets a View From The Edge

May 22, 2012

The rover Opportunity captured a view into Endeavour crater as a low Sun cast a long shadow in this image, acquired back on March 9. Endeavour is a large crater — 14 miles (22 km) wide, it’s about the same area as the city of Seattle. Opportunity arrived at its edge in August of 2011 [...]

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The Other End of an Eclipse

May 22, 2012

As the annular eclipse on May 20 sent skywatchers around the globe gazing upwards to see the Sun get darkened by the Moon’s silhouette, NASA’s Terra satellite caught the other side of the event: the Moon’s shadow striking the Earth! Remove this ad

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Why Are Lunar Shadows So Dark?

March 6, 2012

A lunar boulder catches the last edge of the setting sunlight in this image from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera. The boulders litter the floor of an unnamed 3.5 km wide (2.17 mile wide) crater located within the much larger crater Lobachevskiy. The smaller crater’s rim casts its shadow along the left side of the [...]

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