Lunar View, Solar Eclipse
Explanation:
Orbiting above the
lunar nearside on August 21,
the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter turned to
look back on a bright, Full Earth.
As anticipated its Narrow Angle Camera
scanned this sharp view
of our fair planet, catching the shadow of the Moon racing
along a path
across the United States at about 1,500 miles per hour.
In fact, the dark lunar shadow is centered over
Hopkinsville,
Kentucky at 1:25:30 Central Daylight Time.
From there, the New Moon blocked the Sun high in clear skies for about
2 minutes and 40 seconds in a
total
solar eclipse.
Authors & editors:
Robert Nemiroff
(MTU) &
Jerry Bonnell
(USRA)
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NASA Official: Jay Norris.
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GSFC
& Michigan Tech. U.
