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Credit & Copyright: Stephan Heinsius
(Eclipseland)
Explanation:
What would it look like to fly through a total eclipse of the Sun?
On a typical place on Earth in the path of the
dark shadow of the Moon during a total eclipse, an observer
would see the Moon cross the face of the Sun, completely blocking it for a few minutes.
A particularly clear view of the darkness created on Earth during
last
month's
total
solar
eclipse was
captured by an aircraft flying through
the Moon's
umbral shadow.
One second of time in the
featured time-lapse video
corresponds to about one minute of real time.
The Moon's shadow comes in from the right and leaves on the left,
all while locations on Earth outside the
umbral shadow -- over 100 kilometers away -- remain partly sunlit.
During the
next solar eclipse in mid-September,
the Moon will, at most, block only part of the Sun.
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Based on Astronomy Picture
Of the Day
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