here are a few images of what the moon's shadow looks like from above earth's surface! astronauts on the MIR space station captured this photo of the august 11th, 1999 solar eclipse!
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the dark spot shows the area on earth where one sees a total solar eclipse. the shadow is only about 100 miles wide and moves across the earth at a few times the speed of sound!
here is an image taken from the international space station on march 29, 2006:
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may the clouds not be with us!
4 comments:
Safe Travels :o)
oh my! aren't you a busy little bee! have fun on your trip! i loved those pictures! i never thought of the moon actually casting a shadow on the planet! neat i learned something new today!
Imagine if it crossed a less educated part of the world like Oaklahoma. There would be a lot of "Wha dat?!" & definitely no astronomers.
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