Acquired during the solar eclipse of May 20, 2012, this natural-color image shows the Moon’s shadow over the northern Pacific Ocean.
Published May 22, 2012
This rare event merged annular and total eclipses. It won't happen again until 2172.
Published Nov 5, 2013
On July 2, 2019, a NASA satellite captured an image of the Moon’s shadow off of South America.
Published Jul 3, 2019
An astronaut aboard the International Space Station shot a photograph of the Moon’s shadow crossing the Earth on June 21, 2020.
Published Jun 23, 2020
NASA’s Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on August 1, 2008.
Published Aug 2, 2008
As millions of people looked up at the Sun during the total solar eclipse, a sensor on NASA’s Terra satellite kept its gaze fixed on Earth and collected imagery of the Moon’s shadow over the United States.
Published Aug 21, 2017
Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.
Published Mar 2, 2017
On February 20, 2008, sky gazers from the central Pacific to Africa saw the full Moon turn a striking red as it passed into Earth’s shadow. From space, the lunar eclipse deepened the darkness of the night. The Defense Meteorological Satellite Program’s (DMSP) F16 satellite captured this view of the eclipse as the satellite flew over the nighttime side of the Earth in a series of overpasses.
Published Mar 13, 2008
The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral shadow cast by the Moon as it moved between the Sun and the Earth during the solar eclipse on March 29, 2006. This astronaut image captures the shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus, and the Mediterranean Sea. People living in these regions observed a total solar eclipse, in which the Moon completely covers the Sun’s disk. The astronaut photograph was taken at approximately 2:00 p.m. local time. The terminator of the eclipse—the line between the light and dark parts of the Sun’s disk— is visible as it passes across central Turkey. The portion of the ISS visible at image top is the Space Station Remote Manipulator System.
Published Mar 31, 2006
