Posted on 04/06/2014 9:15:52 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Explanation: Has a solar eclipse ever been seen from the Moon? Yes, first in 1967 -- but it may happen again next week. The robotic Surveyor 3 mission took thousands of wide angle television images of the Earth in 1967, a few of which captured the Earth moving in front of the Sun. Several of these images have been retrieved from the NASA archives and compiled into the above time-lapse video. Although the images are grainy, the Earth's atmosphere clearly refracted sunlight around it and showed a beading effect when some paths were blocked by clouds. Two years later, in 1969, the Apollo 12 crew saw firsthand a different eclipse of the Sun by the Earth on the way back from the Moon. In 2009, Japan's robotic Kaguya spacecraft took higher resolution images of a similar eclipse while orbiting the Moon. Next week, however, China's Chang'e 3 mission, including its Yutu rover, might witness a new total eclipse of the Sun by the Earth from surface of the Moon. Simultaneously, from lunar orbit, NASA's LADEE mission might also capture the unusual April 15 event. Another angle of this same event will surely be visible to people on Earth -- a total lunar eclipse.
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[Video Credit: NASA, Surveyor 3; Acknowledgement: R. D. Sampson (ECSU)]
Used to tell my kids that a solar eclipse was when the moon passed between the earth and the sun. Lunar was when sun passed between the earth and the moon.
Son came home angry one day when he figured it out at school.
:’)
“Used to tell my kids that a solar eclipse was when the moon passed between the earth and the sun. Lunar was when sun passed between the earth and the moon.”
I told my daughters a Solar eclipse was a sport version of the normal Mitsubishi Eclipse. They didn’t believe me but they did believe it when I told them Nostradamus was cancer of the nose
You lost me on the sun passing between the earth and moon. Thanks. I now feel dumber for having read that post.
Well, it’s interesting that the second panel explaining the eclipse of the sun is very close to the APOD.
Saw that and immediately heard the opening bars of “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in my head.
And, the 1967 Surveyor 3 SSV with an eternal loop added:
Thank you, Prospero, for the time-lapse video.
Tsk! The child abuse going on here!
My sister used to tell me garbage like that, and I got into arguments with my teachers by insisting that my “dear”
sister wouldn’t lie to me.
She was 11 years older, and she enjoyed making stuff up, which I finally realized when I got out of grade school
and found that I was smart enough to figure out where the buckwheat grows.
If a solar eclipse from the moon is occurring, you should be able to see the shadow of the earth moving across the face of the moon.
"Artist's Conception"
(On a totally clear Western Hemisphere day ;)
Yes, I have seen the moon when the Earth eclipsed the sun because the three orbs were aligned.
It turns red.
I am an elderly woman, and all of the “facts” that my sister told me sixty years ago have been
forgotten, since they were nonsense. When I stopped insisting that she was right, I had a LOT
less trouble in school with my teachers and classmates.
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