NASA's Lunar mission captures solar eclipse as seen from the moon
NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
During the total solar eclipse on Aug. 21, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, captured an image of the Moon’s shadow over a large region of the United States, centered just north of Nashville, Tennessee. The spacecraft’s Narrow Angle Camera began scanning Earth at 2:25:30 p.m. EDT (18:25:30 UTC) and completed the image 18 seconds later. The Narrow Angle Camera is part of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera system. The Narrow Angle Camera builds up an image line by line rather than the more typical instantaneous framing that occurs with digital or cell-phone cameras. While the thrill of the total eclipse was in experiencing the shadow of the Moon sweep across us on Earth, on the Moon this was just another day.
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