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Lunar Eclipse from Orbit

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.


Image and data processing by NOAA’s National Geophysical Data Center, Earth Observation Group, Boulder, CO. DMSP data collected by U.S. Air Force Weather Agency. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published March 13, 2008
Data acquired February 20, 2008

Source:
DMSP > OLS