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The Solar Ring of Fire - selected child image

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The Solar Ring of Fire - related image preview

Data acquired February 26, 2017
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The Solar Ring of Fire

Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.

This image originally appeared in the NASA Earth Observatory story The Solar Ring of Fire.

NASA images courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS and VIIRS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem, with Sarah Frazier and Lina Tran.

Published March 2, 2017
Data acquired February 26, 2017

Sources:: Aqua > MODIS; DSCOVR > EPIC; Suomi NPP > VIIRS; Terra > MODIS

Collection:: Earth from Afar