Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away

Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away

NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured the April 8, 2024, solar eclipse from hundreds of thousands of miles away. The camera suite aboard the LRO usually retrieves high resolution black and white images of the Moon’s surface; these...
Seeing the Solar Eclipse from 223,000 Miles Away

NASA’s LRO Observes 2024 Solar Eclipse Shadow

As the Moon blotted out the Sun to viewers across the United States during the April 8 solar eclipse, NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) captured an image from some 223,000 miles away of the highly anticipated celestial event. This spectacular image showing the...
Seeing Totality

Seeing Totality

On April 8, 2024, a NASA photographer captured the total solar eclipse in Dallas. A small part of North America, from Mexico’s Pacific coast to the Atlantic coast of Newfoundland, Canada, saw the total solar eclipse, while all North America and parts of Central...