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iss-eclipse.jpg Total Solar Eclipse Photographed From Intl. Space Station
By Mike Pasini, The Imaging Resource
(Friday, April 7, 2006 - 11:46 EDT)

So what's a total solar eclipse look like if you're orbiting the earth instead of looking up at the sun? NASA answers that one with an image sporting the most shadow detail ever taken .

According to a post on NASA's Web site, "The International Space Station (ISS) was in position to view the umbral (ground) shadow cast by the Moon as it moved between the Sun and the Earth during the solar eclipse on March 29, 2006."

Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. 6 Apr. 2006. "Earth Sciences and Image Analysis Photographic Highlights."

"This astronaut image," the post continues, "captures the umbral shadow across southern Turkey, northern Cyprus, and the Mediterranean Sea. People living in these regions observed a total solar eclipse, in which the Moon completely covers the Sun's disk. The astronaut photograph was taken at approximately 2:00 p.m. local time. The terminator of the eclipse-the line between the light and dark parts of the Sun's disk- is visible as it passes across central Turkey. This total solar eclipse is the fourth to have occurred since 1999. The portion of the ISS visible at image top is the Space Station Remote Manipulator System."

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