Total Solar Eclipse
Taken by Erwin Sandoval on August 21, 2017 @ Space
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This animation was assembled from several images acquired on August 21, 2017, by NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) on the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). From its position about 1.6 million kilometers
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My family and I raced this shadow from eastern Kansas for five hours in a successful attempt to escape a large storm system. We stopped just SE of Marshall, Missouri, when the sun was about 99% eclipsed. I remember looking up at the sun with my filtered eyes just as the diamond ring announced 2nd contact, and then we all removed our filters and beheld the unearthly spectacle. A first for all of us!!

Doug Z
Posted by owleye1 2017-08-23 11:58:32
The moon in its orbit (and its shadow) are moving around 2200 mph, so it only take 3 1/2 hours to race across the Earth at Mach 3. The US was moving around 730 mph due to the Earths rotation, about 3 times slower than the shadow.
Posted by lcs 2017-08-23 12:34:11
lcs-- Im sorta guessing Mr. Owl didnt start racing a minute before totality. :)

Glad you made it to clear skies in time, Mr. Owl. We did it the hard (or at least expensive) way -- took the whole famn damily to Wyoming. Worth it, though.
Posted by rickmott73 2017-08-30 14:01:40
 
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