NASA shares epic photo of the moon’s spooky shadow during June eclipse

During a solar eclipse, the moon blocks the sun and the results can be some really weird shadows and weird lighting on the Earth’s surface.

But watch the same event from space and it might sound a little more … frightening.

NASA’s Polychromatic Earth Imaging Camera (EPIC) aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite captured the above image of our world during the annular solar eclipse as seen on the northern hemisphere on June 10. The shadow cast by the moon appears as a strange and disturbing fuzzy brown spot over the north polar region.

The image was taken from Lagrange’s L1 point, where the satellite is nearly a million kilometers from Earth, providing a very unique perspective.

“Taking images of the sunny half of the Earth at a distance four times the orbit of the Moon never ceases to amaze,” Adam Szabo, NASA DSCOVR project scientist, said in a statement.

The June 10 eclipse was a rare annular solar eclipse or “ring of fire”. He also produced full of breathtaking images from the surface of our planet, and some from the air as well.

The next such eclipse is scheduled for October 14, 2023, and it’s a safe bet that some satellites will be looking somewhere.

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