NASA shares an image of the moon’s shadow over the North Pole during last month’s solar eclipse!

NASA shared a stunning image of the moon’s shadow hovering over the North Pole during last month’s solar eclipse, making the celestial moon look like an inkblot on a page.

The photo, which was released on Wednesday, was taken on June 10 and shows an “epic” view of the moon’s shadow during the solar eclipse, which has been watched by millions around the world.

NASA’s DSCOVR Project Scientist Dr Adam Szabo said in a statement: “Taking pictures of the sunny half of Earth at a distance four times as far away as the moon’s orbit never ceases to offer. surprises, like the moon sometimes entering our field of vision, or the moon casting a shadow over it. ground”.

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This particular image was captured by the US Space Agency’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a camera and telescope on NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite.

The satellite orbits Lagrange’s L1 point, which NASA defines as “locations in space where objects sent to it tend to stay in place,” and is about a million kilometers from Earth.

L1 Lagrange is unstable on a scale of about 23 days, as satellites orbiting this location will regularly undergo heading and position corrections.

EPIC images were used to observe Earth’s vegetation, cloud heights and ozone, in addition to the occasional solar eclipse.

Source: Daily Mail

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