What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse

What Spacecraft Saw During the 2017 Solar Eclipse

On Aug. 21, 2017, a solar eclipse passed over North America. People throughout the continent experienced a partial solar eclipse, and a total solar eclipse passed over a narrow swath of land stretching from Oregon to South Carolina, called the path of totality. NASA and its partners' satellites had a unique vantage point to watch the eclipse. Several Sun-watching satellites were in a position to see the Moon cross in front of the Sun, while many Earth-observing satellites - and NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which typically images the Moon's landscape - captured images of the Moon's shadow on Earth's surface. See more and download content at https://go.nasa.gov/2x7b8kf Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/Genna Duberstein Music Credits: Wonderful Nature by July Tourret Imagery provided by: Solar Dynamics Observatory International Space Station SOHO inside image credit: Solar Dynamics Observatory, LMSAL and NASA's GSFC; Middle image: Jay Pasachoff, Ron Dantowitz, Christian Lockwood, and the Williams College Eclipse Expedition/NSF/National Geographic Outside image credit: LASCO from NRL on SOHO from ESA/NASA Hinode Image credit: JAXA/NASA GOES Image credit: NOAA/NASA's GOES-16 NOAA's DSCOVR Image credit: NASA EPIC Team Terra Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using MODIS data from the Land Atmosphere Near real-time Capability for EOS (LANCE) and EOSDIS/Rapid Response Suomi NPP Image credit: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens and Jesse Allen, using VIIRS data from the University of Wisconsin's Space S cience and Engineering Center Direct Broadcast system. IRIS Image credit: LMSAL/NASA, Bart De Pontieu LRO Image credit: NASA/GSFC/Arizona State University This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12698 If you liked this video, subscribe to the NASA Goddard YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/NASAExplorerOr subscribe to NASA’s Goddard Shorts HD Podcast: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/iTunes/f0004_index.htmlFollow NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center · Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NASA.GSFC · Twitter https://twitter.com/NASAGoddard · Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/ · Instagram https://www.instagram.com/nasagoddard/ · Google+ https://plus.google.com/+NASAGoddard/posts