A circle of darkness moving rapidly along a narrow strip of Earth's surface last Wednesday caused excitement among many astronomy enthusiasts around the world. On the International Space Station, the crew members facing rotation filmed this wonder from space
Avi Blizovsky
The moon's shadow falls on Earth as photographed by the International Space Station
A circle of darkness moving rapidly along a narrow strip of Earth's surface last Wednesday caused excitement among many astronomy enthusiasts around the world. On the International Space Station, the crew members facing rotation filmed this wonder from space.
The moon's shadow moved in a northeasterly direction and started in Brazil, crossed the Atlantic Ocean, North Africa, and passed through Turkey to Mongolia and China. The maximum length was over western Libya, about two thousand km south of Tripoli.
Astronaut Jeffrey Williams said the reaction to the eclipse on the 13th crew's launch day "everyone who works in the space program understands that our purpose is research and discovery and understanding the unknown."
According to him, such a phenomenon inspired discoveries over the years among people who wanted to understand how such things happen. Williams, who took off together with his colleague Pavel Vinogradov to the space station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The two go to the station for a period of six months. Marcos Pontos, the first Brazilian astronaut who will stay eight days in the station and return with the 12th crew, also took off with them.
