September 27, 2015 Total Lunar Eclipse: View from the Moon
- Visualizations by:
- Ernie Wright
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With the lunar horizon in the foreground, the Earth passes in front of the Sun, revealing the red ring of sunrises and sunsets along the limb of the Earth. The Earth and Sun are in Virgo for observers on the Moon. The bright star above them is beta Virginis.
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The city lights of North and South America and of western Europe and Africa are visible on the night side of the Earth. The part of the Earth visible in this animation is the part where the lunar eclipse can be seen.
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizer
- Ernie Wright (USRA) [Lead]
Scientists
- John Keller (NASA/GSFC)
- Noah Petro (NASA/GSFC)
Producers
- David Ladd (AIMM)
- Michelle Handleman (KBRwyle)
Missions
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This visualization can be found in the following series:Datasets used in this visualization
LRO DEM (A.K.A. Digital Elevation Map) (Collected with the LOLA sensor)
DE421 (A.K.A. JPL DE421)
Planetary ephemerides
Dataset can be found at: http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets
See more visualizations using this data setLRO WAC 643nm High Sun Global Mosaic (Collected with the LROC sensor)
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