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NASA shares epic image of the moon's shadow over the Arctic during the solar eclipse
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It may look like a smudge on your screen, but the latest image released by NASA of our blue marble actually captures the moon's shadow during the most recent solar eclipse.
The image, taken on June 10 and released by NASA on Wednesday, shows a blurry, dark brown spot over the Arctic. The spot represents the shadow cast by the moon during the eclipse. The "epic" photograph was taken by NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC), a camera and telescope aboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory Satellite that snaps more than a dozen photos each day. The satellite orbits the L1 Lagrange point, a point of gravitational balance between Earth and the sun, which is nearly one million miles away.More Related News