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.

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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

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