Earth Observations taken during an Annular Solar Eclipse
ISS031-E-41595 (20 May 2012) --- This is one of a series of photos taken by Expedition 31 Flight Engineer Don Pettit aboard the International Space Station, at the time located over the Western Pacific, showing a shadow of the moon created by the May 20 solar eclipse, as the shadow spreads across cloud cover on Earth. Pettit used a 28-mm lens on a digital still camera to record the image at 23:35:36 GMT. One of the space station’s solar array panels appears at the top of the frame.
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NASA ID
iss031e041595
Date Created
May 20, 2012
Center
JSC
Media Type
image
Photographer
Don Pettit
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