Sunday, August 5, 2018

Lunar eclispe from Mercury

We all have recently seen the century's longest Total Lunar Eclipse on 27 July this year. In total lunar eclipse moon turns red. Because, very small amount of light bend through earth's atmosphere and fall on moon. It's very beautiful and amazing phenomenon. What if we see Lunar Eclipse from a place other than earth! 
Yes, scientist has done that. In 2014 a lunar eclipse happened in October was seen by MESSENGER probe. This probe was orbiting around mercury planet. Here it's a GIF image. Here, Earth is bright star and moon a small star is disappearing into its shadow. It's really wonderful to see eclipse from such a distance. From earth we see hide and seek of Galilean satellites  (Jupiter's moons) but we can not see it's moon disappearing into Jupiter's shadow. With advance technology now we can see many things which we could not see from earth. 
MESSENGER mission was ended in April 2015 when NASA deliberately crashes probe on Mercury.
 
Earth at left bright star and Moon is disappearing into shadow, MESSENGER probe was at 107 million kilometers from the Earth at the time of eclipse. Source: NASA/Planetary society

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