APOD: 2020 December 29 - Earth During a Total Solar Eclipse

Thank you my friend Maj William W. 'Bill' Price for posting the NASA Astronomy Video of the Day (AVOD) is titled "Earth During a Total Solar Eclipse."

Image:
1. Diagram of the constellation of Sun Moon and the Earth during a total solar eclipse
2. An illustration of a total solar eclipse. Image credit - NASA-GSFC-CI Lab
3. NASA's SOHO spacecraft can study the atmospheric layers of the sun that extend off its central body. Total solar eclipses gave humans the first opportunity to see this region of Earth's nearest star

AVOD background
"Explanation: What does the Earth look like during a total solar eclipse? It appears dark in the region where people see the eclipse, because that's where the shadow of the Moon falls. The shadow spot rapidly shoots across the Earth at nearly 2,000 kilometers per hour, darkening locations in its path -- typically for only a few minutes -- before moving on. The featured video shows the Earth during the total solar eclipse earlier this month. The time-lapse sequence, taken from a geostationary satellite, starts with the Earth below showing night but the sun soon rises at the lower right. Clouds shift as day breaks over the blue planet. Suddenly the circular shadow of the Moon appears on the left and moves rapidly across South America, disappearing on the lower right. The video ends as nightfall begins again. The next total solar eclipse will occur next December -- but be visible only from parts of Antarctica."

Klaus Nomi - Total Eclipse 1981 Live Video HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmLk2vSXXtk

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Something we don't usually get to see. Good morning Maj William W. 'Bill' Price

An interesting vantage point -- thanks for posting