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Arctic Eclipse

NASA’s Terra satellite was rounding the top of the globe, making its way from the eastern tip of Siberia and across the Arctic Ocean towards northern Norway and northwest Russia, when it captured this unique view of a total solar eclipse on August 1, 2008.


NASA image courtesy Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC. Caption by Holli Riebeek.

Published August 2, 2008
Data acquired August 1, 2008

Source:
Terra > MODIS