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The Solar Ring of Fire

Earth-observing satellites follow the shadow of an annular eclipse.


NASA images courtesy of the DSCOVR EPIC team. NASA Earth Observatory images by Joshua Stevens, using MODIS and VIIRS data from LANCE/EOSDIS Rapid Response. Caption by Pola Lem, with Sarah Frazier and Lina Tran.

Published March 2, 2017
Data acquired February 26, 2017

Sources:
Aqua > MODIS
DSCOVR > EPIC
Suomi NPP > VIIRS
Terra > MODIS
Collection:
Earth from Afar