The Solar Ring of Fire

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

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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