Earth Sun Planets and Moons ID: 4579

Flying Around The Eclipse Shadow

Visualizations by Ernie Wright Released on June 21, 2017

This visualization combines the views from several previous visualizations (#4390, #4321, and #4314) to create a continuous camera flight from the night side of the Earth to the day side, showing the relationship of the Earth, Moon, and Sun during the August 21, 2017 eclipse. It shows the direction of the Moon's motion and the Earth's rotation, the complete path of the umbra from the moment it touches down on the Earth until the moment it departs, and the true scale of the Earth-Moon system.

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Visualization Credits

Ernie Wright (USRA): Lead Visualizer
C. Alex Young (NASA/GSFC): Scientist

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Mission:
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter)

Data Used:

Terra and Aqua/MODIS/Blue Marble: Next Generation also referred to as: BMNG

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/BlueMarble/

Credit:
The Blue Marble data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC).

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LRO/LOLA/Digital Elevation Map also referred to as: DEM

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JPL DE421 also referred to as: DE421

Ephemeris - NASA/JPL

Planetary ephemerides

http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/?ephemerides#planets

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LRO/LROC/WAC 643nm High Sun Global Mosaic

Mosaic

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This item is part of this series:
2017 Solar Eclipse

Keywords:
SVS >> HDTV
SVS >> Moon
SVS >> Solar Eclipse
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Sun-earth Interactions
SVS >> Hyperwall
SVS >> Eclipse
SVS >> Sun-Earth-Moon Interactions
SVS >> Sun and Earth
NASA Science >> Earth
NASA Science >> Sun
NASA Science >> Planets and Moons

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0