Satellite views of solar eclipse 2024: See the moon's shadow race across North America (video, photos)

[Admin]

Several satellites caught the April 8 total solar eclipse from space, and scientists have shared the incredible footage.

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[cmablack]

Please also include Sen's imagery - it's the first 4K video of the moon's shadow on Earth during a solar eclipse.

 

[Classical Motion]

Wow, I was expecting much more symmetry. The shadow must get some angle thru the air.

 

[billslugg]

Yeah, whats with the giant smear versus a tidy circle? And some clouds never get dark. It may be the image is mainly infrared in which case the cloud temperature is what it being seen. Maybe the temperature of the cloud tops does not change much during an eclipse.

 

[Gordon482]

Yeah, whats with the giant smear versus a tidy circle? And some clouds never get dark. It may be the image is mainly infrared in which case the cloud temperature is what it being seen. Maybe the temperature of the cloud tops does not change much during an eclipse.

The "smear" is that area near, but not completely in the region of totality. It wouldn't be temperature-related, because you would see the clouds completely through the totality area.

 

[Gordon482]

Wow, I was expecting much more symmetry. The shadow must get some angle thru the air.

By the time the eclipse reached Quebec, it was starting to lengthen across the Earth's curvature. PLUS, you are looking at the shadow from an off-angle, so it would be impossible to see it as symmetrical. If you go back and look at the detailed maps of the eclipse that show the "circles" of totality at specific times, you will see that most of those are actually ovals.

 

[Classical Motion]

Ok, I gotcha. One needs to be in the middle of the sweep to see the circle. So if it were over St Louis, for that image........it would have been symmetrical.

Is that right?