Shades of a Lunar Eclipse - NASA Science

Shades of a Lunar Eclipse

A grayscale composite satellite image centered on Alaska shows observations at several times during a total lunar eclipse. Snow, ice, and clouds appear bright in swaths acquired before and after the eclipse and darker gray in the partial phase. The scene during the total phase is mostly black.

A series of nighttime satellite images revealed how moonlight reaching Earth varied throughout a total lunar eclipse.

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