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Illustration of the position of the Earth's Moon at apogee and perigee. Credit: JPL/Caltech
NASA
Levels
  • intermediate
NGSS
  • ESS1 - Earth's Place in the Universe
Big Ideas
  • Big Idea 1.1 – The Sun is really big…
Helio Topics
  • solar_eclipse
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Language
  • english

Calculating Ratios of an Eclipse

In this My NASA Data activity students will calculate the ratio of the size of the Sun to the Moon and the distance of the Sun and Moon from Earth to determine the type of solar eclipse possible.

Access the activity here: https://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/interactive-models/calculating-ratios-eclipse