{"id":6852,"date":"2011-01-19T20:01:57","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/looking-back-at-an-eclipsed-earth-here-is-what-the\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T01:05:40","slug":"looking-back-at-an-eclipsed-earth-here-is-what-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/looking-back-at-an-eclipsed-earth-here-is-what-the\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-6852 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/looking-back-at-an-eclipsed-earth-here-is-what-the\/attachment\/6853\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lel1e2u8CR1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lel1e2u8CR1qzxaqho1_1280-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/tumblr_lel1e2u8CR1qzxaqho1_1280-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, 100vw\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap110102.html\" target=\"_blank\">Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Here is what the Earth looks like during a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mreclipse.com\/Special\/SEprimer.html\" target=\"_blank\">solar eclipse<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UtgXus3eiII\" target=\"_blank\">shadow<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040829.html\" target=\"_blank\">Moon<\/a>\u00a0can be seen darkening part of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/image\/0208\/earthlights02_dmsp_big.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a>. This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap031127.html\" target=\"_blank\">shadow<\/a>\u00a0moved\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-EYk_iSpBaE\" target=\"_blank\">across<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/earth.html\" target=\"_blank\">Earth<\/a>\u00a0at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. Only observers near the center of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap031208.html\" target=\"_blank\">dark circle<\/a>\u00a0see a total solar eclipse &#8211; others see a partial eclipse where only part of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap010408.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sun appears blocked by the Moon<\/a>. This\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theastropages.com\/articles\/articles011.htm\" target=\"_blank\">spectacular picture<\/a>\u00a0of the 1999 August 11\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov\/eclipse.html\" target=\"_blank\">solar eclipse<\/a>\u00a0was one of the last ever taken from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap040327.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mir<\/a>\u00a0space\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mir\" target=\"_blank\">station<\/a>. The two bright spots that appear on the upper left are thought to be\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/theastropages.com\/articles\/articles011.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Jupiter and Saturn<\/a>. Mir was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov\/apod\/ap010323.html\" target=\"_blank\">deorbited<\/a>\u00a0in a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fVQd9Ejkbiw\" target=\"_blank\">controlled re-entry<\/a>\u00a0in 2001.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth Here is what the Earth looks like during a\u00a0solar eclipse. The\u00a0shadow\u00a0of the\u00a0Moon\u00a0can be seen darkening part of\u00a0Earth. This\u00a0shadow\u00a0moved\u00a0across\u00a0the\u00a0Earth\u00a0at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. Only observers near the center of the\u00a0dark circle\u00a0see a total solar eclipse &#8211; others see a partial eclipse where only part of the\u00a0Sun appears blocked by &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/looking-back-at-an-eclipsed-earth-here-is-what-the\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6854,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6852\/revisions\/6854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}