Blue Ghost’s Diamond Ring

On March 14 the Plump Moon slid through Earth’s dark umbral shadow and denizens of planet Earth had been handled to a complete lunar eclipse. Undoubtedly, from the Moon’s discontinuance to aspect that same colossal syzygy used to be viewed as a divulge voltaic eclipse. Working within the Mare Crisium on the lunar surface, the Blue Ghost lander captured this video body of Earth in silhouette around 3: 30am CDT, correct as the Solar used to be rising from within the encourage of the terrestrial disk. From Blue Ghost’s lunar standpoint the kindly diamond ring build, familiar to earthbound divulge voltaic eclipse watchers, is striking. Since Earth appears about four times the apparent size of the Solar from the lunar surface the interior divulge voltaic corona, the atmosphere of the Solar most with out problems viewed from Earth at some stage in a entire divulge voltaic eclipse, is hidden from stumble on. Restful, scattering in Earth’s dense atmosphere creates the gleaming band of sunlight embracing our ravishing planet.