This photograph of an eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon in November 1969. The fascinating view was created when the Earth moved directly between the Sun and the Apollo 12 spacecraft.

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   AkaSci 🛰️ (akasci@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Mar-2025 07:13:41 JST AkaSci 🛰️

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   This is what the solar eclipse might look like to the Blue Ghost lander from the moon's surface, except that Blue Ghost will be using a much wider angle camera and (as @cosmos4u points out) earth will be smaller relative to the Sun.

   This photograph of an eclipse of the Sun was taken with a 16mm motion picture camera from the Apollo 12 spacecraft during its trans-Earth journey home from the Moon in November 1969.

   Beautiful!

   https://science.nasa.gov/resource/eclipse-apollo-12/
   Credit: NASA
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