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NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the moon eclipsing<\/a> the sun in an event only observable from its position in space. At the height of the event on Friday, July 25, around 62% of the sun was covered by the moon. The SDO, which is solar-powered, coped with the drop in sunlight by having its batteries fully charged before the eclipse occurred. <\/p>\n NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory captured a rare solar eclipse from Earth orbit on July 25, 2025. <\/p>\n NASA SDOKey Facts<\/p>\n The SDO sees several eclipses \u2014 or lunar transits \u2014 each year. This one was a deep partial eclipse, which lasted about 35 minutes. The SDO studies the sun’s atmosphere in various wavelengths of light.<\/p>\n The spacecraft is in a geosynchronous orbit around Earth, matching Earth\u2019s rotation, and positioned 22,238 miles (35,789 kilometers) above a ground station in White Sands, New Mexico. <\/p>\n SDO has an almost constant but slightly different view of the sun than we do from Earth\u2019s surface, but there are times when its orbit passes behind the Earth, causing an eclipse from its point of view. On July 25, SDO passed passed behind both the moon and the Earth on the same day, accotSDO<\/a>. <\/p>\n The next solar eclipse visible from Earth will be a partial solar eclipse on Sept. 21, when up to 80% of the sun will be blocked by the moon as seen from New Zealand, Tasmania in Australia, the Indian Ocean, and Antarctica. Observers will need to wear solar eclipse glasses at all times, and all cameras and telescopes will need solar filters.<\/p>\n The next total solar eclipse visible from Earth will occur on Aug. 12, 2026, for parts of Greenland, western Iceland, and northern Spain. The maximum totality will be 2 minutes and 18 seconds off Iceland.<\/p>\n NASA’s Solar Dynamic Observatory captured a rare solar eclipse from Earth orbit on July 25, 2025. <\/p>\n NASA SDOEurope\u2019s \u2018fake\u2019 Total Solar Eclipses In Space<\/p>\n The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission \u2014 the world\u2019s first precision formation flying mission \u2014 last month captured the first images of an artificial total solar eclipse from space. Proba-3 is a pair of satellites that fly in formation with millimeter precision, with one blocking the sun with an occulter disk and casting a shadow on a telescope on the satellite behind it. That allows it to image the sun\u2019s corona \u2014 the sun’s outer, hotter but more tenuous atmosphere \u2014 which is only visible during a total solar eclipse. Although SDO can also see the corona, Proba-3 can see much farther into it, revealing what’s going on close to the Sun’s photosphere. That’s important because it’s there that the solar wind, solar flares and coronal mass ejections are produced. Proba-3 can produce a total solar eclipse lasting six hours once every 19.6-hour orbit. <\/p>\n The Sun\u2019s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS … More coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA\u2019s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses in orbit. This image, captured in the visible light spectrum, shows the solar corona similarly to how a human eye would see it during an eclipse through a green filter. The hair-like structures were revealed using a specialised image processing algorithm.<\/p>\n ESA\/Proba-3\/ASPIICS\/WOW algorithmApollo 11\u2019s Solar Eclipse In Space<\/p>\n Exactly 56 years ago this week, the crew of NASA’s Apollo 11 mission \u2014 the first to put astronauts on the moon \u2014 saw a total solar eclipse. On Jul. 19, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins photographed a total solar eclipse on their way to the moon. Aldrin had seen a total solar eclipse from space before, on Nov. 11, 1966, during the Gemini 12 mission with Jim Lovell. The crew of Apollo 12 \u2014 Pete Conrad, Alan Bean and Dick Gordon \u2014 also saw a total solar eclipse from space on Nov. 24, 1969. <\/p>\n AS11-42-6179 (19 July 1969) \u2014- This photograph of the solar corona was taken from the Apollo 11 … More spacecraft during trans-lunar coast and prior to lunar orbit insertion.<\/p>\n NASAWhen Is The Next Total Solar Eclipse In North America?<\/p>\n The next total solar eclipse in the contiguous U.S. will occur on Aug. 22, 2044. The path of totality will begin in Greenland, travel through Canada\u2019s Northwest Territories (with maximum totality close to Great Bear Lake, at 2 minutes and 4 seconds) and finish with an eclipsed sunset from Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota. Another total solar eclipse will occur across the U.S. a lunar year later, on Aug 10, 2045. <\/p>\n Further ReadingForbesIn Photos: First Ever \u2018Fake\u2019 Total Solar Eclipse Created In SpaceBy Jamie Carter<\/a>ForbesNASA Spacecraft \u2018Touches Sun\u2019 For Final Time In Defining Moment For HumankindBy Jamie Carter<\/a>ForbesNASA Urges Public To Leave The City As Milky Way Appears \u2014 15 Places To GoBy Jamie Carter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Topline NASA\u2019s Solar Dynamics Observatory has captured the moon eclipsing the sun in an event only observable from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,6297,19142,19146,19144,19143,19145,19141,66,10133,306,16890,16917],"class_list":["post-23255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-eclipse","tag-eclipse-2026","tag-iceland-eclipse","tag-nasa-eclipse","tag-nasa-sdo","tag-nasa-solar-eclipse","tag-next-eclispe","tag-science","tag-solar-eclipse","tag-space","tag-total-solar-eclipse","tag-when-is-the-next-eclipse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}