{"id":176255,"date":"2026-03-03T12:40:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176255\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:40:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T12:40:38","slug":"blood-moon-during-lunar-eclipse-gives-south-florida-a-beautiful-show-check-out-some-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/176255\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood moon during lunar eclipse gives South Florida a beautiful show. Check out some photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A blood moon rose in the sky above South Florida early Tuesday morning, offering a spectacular show to those of us down here on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-betty-mendez-3.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-betty-mendez-3.jpg \" height=\"348\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The blood moon lunar eclipse in Miami on March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Betty Mendez<\/p>\n<p>A blood moon occurs during a total lunar eclipse. That&#8217;s when the Earth gets between the Sun and Moon.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-betty-mendez-2.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-betty-mendez-2.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The blood moon lunar eclipse in Miami on March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Betty Mendez<\/p>\n<p>When that happens, the only light that reaches the Moon comes from the edges of Earth&#8217;s atmosphere giving it the blood red color, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceplace.nasa.gov\/full-moons\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to NASA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-betty-mendez-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-betty-mendez-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The blood moon lunar eclipse in Miami on March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Betty Mendez<\/p>\n<p>NASA also said that the term &#8220;blood moon&#8221; can be used to describe the moon when it&#8217;s red due to hazy conditions, or due to smoke or dust.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/cbsmiami-sandra-booth-1.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsmiami-sandra-booth-1.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  The blood moon lunar eclipse in South Florida on March 3, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                Sandra Booth<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A blood moon rose in the sky above South Florida early Tuesday morning, offering a spectacular show to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,79253,123,125,124,1064,807],"class_list":{"0":"post-176255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-eclipse","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miami-dade","14":"tag-south-florida"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}