Finally, we’d like to take a moment to acknowledge that a solar eclipse was viewed by a tiny number of people over the weekend. The Moon’s shadow briefly touched the Earth, blocking the Sun’s light and letting folks see the solar corona while letting spacecraft see our planet with a really cool dark shadow. It’s our understanding that tourist trips to see this event via cruise ship were largely cancelled, but when an eclipse occurs at the edge of the globe, it still casts a shadow. All right, that was a terrible play on words. Check out some images on DailySpace.org.

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Eclipse Over Antarctica (NASA)