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Explanation: Here is what the Earth looks like during a solar eclipse. The shadow of the Moon can be seen darkening part of Earth. This shadow moved across the Earth at nearly 2000 kilometers per hour. Only observers near the center of the dark circle see a total solar eclipse - others see a partial eclipse where only part of the Sun appears blocked by the Moon.
This spectacular picture of the 1999 August 11 solar eclipse was one of the last ever taken from the Mir space station. The two bright spots that appear on the upper left are possibly Jupiter and Saturn, although this has yet to be proven. Mir was deorbited in a controlled re-entry in 2001.
Looking Back at an Eclipsed Earth-Credit: Mir 27 Crew; Copyright: CNES
I took the image and cropped it down to make it smaller, then I did some adjustments to it. Light, color and reduced some of the "noise."
This is what I came up with: http://www.gameznetwork.com/ufos/from%20mir.jpg Notice how the one on the top has a redish/pinkish glow to it... I made no changes to the physical charactersitics of the objects themselves and did not add or take away color. I just adjusted it and stripped away some of the noise.
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source and references: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070610.html |