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A sun eclipse from the Moon

Years ago, I found a picture in a book of the total sun eclipse from the Moon and wondered if i ever would find it on the web (the book was thrown out, unfortunately).
Well, it turns out that Surveyor 3 took the picture on april 24 1967!

http://star-www.st-and.ac.uk/~awc/images/earthsun2_c.jpg

(I remember the light to be red, though)
Here's the explanation.
(amazing what google can do!)

My goood, I found another one, even better!!!!
http://www.ltpresearch.org/image/ECLIP3.jpg

(click on chapter 9)

"The above image shows the Earth as it eclipses the sun for the Surveyor III spacecraft sitting on the Lunar surface. As you can see the illumination around the edge of the Earth disk is a factor on how the Moon appears to the observer watching from earth. There have been a number of reports over the years of the shadow falling upon the Moon disk to have strange and unusual shapes. This was at first thought by astronomers of old to indicate irregular edge to the earths disk. This no doubt is a factor of the earth atmospheric conditions at the time of the eclipse and not the a physical feature on the Earth. Reason being the highest mountain only rises about 0.1% of the earth radius. This means the earth is too smooth to cast such irregular shadows"

Raoul (ce google, c'est quand-même incroyable ce que ça nous permet de trouver!)

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