Watch NASA video of whole lunar eclipse from area

Some 64 million miles from the planet, NASA’s Lucy probe acquired a deep area view of the current whole lunar eclipse.

From her vantage level, it did not look very like a “blood moon,” one of many many nicknames for the uncommon astronomical occasion. In a short two-second time-lapse video, Lucy captured the Earth, on the left, and the moon, on the correct. The tiny moon will be seen as a vibrant pinpoint of sunshine that vanishes out of sight because it passes into the planet’s shadow.

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Whole lunar eclipses occur when the moon and solar line up on reverse sides of Earth, in response to NASA, inflicting a reddish shade reflecting off the moon’s floor. The one which simply occurred final weekend was the longest whole lunar eclipse viewable from a lot of the United States in over 30 years, in response to New York Instances reporting.

The video covers a three-hour interval, beginning at 9:40 p.m. ET Could 15, and ending at 12:30 a.m. ET Could 16. The clip ends earlier than the moon comes out of the darkness.

Lucy’s place was practically 70% of the gap between the Earth and solar. From that area perch, the Earth and moon seem solely 0.2 levels aside, in response to the U.S. area company, like seeing a automotive’s tail lights from a quarter-mile away.

NASA launched Lucy on a grand 12-year asteroid tour within the fall of 2021 with plans to fly by a number of area rocks that share Jupiter’s orbit.

Lucy — a mission named after a fossilized early human (who was named after The Beatles’ track) — will research the origins of the photo voltaic system. The asteroids are regarded as leftover items from planet formations.

The spacecraft will discover one asteroid within the photo voltaic system’s predominant belt and 7 Trojan asteroids. The latter are regarded as remnants of the early photo voltaic system trapped in secure orbits. They’re clustered in two “swarms” earlier than and after Jupiter alongside its course across the solar.

It’s on its manner now towards Earth to get a gravity help on Oct. 16, 2022. That tug will assist propel it on its journey to the Trojan asteroids.