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KSC-00pp0094
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Viewed from Merritt Island, Fla., at 11:25 p.m. EST, the full moon, traveling west to east, is nearly completely in the Earth's shadow, producing a lunar eclipse. Eclipses occur when the Sun, Earth and Moon line up. They are rare because the Moon usually passes above or below the imaginary line connecting Earth and the Sun. The Earth casts a shadow that the Moon can pass through -when it does, it is called a lunar eclipse.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineKSC-00pp0094. NASA/KSC, 2000-01-20. Public domain. ID: KSC-00pp0094.
