Solar eclipse viewed from spacecraft

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On Feb. 25, 2007, NASA scientists were calibrating some cameras aboard the STEREO-B spacecraft and they pointed the instruments at the sun. No human has ever witnessed a solar eclipse quite like this: NASA’s STEREO-B spacecraft was about a million miles from Earth last month when it photographed the Moon passing in front of the sun. The resulting movie looks like it came from an alien solar system.

Stereo Eclipse