11-09-2003, 05:25 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Northeast coast, USA
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zoom-boom to the moon Alice!
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Originally posted by jseal
Teddy Bear,
I wonder what it must have looked like if standing on the Moon.
Just imagine it, as the Earth passed in front of the Sun, the light would have snapped out out, and the Earth would have seemed like a circle of brightness or ring of fire. The refraction of the Sun through the Earth’s atmosphere would have created some sort of ring of color – I’m uncertain what the color(s) would have been, bout I’m willing to bet that it was impressive!
I wonder if any of the great cities, or perhaps the Eastern Seaboard of the US, or maybe the lights of Europe would have been visible.
It is at times like these that I regret being too old to leave the Earth!
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jseal,
wow, what a unique thought..... standing on the moon and looking back at earth. It would be incredibly beautiful I'd think. I'm taking a wild guess that the refraction of the sun through the earth's atmosphere would be like a rainbow..... capturing the whole spectrum of colors.
Have there ever been any space flights at the time of an eclipse? Are there pictures of this somewhere? I do recall seeing pictures of great cities taken from space, not from the moon though, I think just from the space-craft as it obited.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh PF...... ya got any insight on this? Pics perhaps. 
teddy 
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