Corey S PowellApr 3, 2024

Only three humans have ever witnessed an eclipse of the Sun by the *Earth*. It happened while the Apollo 12 crew was returning home from the Moon, on November 21, 1969.

Fortunately, the astronauts filmed the moment so you can share in the experience.

https://archive.org/details/Apollo1216mmOnboardFilm [at the 4:50 mark] #space #science #nasa #eclipse

APOLLO 12 16MM ONBOARD FILM : NASA/Johnson Space Center : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Film taken includes a solar eclipse, Charles Conrad and Alan Bean on lunar surface, and scenes of Lunar Module (LM) during lunar orbital rendezvouz and...

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Show threadCorey S PowellApr 3, 2024

@tofugolem

Hmmm...I feel like there's a reason why we have different words for sunset and eclipse, and why people throughout history have regarded them as completely different things.

Show threadCorey S PowellApr 4, 2024
@tofugolem True, in the same sense that an ocean is just a really big puddle.
Show threadCorey S Powell
@tofugolem OK, since this matters so much to you, sunsets and eclipses are the same thing. Done.
Apr 4, 2024 at 3:45pmWeb