#PhotoOfTheDay: Continuing on some of the best images of #SolarEclipse
Astronauts and photographers captured unforgettable views of Earth and the Sun as the Moon’s shadow swept across North America.
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/152683/looking-up-and-down-during-the-eclipse
During totality, seen in this photo, the Moon perfectly blocks the bright face of the Sun, leaving the much dimmer #Solar #Corona visible.
This composite was captured in Cleveland, Ohio, over the course of the approximately 2.5 hours it took for the Moon to move across the face of the Sun.
During totality, glowing loops of plasma called #Solar #Prominences could be seen extending into the corona.
#Plasma is super-hot ionized gas that flows along the tangled and twisted structure of the Sun’s magnetic fields.
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