Lunar Eclipse - Gallery

Gallery

  • The beginning of the November 2003 lunar eclipse

  • December 21, 2010 Lunar Eclipse

  • This diagram shows how the moon appears reddish orange during a lunar eclipse.

  • Painting by Lucien Rudaux, showing what a lunar eclipse might look like when viewed from the surface of the moon. The moon's surface appears red because the only sunlight available is refracted through the Earth's atmosphere on the edges of the earth, as shown in the sky in this painting.

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