Solar Eclipse of the Heart

The Moon is backlit by the Sun. Earth is reflecting sunlight at the left edge of the Moon, which is slightly brighter than the rest of the disk; this light reveals a small sliver of the Moon's gray surface. The bright spot visible just below the Moon’s bottom right edge is Saturn. Beyond that, the bright spot at the right edge of the image is Mars. The Orion spacecraft is visible in the foreground on the left.

NASA

The Moon, seen here backlit by the Sun during a solar eclipse on April 6, 2026, is photographed by one of the cameras on the Orion spacecraft’s solar array wings. During lunar flyby, the Artemis II astronauts observed a solar eclipse that only they could see due to their unique position.

See more photos from the Artemis II mission.

Image credit: NASA

Source: https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/solar-eclipse-of-the-heart/

Solar Eclipse of the Heart

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