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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
 
Astronaut and blogger Don Pettit on ISS did not get into the path of the solar eclipse, so the best he could do is...
Astronaut and blogger Don Pettit on ISS did not get into the path of the solar eclipse, so the best he could do is to photo/video the lucky people in the shadow on the ground. You can see that ISS is moving much faster (~8 km/s) then the Moon (1 km/s).

The eclipse lasted 3.5 hours, during which time ISS did 2.5 orbits, but in the first approximation ISS orbit stays fixed with respect to stars, so it didn't help.

http://www.space.com/15815-solar-eclipse-moon-shadow-pictures-space.html

See also:
https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/fSsHaYmadHG
https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/5vHcGvoLX6c
http://www.space.com/15815-solar-eclipse-moon-shadow-pictures-space.html

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