Oleg Zabluda's blog
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
 
Solar eclipse from Hinode (Sunrise) spacecraft, a Japan-NASA solar observing satellite in a low-Earth 400 mi...
Solar eclipse from Hinode (Sunrise) spacecraft, a Japan-NASA solar observing satellite in a low-Earth 400 mi sun-synchronous polar orbit.

As was predicted by me, 400 mi is nowhere near enough to get into totality
https://plus.google.com/112065430692128821190/posts/fSsHaYmadHG
especially since the orbit doesn't even get it much closer to the Sun, being almost perpendicular to the Sun-Earth line :-)

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/eclipse_120520.html
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/hinode/eclipse_120520.html

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