{"id":184943,"date":"2024-03-11T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space"},"modified":"2024-03-11T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T03:22:55","slug":"a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/a-history-of-total-solar-eclipses-seen-by-astronauts-from-outer-space","title":{"rendered":"A History of Total Solar Eclipses Seen by Astronauts From Outer Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RhEvHaKXmbs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, astronauts who witness solar eclipses do so from the International Space Station (ISS). But instead of looking at the sun, they look down at the Earth to observe a solar eclipse. \u201cISS astronauts can see the [moon\u2019s] shadow but not the eclipse itself, because their windows don\u2019t point toward the sun,\u201d says Levasseur. Rather, remotely operated equipment on the station collects data from the eclipse, while astronauts peer at the darkened ground on the planet below.<\/p>\n<p>The first time anyone got this unique view was in 1999, when Russian cosmonauts Viktor Afanasyev and Sergei Avdeyev, as well as French astronaut Jean-Pierre Haigner\u00e9, witnessed the 20th century\u2019s final total solar eclipse from the former Russian space station, Mir. On August 11, they saw the moon\u2019s shadow pass over England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now, astronauts who witness solar eclipses do so from the International Space Station (ISS). But instead of looking at the sun, they look down at the Earth to observe a solar eclipse. \u201cISS astronauts can see the [moon\u2019s] shadow but not the eclipse itself, because their windows don\u2019t point toward the sun,\u201d says Levasseur. Rather, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}