VIDEO: Satellite sees four eclipses in six hours

BY STEPHEN CLARK
SPACEFLIGHT NOW

Posted: March 27, 2012

While observers across the western United States witnessed a spectacular ring of fire annular eclipse Sunday, the European Space Agency's Proba 2 satellite saw four partial solar eclipses. It flew through the moon's shadow four times it sped around Earth in an orbit 435 miles high.

Credit: ESA



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