Lunar Shadow Transit

This snapshot from deep space captures planet Earth on March 9 . The shadow of its large moon is falling on the planet's sunlit hemisphere. Tracking toward the east (left to right) across the ocean-covered world the moon shadow moved quickly in the direction of the planet's rotation. Of course , denizens of Earth located close to the shadow track centerline saw this lunar shadow transit as a brief, total eclipse of the Sun . From a spacebased perspective between Earth and Sun, the view of this shadow transit was provided by the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) spacecraft's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC).