Captured by Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lunar lander on March 14, 2025.

  • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
    3·
    3 days ago

    I think a solar eclipse is when anything passes in front of the sun, ie when the sun is eclipsed. We just don’t often see it from the moon

    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      22·
      2 days ago

      Indeed. It’s with respect to a viewer. Nothing is eclipsed in this image.

      eclipse /ĭ-klĭps′/

      noun

      1. The partial or complete obscuring, relative to a designated observer, of one celestial body by another.
      2. The period of time during which such an obscuration occurs.
      • square@lemmy.zip
        21·
        2 days ago

        The earth (one celestial body) is partially obscuring the sun (another celestial body) relative to the Blue Ghost lander (the designated observer).

        It’s an eclipse.

        • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
          12·
          2 days ago

          If you’re on the earth it’s an eclipse. On the moon nothing is between you and the sun, or you and the earth.

          Put another way, an eclipse is only an eclipse from a certain observation point. For example, the crew of Integrity observed a solar eclipse on their way around the moon. The moon was between them and the sun. There was no eclipse for the rest of us on earth.

          • square@lemmy.zip
            21·
            23 hours ago

            Check out Mr. Confidently Incorrect over here. An eclipse is exactly the definition you posted, I’m not sure how you could read it so wrong.