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

  • Hadriscus
    4·
    12 hours 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

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      Yup. You’re basically right, clarification on “anything”:

      • Not the celestial body you’re on (that’s called night)
      • Not a structure on the celestial body you’re on (that’s called being in the shadow)
      • Not an object with too small angular size to cause much dimming, such as Venus or the ISS (that’s called a solar transit)
    • wewbull@feddit.ukEnglish
      21·
      6 hours 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
        1·
        2 hours 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.

      • Hadriscus
        2·
        5 hours ago

        The viewer is the Blue Ghost lunar lander’s camera here