But rather than being the lunar eclipse that was seen from Earth, on the moon it was a solar eclipse. The images were taken by a camera on board the unmanned Blue Ghost spacecraft which ...

But people in 13 states – from West Virginia to Maine – could get a view of the partial solar eclipse beginning early Saturday about 4:50 a.m. EDT through 8:43 a.m., according to the website ...

When the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, as happened last April 8, a solar eclipse occurs, with the disk of the moon blocking the disk of the sun, casting a shadow on our planet.