If you want to what the Moon's shadow looks like as it crosses Earth, from space, I highly encourage you to check out NOAA's GOES Image Viewer! As of this moment, you can see a very dark circle crossing over the central United States.<p>Even better, the website will animate the last 24 or so images (captured every 10 minutes). It's awesome! [1]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=G16&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24&dim=1" rel="nofollow">https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/fulldisk_band.php?sat=...</a>
Here is the NASA stream with commentary: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MJY_ptQW1o</a>
TIL that eclipses have supersonic shadows that generate gravitational waves. <a href="https://www.livescience.com/61279-moon-s-supersonic-shadow-created-waves-during-the-solar-eclipse.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.livescience.com/61279-moon-s-supersonic-shadow-c...</a>
Y'know, seeing two of these now, I totally get why a peasant in þe olde times would freak out about this. It suddenly gets cold, your animals are freaking out, and the thing that makes your food grow is disappearing. Yeah, that's a problem.
<a href="https://electrek.co/2024/04/08/solar-eclipse-impact-us-grid-in-real-time/" rel="nofollow">https://electrek.co/2024/04/08/solar-eclipse-impact-us-grid-...</a> ("Watch the solar eclipse impact the US grid in real time")
I was not prepared for how shocking it was to witness totality.<p>I've seen partial eclipses in years past and they were neat. But this was staggering. Like the sun disappeared and was replaced with a black hole.