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See the Eclipse from Moon.

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8:30AM Taiwan                                                           9:30 AM Taiwan

A totally different view of July 22, 2009 eclipse. This two images from the Japanese geostationary satellite MTSAT show the view of Earth at 8:30 a.m in Taiwan.

However this is not the image i mentioned in the title ;) . Because of the Star Sensor failure in Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft ( The Indian Spacecraft orbiting moon ), an unnecessary media hype has followed. People started started worrying about its life and mission. It is possible to maintain the operation of the spacecraft even with the failure of one sensor. As if to silence critics, Dr Nair announced that Isro will turn Chandrayaan-1’s cameras towards the earth during the total solar eclipse of July 22 to conduct a unique study of the moon’s shadow on the earth from close to the moon[Source: Deccan Chronicle]. Keep an eye on the Chandrayaan web page, if you are interested to see the eclipse image taken from moon itself.

Update 1:

Chandrayaan beams moon’s shadow during solar eclipse

(Source: IANS)
Published: Tue, 28 Jul 2009 at 20:26 IST

Bangalore: India’s first lunar mission Chandrayaan-1 captured the shadow of the moon on the earth’s surface during the July 22 total solar eclipse, an Indian space agency official said Tuesday.

The images were captured by the terrain mapping camera (TMC) on board the 514-kg spacecraft, which is orbiting at 200 km above the lunar surface. [more]….

Update 2:

Beautiful images of moon’s shadow on earth, taken from moon itself are published. Here is two of those pictures from isro website.  More images are available in http://www.isro.org/pslv-c11/photos/moon_images.htm

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  1. Ashutosh
    July 26, 2009 at 9:48 am | #1

    yeah clear black spot is visible..
    ya it will be gr8 to have view of eclipse from moon itself.
    thanks for information on chandrayaan-1.

  2. August 7, 2009 at 4:20 pm | #2

    There is something special about these pictures taken from Moon’s orbit. These are some of the rare pictures of Earth taken from Moon where you can see the orb of our planet fully.

  3. Ashutosh
    August 11, 2009 at 9:44 am | #3

    ya u r rite..i have seen those pics just now
    how beautiful is our planet
    and we are destroying it by our own actions..
    i Live in Allahabad, uttar pradesh and this year practically no rains here..
    so bad..
    shamzu.. please start a campaign to aware our people as u can reach out to a limitless peoples

    • August 11, 2009 at 2:36 pm | #4

      Hi Ashutosh,
      I am very very Happy to see your comment. If you have some idea we can work on that. Please share more of your thoughts and suggestions on what you have mentioned. Thanks :)

  4. Ashutosh
    August 12, 2009 at 10:47 pm | #5

    Hi Shamzu
    thanks for appreciation. ya definitely we can share our ideas.
    we first encourage ppl to plant trees in their neighborhood at least at a local basis….it may help

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