Spectacular Composite: Blood Moon Total Eclipse at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center

By NASA November 10, 2022 This composite image, which was made from 10 images, reveals the development of the Moon throughout an overall lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building on November 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsk In the morning hours of November 8, 2022, there was an overall lunar eclipse. It will be the last overall lunar eclipse for a couple of years, as the next will not happen till March 14,2025 This composite image was made from 10 images caught on the early morning of November 8,2022 It reveals the development of the Moon throughout an overall lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mars shows up routing the Moon in this composite. Throughout a lunar eclipse, Earth’s environment spreads sunshine. The blue light from the Sun spreads away, and longer-wavelength red, orange, and yellow light go through, turning our Moon red. The image is not to scale. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio For North America, the partial eclipse started at 4: 09 a.m. EST (1: 09 a.m. PST), with totality start at 5: 16 a.m. One function of an overall lunar eclipse is the Moon’s red color throughout totality. The red color takes place due to the fact that of the refraction, filtering, and scattering of light by Earth’s environment.
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