{"id":410970,"date":"2025-09-09T17:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410970\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T17:18:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T17:18:12","slug":"astronauts-capture-amazing-views-of-the-total-lunar-eclipse-from-the-iss-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/410970\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts capture amazing views of the total lunar eclipse from the ISS (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

We just got some great birds-eye views of this past weekend’s total lunar eclipse, thanks to astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n

The eclipse occurred overnight from Sunday to Monday (Sept. 7 to Sept. 8). It was visible from much of the Eastern Hemisphere, thrilling countless people<\/a> across western Australia, Asia, Africa and Europe.<\/p>\n

It was also visible from 250 miles (400 kilometers) above Earth<\/a> \u2014 the average altitude of the ISS<\/a> \u2014 and the folks up there didn’t have to worry about clouds blocking their views.<\/p>\n

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NASA astronaut Jonny Kim’s shot of the eclipse from the ISS. (Image credit: Jonny Kim\/NASA via X)<\/p>\n

But they did face other issues, as NASA’s Zena Cardman explained.<\/p>\n

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“It’s a challenge to catch the moon<\/a> up here \u2014 we don’t have any up-facing windows, so we can only see the moon for a few minutes between moonrise and moonset before it disappears above the ISS or below the horizon,” she wrote in an X post<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n

“Yesterday was an extra challenge, dealing with low-angle light bouncing through the multi-paned cupola glass,” she added.<\/p>\n

But Cardman was successful in capturing the eclipse, as were her ISS colleagues Jonny Kim of NASA and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA<\/a>). All three shared photos of the eclipse on X on Monday.<\/p>\n

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“We only had short windows of time to catch a glimpse of the moon before it was obstructed by parts of the @Space_Station<\/a>,” Kim wrote in his post, which featured four eclipse shots.<\/p>\n

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JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui posted this photo of the total lunar eclipse, taken from the International Space Station, on X on Sept. 7, 2025. (Image credit: Kimiya Yui\/JAXA)<\/p>\n

One of Yui’s photos demonstrated the “blood moon<\/a>” effect of a total lunar eclipse, showing Earth’s nearest neighbor exhibiting a coppery glow.<\/p>\n

This results because Earth’s atmosphere<\/a> absorbs relatively short wavelengths of light, letting only the longer-wavelength reddish hues through to paint the lunar surface.<\/p>\n

Yui and Cardman, along with NASA’s Mike Fincke and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, arrived at the ISS on Aug. 2 on SpaceX’s Crew-11 mission<\/a>. Kim, and cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky, went up in April on a Russian Soyuz<\/a> spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We just got some great birds-eye views of this past weekend’s total lunar eclipse, thanks to astronauts aboard…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-410970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115175483263341861","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}