From a million miles out in space, NASA’s Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) captured 12 natural color images of the moon’s shadow crossing over North America on Aug. 21, 2017.
EPIC is aboard NOAA’s Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR), where it photographs the full sunlit side of Earth every day, giving it a unique view of total solar eclipses.
More about how NASA studies eclipses: www.nasa.gov/eclipse
Image credit: NASA EPIC Team Video credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center/Katy Mersmann
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