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But the satellite is at the L1 Lagrange point which is between the earth and the sun. So if you see the moon pass in front of the earth from L1 shouldn't the mo
by coldsmoke 11y ago
But the satellite is at the L1 Lagrange point which is between the earth and the sun. So if you see the moon pass in front of the earth from L1 shouldn't the moon then also be directly between the earth and the sun?
And as someone in another post noted: you can see the suns reflection in the ocean. And the moon passes directly over this spot.
- Sakes 11y agoAll you can take away from the moon passing over the sun's reflection is this. The moon crossed over the sunlight reflected from the earth. To create a shadow, the moon must cross through the light emitted from the sun. This image might better help explain. Since the earth's orbital plane is in a different xy plane than the moon's, the moon crossing over the reflection guarantees nothing about whether it crossed the sun's emitted light. http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_eclipses_and_planes.jpg http://www.cnyo.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/2014april10_e...