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Wouldn't it be the same experience you get on a sunset flight followed by a sunrise flight? It's not like you'd see a spotlight of darkness, it's a gradient and
by elif 3y ago
Wouldn't it be the same experience you get on a sunset flight followed by a sunrise flight? It's not like you'd see a spotlight of darkness, it's a gradient and likely too large to see moon curvature.
- dylan604 3y agoYou're trying to conflate the sunset terminator vs the very small and well defined shadow of the moon itself. Totally different concepts. The shadow of the moon is a spotlight of darkness. This is so not the same thing as the Earth rotating out of view of the sun. For example: https://image.pbs.org/poster_images/assets/buac18-vid-epicmoonshadow-poster.png https://image.pbs.org/poster_images/assets/buac18-vid-epicmo...