14 DAY TRIAL // A solar eclipse happened yesterday, March 20, starting 4:30 a.m. EDT, and the whole world went bananas. Millions of people cleared their schedule for the day to observe it and photos showing the Sun partly covered by the Moon's silhouette flooded social media sites.
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station also witnessed the event and, dare we say it, had a much better view of it than most of us ordinary folks here on the ground. This is because they had no pesky clouds standing between them and the Sun.
European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who arrived at the International Space Station in November 2014, managed to snap a few photos of the total solar eclipse as it appeared to her and fellow astronauts. The photos in question are available in the gallery below.
Scientists say that the next solar eclipse will happen in just a few months, on September 13. Unlike the one that occurred yesterday, this upcoming second solar eclipse of the year will be a partial one, meaning that the Moon will only partly hide the Sun from view.
Word has it that another total eclipse of the Sun will take place on March 9, 2016. Meanwhile, we'll get to enjoy a total eclipse of the Moon that will play out this coming April 4 and will be visible from Australia, the Pacific coast of Asia and North America.
