European weather satellite tracks total solar eclipse over Iberia
ESA's MTG-I1 satellite captured the Moon's shadow crossing Europe during a brief total solar eclipse over the Iberian peninsula.
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A total solar eclipse briefly swept across parts of the Iberian peninsula, and Europe's Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I1) recorded the event from orbit, according to the European Space Agency (ESA).
The eclipse occurred between 20:26 and 20:34 CEST, when the Moon passed between the Sun and Earth and blocked the solar disc for a few minutes over mainland Europe. ESA released an animation assembled from MTG-I1 imagery showing the Moon's dark shadow moving across Earth's surface as it merged with the advancing twilight at dusk.
MTG-I1 operates from geostationary orbit at roughly 36,000 km above Earth, with its imaging instruments trained on Europe and northern Africa. From that position it followed the path of totality, which crossed Greenland and Iceland before reaching a small area of northeastern Portugal and then Spain, according to ESA.
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