This composite photograph, which was constituted of ten photographs, exhibits the development of the Moon throughout a complete lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building on November 8, 2022, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsk
In the early morning hours of November 8, 2022, there was a complete lunar eclipse. It would be the final whole lunar eclipse for just a few years, as the following won’t happen till March 14, 2025.
This composite photograph was constituted of ten photographs captured on the morning of November 8, 2022. It exhibits the development of the Moon throughout a complete lunar eclipse above the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Mars is visible trailing the Moon in this composite.
During a lunar eclipse, Earth’s atmosphere scatters sunlight. The blue light from the Sun scatters away, and longer-wavelength red, orange, and yellow light pass through, turning our Moon red. The image is not to scale. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center/Scientific Visualization Studio
For North America, the partial eclipse began at 4:09 a.m. EST (1:09 a.m. PST), with totality beginning at 5:16 a.m. One feature of a total lunar eclipse is the Moon’s red hue during totality. The red color occurs because of the refraction, filtering, and scattering of light by Earth’s atmosphere.
